"Ice Cream Chords" plus technology to share them

[Teo]

One of the common chord patterns in my original compositions is called "The Ice Cream Chords." It is the standard 1-6-2-5 circle of fifths, with extra suspending the 4th and resolving it, sort of gospelish.

I also designed a while ago a font that makes the guitar tablature possible, it's a macintosh font and I haven't tried it on PCs, but I'm willing to share it with brave souls! he he..

Here is a sample of the font, used to display the Ice Cream Chords:



I have other 'inventions' shared here: http://Givnology.com/compose.htm

Thank you for the opportunity to share!

peas
teo

[theMusicMan]

Hi Teo

Thanks for posting this... maynbe we ought to have a 'library' type section for interesting / useful 'stuff' that MIMF can make available for everyone.

[Teo]

Here are the Guitara font and a MS-Word document that explains how to use it.

FROM THE MS-WORD DOCUMENT:

Option-# (1 through 0) fret number
Option-Shift-7 fret board
Option-Shift-1 note first fret
Option-Shift-2 note second fret
Option-Shift-3 note third fret
Option-Shift-4 note fourth fret
Option-Shift-5 X above string
Option-Shift-6 space (open string)

Other characters show up as typed


Double click it or open it with StuffitExpander, it's a Mac TrueType font.

Oh, .sit files can't be attached, here is the link:

http://www.webpageexperience.com/doc/GuiTara.sit

Recently I found out that Finale has a nice Guitar chord editor, so I probably won't need this one - it only works on Macintosh OS up to 9.22

[John Watt]

Teo! I'm seeing what you've got going here, but this is taking me back.
In the early seventies, Jeff Beck, the guitarist from England,
had a song called "Ice Cream Cakes". It seemed appropriate somehow,
but I can't remember it well enough to know if it coincides with your chords.
You're typing "gospelish", and I just remember thinking Jeff seems serious about this.

Hmmmm.... I like a little scrumptious, as always, John Watt

[Teo]

Nice of you to reply John!

You're typing "gospelish"

Ahh.. let me explain! At Laney College in Oakland it was the gospel pianists who had all these beautiful ornaments and super sweet sounding resolutions. That's why I give them credit - why I say that it makes me think of gospel.

Since you brought this topic up, I'll share where that "suspeding then resolved 7th" fits into classical notation, which I'm learning now.

What I call A7(sus4) to A7 is written this way (figured bass I believe):

    / 7       \
A |  5        |
    \ 4---3 /

I think I've gotten that correct!

Thanks for the sweet thoughts!

Love and *LIGHT* *BEING*,
Teo

[John Watt]

Teo! I was listening to an old concert recorded in Berkeley last night, so at least I feel a little appropriate getting back to you, from there in California.
But I can't get into the notation with you. I was bad on guitar, and just got worse. I stopped playing trumpet and reading and writing, just being leading on guitar, even if I've enjoyed looking at many examples of notation in studios to art galleries, swirling staffs of music, birch bark compositions, stencils on nuclear drums, you name it. I even saw some scratching on polar ice a tribal elder drew of the wording for others, with a little fish slapping going on between notes.
Ah yes, singing while you're working, one of my favorites. Today, a local restaurant owner taking over a new business had me working on an illuminated sign inside the building, and I was dancing around a little and singing to "Shawty's got a fire going on the dance floor", just to put everyone else's head through, especially the owner after I started a plastic plumbing fire. It got us all some free pizza and pop, and another gig offer for me. Do you know about plastic fires, not that you should?

Seeing what you're doing is the first time I've gotten into it with computers and modern keys, so I'm glad I left it behind at the start. Just the traditional and the creative was overwhelming. Thinking about composing when you can sample and play any part and sound like anything isn't where I'm at at all, and is so far beyond me now I'll never get into it.
What I'd like is to hear some of your music to see how you're working it.
That would open my ears more than reading here opens my eyes.
And you're right about those sweet gospel sounds. Most people don't think of Scottish Presbyterian choirs as "gospel", but that's how I started singing, in the choir in a church where my parents were founding members. I'm tempted to upload a picture of my mother, who sang lead soprano in the adult choir. She's the one who had a wild beauty with her voice. I'll never feel that love again.

I hope your music maintains your traditions, a touchstone for all our lives.

as always, John Watt
P.S. If you ever see Timothy Leary, give him a smackdown for me. I bought his album because he said on t.v. that Jimi Hendrix came in for a while and played guitar in the background, so I bought it but never heard Jimi. If I wasn't visiting a friend who had a small canyon below his back deck, I never would have frisbied that album out into far space, the only record I've ever thrown away.
I hope you don't mind all this off-topic, as notational as I can be.