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Piano chords

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How to Read and Play Piano Chords
  • Best simple explanation from Hoffman Academy.
  • 12 tones in chromatic scale
  • Half step between each tone
  • Major chords: root + major 3rd( 4 half steps) to third + minor 3rd (3 half steps) to fifth e.g. C
  • Minor chords: root + minor 3rd to third + major 3rd to fifth e.g. Cm
  • Diminished chords: root + minor 3rd to third + minor 3rd to fifth e.g. C dim
  • Augmented chords: root + major 3rd to third + major 3rd to fifth e.g. C aug
  • 7th chords: chord + minor 3rd. e.g. C7
  • maj 7th chords: chord + major 3rd e.g. C maj7

How to Write a Book in Three Days: Lessons from Michael Moorcock

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How to Write a Book in Three Days: Lessons from Michael Moorcock

In 1992, he published a collection of interviews conducted by Colin Greenwood called Michael Moorcock: Death is No Obstacle, in which he discusses his writing method. In the first chapter, “Six Days to Save the World”, he says those early novels were written in about “three to ten days” each, and outlines exactly how one accomplishes such fast writing.