I've being doing some research into music theory lately (most as gone over my head) and i stumbled across,

Scale Tone Chords (see link below), and since then it appears that 99% of trance tracks follow these basic progressions ???

Feel free to agree or disagree...


http://www.free-online-piano-lesson...rds-triads.html

99% of all electronic dance music uses the minor scale.

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are you saying almost all edm tracks are not using a specific key on the keyboard?

I would say, edm does not follow any specific rules of chord progression. Some might do and to me it always been important to know the basics of scales and chords to have a starting point.

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Originally posted by orTofønChiLd are you saying almost all edm tracks are not using a specific key on the keyboard?

No because you can use the scale on all the twelve keys.

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Originally posted by Subtle No because you can use the scale on all the twelve keys.

i thought a Scale only had 7 notes out of the 12 ??

That's just the diatonic major/minor scale, there are plenty of other scales that uses more or less, or the chromatic which uses all 12.

The page you posted isn't a list of progressions, it's just a list of all of the simple triads that can be formed with each note in a scale being used as the root note. This isn't really all that shocking, just theory 101.

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Originally posted by paulacki i thought a Scale only had 7 notes out of the 12 ??

Yes, and when u know the steps needed to create a minor scale (2-1-2-2-1-2-2)
you just learn which notes makes up a minor scale in every key and then you can easily play stuff on your keyboard etc without knowing much theory at all.
And since most of the electronic music is made up of this scale its basically all u need to know to create ace tunes.

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Originally posted by Subtle Yes, and when u know the steps needed to create a minor scale (2-1-2-2-1-2-2) you just learn which notes makes up a minor scale in every key and then you can easily play stuff on your keyboard etc without knowing much theory at all. And since most of the electronic music is made up of this scale its basically all u need to know to create ace tunes.

That formula is written down on a piece of paper and stuck on my desk directly in front of my keyboard. I could not make music without it.

Major +4 +3 (+2212221)

Minor +3 +4 (+2122122)

Augmented +4 +4

Diminished +3 +3

Annnnd

minor - root +6 +8 will call to other notes
major - root +7 +9 will call to other notes

youtube FTW
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pP0X...feature=related

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Originally posted by Subtle 99% of all electronic dance music uses the minor scale.

I just use the white keys, I can't be bothered touching the black ones. If I need to use a different key I use the pitch plug in. If I need to use a different scale I use the scale plug in. There's just something about those black keys that cries evil.

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Originally posted by dj_alfi change your avatar for fucks sake.

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Originally posted by Beatflux I just use the white keys, I can't be bothered touching the black ones. If I need to use a different key I use the pitch plug in. If I need to use a different scale I use the scale plug in. There's just something about those black keys that cries evil.

Thats one way to do it.

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Originally posted by Subtle No because you can use the scale on all the twelve keys.

so you mean certain key patterns determine wut scale ur using