Lucky 13 in Diminished Tuning - Just Released
Lucky 13 in Diminished Tuning - Just Released
Finally it's here! Thanks for your patience, friends Here's the demo video:
https://youtu.be/8kWVD8xmsac
Lucky 13 in Diminished Tuning: Info and Ordering
https://brendan-power.com/lucky13.php#lucky13Dim
https://youtu.be/8kWVD8xmsac
Lucky 13 in Diminished Tuning: Info and Ordering
https://brendan-power.com/lucky13.php#lucky13Dim
Re: Lucky 13 in Diminished Tuning - Just Released
Thanks Gerhard - hope you like it!
Re: Lucky 13 in Diminished Tuning - Just Released
Today I discovered a very good exponent of Diminished Tuning on diatonic: Alfred Hirsch. He has a couple of videos on YouTube, here's one:
TAKE FIVE
https://youtu.be/IAeYandwJqc
I did more searching on Alfred, and found this very interesting and helpful page on the Seydel website:
https://www.seydel1847.de/epages/Seydel ... SubProduct
Alfred uses Phrase Maps to explain some scales, but his are quite quirky! There are various ways to depict them. We've been discussing Phrase Maps in another thread with relation to Diminished diatonics. My preference is for a three line grid with the blow note on the bottom (see attached). Others prefer blow note on top.
Whichever way you do it, Phrase Maps suit Diminished Tuning perfectly, because they can be moved around anywhere on the harp!
TAKE FIVE
https://youtu.be/IAeYandwJqc
I did more searching on Alfred, and found this very interesting and helpful page on the Seydel website:
https://www.seydel1847.de/epages/Seydel ... SubProduct
Alfred uses Phrase Maps to explain some scales, but his are quite quirky! There are various ways to depict them. We've been discussing Phrase Maps in another thread with relation to Diminished diatonics. My preference is for a three line grid with the blow note on the bottom (see attached). Others prefer blow note on top.
Whichever way you do it, Phrase Maps suit Diminished Tuning perfectly, because they can be moved around anywhere on the harp!
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Re: Lucky 13 in Diminished Tuning - Just Released
Here is Alfred's way to draw Diminished Tuning Phrase Maps (from the link in the previous post). Instead of scale degrees in numbers, he uses note names, and adds hole numbers. He also has the grid in a different order.
These Minor Pentatonic scales are the same as the Blues Pentatonic ones in my earlier post, but you can see how the shapes come out quite differently in Alfred's grid. I'm not so keen on his version, but it's interesting and useful nonetheless:
ALFRED HIRSCH
These Minor Pentatonic scales are the same as the Blues Pentatonic ones in my earlier post, but you can see how the shapes come out quite differently in Alfred's grid. I'm not so keen on his version, but it's interesting and useful nonetheless:
ALFRED HIRSCH
Re: Lucky 13 in Diminished Tuning - Just Released
Edvin Wedin has created a tool that can generate Phrase Maps from code. He prefers a version with blow note on top, but it can be flipped to have blow on bottom (as I prefer) instantly. Nice!
Here are the two versions for Hijaz scale on Diminished:
BLOW NOTE AT BOTTOM BLOW NOTE AT TOP
Here are the two versions for Hijaz scale on Diminished:
BLOW NOTE AT BOTTOM BLOW NOTE AT TOP
Re: Lucky 13 in Diminished Tuning - Just Released
If you dont want to spend hundreds of dollars to customize a harmonica to overblow/overdraw in the need of playing a chromatic scale, the diminished tuning is the way to go. Dont suits everyone because you need to be a little more conscious in your playing. But if you are used to bending this is a very versatile tuning.
Re: Lucky 13 in Diminished Tuning - Just Released
Regarding "phrase map" code (by Edvin) discussed above: Is there a thread or website where we can learn more about this?
Re: Lucky 13 in Diminished Tuning - Just Released
They are generated from code in a language called TikZ ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TikZ ) which I normally use to make figures for math publications. It is used within another language called LaTeX ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaTeX ), a markup language sort of like HTML but intended for professional looking printed documents instead of websites. Both are free, and LaTeX has long been the de facto standard among academics in several fields including mathematics.
For a first look on LaTeX, I'd recommend https://latexbase.com/d/ced5435f-c0b0-4 ... ac20a59507
PM me if you'd like to discuss it further
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Edvin Wedin
Re: Lucky 13 in Diminished Tuning - Just Released
Here's a new video of the Lucky 13 in Diminished Tuning, demonstrating chromatic scales, and chromatic runs inside licks:
https://youtu.be/3_4oYUFPtH0
Some of the Phrase Map diagrams from the video are here:
https://www.brendan-power.com/lucky13-diminished.php
https://youtu.be/3_4oYUFPtH0
Some of the Phrase Map diagrams from the video are here:
https://www.brendan-power.com/lucky13-diminished.php