PhryDom: where have I been? Busy with my new digital camera. I know you cannot be interested with my kind of photos but if you or anybody else wants to take a look the link is http://www.digitfoto.it/galleria_ospiti/pag07.htm

Thank you for a wonderful show in Wantagh. I know this is greedy to ask, but it would be so nice if you could come back to NYC and do an Evening With...show at the Hammerstein or Roseland etc.

Thanks again,

Sincerely,

Phrygian Dominant- Yup, those were the notes i was playing....i took a look at the DVD !! Lol! Thx

For the theory posse....i have compiled all of CLARKY'S posts on theory and stuck them into a text file (which took ages! thank god i have a 1mb Broadband Connection!) If anyone wants the text file, e-mail me at -
allanaird@blueyonder.co.uk
and i'll be happy to send it to you!

Evening satch fans, it's nearly 8 o'clock Monday night, can't believe the weekend has gone already.

Michelle - Joe can shake his thing at me and shout get up I'm hungry any time he likes, if only. (sighs)

J Blaze - read your mails, had a good laugh, funny stuff. You'll have to forgive me here, I thought you were a fella.

Minushuman- hope your son gets well soon.

Kell - The Young Ones, ha ha they were really funny, got some of their episodes taped somewhere, have you ever seen Rick Mayal in the Blackadder stuff.

Lettuce - just tear it up.

On the subject of cars, Fords are not bad cars, they sometimes have bad drivers though. I loved my XR2, it was bright red and went like shit off a shovel. I'm driving a sluggish Nissan van now, caged out for my dogs don't you know. On the subject of dogs my Sunny Monster is back on track, a mix of SBM, Crystal Planet and The Extremist seems to be doing the trick. Reserve Best in Show on Saturday. Thanks Joe.

hi there Joe, im from Finland and i like your music alot, I have been playing electric guitar for 8 years now and i have been playing your songs too (if you dont mind) I have been practicing your song called "Ceremony"... because it is pretty easy to play, except those solos of course...hehe :). If you dont mind, I`d like to ask couple of questions from you.... 1. what kind of strings do u most likely use?.... i use 008...Daddario. 2. what do you think about John Petrucci?.... what do u think about progressive style? 3. what kind of album are u going to release next (after strange beautiful music)? 4. so u have been teaching Steve Vai to play, is this true? I saw this in the net, no doubt... hes playing same kind of music like u. 5. are u going to come in Finland some year..maybe? i heard that u have been here.

i would like to buy "additional creations" next because, i like the start of "Turkey Man", i want to practice that. so, thats my message.... may the force be with u and your guitar, Joe.

jblaze- i thought it was funny too....

I've really not had much to say here lately... but i'm still here reading everything anyone says.

Joe

Hey everyone...

It's ridiculous to think that someone would not know who Joe is. So I propose that every one of us make 10 signs, out of cardboard or whatever, and write in big black letters Joe's name. Go out one evening and put them on light poles for as far as you care to drive. (do I live a boring existance or what)

Anyways, I'd be willing to bet that a small percentage of the people who see them will remember Joe and start listening again, or just listen out of curiosity. And of course, become lifelong fans.

Theory posse – ok guys, time for a little change in direction….. we’ll return to more complex chords a little later.. but first I think that it would be good to take a look at minor scales…
So, just like the major scale, the minor scale is composed of 7 notes and therefore 7 intervals.. it can be ‘spelt’:
Tonic, major 2nd [1 tone/2 frets], minor 3rd [1 1/2 tones/3 frets], perfect 4th [2 1/2 tones/5 frets], perfect 5th [3 1/2 tones/7frets], minor 6th [4 tones/8 frets], minor 7th [5 tones/10 frets]
So let’s consider this with a real note for a tonic and calculate the notes for a minor scale.
Tonic = E….. so here goes….
major 2nd is two frets above….. so is it F# or Gb?….. lol … All of the notes have to appear once and in sequence… the letter F comes after E [not G]….. so the 2nd has to be ‘F’ something…. As it is a major 2nd [2 frets] it will be F#……..
the 3rd has to be G something…. As it is a minor 3rd [3 frets above the tonic] it has to be G natural.
by applying this method, you should end up with the scale of Em = E, F#, G, A, B, C, D

Hmmmmm something interesting stands out here……. Notice that the note values that create the scale of Em are the same as those that created the scale of G major [G, A, B, C, D, E, F#] but starting from the 6th degree of the scale…… treat this as a very useful coincidence.

A rule of thumb:- if you go to the 6th degree of a major scale, you’ll find the tonic of its ‘relative minor’ scale…basically – count upwards by 6 notes including the tonic.
‘relative’ because the two scales are related [sharing the same note values]. Consider the major key as the ‘centre key’ which is the ‘birthing place’ for the minor….
and in reverse, you can look at the 3rd degree of a minor scale and find the relative major. [count up 3 notes including the tonic]

Try a few…..
the key of C = C, D, E, F, G, A, B therefore the relative minor key is Am.
the key of E = E, F#, G#, A, B, C#, D#, therefore the relative minor key is C#m.
the key of F = F, G, A, Bb, C, D, E, therefore the relative minor key is Dm [saddest of all keys… lol]

and in reverse
the key of Cm = C, D, Eb, F, G, Ab, Bb therefore the relative major key is Eb.
the key of Bm = B, C#, D, E, F#, G, A therefore the relative major key is D.

The relative minor is also known as the ‘natural minor’

So why does the major and minor sound different if they are related and made of the same notes?????
This is because the intervals between the notes are completely different thereby giving a totally different tonal relationship with the tonic….. this is much easier to see if you look at a major and minor scale side by side but with the same tonic……

the key of Em = E, F#, G, A, B, C, D

the key of E = E, F#, G#, A, B, C#, D#
very different as you can see…….

So what about the chords?????? So the chords that you calculated in the key of G major also apply to Em but their position has now changed in exactly the same way as the notes of the minor scale did…..

The G major scale produced: I = G, II = Am, III = Bm, IV = C, V = D, VI = Em, VII = F#mb5 So the Em scale produces: I = Em, II = F#mb5, III = G, IV = Am, V = Bm, VI = C, VII = D

theory posse - and of course - G-everywhere means that you’ve also been practising the notes of Em…. but from the 3rd position…
so when you get to the 6th position of G-everywhere you can also consider it as the 1st position of Em…..
move all 7 positions up 2 frets from the G to the A and you have both A major and F# minor.
move all 7 positions up 5 frets from the G to C and you have both C major and A minor.

XCPX - by moving the 1st postion up to the A and playing it again you actually changed key to A major [shifted the whole thing up two frets].... take a close look at the actual notes you were playing.... 5-7-9 = A, B, C#... C# is note one of the notes in the key of G major.... the fingerings for all 7 positions are all completely different... you have to write down the notes of the G major scale and then find them on the neck [3 notes per string etc]... it takes a whole lot of time and effort but the rewards are huge..... so try again and if you're still stuck just shout.... don't appologise.... we'll stick at it 'till you nail it..... no probz... # : )

DAVE Mc-- just do what i do, drive around in your car blasting the hell out of you're Joe cd's, I sit in my truck while my wife goes into the store and play it so loud it echos through the Albertsons parking lot... __________________________________________________