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| rubez |
you can't just randomly press keys, even within a scale, and it sounds like music... so are there any general rules on how to progress through the keys?
probably the rules are different for different scales?
how about A minor as an example, since it looks the easiest.
do arpeggiators take advantage of these rules?
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| DJ RANN |
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I'll be nice though. What you've stated is the single most obvious fundamental of music theory. You literally cover this in the first sentence of kindergarten/primary school music class.
A lot of Arps do have built in transpose functions to match the scale like the electribe's ribbn controller for the arp (Lol seems to be the theme at the moment) where it will play the nearest correct note for your scale. |
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| tehlord |
It's called musical interpretation.
At some point you need to put the books down and find your Muse. |
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| AlphaStarred |
| quote: | Originally posted by tehlord
At some point you need to put the books down... |
This.
You should probably be more concerned with what sounds nice and "right" to your ear than worry about playing in scale. And the more you practice, the better you get. |
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| Mr.Mystery |
| Just get a ton of gear, that'll make you good. |
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| rubez |
i have literally read all on the subject.
all i have been doing is pecking away trial and error and see what sounds right. plus trying out chords by holding different keys together.
this image - if you stay within the groupings of yellow - is that you 'in scale'? |
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| Floorfiller |
sounds like you could really benefit from some youtube watching. pretty easy to get the basics down from that.
There are lots of musical patterns, but these are the two basic ones...
Major Keys = W W H W W W H
Minor Keys = W H W W H W W
W = whole step
H = half step
All major and minor keys follow these two patterns (well, not entirely true. minor keys have some variations). so for example you choose your root note (in your example A) and then count the steps according. |
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| Kysora |
| quote: | Originally posted by rubez
i have literally read all on the subject. |
truly no sarcasm meant here, but you should give it a try. like rann said, you're asking us to teach you music theory fundamentals. some people may oblige, but if you're genuinely interested in learning a little bit of music theory you just need to google "music theory fundamentals" and you'll probably find 10 links on the first page which answer the questions you're asking us. |
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| rubez |
what's this? someone telling someone else on the internet how google works?!
floorfiller's response was exactly what i was looking for, i knew there would be something like this without actually knowing that for sure.
this is a good starting point. |
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| DJ RANN |
Rubez, don't get butthurt because Kysora told you the truth.
Don't believe him?
CLICK ME
It's literally the single most basic ing premise of music theory, just after "what is a musical instrument?"
But you want it spoon fed to you. I'm glad you got your answer but , it would have taken 1/10th the time to google it. |
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| tehlord |
It's like learning a different language and then asking for a guide to which order the words need to be put in to tell a story.
Some of it you either get (learning to be a musician) or you don't. |
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| Evolve140 |
| quote: | Originally posted by tehlord
It's called musical interpretation.
At some point you need to put the books down and find your Muse. |
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this |
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