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Discovery Starts Right Here!
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What can the ModeExplorer do for you? It will teach you, whether beginner or Pro, a lifetime's worth of
NST Guitar chords and scales. It will teach you how the scales and the chords all fit together.
Like all ModeExplorers, the NST ModeExplorer Online
displays all the modes of the standard major scale, presenting the fingerings
graphically on the neck of the NST Guitar, 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 Guitar in all keys and plays them for
you!
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Guitarists: Let your tuning work for YOU!
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For hundreds of years, the best musicians on the planet have tuned in fifths - Violin, viola, cello, mandolin, mandola, mandocello - Tried and true,
time-tested, what a rich history fifths-tuning has.
On guitar, when you tune in fifths (CGDAE) and throw a G on top, you have what's often referred-to as: New Standard Tuning,
or what we call "NST."
NST? A few decades ago, well-known guitarist Robert Fripp started applying fifths to the guitar.
Clearly he didn't invent fifths-tuning for stringed instruments, but he did popularize its use
on guitar.
Once you see how it works, you have to wonder how guitar "old standard tuning" ever caught on. Tuning your guitar in fifths joins the guitarist to
a rich heritage of centuries of music - Your guitar becomes nothing but a giant violin or cello with frets. Suddenly things make sense. Symmetrical patterns are consistent
uninterrupted across 84% of the neck. Navigation is a breeze. Chord-building is intuitive. Improvising
is predictable. Even reading music can become easier, as the fifths-tuned guitar maps so well to the staff -
No surprises!
We love that symmetry here at jazzCittern.com, because fifths-tuning is half of what we're all about. And there's no better way to get to know the lay of the land of fifths-tuning than with the ModeExplorers.
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The NST ModeExplorer Online
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The NST ModeExplorer Online provides the same excellent guidance through the world of
modes and improvisation as the mando ModeExplorer and jazzCittern ModeExplorer Online. At last: Mac users, this is your ticket to
modal adventures. (Select browsers with excellent HTML5 support are listed
in the "Requirements" below.)
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Take a look...
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Features
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All the chords derived from all degrees of all the scales in all the keys are
revealed
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Teaches each chord in four different inversions!
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Teaches each inversion of a chord in FIVE different voicings!
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You learn scales and their chords by seeing them, and you can hear
them too!
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Real NST Guitar sounds to demonstrate chords and scales
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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!
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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.
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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: NST 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)
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...and on and on...
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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, etc.) have somewhat limited functionality.
ModeExplorer sound is not supported by Mobile Safari (iPad, iPod Touch 3rd/4th Generation, Android, 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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