neepheid

Is the DVLA address freepost? I seem to recall that it is.

No.

https://twitter.com/dvlagovuk/status/451629102923911168

Yeah, that was my next question - what the fuck is a diminished chord..?

 

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root, minor third, flattened (diminished) fifth.  {0, 3, 6}.  A minor chord for comparison is root, minor third, perfect fifth {0, 3, 7}.  Notes in a Cmin - C, E?, G.  Notes in Cdim - C, E?, G?

C - F - G still belongs in the A minor scale, but you'll have moved position in the scale.  In the major scale, C - F - G is i - iv - v.  In A minor, if you're keeping the chords the same, you're playing iii - vi - vii.  In A minor, the i - iv - v progression would be Am - Dm - Em.

For "scale" here, read "key".  Sorry for swapping terms there.

Minor Keys.

 

So, take a nice easy example here, the scale of Cmajor is the same scale as Aminor... So if you're playing a progression in the key of C, you could play C - F - G. Now, if you wanted to play in the key of Am rather than C, am I right to think that you'd play Cm - Fm - Gm?

 

My assumption is that the notes that are changed from the scale of A to make it into Am (3rd, 6th, 7th = C, F, G) and those chords are played as Minors in the minor scale... But that's just a total patchwork of guesses and assumptions on my part.

 

Basically, when the fuck do you play minor chords in a key? Or can you make and chord minor whenever you want?

 

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Well you can do what you want, there's nothing stopping you throwing a cheeky chord in which does not necessarily belong to the key you're working in.  Music theory is a framework, but it's not a set of rules - at least that's what I keep telling myself

Major key chord sequence (i, ii, iii, iv, v, vi, vii) : maj min min maj maj min dim

Natural minor key chord sequence (i, ii, iii, iv, v, vi, vii) : min dim maj min min maj maj

C major key - C, Dm, Em, F, G, Am, Bdim

A minor key - Am, Bdim, C, Dm, Em, F, G

C - F - G still belongs in the A minor scale, but you'll have moved position in the scale.  In the major scale, C - F - G is i - iv - v.  In A minor, if you're keeping the chords the same, you're playing iii - vi - vii.  In A minor, the i - iv - v progression would be Am - Dm - Em.

I find this site very useful for telling me which chords I should be using for a particular key: http://www.guitar-chords.org.uk/chordskey.html

Hope that helps, and I hope I got it right!

Sloppiest?  Bold claim, that

The latest addition to the bass stable - a 1975 Gibson Ripper which has been painstakingly restored from a beat up, badly painted, badly defretted hunk of wood:

To this:

My involvement in this escapade was limited to rough surface prep (sanding, steaming out/filling dings), parts procurement and most of the wiring.  Everything else (final surface prep (removing my scratches), the beautiful refinish (which the above picture does no justice to), the rescue of the fingerboard, the refret, the final assembly) was done by my good friend Rich Lewis in BoD.

Really happy with how it's turned out.

A tax on double posting on the internet.

I won't be, but do you have any idea what topics shall be discussed?

I won't be, but do you have any idea what topics shall be discussed?

Space on the end of the URL.  Try

http://www.gumtree.com/p/wardrobes-shelving-storage/modern-solid-oak-cabinet/1115007122

Bass is now sold.

Time for a bump.  One of Gibson's very few 24 fret basses, if you need those extra few dusty notes.

So MadebyMike is mental busy and it looks like my custom fuzz will be a long time coming (currently 9th on the list!). This makes me think that I am better off down another avenue, what do people suggest for a doomy, 70's rock fuzz? I thinking of going with North Effects and then buying a TC Electronics Spark mini to use as a boost. Always nice to get opinions though.

I have no advice to offer.  Get the soldering iron out and see if Fuzz Dog do a nice kit to suit your requirements?

It's a laptop, so if it isn't 2.5" I'd be very surprised.  It will either be SATA or PATA (IDE) as shown below:

And yes, an enclosure of some kind will turn it into a handy dandy portable drive.

Cheers min, time for a bump

Let's give this another bump and see what happens

I went to Beautiful Mountain twice. Both times the craftsmanship of the sandwich was disappointing. Always seemed to end up with filling in one half, and nothing in the other. Boo-urns.

EARL was the best when it was down on the green. Sorely missed. Not as good since being in the Belmont.

On the Green, the cafe which is there now (Cafe Contour) is pretty decent. Toasted wraps are affa good.

I'd have been right up for this if you'd said bass. I'm sure a like minded individual who likes the skinny stringed side of life will be along soon

They're all total rogue bastards, so just pick the best price.

King Khan and the Shrines - Idle no More

Happy music, plenty of horns in a 60s homage is always appreciated by me.  Could imagine having a dance around the place to this.  Probably my favourite of the three albums this time, it stays the right side of cheesy and as has been already said by someone, it's well put together and competently done.  The instrumental parts of "So Wild" in particular pleased me, I just enjoyed the melody of it.

Paul Cary - Ghost of a Man

I enjoyed the songs, but I do not care for a whole album which has been made to sound like someone's playing it down the telephone to you from a gigantic marble hall.  Sure, do a song like that for effect, but it really starts to get wearing over a whole album.  That kinda spoiled it for me.  I don't mind things that sound a bit scuzzy or lo-fi but this bugged me.

PC Worship - Social Rust

Wasn't expecting to make much of this reading what others had to say, so I was quite surprised to find that I got along with it OK.  I don't know if "enjoyed" is the right word - "respected" seems more appropriate.  It grinds away, doing its thing doggedly, not caring which parts I'm agreeing with and which parts are having me screw up my face.  I thought I heard some Diamond Dogs era Bowie in there, and some crazy sax a la King Crimson, which made me smile.  Overall, not necessarily something I'd go out of my way to seek out, but not half as bad as I thought it was going to be.

I don't do scores, but I guess I could do the order of preference thing:

King Khan and the Shrines

PC Worship

Paul Cary

But none of them were awful.  Good selections this week.