Favorite Note??

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.

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.

I think I am tuned in D.

I've always had a thing for G#.  It makes a good tonic, like an A, but it's slightly more downbeat and dark due to being a half step lower.  

F#   

When what you are doing gets boring, ad more F#'s into your cords.

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

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 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.

Edited by Smurph - June 20 2012 at 10:14

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