Brendan Bondurant

TL;DR When two tools can’t talk, a person becomes the API.

Last time I made the case that a mode lives in one note, the modal note, the single degree that separates it from its parent scale.

This is for non-developers who own integrations and need to make decisions and triage tickets without touching code.

I’ve already made the case that G major and A Dorian aren’t interchangeable just because they share the same notes — the tonal center changes everything.

This post was originally published on wundergraph.com and co-written with Tanya Deputatova.

On paper, 3/4 and 6/8 look almost the same.

Originally posted on the WunderGraph Blog and has been reposted here with permission.

The generic guitar lesson on the “blues scale” goes something like this: take the minor pentatonic, add a passing tone between the 4 and 5, and you’ve got the blues scale.

The standard guitar lesson on minor scales goes something like this: here are three scales — natural, harmonic, and melodic.

Dominant 7 chords show up everywhere – blues, rock, folk, country.