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Fresh from the ModeExploratorium
What's happening at Groveland Software Labs?
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Groveland Shipping and Receiving will be closed
August 6 through August 12, 2010.
We will be taking orders as usual. Shipping will resume August 13, 2010 as usual.
We appreciate your patience.
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Groveland Shipping and Receiving will be closed
August 16 through August 21, 2009.
We will be taking orders as usual. Shipping will resume August 22, 2009 as usual.
We appreciate your patience.
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Mando ModeExplorer with Positions Support Released!
(March 25, 2009)
Fresh from the ModeExploratorium! We have added a few goodies to our flagship creation - The Mando ModeExplorer
now boasts eight Violin Positions plus the 'All Positions" view. And as an added bonus, we have added
JazzMando's excellent
FFcP support for all 7-note scales, too! This really enhances the usability of the ModeExplorers by breaking the
feast down into bite-sized morsels...
Read more...
Mandolinists - Available Now!
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jazzCittern™ ModeExplorer Released!
(March 18, 2009)
As promised - the jazzCittern™ ModeExplorer, opening up new vistas in
Cittern, Guitar, and 5-string Mandolin, Bandolim, and other instruments tuned this way - Has been released!
We are excited to offer this one-of-a-kind tool for the ModeExploration Adventurer in you!
Read more...
Guitarists, Mandolinists, Bouzouki'ists - Available NOW!
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jazzCittern™ ModeExplorer is on it's way!
(March 1, 2009)
Well, what in the world is a cittern?
It's simply the future of stringed-plectrum instruments! It's got double-string courses like mandolin family instruments. It's tuned in fifths, kindof like a Mandocello and Octave Mandolin together. (Or a Cello and Violin, if you like.) It's about guitar-sized, and plays a lot like that type of instrument. BUT - If you know anything about fifths-tuning you know there many significant advantages over, say, guitar's 'old standard tuning.'
In fact, there are so many benefits that when applied to guitar, we call it New Standard Tuning (a.k.a. NST) - Which is nothing more than a good ol' Cittern with a sixth course on the top.
Blazing this trail, the jazzCittern™ ModeExplorer opens up new vistas in Cittern, Guitar, and 5-string Mandolin, Bandolim, and other instruments tuned this way. Count on the weathered sherpa of numerous fifths-tuned expeditions is here to guide you safely from summit to peak. And back again.
Read more...
In Beta today - Available in Spring of 2009. Guitarists, Mandolinists, Bouzouki'ists - Watch for it!
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Groveland Shipping and Receiving will be closed
August 16 through August 24, 2008.
We will be taking orders as usual. Shipping will resume August 25, 2008 as usual.
We appreciate your patience.
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The Groveland Expedition Outfitters are here! - Feb 24, 2008
You probably won't find anything like this anywhere - Everything a ModeExplorer needs to survive the journey - Theory tools that help you to identify chords,
scales, and what to play on chord progressions. This stuff is instrument agnostic, so bring all your musician friends!
"I've got a cluster of notes and I don't know what to call it..." I've got a cluster of chords to solo over and I don't know what my options are..."
"What makes up that scale?" "What chords are found on each degree of that scale?" We can give you the
answers to these and a zillion other common questions... For free!
Visit The Groveland Expedition Outfitters
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Groveland Shipping and Receiving will be closed
December 12 through December 16, 2007.
We will be taking orders as usual. Shipping will resume December 17, 2007 as usual.
We appreciate your patience.
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Groveland Shipping and Receiving will be closed June
13 through June 17, 2007.
We will be taking orders as usual. Shipping will resume June 18, 2007 as usual.
We appreciate your patience.
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Chart Exchange is growing - Feb 12, 2007
Watch the Chart Exchange when your ModeExplorer is online - New tunes are being added all the time.
The Chart Exchange is there to provide practice tools for your soloing. Let the ModeExplorer play backup
for you! Lately we've added chord progressions in fifths so you can practice perpetual II-V's. We have also
added a few jazz-blues progressions so you can exercise your mixolydian, symmetric, and harmonic minor scales.
That in addition to the assortment of jazz progressions...
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Mando ModeExplorer 2.0.* enhancements and magnachops
ModeExplorer 2.0.* enhancements are released! - Feb 6, 2007
We're always enhancing the ModeExplorers, and registered owners know they can upgrade.
We've had discussions with our friends in music about chord naming, chromatics and accidentals, and when do all those
double-sharps and double-flats actually obscure the music and when do they help. The latest enhancements include what we call
'enharmonic reduction'. That's a fancy way of saying we give you the strict, formal, technically correct names for chords as
well as the more informal names you'll see in chord charts. So you'll know when your B ma7 is a Cb ma7 and your G# ma7 is really an F### ma7!
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SIGGRAPH 2006 - Guerilla Studio - July 30 - August 3, 2006
We were at SIGGRAPH 2005, and they asked us back!
Every year the Association of Computing Machinery holds their International Conference and Exhibition on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques.
We're looking forward to one particular highlight of the conference: The
Guerilla Studio! This year it's being held in Boston, and the Mando and Magnachops ModeExplorers will be there,
helping guide conference explorers through the how-to of mando and guitar in hands-on mandolin and guitar exhibits!
For more information on this exciting event,
go to SIGGRAPH2006.
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Mando ModeExplorer 2.0 and magnachops ModeExplorer
2.0 are released! - June 15, 2006
The new ModeExplorers have been released. Running on .NET 2.0 platform, and they are packed with significant enhancements!
Current licensed owners: Be sure and contact us for upgrade details.
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