Thanks for the comment!

I don’t know anything about “The Concept” beyond what is on the web site and a few posts I’ve read in rec.music.theory.

However, please feel free to email me (jason at this domain) if you would like to discuss it - although I’m afraid unless you are offering to explain it to me, there won’t be much to discuss!

Peace,
Jason

Maybe we could communicate via e-mail and talk about it.
Let me tell you, it’s almost imposible to come a cross a book like this over here, mainly because of the price… (here it would be around 300 bucks).. also… this publications do not reach Argentina.

Heres my mail adress… yamil_violero@netcombbs.com.ar

Good luck!

I am in the process of “doing my homework,” read my last paragraph again:

I know it’s not fair to judge what I’m sure is a serious effort based on two short FAQs, but I will say those two alone stopped me from seriously considering picking up the book. I’ve got to have a better explanation than that to kick out 125 bones.

I’m not not saying the Concept is garbage - I don’t know enough about it. I am saying the FAQ offered up on the site is not specific enough to convince me to invest $125 in the book - and there appears to be at least one factual error (the “diatonic” thingy), although I do leave open the possibility of some different terminology.

This means I’ll have to search out other people’s opinions and begin to form my own. This is “doing my homework”, not “dissing” Russell, or anyone else - it means I was just exposed to a new concept (pun!) and am trying to gather more information about it. I read a story on a website and began to do reasearch - how is this not the correct action?

Let’s just end this by noting your contribution was less helpful than it could have been. Instead of name-calling and insults, you could have used this as an opportunity to explain away my concerns or pointing to better resources. Instead, for your part, you have made it look like people that subscribe to the Concept are quasi-zealots incapable of rational discussion.