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jazzCittern: The instrument of the Future
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A jazzWhat?
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That's right - A jazzCittern™! The cittern we're talking about here is the 10-string long-scale bouzouki, probably first named as such by Stefan Sobell,
the famous luthier and used heavily in Irish Traditional Music.
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The Happy Offspring of Mandocello and Bouzouki: Cittern.
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It's really the happy offspring of a Mandocello and a Bouzouki: This instrument, when tuned CGDAE (in fifths),
becomes an extraordinary jazz instrument in that it models music theory very, very well. The extra course really extends the range and helps to
illustrate the
wonderful symmetries available in fifths tuning, and makes chord building and scale visualization a breeze. So much so that,
we can imagine a day when fifths tuning is the standard for all stringed instruments, and the mighty Cittern rules the world!
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Cittern. It Simply Makes More Sense.
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So, faced with the Cittern's inevitable World Dominance, we think it's best to start preparing now.
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Cittern: Fifths Times Five Equals Endless Possibilities.
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You already know the endless advantages of fifths tuning; the jazzCittern™ ModeExplorer
makes these benefits available in the rich voice range of the guitar. In the unlikely event that
you've not encountered this, book passage and don't be left behind! Now is the
time to discover new horizons... There's an exciting Brave New World awaiting your discovery...
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The jazzCittern™ ModeExplorer Blazes the Trail through this Wilderness
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The jazzCittern™ ModeExplorer is the most powerful tool for improvising cittern players,
Bouzouki players, Octave Mandolin players, AND those innovative New Standard Tuning (NST) guitar players
out there...
It's a scale slide rule and a chord calculator, a handy composing tool, and a great way for
the musician to organize scales and chords, and invent new ones... the
jazzCittern™ ModeExplorer. Blaze your own trail!
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Discovery Starts Right Here!
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Like all ModeExplorers, the jazzCittern™ ModeExplorer
displays all the modes of the standard major scale, presenting the fingerings
graphically on the neck of the jazzCittern™ , in every key and every position on the
neck, plays those modes for you, provides a dozens of useful
“synthetic scales” and “symmetric scales”, figures out all the chords that can be created for all
those scales all over the neck of the jazzCittern™ in all keys and plays them for
you! And it does this for scales
that YOU INVENT, too!
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The Ultimate Gourmet Five-Course Meal - jazzCittern!
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But that's truly only the beginning!
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All the chords derived from all degrees of all the scales in all the keys are
demonstrated
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Each chord is shown in sixteen different fingerings and inversions!
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Not only can you see the scales and their component chords, but you can hear
them too!
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Real cittern sounds to demonstrate chords and scales - Not some fake midi
soundcard approximation
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Build your own chord progressions from the jazzCittern™ ModeExplorer
and jam along
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Enter a chord series into the Mode Calculator, and it tells you what scales you
might use to play!
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The ModeExplorer Web Service provides additional scales and chords when an
Internet connection is available (No connection required)
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Finally! Identify and give a REAL name to those heretofore mysterious note
clusters in The Groveland Chord DNA Laboratory!
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The ModeExplorer Chart Exchange allows you to exchange chord progression ideas
with other players and print them out
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Choose from eight "violin positions"
(w/half position) for visualizing scales in manageable chunks, or all scale
notes at once
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We also included
FFcP support! All
scales can be broken down into
JazzMando's
1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th FFcP... All diatonic modes of the major scale and
synthetic scales, like harmonic minor, melodic minor, the Altered scale,
Locrian#2... For all tonics!
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Ample help: jazzCittern™ ModeExplorer's FieldGuide, The ScaleWatcher's
FieldGuide, The ChordWatcher's FieldGuide - 79 pages packed with ModeExplorer
how-to's, improv tips, modes, and chords! (.pdf)
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...and on and on...
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For soloing instrumentalists, many of the most useful scales are represented here:
Melodic Minor, Harmonic Minor, symmetrical scales, and more. For accompanists, thousands of useful chord forms are
provided with their parent scales.
And perhaps most useful tool of all, The Chord Calculator provides the
musician with the power to punch in parts of chord progressions and see what scales
will be appropriate for improvising, for every occasion in jazz, blues, rock,
or whatever.
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Get the edge on the other guys.
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Get the BIG PICTURE.
Combined with the ModeExplorer Web Service, the jazzCittern™ ModeExplorer is the absolute best way for
fifths-tuning musicians to organize
their arsenals of scales and chords. Color your compositions, revitalize old
chops, put everything in context.
A lifetime of musical information graphically and sonically represented on the
neck of a Cittern! See it and hear it all!
Where do I get me one of these things?
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System Requirements: Pentium II 400 MHz or greater with 128 MB memory, 46 MB HD recommended. Windows 2000, Windows XP, or more recent recommended.
1024x768 resolution display, sound card, mouse, and CD-ROM required. Internet Explorer 5.01 or greater required. The Microsoft .NET 2.0 Framework
is required: Free
from Microsoft. Adobe Acrobat required for PDF Help file viewing: Free
from Adobe.
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