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| DJ RIDOO |
Hi,
Long time since I posted something here. Maybe because I search a lot ;)
Recently I've read about music theory and chords. I've had 4 years of music education but never really used it in my tracks. Now that I've repeated what I've learned a long time ago I'm trying to improve some old tracks. Maybe they sound better if they're in scale :rolleyes:
Like this main lead. I'm trying to figure out what scale it's in, but I need some help. Or how should I change the notes for them to be in a scale?
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| KilldaDJ |
C Major
actually i dont know. |
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| MrJiveBoJingles |
| Not sure. I am pondering this. |
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| MrJiveBoJingles |
| It looks like E Locrian with a couple stray sharps / flats. If you raise the two highest notes by a semitone and lower the lowest one by a semitone, it will be in E Locrian. |
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| DJ RIDOO |
Thx for replies.
Never heard of E Locrian, but I can search for it.
Anyway, is it possible to transpose the notes to a more common scale? |
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| MrJiveBoJingles |
Locrian is kind of a weird mode because its "triad" is actually a diminished chord, probably making it rather hard to use for trance or most "upbeat" electronic music.
If you move all the Fs up to F# / Gb it will be in E minor with a couple accidentals. Or move all the Es down to D and it will be in D minor with a couple accidentals. |
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| DJ RIDOO |
So no way to transpose in a scale without altering the intervals between the notes?
Strange, it sounds good imo, so I thought there would be some kind of scale.
Thx for the help. I'll try to change the intervals then.
Btw. When making music, is the scale more or less chosen at random? Just a matter of picking a random tonic/root when you've decided it to sound major or minor? |
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| MrJiveBoJingles |
| quote: | | So no way to transpose in a scale without altering the intervals between the notes? |
Chromatic transposition just alters the absolute pitches of the notes in your melody, not the intervals (ratios) between them, so if you move all the notes up or down it will still be in Locrian mode, but in another key. Scalar transposition means changing the ratios between your notes, so it would be in another mode (such as a "normal" major or minor).
And I think it sounds pretty good.
| quote: | | Btw. When making music, is the scale more or less chosen at random? Just a matter of picking a random tonic/root when you've decided it to sound major or minor? |
It depends. I think some people decide beforehand what key they want to write a song in, and others just play notes and then figure out what key they were playing in. Cm and Gm are both really common, I have noticed. Dm and Em are not far behind. Most electronic music does not use much chromaticism or venture far outside the "typical" major / minor scales. |
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