Popcorn Cinema Co.

popcorncinema.com

Welcome to the web site of Thomas P. Small
(8 Dearborn Square, Kankakee, IL 60901, USA)

Dear visitors,

I have lost patience with these complicated web design
programs. They are over-engineered, logical but impractical.
In various ways on various browsers, they create errors I cannot
repair. I will therefore go with plain text -- for now.

The major categories to this site are "Jazz Harmony For Guitar",
which is a book about my musical theories. Then comes "The Chord
Line Editor", which is a program for creating and editing music
using tablatures. Then there are two books of music I wrote for
guitar, showing tablature and score. Then there are a lot of midi
files so you can hear what these scores sort of sound like.

Besides music, there are a few essays I wrote, and the Betaville
movie.

Finally, there is the game of Trebuchet, a game that I invented.

Please scroll down to the section that interests you, and click the
link. Sites like mine are about downloading things. So the makers
of your computer will give you a bunch of warnings about how
dangerous this is, because its not coming from some big corporate
name they feel good about.

the Links & Misc. page

JAZZ HARMONY FOR GUITAR

The old (2005) text, K7-mas8d.pdf

The new (July '09) text, SJH-M4b.txt

Some plain text tablature lists:
4-string tablatures (tune to fifths)
4-string tablatures (for D-G-B-E)
4-string tablatures (major thirds)
6-string tablatures, regular tuning
6-string tablatures, augmented tuning
7-string tablatures (for A-E-A-D-G-B-E)

THE CHORD LINE EDITOR (an ".exe" file -- a computer
program. Part of a "compressed" file, which you "extract"
and place on the "C:" drive of you PC-type computer, in the
form, "C:\CLE\CLE.exe")

CLE.zip, version 90A, July '09

readme.txt (for CLE)

documentation for the Chord Line Editor:

English German Portuguese Spanish French

THE MUSIC I MADE

Book 1, Etudes and Guitar Solos #1 to #9 (.pdf)
Book 2, Etudes and Guitar Solos #10 to #18 (.pdf)

MIDI FILES. ("Midi" is a scheme that produces music
on your instrument (your computer) using text files.)

Etude #1, Guitar Solo #1
Etude #2, Guitar Solo #2
Etude #3, Guitar Solo #3
Etude #4, Guitar Solo #4
Etude #5, Guitar Solo #5
Etude #6, Guitar Solo #6
Etude #7, Guitar Solo #7
Etude #8, Guitar Solo #8
Etude #9, Guitar Solo #9