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"Most likely, many people believe they should not start a sentence with a coordinating conjunction because their grammar teachers in grade school discouraged them from doing so. Yet such a rule is completely unjustifiable." ;-) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > You started a sentence with "Or"? > > ;-) > > MEK > > "kent williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 09/25/2008 10:24:46 AM: > >> When I defended my Master's Project I promised myself never to go back >> to school. After nearly 30 years of schooling I realized that I'm a >> terrible student. Ironically my work now is in an Academic department >> of the College of Medicine. I work with and for professors and grad >> students. But I just write software -- I leave it to them to do the >> academics. Suckers! >> >> But every so often I have an idea that has academic potential, and >> when I think of following through on it I break out in a cold sweat. >> But no reason not to share it: >> Detroit Techno's signature sound is based in part on dramatic string >> or string-like chord patterns over a bed of beats not that far from >> classic Chicago House. Contrary to the norm in western music, the >> chords are likely to be 'parallel' -- i.e. a pattern of 4 chords will >> be one chord, transposed from the root 3 times. >> >> The traditional harmonic rules of Western music, by contrast are more >> parsimonious in tonal motion -- i.e. any two chords in sequence will >> most likely retain any common notes. The transition between two >> dissimilar chords will move from one chord to the inversion of the >> second chord with the least interval distance from the notes of the >> first. >> >> If you are not a musician, your eyes are probably rolling up in your >> head by now, so more concretely: The Detroit way if played on a piano >> would involve moving your whole hand, but using (roughly) the same >> spacing of your fingers. The traditional way would keep your hand >> mostly in the same place, but change the spacing between your fingers. >> >> My suspicion is that the 'Detroit' chords came at least in part from a >> feature of the Roland Alpha Juno synthesizer, which had a feature >> called 'chord memory' -- you could play a chord, push a button, and >> thereafter, you could play that same chord with one finger on the >> lowest note of the original chord. Or, you could play a transposed >> chord by playing a different single note. >> >> A perfect example of the meshing of these two approaches in one song >> is UR's 'Jupiter Jazz' -- there is the signature stacatto chords of >> the synthesizer -- with parallel chord transposition, and a denser >> female chorus sound that exhiibits the more traditional conservation >> of harmonic motion. That contrast and overlay of two different >> harmonic strategies is part of what makes that song so compelling. >> Well, that, and the bubbling acid line. And Mad Mike's soaring synth >> soloing... > > >
