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pentaGuitar
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Zero to Pro VISUAL HEARING by @EA_guitar // It's time to JUST PLAY™ ♥️🎸
get the book 👉 Katılım Mayıs 2010
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Before the guitar, came the Genoese Mandolin, on the right: E A D G B E.
Silk Strings. Just like the Chinese Lute.
Headstock just like the Chinese Lute.
Some had scalloped frets, just like the Chinese Lute.
Genoa & Venice had been 'hanging out' in China for a very long time.
Eric Alexander@EA_guitar
24 Fret Chinese Pipa — the Chinese Lute whose impact on the larger family of fretted string instruments is far greater than you might imagine. The tall frets means you can push in for microtonal inflections, as with modern ‘scalloped frets.’
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So much for the ‘Western 12-tone System.’
The Chinese have had the concept of 12 key modulation—5 pentatonic modes X 12 keys = 60 modes total—since at least 300 BC, and the mathematics of ‘equal temperament’ (fret placement) before ‘we’ did too.
Eric Alexander@EA_guitar
24 Fret Chinese Pipa — the Chinese Lute whose impact on the larger family of fretted string instruments is far greater than you might imagine. The tall frets means you can push in for microtonal inflections, as with modern ‘scalloped frets.’
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THE HUMAN HEARING APPARATUS, THE COCHLEA
Every major breakthrough I have ever had vis-a-vis my so called 'inner hearing,' the coveted ability to 'visualize' sounds in one's mind's eye, has been linked to direct experience of and with the Harmonic Series.
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@RoehrbornX @EA_guitar @hectorvelazhv but the sorry little sod blocked me here.
the weak cannot handle opposition, in any form.
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Eric Alexander@EA_guitar
The Idiot's Hallmark™️ is instant resentment of intellectual challenge. Any intellectual challenge. In fact, the idiot will organize his entire existence so as never to face any. And so, the idiot remains an idiot.
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Impresionante iglesia en Santa Fe, diseñada por Javier Sordo Madaleno. La entrada de luz natural es simplemente impresionante.
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Chess game tree complexity: ~10¹²³
Go game tree complexity: ~10³⁶⁰
This game? ~10¹²⁵ to ~10³⁷⁴
3–4× Chess move-space branching factor.
Developing and fine-tuning an artificial intelligence engine to play against is one of the more challenging things I've done.
Eric Alexander@EA_guitar
Developed this board game built on the musical mathematics of the guitar 🧮🎸 Now coded to AI. Still beat it every time but super fun. Will become a real challenge as I continue to train & refine it. Wild. Want an invite to play─1 or 2 player mode─when I launch? Let me know!
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Not understanding this?
This is how people go broke, get sick and stay bad at guitar.
Eric Alexander@EA_guitar
Future optionality at marginal present cost requires two things: Awareness and discipline. In every realm.
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Ray has not yet recovered his account.
Ignore DMs from his Nigerian hacker.
Eric Alexander@EA_guitar
my friend got hacked and is being extorted to get his credentials back no reporting option covers this situation HELP MY FRIEND GET BACK IN @x @safety @elon
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Go give Dubs a follow if you aren’t, will ya ❤️🎸
Du₿s_PRS@TeleStrater
I’m back to working on this Metallica track. 🙏🤘🙏@EA_guitar
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Had this really cool moment with a VISUAL HEARING student the other day ♥️🎸
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Worse than useless, actually.
You’ll just solidify your bad habits.
Eric Alexander@EA_guitar
Practice practice practice. No feedback loop? Useless. Practice, on its own, is useless.
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This guy?
Surf & Punk Rock Pro in the Los Angeles scene… decades of touring, records, movie placements and more.
Eric Alexander@EA_guitar
Folks don't really sign up to work with me for technique. But still, they get massive upgrades to their technique 🎸 I love my job.
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You lot seem to know the general meaning of the word WOODSHED.
Which comes from the world of Jazz, early on.
Here's the thing.
You can't "pre-practice" what you will improvise, in the moment.
By definition you can't do that.
But you can WOODSHED.
? CAPISCE ¿
Eric Alexander@EA_guitar
Musical Vocabulary Checkpoint™️ The verb WOODSHED. As in “can’t talk right now, busy woodsheddin” Do you know what it means?
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BREAKDOWN 🩵🎸
John Coltrane inspired three-tonic system... phrased in the style of B.B. King.
3 parallel keys one major third apart─and some clever tritone subs to make it all feel more Blues than Jazz... plus the Giant Steps theme quoted directly in the bass-line.
Eric Alexander@EA_guitar
GIANT STEPS x BB KING'S LUCILLE 🩵🎶 @prsguitars @pentaGuitar @EA_guitar
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Alright, y’all.
This is my pedalboard.
Do most of my effects processing ‘in the box.’
I’ve shown you mine now show me yours!
📸🎸 in the comments 👇👇👇
Eric Alexander@EA_guitar
BEAUTY & THE BEAST 😤 These two amps just got back from service today. Could not be any happier. 5W Suhr is a gem in the studio and the 70W Fender got a fantastic little mod─master volume in the back─that makes it infinitely more versatile.
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I love the Blues. With a passion 🩵🎸
The challenge, of course, is how to play something that SOUNDS Blues (not just 'bluesy') while also NOT being just a repetition of the same old formula.
It's taken me DECADES of exploration to develop something like my own Blues idiom.
Eric Alexander@EA_guitar
ICE COLD FUNK'D UP BLU 🥶🥶🥶 @prsguitars @pentaGuitar @EA_guitar
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