Thursday, February 12, 2015

Wednesday, February 11, 2015

New Logo, Modes, Dream Job, and more D & A Modes and Related Chords


 
DREAM JOB:
Yeah Man!  The Merlin is instant Zen.
    I wish Godin would put a factory in my town in North Vermont... It could be mostly automated and the production less massive than their North of the border operations. You could sit there all day testing the tuning and intonation of the new Merlin's as they came out of the robotic production machines and across the finishing operations.
    They could keep the factory in Québec staffed with humans and expand all Canadian Merlin Operation's human staff.
    Ten new Merlin factories could be built in North Vermont, Tokyo, Addis Baba, Dakar, Bamako, St. Petersburg, Manila, Sao Paulo, Kyzyl, and Fredericton.  
     There could be four staff per factory.  The four jobs would be:
           -Forestry/CarpentryProduction/Machining
           -Necks/Assembly/Fretting
           -Tuner/Quality Control/Shipping (Dream Job))
           -Merlin Delivery Quad-Copter Mechanic
     The rest of the factory would be automatic,  and all billing and overhead and management and decisions would be sent back up to headquarters up in LaPatrie. 
     Seagull could sell millions of Merlin's with factories spanning the globe and only be responsible for 40 more workers (4 per factory).  They could pay the workers based on the value of Canadian currency,  but sell the Merlin's in each country to the local value. For example my Merlin was about $130.00. That would be translated/converted to an equal valued amount for the country the in which the Merlin is sold. 
     Hopefully the increase in volume up to 7 billion Merlin's would cover the price differences in each country. Most every household in the world could have a Merlin and the Merlin could become the stand up piano of the 21st century.
     The money and cash would all go directly to and through banks in Québec,  so there would be no money or cash or bills coming or going to each of the factories outside of Canada.
     If wishes were horses than beggars would ride and  I could get out of the daily grind of this Merlin chords book publishing game and work in the Instant Zen dream job of Tuner/Quality Control/Shipping at the new imaginary Merlin factory in dreamland.
     Good times! 
 
 




Tuesday, January 27, 2015

Next Level!

I made it to the next level yesterday when I finally put 2 and 2 toghether to realize the Merlin was built for the key of A mjor also.  Here are some new scales, modes, and chords based on this different point of view.

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A Major Scale

DD====================1==
 A---------------------4---5---6-------
 D---4---5---6---7---------------------



B Dorian Mode

DD================1==2==
 A---------------4---5---6-------------
 D---5---6---7-------------------------


C# Phyrgian

DD==============1==2==3==
 A------------4---5---6-----------------
 D---6---7-------------------------------


D Lydian Mode

DD============1==2==3==4==
 A--------4---5---6-----------------------
 D----7------------------------------------



A Major    
 ==6==
 ---4---
 ---4---


A Major (difficult)
 ==1==
 ---2---
 ---4---

B minor
 ==7==
 ---5---
 ---5---

B minor (difficult)
 ==2==
 ---3---
 ---5---

C# minor
 ==6==
 ---4---
 ---6---

C# Major or minor
 ==6==
 ---6---
 ---6---

D major (uke sound)
 ==4==
 ---5---
 ---7---

D Major
 ==2==
 ---0---
 ---0---

E Major (no E)
 ==5==
 ---6---
 ---5---


E major or minor
 ==5==
 ---4---
 ---5---

F# minor
 ==4==
 ---5---
 ---6---

F# minor
 ==6==
 ---5---
 ---4---

G# diminished
 ==7==
 ---6---
 ---5---

G# diminished
 ==5==
 ---6---
 ---7---

If you want to observe the point where the Seagull Merlin tips between the two keys (A Major(B Dorian Mode)  & D Major) try playing "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" starting with "B" the 5th fret of the low D string.  The song uses both the "G" and "G#".