History of "John Kugelman"

I started a diary at the beginning of 2004. I wrote then: "I give myself less than even odds that I'll stick with it."

Amazing, I'm so prescient!

You can read, but writing in it I'm not a fan of. Nothing personal; it is a diary, eh?

Summary: You can add notes to chords to make them more interesting. For example, add a "7th" to a chord to make it sound more jazzy, or ambiguous, or even stronger. A seventh is the note right below the root note of the chord. So to a C major chord (C, E, G) you can add a B, which gives you a Cmaj7 chord (C, E, G, B), which sounds smooth, jazzy, and a little bit sad. Or add a Bb to create a C7 chord (C, E, G, Bb), which you'll find almost screams out "play an F chord next!"

Indeed! My father waged a real war on me when I was a kid so that I learned music theory. To no avail.For him wanting to learn music by ear was a real no-no.

I have written a funky tune (one of my best tunes) by adding a seventh to the E chord and by playing each note of the chord. I have added an A-minor.

You little devil, you have all the talents! Well all the talents revolving around a mathematical mind: maths, programming, linguistics, music. I do have these talents also while having been lousy in maths (since I was 11 in grade 8 it's no wonder I was not good in Maths! I did not have the abilities required yet. See Piaget

Now, why don't you get the necessary midi apparatus (sequencer and synthetizer) and arrange your tunes? I'll choose 10 of my instrumental songs and I'll send them to you soon. Maybe you could send me yours!

How is your work? Programming in which language?

In Viatasso, when we click on the time of a page, we can see the highlighted changes. When we edit this page, we get a message that the page is old and that there is no way to save it. Can you fix this?

Re: you involvement in my war with Sunir in February, I am sure you meant well. In fact, I think you tried to patch things up. I am 250% convinced you're a good person and a person in good faith. Note that I never ever said the opposite! I met very few persons in bad faith in my life; those who deliberately want to hurt. Thank God!

— RobertAbitbol

PS: Can I count on you to make easy mods to the DOW? (list at Test2). One important mod: when we have finished editing a page it returns to the page view and not to the section and cards page.

I believe the DOW can be very useful and when I'll have better finances, I'll pay a programmer to program it in C and MYSQL or C and any other database to work locally.

In fact, no one has ever written a line requiring an explanation for the DOW for it is very self-explanatory and very intuitive!

Your Viatasso wiki is gettimg more and more user friendly and more and more a joy to work with!

A suggestion: in your URL Directory on the edit page, why don't you have a scroller and a list of directories like I have on my DOW?

You programmed a great directory system for your Viatasso. Congrats!

/Re: your function to edit a page by double-clicking on the spot you want to edit, perhaps a simpler implementation would be to double click on a view page to edit it. The cursor will come at the beginning of the page just like a regular edit. See here:
http://www.wikiserver.org:25852/DoubleClickToEditPage

When I've written my first tune? I've written dozens! Hmph!

Indeed! My father waged a real war on me when I was a kid so that I learned music theory.To no avail.For him wanting to learn music by ear was a real no-no.

I have written a funky tune (one of my best tunes) by adding a seventh to the E chord and by playing each note of the chord.I have added an A-minor.

I'll try your progressions and if you find other interesting ones let me know. John Lennon and Paul McCartney were always writing songs by experimenting with chord progressions. You should try this method too. Let me know when you write your first tune!:-) — Robert Abitbol

See http://www.kuro5hin.org/comments/2002/4/12/72348/4426/93#93.

Summary: You can add notes to chords to make them more interesting. For example, add a "7th" to a chord to make it sound more jazzy, or ambiguous, or even stronger. A seventh is the note right below the root note of the chord. So to a C major chord (C, E, G) you can add a B, which gives you a Cmaj7 chord (C, E, G, B), which sounds smooth, jazzy, and a little bit sad. Or add a Bb to create a C7 chord (C, E, G, Bb), which you'll find almost screams out "play a G chord next!"

Or try changing a major chord to a sus4 chord. You do this by rasing the middle note (the 3rd) up one half step. So for a C major chord, you raise the E up one half step to an F, creating a Csus4 chord (C, F, G). It sounds nice to play a Csus4 and then a plain C major chord—it creates a nice sense of resolution.

Also, you can try using the opposite of a chord, turning a major into a minor, or vice versa. Using chords like this that are "out of the key" gives a song more flavor. So turn C, Am, Dm, G into C, A, D, G7 (all major). The G7 chord would be G, B, D, and F. The A major and D major chords aren't part of the C major scale, but they still sound good—and different.

You should definitely learn music theory. Obviously, I'm quite passionate about it. Music theory is not just dry and stuffy academic stuff; it will lead you to notes and chords you'd never have thought to try. Music theory tends to open doors, so that you don't have to just rely on your ear to try to figure out what sounds good.

Come on John! You know you're very unconventional and you yourself never follow any conventions (which is why you're called an inventor). So why do you ask me to follow conventions and why ask me not to make your diary into an interactive diary? :-)

No seriously, I won't write on it, promised.

I do like the way you write. It's very brief and very evocative and you only write when you have something to say. I like the story of the poor choked shrimps at Owens, the G chord for the GoodNight song, the bed that got too small and the Robert Abitbol contest nightmare...

Hey you don't only dance once in your lifetime and that is at Graduation! You haven't finished paying your dues, Son. So you better learn the moves and boogie! :-)

Now, I suggest you get "Then came Polly" from the video-club. Excellent movie plus a few good scenes on dancing the salsa. And the actress is lovely.. Jennifer A... from Friends. You'll see: impossible not to fall in love with her... She is really loveable!

And check out the bathroom scenes in that movie!

About your wiki, a software is always a work a progress and I think it's a mistake to say you won't improve it. You are only 21 or 22 and you already have accomplished a lot. Imagine what you will have at 50 of you keep it up!

No need to work fast. A little everyday gets a lot of stuff accomplished.

You'll see the huge benefits of a left window feature when you'll program one. Believe you me!

Talking about chords, I have been using the same chords over and over and I wrote over 60 songs with the same progressions namely:

1. C, A minor, D minor (or F), G
2. A minor, E, D minor, A, D
3. C ,E minor, A minor, D minor

Try these chords and try to write tunes from them.

Can you suggest a nice progression to experiment with? I am pretty sick and tired of the same old progressions...And I think these progressions are also tired of me! :-)

Thanks and cheers!

— Robert Abitbol

Since I know you do mind, I promise I won't read your diary anymore so feel free to write whatever you want.

You can read, but writing in it I'm not a fan of. Nothing personal; it is a diary, eh? :-)

PS: The presentation of your headings is excellent! Keep up the good work!

Since I know you do mind, I promise I won't read your diary anymore so feel free to write whatever you want.

Talking about a local version, is there a simpler way to start a MySQL database? It took me 5 hours to start one over AIM with Vicki Kerr a few months ago!

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John, I put a to do list on the DOW on your site. (test2). I also left a message for you.

I know you're real busy but take your time. Do the smaller mods first. I think the DOW is a limited concept but an excellent one nevertheless.

If I commercialize it as a PIM software working locally, I'll give you a 20% percentage. OK?

Talking about a local version, is there a simpler way to start a MYSQL database? It took me 5 hours to start one over AIM with Vicki Kerr a few months ago!

Thanks a million.

The Devil Incarnate :-). Robert Abitbol

This is my site. If you have any questions or feedback, you can either drop me a note on this page (or elsewhere on the site, if you can make sure I'll see it), or send me an e-mail at viatasso-wiki.john@viatasso.com.

I'm going to try to start a diary. I give myself less than even odds that I'll stick with it.

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