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Rogers' interval pattern is for a major scale.  The 1st, 3rd, and 5th notes of that scale will result in a major chord.

Minor scales (and in fact all modal scales) will produce differing chords, based on the 1st, 3rd, and 5th notes as well.   Minor scales produce minor chords.   Dorian and phrygian scales also produce minor chords, for example, while lydian and myxolidan scales produce major chords. 

All based on the 1st, 3rd, and 5th note of the scale.  Cool stuff!

The Jets surprised me!  The Sadhawks finally showing up and playing like I know they can did not. 

Packers looked really, really good.  The NFC title game is going to be good.  I think the Pack is -3 right now, which is basically a push.  As a guy that likes both Chicago and Green Bay, I'm going to pull for both teams.

Other than the winner, that game met all my expectations.    Wow!

Because jokes about banjos are always funny.

So here is the saddest tale of my life.

I'm sitting in the sports book at the Palms.  I'm looking at all the bets on the wall, and just kind of vegitating because I was really tired from the conference I was attending.   The line on the Sadhawks winning the Superbowl sat at 85:1.   The spread on them winning this game was -10.5 and had a number somewhere around +14,000.    The guy in the lounge chair in front of me is smoking a vile cigarette.    I say to myself, "Jerome, lets go to the buffet and get some prime rib."

So I did.

The end.

I love Rock Band.  Its way more fun than it aught to be, and there aren't too many games you can play with your kids that are fully cooperative rather than competitive.

It ain't gonna teach you a thing about guitars, though.

I'm gonna love this thread.

1st.  This is going to be an epic, EPIC contest.  These are two of the best football teams I can remember seeing in a long time.  I'm picking the Ducks, because I've been with 'em all year, and I'm a homer.   Either team could win, and no one should be surprised when one of 'em does.

Jerome's Couch Trip Analysis of Da Big Game:

The keys to this one rides on Auburns running game.   They way you stop Oregon's offense is to keep them on the sideline.   Auburn will lose a shootout, so for them, it's about ball control.   Auburn's leading rusher is their quarterback, though.  They don't really have a big dominant RB that can smash the ball inside.  Granted, Cam Newton is generally the best athlete on the field when he's playing, but I don't know if he can carry an Auburn team past a really fast, aggressive Oregon defense that has pretty much stated that they're going to chase him all over the backfield.

Anyway, my pick is Ducks by a touchdown in a relatively high scoring game.  If the Tigers can win the clock battle, they'll probably win the game.

There is no difference between a bass chord and a guitar chord, other than the missing two strings on the bass.  They're tuned identically.

Every blues song ever written.

Jazz is a thousand chords to entertain three people.  Blues is three chords to entertain a thousand people.

No kidding. Imagine how Giants fans are feeling right now.  10-6 and you're out.   Out here in the weak west, 7-9 makes you the champion.

Sometimes it just ain't fair.

We have WHL here in Seattle.  The Thunderbirds are the local team, and are really fun to watch.  This is the team that gave the world Patrick Marleau, so I used to watch him when he was little.

Scales trick:  Learn scaales based on the shape pattern, rather than the root.   If you learn one major scale pattern, you can effectively play all 12 major scales with it by simply moving that pattern down the neck. 

That is to say, if you learn "C major" you might think oh man, now I have to learn 11 more "major" scales.  Rather, think  "I know the scale pattern associated with C major in the open position.  If I play it at the 5th fret, now I'm playing D."

There are only five things you need to know to play guitar.  C A G E and D.