Greg's Music And Geek Blog

Fri, 07 Oct 2005

The Unified Mandolin Scale Theory

A while back I posted a couple of articles on mandolin scale theory to the Green And Gray discussion board. I thought I’d post a link to those files from here.

Basically, if you take a mandolin and imagine that instead of 4 sets of strings tuned in intervals of a 5th, you have an infinite number of strings tuned in intervals of a 5th then you can see that every 7 strings a scale pattern repeats. If you memorize this single pattern then you know all your modal scale positions.

So I’m posting the links here so you can download those files directly.

Enjoy!

The original article.

The first chord construction article

The second chord construction article

The arpeggio article.

Now, Go Home And Practice :-)

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POKER!

As you can see by the advertisement on this blog, I’m trying to enter the Poker Stars blogger’s tournament. It’s a freeroll tournament (meaning it’s free to get in but there are actual cash prizes) but the “entry fee” is that you have to put that ad on your blog site. So we’ll see how it goes.

I’ve been playing hold-em for about a year. One of our local casinos has a Sunday morning limit hold-em tournament. The entry fee is only $8 but there’s a $3000 prize pool. The prizes only go to the ten people at the final table. Usually, you just chop it ten ways and everyone gets $300. Then you donate 10% to the dealer’s tip basket and you bring home $270 for your $8 investment (and, of course, you got to have fun playing poker for a couple of hours).

I’ve made it to the final table twice and I was one card away from the final table once. I was all in and had the best pair. But the river gave another player a higher pair. Had he not caught that card I’d have made it to the final table three times.

On Poker Stars I mainly play in the play money games. I pushed my $1000 buy in up to about $72,000 at one point. Then I started playing no limit hold-em instead of limit hold-em and it didn’t go so well. I’m a much better limit hold-em player. But that’s the nice thing about play money. It doesn’t cost you anything to practice.

So let’s see what happens. I have the Poker Stars ad on my blog. We’ll see if they offer me an entry.

[edit] I just noticed that the PokerStars blog doesn’t have an RSS feed. Even I have an RSS feed for my blog. RSS is a special type of feed that presents your blog to a program called an “RSS reader” (makes sense). What that reader does is download the recent stories from a blog so you can read it offline. But what’s more convenient is that you can get all the latest stories from your favorite blogs and read them all in one place via the reader. That way you don’t have to go to a bunch of different web pages to read several different blogs.

My blog’s more geeky than PokerStar’s blog. Neener neener neener :-)

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