I've been posting but did not put up an intro thread yet so I guess I should.

It's been very cold in Detroit but we're supposed to start a warm-up tomorrow. I've had it with winter and snow. I'm still recovering from a burst appendix but am well on my way to a full recovery but I hope I never have to get surgery ever again.

I am a musician and play a variety of instruments but devote myself primarily to double bass and recently had one custom-made for me which was very expensive but I knew it wasn't a cheap discipline when I got into it. I am classically trained but specialize in jazz. It's amazing how much you have to know about music and your particular instrument to be any good at jazz or classical--none of this playing by ear and can't read music stuff. You won't be around long in either genre otherwise. Just to pass a symphony audition really takes work.

I read a lot and I write a lot but I can't write fiction. I've tried and tried but I am no good at it. I can write histories and analyses and manifestos and articles and biographies and true accounts and reviews and you name it but just don't ask me to write fiction. But I enjoy good fiction with a big weakness for Pynchon and Burroughs.

Well, I guess that's it.

Great to have you here DB

looking forward to reading more of your posts.

and glad to hear a full recovery is happening.

see you in the digital soup.

may the seventh mode of the melodic minor ascending (jazz minor) fit beautifully over your altered dominant chords and if the fifth is natural may your half-whole symetrical diminished serve you well. else otherwise chord tones and chromatics to you brother

Thank you youkrist.

Welcome to the community.