G'day guys, just bought my very very ever first acoustic guitar, an ashton lefty, builtin picups thingys and tunner, man its got a nice sound to it, check my first song with it Joe hope its ok for u mate,

chelle wish u were here too. i had an amazing time. (that was my longest post yet think :D). hope ur feeling better :) (i didn't give u the cold! i swear!)

mari hope ur feeling better too. i'll give that song a dekko & see if i figure anything out :)

al nice pics .... dont match mari's tho ... lol ;)

962 cute cat! :)

He Delfino,

What kind of animal did you torture to get those squeaks? lol

Lov'

Delfino Pie...that one was funny...I liked it...

DelfinoPie, interesting sound..

....Congrat's to the great country of England for their superb victory against the Swiss.... England is a great team, and they deserve to go far.... I hope the U.S. as well as my bro' Alex' Portugal can raise some eyebrows during the coming World Cup!!.... Brazil wins 8-0 over the UAE.... Some team must stop them, and what a spoiler that would be, he, he ,he....

Zen - hahaaa.. Sir Clarky and the quest for the ‘holy shit’..

I think you are trying to determine the chords within a given scale type that have the strongest impact.. or chords that typify a style / genre maybe??
I think you’re ‘barking up the wrong tree’ a little here..
think on this:
does all blues music follow a form of being 12 bars long and using only chords I, IV and V??
the answer is most definitely “no”
yes, the I, IV, V progression is common, but blues music is much greater in scope than this - especially hybrid styles like Chicago and Texas blues which have jazz and country components respectively..

this being the case, is the II, V, I thing a jazz thing? And does it occur in all jazz music??
again.. no and no..

the II, V, I and VI, II, V, I are known to jazzers as a “turn-around” because it most often occurs at the end of a progression.. and turns you around to get back to the start..
given that this is a “cycle of 5ths” progression you can do some interesting suff with it. However, a classical type like me would recognise this progression and a “prefect cadence” with some nice approach chords.
the function is essentially the same from a musical "grammar" point of view..

I’m thinking that you are looking for a typical model for each style.

In my view this is unwise. You’ll not find what you’re looking for because it does not exist.

You are better off learning lots and lots of songs of a great variety styles.
Then study what you’ve learned. Figure out what makes the song work by looking at the chords progressions, inversions, key and key changes, the song form, etc etc..
Then you’ll get to see a wide range of scale and modal usage by the examples of others.

But one thing that I’m am 100% certain of is that a chord progression alone will not determine a specific mode, scale or style of music.
a more useful thing to learn with respect to modal playing is a technique called “melodic substitution” and another called “parallel modulation”
these techniques will not screw your chord selection down to those that occur within specific modal contexts,
it's the notes [via scales and modes] you choose to sound over each indiviual chord that makes the difference tonally...

Clarkysan: Try out the condenser mic on Virtus bro and I'm sure you'll get the sound you are looking for.... BTW, I wont tell anyone you still have the mic bro, lmao....

Mikey - Virtus is done.. all recorded and mixed....

My pal [who's mic it is] says that he has no great need for it right now..

so once I've sorted the acoustic in the Raft I'll return it...

hi iv just really started listening to you i watched G3 live in Denver i heard " Starry Night" and was instantly hooked. iv just bought "surfin' with the alien' and live in san fransisco and i really love both of them i hope you come to England again soon as i wouls love to see you live.

Clarky: haha, lol, I see.... Great news bro, and yessir Paul!!.... A beer and curry is a great excuse to go out for your buds favor.... And then you can have a few more, and a few more, and a few more.... lol, I need to be there Paul!!.... Keep it up bro, all you hard work is paying off!!....

Good Morning Satchland..... How are you Peeps Today?

It's friggin cold in Chi-Town. Unseasonable cold. 5 above with the wind chill last night. Collectively lets all say : THAT SUCKS...Here we go...1,2,3.....THAT SUCKS.... LOL......

suzo..... Thanks so much for signing our guest book. It means alot to me. I appoligize for not seeing your post yesterday above Satriellas post. It was in plain view and in English....lol....Perhaps Fourecent Orange would of helped....lol....maybe?..... Sorry, thanks again. Did you get a chance to see Sean's mural of SWTA? I'm so proud of our studio but the mural...well, is frosting on the cake. Satriani frosting..... our favorite. As I'm posting I'm listening to LISF...Love Thing just finished and Stu's bass solo is playing. We our truly blessed for Joe to be here on this earth. Everybody says this all the time but...Joe's music is second to none. It just takes you places. It paints picture in your mind. Anyway, Thanks again...Hugs to you.

Clarky..... Thanks for your comments. I undrstand what you're saying. I was looking for common chords as a spring board for a modal chord progression. That's why I used the Blues 1,4,5 and the Jazz 2,5,1 as examples. These our common chords for these genres but as you said are not etched in stone. Is there a music theory book that you would recommend? Thanks for your help.

Have A Great Day Everybody ! ! ! Stay Warm......

Clarky

You are getting close to the magic 2000 posts.

Hi all ! I just subscribed registered yesterday so I'm a newbie. First of all I would like to as when we will be lucky enough to have Joe Satriani in concert here in Portugal ?