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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.
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
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
Etude #10, Guitar Solo #10
Etude #11, Guitar Solo #11
Etude #12, Guitar Solo #12
Etude #13, Guitar Solo #13
Etude #14, Guitar Solo #14
Etude #15, Guitar Solo #15
Etude #16, Guitar Solo #16
Etude #17, Guitar Solo #17
Etude #18, Guitar Solo #18
SOME THINGS I WROTE
Betaville (the movie I wrote and made)
TREBUCHET, A Game That I Invented
How to Play (English) (read this first)
Chinese Portuguese Korean Spanish Japanese Arabic
Farsi Italian German French Hindi
Prospects for the House (read this second):
Game Length Simulator TRB-GL81.exe TRB-GL81.txt
Figuring the Odds, TRB-GS92.exe TRB-GS92.txt
Play the Game, TRB-BG-2.exe
Trebuchet art (jpg's):
London 9-Box
Circle 9-Box (lettered) Circle 9-Box (symbols)