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Slonimsky's Thesaurus has been a legendary book among musicians since at least the 1960s, with players as diverse as Coltrane, Zappa and Buckethead all finding inspiration in it. Yet many guitar players find it difficult to understand and use.This new book re-writes the theory underlying the first twelve chapters of Slonimsky's book and presents brand new patterns based on it. It's a valuable companion to the Thesaurus, especially for guitarists, as well as a huge resource in itself, with over 400 pages of carefully-selected and organised patterns in conventional notation and tab.

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Contents

1 Introduction 1

1.1 Slonimsky’s Recipe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

1.1.1 Stage One: Constructing the Base . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

1.1.2 Stage Two: Adding the Ornament . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

1.2 The Basic Ornaments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

1.2.1 Layouts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

1.2.2 Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

1.3 Application to Symmetrical Scales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

1.3.1 Notes on the Way Things are Laid Out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

1.4 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Part I Symmetrical Scales 13

2 Augmented Arpeggio 15

2.1 Augmented Fifth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

2.2 Major Third . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

3 Diminished Seventh Arpeggio 17

3.1 Major Sixth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

3.2 Minor Third . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

3.3 Diminished Fifth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

4 Dominant 7 [5 arpeggio 23

4.1 Diminished Fifth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

5 Whole Tone Scale 25

5.1 Whole Tone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

5.2 Augmented Fifth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

5.3 Major Third . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

5.4 Minor Seventh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

5.5 Diminished Fifth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

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6 Half-Whole Diminished Scale Group 57

6.1 Major Sixth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

6.2 Minor Third . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

6.3 Diminished Fifth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

7 Half-Whole Diminished Scale Group 113

7.1 Major Sixth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

7.2 Minor Third . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

8 Half-Whole Diminished Scale Subset 135

8.1 Diminished Fifth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

9 1dom + [6maj Scale Group 139

9.1 Augmented Fifth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

9.2 Major Third . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

10 4min + 7min Scale Group 141

10.1 Diminished Fifth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

11 2maj + ]5maj Scale Group 145

11.1 Diminished Fifth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

12 Double Chromatic Scale Group 151

12.1 Diminished Fifth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

13 Triple Chromatic Scale Group 153

13.1 Augmented Fifth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

13.2 Major Third . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162

Part II Total Chromatic 171

14 Introduction 173

15 Major Second 175

15.1 Major Second . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175

15.2 Minor Seventh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195

16 Minor Third 207

16.1 Minor Third . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207

16.2 Major Sixth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213

17 Major Third 219

17.1 Major Third . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219

17.2 Minor Sixth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221

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18 Fourth 223

18.1 Fourth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223

18.2 Fifth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253

Part III Non-Symmetrical Bases 289

19 Introduction 291

20 Major Triad 293

21 Minor Triad 305

22 Major Seventh 317

23 Minor Seventh 333

24 Half Diminished Arpeggio 345

25 Common Pentatonic 359

26 Major Scale 385

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1 Introduction

Nicolas Slonimsky’s Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns has been cited by

creative musicians as different as Arnold Schoenberg, John Coltrane, Frank Zappa

and Buckethead as a source of advanced material for the contrustion of melodic lines

and dizzying solo patterns. Yet it’s a pretty difficult book for the average guitarist

to get into, and it definitely wasn’t designed with the instrument in mind. It’s fair to

say that it’s more often talked about than read, and a lot of musicians have a copy

on their shelves with which they’ve made very little progress.

This book has two aims. The first is to present the main idea behind the first

twelve chapters of Slonimsky’s book in a way that’s accessible and logical for the

modern musician. The second is to present some patterns based on this idea in

both standard notation and guitar tablature, organised according not to Slonimsky’s

rather abstract octave divisions but to note-content, a far more useful method for

most purposes. The patterns presented here are different from those in the The-

saurus, which this book aims to supplement.

I’ve felt at liberty to completely reinvent Slonimsky’s language and theoretical

approach in order to make the material more accessible. It’s important to me that the

reader doesn’t just have to play these patterns ‘blind’ and hope to get something they

want to memorise. I want you to understand the theory well enough to understand

Slonimsky’s patterns from the inside out and be able to generate them on the fly

without relying too heavily on rote. That said, you’re free of course to skip the

theory and dip into the book at random – that may even be a good way to start

engaging with this material, especially if you find the theory a bit dry.

Like Slonimsky I’ve presented these patterns as unbroken runs of sixteenth-notes.

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One pitfall of this is that it attracts the complaint that the material is ‘unmelodic’.

The key word in the title is not, however, ‘melody’ but ‘melodic pattern’. Rhythm,

tone, phrasing, style and so on are entirely up to you to come up with. Many people

who use Slonimsky patterns use them to generate fast runs but you may also find

they inspire more tuneful material. As with anything worthwhile, it’s there to be

worked with.

Students may find my previous book, Scale and Arpeggio Resources for Guitar,

useful for filling in some scale theory and providing standard CAGED fingerings for

all the scales used in this book.

1.1 Slonimsky’s Recipe

Everything we will be dealing with is based on one fairly simple concept that under-

pins first twelve main chapters of Slonimsky’s Thesaurus. It’s a recipe for making

a certain kind of melodic pattern. It’s a slightly complicated recipe and I’ll spend

much of this chapter doing my best to make it absolutely clear to you what the recipe

is and how to use it. The rest of the book will work through the various kinds of

result it can produce. The recipe is my own description, in my own terms, of how to

generate the patterns Slonimsky generates, and many more; it is not an attempt to

restate or reconstruct his own theory about what he was doing, which can be found

in the introductory chapter of the Thesaurus.

So what was Slonimsky’s big idea? As I said, it’s a recipe, but it’s complicated

because it’s a bit like two recipes, one inside the other. The first gives you a system

of ‘base’ pitches and the second recipe fills in additional pitches within this structure.

The first is a bit like an architectural plan and the second is more like the decoration.

I call these the base and the ornament1. The two steps are to first build the base

and then use the ornament repeatedly to ‘decorate’ it. The fundamental idea is that

the base is a set of notes and the ornament is a pattern (like a fingering shape on

the guitar); we move the pattern from one note of the base to the next and play it

each time before moving on. Let’s see how this works in detail.

1.1.1 Stage One: Constructing the Base

First take a certain number of octaves – that is, usually, all the notes between some

C and a C that many octaves above it, including the bottom C but not including

1Almost all the terminology in this book is mine, not Slonimsky’s. His own terminology seems unnecessarily

alienating to me, but of course your mileage may vary.

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the top C. Here, for example, we’ve taken 2 octaves:

b� b� b b� b46 b b b� b� bb b

bb� bb �bbb � bb� b� b� b

Now you’ll find there are a limited number of ways you can divide these notes up

into equal parts. Our two octaves contain 24 notes, which can be divided into three

equal parts by grouping the notes in eights:

��

��� �� � � � � � �46

�� � �� �

�� � �� �� � ��� � �� � �or 12 equal parts by grouping the notes in pairs:

b�b b46� b� b b� b � b b� b� b

b bb b� bbb b b�b � bb �bor into 8 equal parts by grouping in threes:

b � b b �b� bb � b

b�b b� b� � bb b� 46 b bb� b

b b� bb bbIt can also be split into 6, 4 or 2 , but there are no other ways to split up 24 notes

into equal parts (because 24 = 23×3). What Slonimsky does next is take just the first

note of each grouping and throw away the rest, so that the last grouping into 8 equal

parts would become this (compare it with the grouping above). You may recognise

it as the diminished seventh arpeggio played twice (i.e. up two octaves), and a little

reflection on how it was arrived at will show that this is not very surprising:

�46� � ���

��� ��� ��� � � ����

In general, Slonimsky’s first recipe works as follows. First take a certain number

of octaves. Then divide them into equal parts: the first note of each part goes into

the ‘base’. That’s all there is to it. In our example we took two octaves and divided

it into eight equal parts; Slonimsky is interested in all the possible ways to do this.

The resulting base gives us the ‘input’ or raw material for the second recipe.

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1.1.2 Stage Two: Adding the Ornament

OK, so the first recipe has provided a base – a set of notes that we now want to

ornament in order to make our musical material more interesting. This works a bit

like ornamentation does in many other places, by creating a simple pattern and then

repeating it. It probably won’t surprise you to know that the repetitions will be

governed by the notes in the base we’ve just cooked up.

The pattern we’ll use will be something fairly simple that begins with each ‘base

note’ in turn, and stays exactly the same as we move it around. So we don’t change

the pattern to fit, say, a diatonic major scale. You can do that if you like, but that’s

not the Slonimsky way. The pattern always stays the same, every time.

Let’s work with a concrete example. Here’s a way to play the base we just created

on the guitar, starting at C:

¨107

9118

10118

and here’s a simple pattern of notes we could use for ornamentation:

10 10

�8 11

What we want to do is take that little pattern and use it as a stencil, making

the same pattern appear in the place of each base note. You may find the following

fingering a bit awkward, but try it out slowly and match it up with the base:

11

¨8

9

1010 9

13141110

71112119

13

101210

1314812

¨2

121311 1310 11

1310

12

You probably have to play this on the guitar to get the idea. First play the base,

then play the ornamented version and notice how the same four-note pattern keeps

repeating, each time starting on a different note from the base. This, and only this,

is what the first twelve chapters of Slonimsky’s Thesaurus are about. That’s it:

make a base, which Slonimsky prefers to be constructed using his ‘first recipe’ (as

I’ve called it), then ornament the base in the way just described. This is Slonimsky’s

Big Idea.

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1.2 The Basic Ornaments

The guitar has a great advantage over many instruments for applying Slonimsky’s

ideas, which is that the patterns for ornamentation mostly remain the same and

simply move from one place to another on the fingerboard as you go up or down

the whole pattern. This may sometimes be physically awkward but at least it’s very

easy to visualise what to do next. In order to approach the material in this book

logically, and in order to provide some technical practice, it’s worthwhile isolating

these ornaments and examining them systematically2.

We’ll consider an ornament to be composed of two parts: a layout and a sequence.

The layout gives you a small pattern of notes on the fingerboard, while the sequence

tells you which order to play them in. The base tell you how to move the pattern as

you repeat it.

1.2.1 Layouts

We will only consider layouts that can be played on a single string within a span of

six frets. Those that lie within four frets will be comfortable for all players anywhere

on the fingerboard; five- and six-fret stretches are generally difficult except above

the twelfth fret unless two-handed tapping is used. Tapping does allow for signifi-

cantly larger layouts than these of course, but they would bulk out this book very

significantly without adding much in terms of usability. The fingerings in this book,

however, will avoid large stretches by using string-crossing in order to keep the main

patterns within a single, practical position. Players who enjoy stretching or working

out tapping sequences will be able to adapt the fingerings given to suit their tastes

and may want to explore layouts that span larger intervals.

Since we have seven frets (six plus the one we’re starting on), we in theory have

the following numbers of layouts:

1 note 1 layout

2 notes 6 layouts

3 notes 15 layouts

4 notes 20 layouts

5 notes 15 layouts

6 notes 6 layouts

7 notes 1 layout

2Note that Slonimsky does this completely differently and arrives at somewhat different results.

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giving 64 possibilities in all. Not all possibilities are equal, however: the 5-, 6-

and 7-note layouts in particular are rather dull, containing as they do long runs of

chromatic notes. For this reason we’ll exclude them from our consideration, leaving

42 possibilities in all. It’s worth noting that Slonimsky doesn’t include such patterns

in the Thesaurus either.

So what are the remaining 42 layouts? Here’s a complete list. Each horizontal

line can be thought of as a string and the short vertical lines as frets (an example

follows that should make this clearer).

As an example in understanding these layouts, we can use this layout:

to play any of the following patterns:11

8

¨ 8

58

4

10

5 7 8 5 7

10

2

Play these on the guitar if necessary to see how in each case the same relationship

between the notes is present, even though the pitches and the order in which the’re

used is different. This is the key to the idea of a layout – it’s a pattern of notes that

can be moved around and played in any order you like. This is the basic ingredient

of our ornamentation.

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In some cases it may be useful to make a distinction between layouts that span

at most four frets and those that require an out-of-position stretch if they’re to be

played on a single string. The former will always be treated first and called standard

layouts ; the others will be called stretch layouts. Here are the two classes of layouts

so you can see the difference:

Standard Layouts

Stretch Layouts

1.2.2 Sequences

Like Slonimsky, we insist that every ornament must start with the base note it’s built

on, and that this must be the lowest-pitched note in the layout – that is, all valid

sequences start with a ‘1’. This means we don’t have to worry about modal equiv-

alences between different patterns (there won’t be any) but we can still arrive at all

the patterns we would have been able to anyway. Unlike Slonimsky, we’ll allow some

repetition of notes within an ornament, because that’s quite strongly characteristic

of a number of guitar styles and can create interesting sounds. Obviously, though,

there has to be a limit to how many repetitions we’ll allow, otherwise a sequence can

go on forever.

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We choose four notes as our limit in this book. This would be enough to reproduce

all but a few of Slonimsky’s patterns and a huge number that he doesn’t include.

For a given layout we’ll number the notes it contains sequentially. So if we take this

layout:

this pattern will be called 123:

5

�7 8

this will be called 312:

�8 5 7

and this will be 2313:

57

�88

We will also impose the rule that any sequence applied to a layout must use each

of the layout’s notes at least once (this avoids manifestly silly cases such as a four-

note layout with a three-note sequence). A simple exercise in combinations tells us

that we have the following possible sequences for each type of layout:

1 note 1

2 notes 12, 21, 121, 212, 1212, 2121

3 notes 123, 132, 213, 231, 312, 312,

1213,1231,1232,1321,1323,1312,

2123,2131,2132,2312,2313,2321,

3121,3123,3132,3212,3213,3231

4 notes 1234, 1243, 1324, 1342, 1423,

1432, 2134, 2143, 2314, 2341,

2413, 2431, 3142, 3124, 3214,

3241, 3412, 3421, 4123, 4132,

4213, 4231, 4312, 4321

Combining sequences with layouts we arrive at the final counts for the numbers

of possible ornaments:

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1 note 1

2 notes 36

3 notes 360

4 notes 480

These are certainly large numbers: for any given base we have a total of 877

possible ornaments to consider. In practice we find that it is somewhat fewer than

this in many cases, since we will follow Slonimsky and disallow any pattern that

contains consecutive doubling of the same pitch. We will not follow Slonimsky as

far as excluding any sequence that includes the next note from the base anywhere

within it, since these do have musical applications. In any case, in this book the

aim is to present a selection of possibilities without trying to be exhaustive, safe in

the knowledge that the reader who has understood the recipe can construct as many

additional patterns as they require3.

With practice this can be done improvisationally, too. Once you have the idea

of playing a fixed ornament on a symmertical base, and you know how to play the

bases in question, it is quite easy to come up with ornaments on a chosen base ad lib.

This may be a worthwhile goal to pursue, depending on the type of music you play

and the importance of improvisation within it; some players will prefer to develop

this material in advance, allowing for greater complexity and, of course, speed.

1.3 Application to Symmetrical Scales

A recipe like this one is all well and good, but many students who’ve heard a lot

of talk about the Thesaurus wonder why such a weirdly mechanical idea might be

worth studying and how its results might be applied.

Slonimsky himself was a great defender of musical modernism and his idea was not,

therefore, originally intended for use by jazz, rock or pop musicians who still mostly

work with harmonic structures composed of triad-based chords in conventional ar-

rangements. Nor, though, is it especially applicable to serialism, which became the

dominant language of the international modernist style. If Coltrane hadn’t found

inspiration in it, the system may have remained an obscure historical curiosity, a

road not travelled in the annals of the experimentation of the mid-twentieth century.

There are plenty of others whose company it could have joined.

3Slonimsky’s original book does not contain all of the possibilities offered by his own system either, despite some

claims others have made to the contrary.

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Surprisingly, although the Slonimsky recipe as I’ve described it is capable of pro-

ducing an extremely large number of patterns they can be grouped into a rather

small number of categories based on which chord tones they contain. This will be

a key analytical tool used in this book, since even those who are working outside

the tonal idiom may find it helpful in determining the sounds involved, and those

working within it will find it indispensible.

As an example of what I mean, consider this fairly typical pattern:

b bb� b�b��bbb�bb b �bIf you look at the pitches used, you’ll find they are C, C], D], E, F], G, A, B[,

which is the Half-Whole Tone Diminished Scale in the key of C. You can therefore use

this pattern anywhere where you might use this scale; you’re playing the scale, but

perhaps using a pattern you wouldn’t have thought of before. It should be obvious

that all patterns that contain all and only the notes of this scale share something very

important in common. Because of this, this book’s chapters organise the patterns

by note-content, not by the base as Slonimsky does.

When studying the patterns in this book it may help to concentrate on one or

two of these at first, since they share a common sound. If, on the other hand, you’re

interested in hearing how much variety the recipe is capable of producing, try picking

one or two patterns from each chapter instead.

Rather than starting with a twelve-tone conception as Slonimsky did, I’m guessing

you’ll be used to thinking in terms of scales and arpeggios when playing, and that

starting there will be rather more helpful. As a consequence, the first part of this

book is devoted entirely to patterns that result in a set of notes that form a scale

(well-known or not) other than the chromatic scale. In the second part we look at

some patterns that produce all twelve tones.

1.3.1 Notes on the Way Things are Laid Out

The fingerings for the melodic patterns are generally given starting from C at the

eighth fret and ascending only. They remain strictly in position except for a few high

notes that require position shifts. In these cases you will never see a note on the

frets below the eighth fret, even when this can make the fingering decidedly easier.

There are a few reasons for this, but the main one is consistency; since you will soon

come to know what to expect, you can experiment with any fingering in order to

vary it to your tastes. The fingerings as given are certainly not intended to be the

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most efficient or convenient; they are simply easy to understand on a first reading.

In order to make the larger patterns playable on the guitar octave transpositions

have frequently been used; Slonimsky never does this. using alternative fingerings

you will be able to construct runs that cover more octaves than those included

in this book, but the way the runs change direction when a transposition takes

place seems to me to be attractive as well as sometimes yielding some interesting

fingerings. As with everything else, you are at liberty to experiment with different

octave placements of notes, and if you play an instrument other than guitar you may

even find it technically advantageous to do so.

In order to save space I have given all patterns in the ascending form only. To

play them descending simply play the notes in exactly reverse order. Although a

little awkward at first it’s very easy to develop facility at reading them backwards.

Each chapter in the first part is, as I explained above, devoted to patterns that

contain all and only the notes of some known scale or arpeggio; the second part

contains patterns covering the total chromatic and the third introduces the idea

of non-symmetrical bases, which are explained there. Within each chapter in the

first part I have grouped the patterns by the interval by which the base moved

before octave transpositions become necessary. Each pattern is headed with a visual

representation of the layout and sequence to aid interpretation.

1.4 Summary

Slonimsky’s Big Idea, which occupies the twelve chapters of the Thesaurus that con-

cern us, is to build a base using a symmetrical (that is, equal) division of several

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with, and a selection of those patterns are presented in the next chapters.

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The chapters in this part of the book contain patterns that cover all twelve notes.

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improvisationally rather than as mechanical patterns to be repeated verbatim.

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use of bases that ascend or descend by the same interval at every step. Why not

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materials you already know and use in a particular context. As a consequence I have

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