Theory and Improv
Please Don’t Call it the “Cycle of Fourths”
My last post on fifths (when not to play the perfect fifths) and the one before on the forgotten fifth are hopefully still fresh in your memory
Ari October 24, 2017
My last post on fifths (when not to play the perfect fifths) and the one before on the forgotten fifth are hopefully still fresh in your memory
My Beef… Many theory books teach the cycle of fifths without the crucial explanations of Why?, and then they list the “order of flats and
Cycle of Fifths? What? Why? It is completely understandable that the Cycle of Fifths often creates confusion and disconnect for bass players. Unlike classical musicians,
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