i've never seen a detailed 1-page chart for #JerryGarcia & #RobertHunter 's tune, Mission in the Rain... so I made one myself :) it has an interesting form #music #song #SanFrancisco #sfba

fixed the QR code... my bad

"modal compass" diagram (see alt text for description)

notice of allowance received! sorry about the redactions, i've been told you don't really want to advertise your patents too much, for competitive and legal reasons... but i will post some more details soon :)

My music teacher is performing some original art-jazz on July 6 in San Francisco! Check. It. Out. :)

here's an improved version where i added a step to show that the next note being altered is always a tritone away (three "tones" or whole-steps, or 180 degrees on the circle) from the previously altered note. here all alterations are sharps, since it goes from "dark" (Locrian) to "light" (Lydian)

here's a little explainer animation i made to show how the sequence of "dark-to-light" transitions between diatonic modes can be achieved via sequence of "sharp" alterations (semitone raise), in the Locrian-Phrygian-Aeolian-Dorian-Mixolydian-Ionian-Lydian order (reverse "light-to-dark" also works)

found the chord sheet we used from the rock cover band i was in way back in the day... sometime around 2007

in other news, i made an attempt at transposing Hoagy Carmichael's 1929 hit song, "Rockin' Chair", to C Major (from the original Eb major key)... CAUTION: still pending approval by my music teacher :)

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #169,077!

can you guess what this is? if you get it right, i owe you something not too expensive that you like to ingest!

here's a pitch constellation diagram for an interesting octotonic scale, that can also be considered as two heptatonic scales (ascending and descending), depending on which note you use for the 3rd position (major/minor), I think it's sometimes called the "Flamenco mode" (root position=12 o'clock)

I do occasionally (read: once every 5-10 years) perform as a DJ, here is a flyer for my upcoming show! #yay

August 20, 9p-1a, 540 Clement St, #SanFrancisco