Author: brendanbondurant
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The Blues Scale is a Compromise
The generic guitar lesson on the “blues scale” goes something like this: take the minor pentatonic, add a passing tone between the 4 and 5, and you’ve got the blues scale. This is also referred to as the minor blues scale. A C D (D# / Eb) E G That’s a good starting point, and…
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Three Minor Scales, One Minor Key
Natural, harmonic, and melodic minor aren’t three separate scales. They’re three solutions to the same problem.
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The Dominant Seventh Wants to Go Somewhere
Guitarists learn the dominant 7th as a chord shape. It’s actually an engine.
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CAGED Is a Starting Point
The CAGED system is a useful way to organize the fretboard. The mistake is treating it like music theory.
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Voice Leading on Guitar
Guitarists learn chord shapes. Pianists learn how notes move between chords. This gap explains more than you’d think.
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Learn to Hear the Melody
A lead sheet tells you what the melody is. Your ear is what makes it yours.
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Intervals Are Sounds, Not Fret Distances
Ask a guitarist what a minor third is, and you will most likely hear: three frets. That’s correct in the same way that “turn left at the stop sign” is a correct description of where your house is. It tells you how to get there, but it doesn’t tell you what’s there when you arrive.…
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G Major vs A Dorian: Same Notes, Different Music
Two scales can be identical in construction yet different in musical behavior. Why modes aren’t just rotations of a major scale.
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The State of Federation 2026 Survey Is Open
Originally posted on the WunderGraph Blog We’re running a survey to understand how organizations are adopting, operating, and scaling federated GraphQL. The goal is straightforward: build a vendor-neutral picture of what Federation looks like in production today, and why some teams haven’t adopted it yet. The required questions take 5–10 minutes. Optional sections cover governance…
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The Hidden Cost of Non-Compliance in AI
Originally posted on the WunderGraph Blog Executive Framing Every AI deployment now carries audit risk. For high‑risk AI in Europe, logging and documentation are written into law. In the United States, states are building their own playbooks with no consistency. In parts of Asia, certain high‑impact AI systems increasingly face mandatory risk assessments and, in…