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Subject: what the hell is this scale???
Original Message 1/13 23-Sep-00 @ 09:16 AM - what the hell is this scale???
Message 2/13 23-Sep-00 @ 10:51 AM - RE: what the hell is this scale???
minor scale w a flat II and a flat IV, the whole scale
would be this (see above).
Peaceout,
Peter
Message 3/13 23-Sep-00 @ 04:47 PM - RE: what the hell is this scale???
Could it be an octonical (not sure it is called like that) scale?? It has eight instead of the 'usual' 7 steps (the octave not counted).
In such a scale you can have more tonics, usual the first and the fifth step (here F# and the c). It has all kinds of cool chords in it (I think :-) ). A lot of movie background music is done with such scales.
Good luck.
Guido B
Message 4/13 23-Sep-00 @ 10:09 PM - RE: what the hell is this scale???
Message 5/13 25-Sep-00 @ 09:49 AM - what the hell is this scale???
This set of four notes is the building block of a set of scales called "altered" which include the harmonic and melodic minors. In this case the root may actually be G, making the F# an augmented 7th and this scale the melodic minor also known as the jazz minor scale. Very Parker, Very cool! ~B
Message 6/13 25-Sep-00 @ 12:55 PM - RE: what the hell is this scale???
Message 7/13 25-Sep-00 @ 03:31 PM - what the hell is this scale???
This guy's got your scale to chord relations covered, though it assumes a fair amount of chord chemistry.
The eastern stuff is all here with the exception of
the million odd Indian scales that involve microtones
that you can't get without mucking w/your keyboroard's temperment.
Alot of the eastern stuff is chordally simple.
If you've got an altered scale you like like the one you're using - I, II, bIII, #IV, V, bVI, #VII (btw -those numbers refer to the degrees of the major scale
C,D,E,F,G,A,B,C and how they've been altered) you can get that effect with just one or two droning chords underneath.....usually the One.
Cheers,
~B
Message 8/13 26-Sep-00 @ 07:21 PM - RE: what the hell is this scale???
problem is this:
Play the keys you mention, and play other keys,
adding them one at a time. When you hit a wrong
note, it should stand out. Don't use that as part
of your little custom scale. When you've got an
octave's worth of notes, you can build stuff on
top of other stuff, using that. If you write your
music, with a pencil, just set up your key signature, and forget about it's name.
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