Few things have changed in the past six months more than the city’s relationship with the police. Many of those now fighting them in the streets grew up idolizing the police. Hong Kong cinema and television is built around cop stories, with “Asia’s finest” facing off against triads and...
Let’s take a moment to explore what chord extensions are, and how you can use them to add harmonic interest to your music. What are chord extensions? In their basic form, chords are made up of a root, a third, and a fifth (also known as triads). Chord extensions build upon these...
Memorizing the circle of fifths helps with key recognition, transposition and composing music more intuitively. Many musicians use mnemonics to remember the order of sharps and flats. There are many tried and tested ways of memorizing the circle of fifths. Lots of people like to use mnemonics, l...
2. The challenge is not to write truth, but to write seductive BELIEVABILITY. (The art of verisimilitude.) One of the things I tried to do in Riding The Snake was to weave the facts I found in my research about Hong Kong Triads and illegal immigration in with my fictional tale so that...
“Operation Yellowbird”. With the vast assistance of Hong Kong triads, these anarchists were snuck out of China where many received luxurious rewards and scholarships at Ivy league universities in the USA forming what the Washington Post’s Gavin Hewitt described as “the nucleus of a democracy ...
Learn the definition of triads. Is triads in the scrabble dictionary? Yes, triads can be played in scrabble. How many points is it worth?