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Topic: Favorite Note?? Posted: June 20 2012 at 01:36
Don't ask me why, but I have a special affection for F#. I guess it started with that dramatic F# in Yes's "Mood For A Day". I think:
around the 0:37 mark and around the 1:07 mark. I don't know why but it was forever embedded as a beautiful and almost always a slightly melancholic note.
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Posted: June 20 2012 at 02:03
Never quite understood the 'favorite note' thing-- musical tones work relative to each other in combination of melody, harmony, and chords, creating the emotional or cerebral effect that a particular combination has. Lone notes don't have much musical value other than a subtle vibration that may distinguish one from the other.
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Posted: June 20 2012 at 02:06
well yeah it's a good point but I can't really explain why a note like F# brings the emotions it does. But then again, why does someone choose to play a tune in one key and not the other?? There is something about certain notes that brings different colors, different emotions to the table.
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Posted: June 20 2012 at 02:18
true, and choice of key can be for many reasons; generally, on
guitar say, every song should ideally encompass at its lowest register (though not necessarily its root) the low E chord or note, but that
frequency spectrum can be changed by altered tunings, a capo, or simply
not adhering to that compositional rule.
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Posted: June 20 2012 at 03:04
E flat all the way.
Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect.
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Posted: June 20 2012 at 10:01
Random question that I'll pose here instead of looking it up myself on Wikipoopia, just for the sake of conversation:
What do they call the notes "between" the standard Western notes, say, the 1/4 tones used in Eastern scales? Do they use similar terminology as "sharp" and "flat" and so on?
Edited by HolyMoly - June 20 2012 at 10:01
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Posted: June 20 2012 at 10:04
HolyMoly wrote:
Random question that I'll pose here instead of looking it up myself on Wikipoopia, just for the sake of conversation:
What do they call the notes "between" the standard Western notes, say, the 1/4 tones used in Eastern scales? Do they use similar terminology as "sharp" and "flat" and so on?
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Posted: June 20 2012 at 10:05
smartpatrol wrote:
HolyMoly wrote:
Random question that I'll pose here instead of looking it up myself on Wikipoopia, just for the sake of conversation:
What do they call the notes "between" the standard Western notes, say, the 1/4 tones used in Eastern scales? Do they use similar terminology as "sharp" and "flat" and so on?
microtones, I think
Right, but what about the individual notes (A, B, C#, C+, D minus, what?)
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Posted: June 20 2012 at 10:05
smartpatrol wrote:
HolyMoly wrote:
Random question that I'll pose here instead of looking it up myself on Wikipoopia, just for the sake of conversation:
What do they call the notes "between" the standard Western notes, say, the 1/4 tones used in Eastern scales? Do they use similar terminology as "sharp" and "flat" and so on?
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Posted: June 20 2012 at 10:14
I hate all of the notes equally. They only sound good if more than one note is being played, or if they are played in a sequence. And then, the notes played don't matter, it's more about the organizations and structures of those notes.
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Posted: June 20 2012 at 10:15
HolyMoly wrote:
smartpatrol wrote:
HolyMoly wrote:
Random question that I'll pose here instead of looking it up myself on Wikipoopia, just for the sake of conversation:
What do they call the notes "between" the standard Western notes, say, the 1/4 tones used in Eastern scales? Do they use similar terminology as "sharp" and "flat" and so on?
microtones, I think
Right, but what about the individual notes (A, B, C#, C+, D minus, what?)
I don't understand.
There are major notes, A B C D E F and G. There are also minor notes in between those major notes, A#/Bb C#/Db D#/Eb F#/Gb and G#/Ab. Between every note, both major and minor, there are a serise of microtones. That's really all there is.
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Posted: June 20 2012 at 10:32
I know what microtones are. I just wondered what nomenclature the Indian people (for example) use to describe that note that sits somewhere between our C and our C#.
Turns out they have a completely different naming system for notes (ok, I looked it up after all), so they don't call it "C" or "C#" at all anyway.
Edited by HolyMoly - June 20 2012 at 10:34
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