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jazzCittern™ ModeExplorer Online - ModeExploration on the web REQUIREMENTS: High-speed internet and browsers with excellent HTML5 support required.  (Read specific requirements below.)    
Discovery Starts Right Here!
What can the ModeExplorer do for you? It will teach you, whether beginner or Pro, a lifetime's worth of fifths-tuning chords and scales. It will teach you how the scales and the chords all fit together.

Like all ModeExplorers, the jazzCittern™ ModeExplorer Online 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!
Musicians - If you play NST guitar, mandolin, mandola, mandocello, bouzouki, bandolim, or Cittern, tenor guitar - or even violin, viola, and cello - Take your playing to the next level!
Like its cousin, the jazzCittern™ ModeExplorer for Windows®, the jazzCittern™ ModeExplorer Online for the Web demonstrates advanced theory and harmony in a fifths-tuning. Learn modal improvisation techniques for your Cittern... Or your NST guitar, mandolin, mandocello, octave mandolin, fifths-tuned bouzouki... Even cello and violin! There are exciting adventures for all fifths-tuned instruments here.
Cittern - Now on the Web
The jazzCittern™ ModeExplorer Online provides the same excellent guidance through the world of modes and improvisation as the other ModeExplorers, only it inhabits a browser. Mac users, this is your ticket to modal adventures. (Select browsers with excellent HTML5 support required. See "Requirements" below.)
 
The Ultimate Gourmet Five-Course Meal - The jazzCittern™ Online for the Web!

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Features
  • All the chords derived from all degrees of all the scales in all the keys are revealed
  • Teaches each chord in sixteen different fingerings and inversions!
  • You learn scales and their chords by seeing them, and you can hear them too!
  • Real cittern sounds to demonstrate chords and scales
  • The Expedition Outfitters supply you with all kinds of tools to figure chords for a scale, scales for a set of chords, the chord types found on any degree of a scale, and more!
  • Some call it a "Reverse Lookup". We call it invaluable. Identify and give a REAL name to those heretofore mysterious note clusters in The Groveland Chord DNA Laboratory.
  • Choose from eight "violin positions" (w/half position) for visualizing scales in manageable chunks, or all scale notes at once
  • 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!
  • Ample help: jazzCittern™ ModeExplorer's FieldGuide, The ScaleWatcher's FieldGuide, The ChordWatcher's FieldGuide... 60+ pages packed with ModeExplorer how-to's, improv tips, modes, and chords! (.pdf)
  • ...and on and on...




SUBSCRIPTION TERMS: Only $3.99 a month gets you access to all the ModeExplorers Online, simply subscribe by the month. We'll continue to bill you each month, and when that musical pioneer spirit in you is satisfied, you can cancel your subscription anytime. It's really that simple.
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FOR BEST RESULTS: High-speed internet and Firefox 7 or later; Windows 7, OS X 10.7.2, or iOS 4.2.1 or later (iPad, iPod Touch 3rd Generation, etc.). This application provides up to 7.96 MB of sound for Chrome and Safari; 16.5 MB of lossless sound is provided for Firefox. Touch-screen devices (iPad, iPod Touch 3rd/4th Generation, Android, etc.) have somewhat limited functionality. ModeExplorer sound is not supported by Mobile Safari (iPad, iPod Touch 3rd/4th Generation, etc.) at this time. Browser requirements: Excellent HTML5 support required. For Windows, Chrome 15 or later, Firefox 7 or later. For Apple, Chrome 15 or later, Firefox 7 or later, Safari 5.1.1 or later.
Important:As vendors' browser development is ongoing, some browsers produce varying results from release to release.
Network: 5 Mbps download or better recommended; 1.5 Mbps required.
Display:1024x768 resolution display minimum recommended. Adobe Acrobat required for PDF Help file viewing: Free from Adobe.






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