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Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2011 2:31 pm
by chespernevins
Thanks for bringing up this interesting topic again, ML.

For anyone who doesn't know, this is something that is in the old book but not the new.

Since the old book, the WOTG had changed a little, and so did the philosophy behind generating the chart.

So the chart needed to be generated from scratch based on this new info.

Motherlode has a very interesting exercise based on the tonal gravity chart which is not in any of the books: The "Motherlode Challenge" :)

Posted: Tue May 03, 2011 4:13 pm
by chespernevins
The LCC is either a profound work of scholarly and intuitive genius or it's a misguided attempt that obfuscates the truth of the matter with needless complexity.
That's a pretty big either/or equation that I don't really agree with.

I don't really see it as scholarly, in the sense that it was academically researched or mathematically measured or derived. But the intuitive genius part I could see - one of its strengths is in revealing relationships between musical elements that might not have been obvious otherwise.

It's not just chord scale theory with different labels, either, as it has more information than chord scale theory. Whether you agree with it all is another question.