Twenty-plus years of it — the craft beneath the rest of the work.
Music is the oldest of Kenneth's disciplines and the one the others borrow their vocabulary from — cadence, structure, patience. This domain is the reference side of that practice: the technical and expressive building blocks, kept the way the Tarot and Astrology collections are kept. The lived side — the bands, the kit, the releases — lives in Music Background.
Collections
Drum Rudiments — the forty essential patterns of the snare, the alphabet of stickings from the single-stroke roll to the triple ratamacue. The vocabulary of every fill and groove.
Musical Keys — the twenty-four keys and their affective characteristics, drawn from Schubart's 1806 catalogue of what each key was once understood to mean, back when unequal temperament gave every key its own colour.
Scales & Modes — the seven diatonic modes and the core scales beyond them, the raw material of melody and the tonal worlds a piece can live in.
Chords & Progressions — notes stacked into chords and strung into progressions: the working grammar of harmony, from the three-chord backbone to the jazz cadence.
Related
- Music Background — the lived history: percussion, electronic production, Infinite State
- pytheory — the music-theory library, the same ideas in code
- Cadence — why rhythm matters more than comprehension
- Knowledge Hub