Author: Quentin Pain
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Making sense of intervals in music, music modes, and chords
Modes and Chords: A Note-Number Guide A mode tells you which notes are available relative to a starting note, or tonic. A chord selects particular notes from that collection. In the tables below, all numbers are compared with the major scale on the same tonic. For example, ♭3 means “lower the third note of the…
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Chords on the B and high-e strings
Two-note root-and-third voicings in the major keys A through G. × don’t play · ○ open string · ● press at that fret
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Simple Chord Shapes For Guitar
G · B · E STRING CHORDS Movable Three-String Chord Explorer Discover how one chord shape can be moved up the guitar neck to produce every root note in an octave. These shapes use only the G, B, and high E strings. Chord type MinorMajorDiminishedAugmentedSuspended 2ndSuspended 4thMinor 7thDominant 7thMajor 7thMinor 6thMajor 6thPower chord Root note…
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Presumptions and assumptions enhance plots like nothing else
The most successful sales people always assume the prospect not only understands the ‘problem’ they need solving, but also understands the sales person is the right person to ask. When you start with that proposition in your head, you automatically become the guide. And when you’re the guide, well, people tend to follow. So what…
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The SEO Agent Review
The SEO Agent claims to automatically create a complete solution to SEO including article creation and scheduling. Here’s their promise: “We write the best quality articles in the category. Fact-checked with citations, images, internal links and AEO built in.” – sounds good to me. So I jumped on the site, entered my email address, and…
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The First Choice: Top Down or Bottom Up?
In business, and everything else, we often face the same first decision. Do you start with a top down approach or a bottom up approach? Top down means you begin with a finished thing in mind and reverse engineer it. Bottom up means you start with more or less nothing, then build by doing. Before…
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The 5 Fret Guitar Pattern
Following on from my 4 fret pattern here, we move on to the ultimate guitar pattern – the 5 fret pattern. Learn this pattern and there’s nothing you won’t be able to play. Every modality, every key, every chord (sure, some of them are only playable with 3 or 4 notes, but that’s only because…
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The 4 Fret Guitar Pattern
A Single Movable Pattern on the Guitar This post explains a simple way to use the guitar fretboard. With this approach, you can play in any key by knowing where the root note (“1”) is on the low E string and placing the same finger pattern there. If the next song is a blues in…
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How to create a WordPress plugin that allows admins to add new custom post types
The following was created from a single short prompt given to Google.com/ai (which is the title of this post). AI is moving rapidly, and although the creation of WordPress Plugins like this is nothing new, for the average user out there with zero knowledge of programming it is an absolutely revelation. The price of software…
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Rules on creating patterns in php for the WordPress block editor
Creating patterns programmatically for a WordPress theme using blocks is incredibly hard and frustrating for so many reasons. Even AIs struggle – and they have access to so much more than we do, so with the help of GPT 5 and days and days of struggle (back and forth coding) it came up with this.…