True, but back to the musical sense ... as even, say, the 12-tone scale demonstrates, the building blocks are there. What people create with them and the intervals/matrices between is what makes for such wonderful variation. If the Egyptians hadn't had math, then maybe Space Age technology wouldn't be what it is at present (of course, it'll change soon enough!).AaronMalcomb wrote:Correllation does not imply causation (OK, now I'm being pedantic).Nanohedron wrote:I don't know about anyone else, but for me melodic stuctures (in ITM, anyway) imply chords and keys already. An arpeggio doesn't exist in a vacuum, after all.
But still, that's like saying the Ancient Egyptians had Space Age technology because of the construction and alignment of the pyramids.
Gary, the guitar chords in McCulloch's book are limited to major or minor. Not the "right" answer (at least not when a tune's really supposed to be Mixolydian or Dorian), but definitely the expedient one for people who want to play sessions like, next week.
(And I think that's what that book is basically for, anyway)