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Just started using my new Yes Kundalini watch and it's fantastic! Interesting to see the moon phases and rise/set times change throughout the week and the sun rise and set times as well. Additionally it can do a virtual world tour past, present and future to review this data. I've got the black symbol version which looks the business IMHO. Takes a while to get used to the single hour hand on the 24 hour dial (especially with my rubbish eyesight!) however the hours are also indicated by alternating grey and white sections. i.e. odd hours are in the grey sections and even in white. Therefore with the symbols I can determine the approximate time (+-10mins) quite easily without using the digital readout (which can be turned off). I could have chosen the 24 hours bezel but thought that looked a bit cluttered whereas the symbols add an extra weird factor to the design! My wife thinks I'm mad getting a one handed watch! Fortunately this means I have to show it to everyone when in her company and the typical feedback is of positive fascination (especially from blokes and kids).

I originally purchased the Yes Tati watch however realised this is designed predominately for ladies and looked too small on my wrist. When returning the Tati I fortunately got access to inspect the entire Yes collection. In comparison the Kundalini watch is slightly bigger in diameter than Yes Cozmo however the Cozmo is deeper and very cylindrical in shape making it look larger on the wrist and like something a Jules Verne character would wear! The Zulu, Inca and Kundalini appear to be the same watch apart from the bezel design. The silver finish is very bright and reflective, some may prefer this but the black looks less flashy, more sleek and professional. The black alternating matte and shiny segments in the strap add to the look. I'm really pleased with the Kundalini it is a unique and brilliant timepiece.

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Attack of the Sprouts

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Pentatonics circle practice trick

Was noodling around with pentatonics and I discovered this trick for practicing them around the circle of 5ths. I've read a considerable amount on pentatonics from numerous sources, but never heard of this trick. Here it is.
Locate any closed position for any major pentatonic (12356) that you may already know. Now locate the root(s). Drop the root string(s) by a semitone, and you get the pentatonic 5 semitones down. I.e., going around the circle of fifths in the flatted direction. Repeat this 4 times to find all five positions. Doing this the fifth time repeats the first position, down a fret.
Example: Say you begin with F major pentaonic. Drop the F string(s) by a fret (to E) to obtain the C major pentatonic. Drop the C strings (to B) to obtain the G major pentatonic. Drop G to F# to obtain D major pentatonic. Once more dropping D to C# giving the A pentatonic and you'll have traversed F,C,G,D,A. The next time (dropping the A) gives E, which repeats the first position (that was used for F) lowered by a fret. Etc.
I'm using an alternative tuning on my guitar, and I'm curious if the pattern I found holds for standard tuning, and in general. It seems like it would but I don't feel like retuning my guitar just to find this out.
The tuning I use (gADGBd) gives five pentatonics positions, one for each mode. Starting with F and working down the circle through A gives me all five pentatonics positions that lie within the same region of fretboard. Then E gives the same position as the F, lowered by a fret, and the cycle repeats.
Work through it on paper, and you'll see how it works. What I'm curious about is whether it cycles through the pentatonics fingering positions in the similar way as it does on my tuning for standard and other alternative tunings. If so, this may be an easy way to teach pentatonics on guitar (standard tuning) as well.
See if it works for you and let me (us all) know.