How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

This is getting silly.... LOL!

Dave MC - Thanks

Axemanjr - Thanks. Uh I have been playing seriously for about 3 years at the time of that clip. (but have known how to play for 9) It's been almost 3 months since i'e last practiced guitar because of this hand injury that already has me buried.

Austin / Clarky - Neither of you would know how to get radio stations to work from the kazaa downloaded version of GTAIII would ya? The game rules.

http://dannyk.iuma.com - I'm checking your music out now.

so here i am whining my ass for joe to come closer to me, he comes kinda closer, and I STILL Can't go because I bought a JS1000BP..

RDG - Hi. I'm doing pretty good...I've been taking a lot of midterms lately, though, so that's kinda put me in a miserable mood. Good luck at your show on 11/6. I'd love to go but I don't think I can find a way there...sorry.

hello joe.i'm a new register thogh i have been a long time fan. anyway something confuses me about a song called the mystical potato head groove thing i think you know what i'm talking about.it's that electronic sounding effect in the middle. if you could clear up how you do it i would be grateful

you have to download 2cds for gta3 pc version, cd2 has all the audio, i'm not sure if you did that or not..i think you need it to play since it asks for it...

Theory posse – so here’s a little more on minors….. harmonic and melodic minors.. but before we tackle these, a little background information would help understanding them and where they come from……

From the 17th to 19th centuries, music was very structured and bound by some pretty strict rules and methods. One of these was the use of something called a ‘cadence’. Think of a cadence as a punctuation mark. There are four types of cadence – ‘perfect’, ‘imperfect’, ‘interrupted’ and ‘plagal’. I’ll not go into how why and where these are used as it is a large topic in it’s own right [and only useful to folks formally studying music or writing in Baroque, Classical or early to mid Romantic style]. For this topic, we are interested in the ‘perfect’ cadence [a chord progression of chord V to I]. Think of a perfect cadence as a ‘full stop’ at the end of a section of music [also at the end of the entire piece]……
Not only do chords V to I produce a perfect cadence, but V must be major [better still, a dominant 7 chord].
If you cast you mind back to the chords generated by a major scale you’d notice that chord V7 is a dominant 7 so the perfect cadence is generated nuturally be the notes within the scale. So in the key of G major a typical perfect cadence would be D7 to G……
So let’s look at this with respect to a minor key….. The chords of the key of Em are Em, F#mb5, G, Am, Bm, C, D….. so we have a problem… chord V is minor [in this case Bm]. V to I in the key of Em is Bm to Em and it just doesn’t sound very ‘final’….. not good for something that wants to be a ‘full stop’….lol

The solution is to modify chord V from being minor to major [or dominant 7] when in a minor key during a perfect cadence. So in the key of Em…. Bm to Em becomes B to Em [or better still B7 to Em]….. now we have a new problem…… the scale don’t fit with the modified V chord…..

The scale of Em is: E, F#, G, A, B, C, D
The modified chord V7 is now B7 which is: B, D#, F#, A – so we can see that the D from the scale and the D# from the chord clash……. Ouch…..

The solution is to modify the scale to fit the modified chord [but only during the cadence – not for the whole piece of music]…

This of course gives birth to a new scale that contains E, F#, G, A, B, C, D#…
The spelling of this scale is: Tonic, major 2nd, minor 3rd, perfect 4th, perfect 5th, minor 6th major 7th… and this scale is called the ‘harmonic minor’ scale….. and sounds very cool…

Given that this scale has been 'enharmonically' altered [it contains a note that is outside of the natural minor scale] it is not a 'diatonic' scale [as are the major and minor scales]. This means that the 'key signature' is Am and the major 7th note is marked in music notation as an 'accidental' - the '#' sign appears beside the note and not beside the clef.

Theory posse - and to complete this part.....let's get back to the 1700,s in the key of Em at a perfect cadence….

You’ll notice that the interval between the 6th and 7th degrees of the harmonic minor scale is pretty large. It is a ‘sharpened major 2nd’ – C to D# [not a minor 3rd – C to Eb] which ‘sounds’ just like a minor 3rd… This is all well and good for us musicians but there was a problem – choirs hated singing this interval especially with melodies in the ascending direction… it really is pretty tricky to visualise and then sing this interval.

The solution was to reduce the size of this interval by raising the minor 6th to a major 6th [during the perfect cadence over chord V7]

Now we have yet another newly modified scale spelt: Tonic, major 2nd, minor 3rd, perfect 4th, perfect 5th, major 6th major 7th… and this scale is called the ‘melodic minor ascending’ scale….. sounds very cool too…and is used in exactly the smae manner as the harmonic minor.... when writing, the scale of choice is yours.....

So using E as the tonic we get: E, F#, G, A, B, C#, D# [used over the chord of B7 [V7] in the key of Em]

The ‘melodic minor descending’ scale is the same as the harmonic minor….

For these scales and the perfect cadence, this really is the tip of a huge and incredibly useful / interesting iceberg that I’ll expand on in greater detail over time….

Also, the G-everywhere thing won’t work for these two scales, it’ll need to be modified [in the same manner as you’ve seen above]….. don’t even try until to have mastered the basic ‘G-everywhere’ exercise as these two are a bit of a hand-full….

Austin - It's a PC version.

Invigor - Tell him to get his stuff on the net.

themagician: the webmaster said earlier that they can't make the webcast parts downloadable because the people at sony are busy pickin their noses (as any record company would do...not epic of course, just sony) but since i enjoy being an ass i'll make them myself. being the 31337 h4x0r that i am, mauaha, take that sony!

oh, btw, happy 100th me!