Tritones: The Devil's musical interval: If you look at the relative stability of each scale degree in Western harmony you'll see that the 4th and 7th are the most instable. In order of stability to instability it looks like this: 1, 5, 3, 6, 2, 4, … [Read more...]
The Golden Mean in Harmony Part 1
If you ride chaos all the way out to its edge, you find beauty and order... and the Blues Chaos: complete disorder and confusion; behavior so unpredictable as to appear random, owing to great sensitivity to small changes in conditions; the … [Read more...]