Music, the final frontier... these are the voyages of the self-taught theory-phile on a 7 year mission to seek out strange new words, seek out new links and new categorizations, to boldly go where no man has cared to go before.

These are all told with hindsight, which gives me the humour to admit to the cul-de-sacs, the nebulous topics and alluring green alien concepts I've fleetingly encountered. This is not meant as a means to obtain Pat-Martino-like skills in visualising or conceptualizing music for that read Linear Sound, Advancing Guitarist and the like.

This is kinda intended to be like Zen Guitar but with examples of failure, set-back, misconception, defeat to mitigate any sense of achievement in distracting yourself too greatly with the significance of notes.

Ultimately anything you understand intellectually about music goes out the window when you play along with any rhythm instrument from a metronome up, and all you're left with is what's instinctive internalised knowledge and if you've been hitting the paper and pen hard and not the guitar (as I had) that can be quite humbling... but hey, enough about that, lets check out some theory and observations