Nothing groundbreaking here but it's what's in my head at the moment. It starts with a mode of Harmonic Minor and varies it by sliding around in major thirds. I've been reconnecting with guitar lately and for the last few days I've gravitated towards a particular variation on the Coltrane Cycle idea that I'm enjoying. But it was very popular with the Second Viennese School and is a good thing to get a handle on if you're looking for some modernist vocabulary. This chord is non-diatonic and, as far as I know, unknown in tonal music. The outer notes, C-G are the fifth and the inner ones, C#-F#, are the fourth. The Lulu Chord is what I call a chord formed by playing a perfect fifth with a perfect fourth nestled inside it: for example, C-C#-F#-G. I pulled the frets out a few years ago in an attempt to make something vaguely oud-like but that didn't work at all, and since then it's been moping around my studio getting in the way. If I wanted an acoustic guitar, I'd be much better off dropping £100 on a Chinese one on eBay. I knew it wasn't going to be a "normal" guitar, since it was never good at being one of those and decades of poor storage have left it warped beyond reasonable repair. This week I started a half-serious project to bring my first guitar - a cheap Kay acoustic from the 1980s - back to life.
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