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EDM Theory #1 – Let’s Talk About Major & Minor Scales! (pg. 5)
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| 19503 |
theres probably something important here that i shouldve learn. i have always thought that im playing in a minor chord but avoiding the "sad" feel by not pressing all three notes of the chord at the same time but rather play them randomly in the what i called minor scale (i can draw it on the piano which notes i mean), but i starting to understand that what i do is something else? or am i totaly wrong. theres something magic going on here lol.
listen to the trompets at in this video@2:35 to 3:00: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8NGDsnv34M
clearely to me that seems like a minor scale, but it brings some sort of euforic feel anyway. stuff like that is really interesting imo. how come these trumpets give such goosebumps? basicly theres alot of that from game-soundtracks, i dont know what they do that pop/edm etc doesnt use or understand? |
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| Mad for Brad |
| isn't a minor scale if you take the pedal tone as the root and it doesn't sound euphoric to me. I'm also saddened that you think this is cool while calling prince . You officially have bad taste. |
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| MrJiveBoJingles |
| The thing you posted sounds "dramatic" to me, not euphoric. Nobuo Uematsu (the Final Fantasy composer) is completely self-taught, anyway, so he has nothing in terms of training that EDM artists lack. |
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| Waza |
Brad take a chill pill....stop being so defensive.
Listen people interpret music different some people like ambient and they get a rush from that same as classical which i love. others love heavy metal they think its sad. I think it all depends on how each individual feels at the time. You could be happy hearing a song in a major key so that works for you or you could be sad.
Anyway Music is about free expression... That's why we make it... |
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| 19503 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Mad for Brad
isn't a minor scale if you take the pedal tone as the root and it doesn't sound euphoric to me. I'm also saddened that you think this is cool while calling prince . You officially have bad taste. |
lol, i dont say the track is cool, i just find just those trompets somehow strong. i still believe, and im pretty sure that this trompet-playing is in minor scale btw.
| quote: | Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles
Nobuo Uematsu (the Final Fantasy composer) is completely self-taught, anyway |
thats quite interesting isnt it? dramatic seems to be the correct word yeah. another example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2w4SNOW-6w |
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| Kysora |
| quote: | Originally posted by Waza
Brad take a chill pill....stop being so defensive. |
He's just responding when people question what he's saying, that's not really being defensive. Especially since he's very calmly explaining what he's talking about. |
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| Mad for Brad |
| quote: | Originally posted by 19503
lol, i dont say the track is cool, i just find just those trompets somehow strong. i still believe, and im pretty sure that this trompet-playing is in minor scale btw.
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pentatonic minor maybe which is not the same. The horns are also playing a phrygian type scale. |
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| 19503 |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74r94iZWZc4
lol. this is the only "scale" i use. if i want something else i use transpose after playing it in C minor.
edit: some more here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIU8MyzG6sE&feature=related
i use Bflat apparently (the black ). this is rather ing boring really. i know what i like and i stick to that lol. but he proves here that what ive been thinking all along is that i play in C minor (aparantly natural). |
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| Waza |
| The horn call that begins and ends the slow movement of Brahms' Fourth Symphony is based on the Phrygian mode. |
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| 19503 |
i have one question though, what is the following called:
C, D, Eflat, F, G, Aflat, Hflat, C. This is basicly all the notes i ever use. at all. (assuming flat means -1 ie black key).
edit: this might be more right lol: C D Eb F G Ab Bb C, whats it called?
edit: forget it i googled it and it was called Natural Minor Scale, as i was assuming from my very first post...
so i got back to my earliest statement:
minor>major
oh another edit: those trompets from the FF7 track i posted are exactly that, tells me why i like it. |
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| Waza |
| Also Nin uses this Scale. But the Op was only talking about the Difference in Major and Minor scales not there counterparts |
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| Mad for Brad |
| quote: | Originally posted by Waza
The horn call that begins and ends the slow movement of Brahms' Fourth Symphony is based on the Phrygian mode. |
it appears in many classical pieces as well as countless jazz standards, not sure why you mentioned this one other than the fact it is the first one mentioned when you google phrygian. Facts aren't quite that salient when they are wikipedia facts that everyone has access to. |
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