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Poll Question: which of the western 12 notes is your favorite?
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    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. 

Runners up are C#, D, and D#
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Direct Link To This Post 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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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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Direct Link To This Post 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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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 20 2012 at 03:04
E flat all the way.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 20 2012 at 03:06
I think I am tuned in D.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 20 2012 at 04:38
D major is a lovely scale....
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 20 2012 at 08:12
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.  
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 20 2012 at 08:28
Sick note.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 20 2012 at 09:01
F#
 
 
  
 
Prog is whatevey you want it to be. So dont diss other peoples prog, and they wont diss yours
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 20 2012 at 09:38
Originally posted by tamijo tamijo wrote:

F#

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 20 2012 at 09:54

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

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 20 2012 at 09:59

My favorites are D, D#, F#, G#, and A#

I'll vote D#


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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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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 20 2012 at 10:04
Originally posted by HolyMoly 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


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 20 2012 at 10:05
Originally posted by smartpatrol smartpatrol wrote:

Originally posted by HolyMoly 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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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 20 2012 at 10:05
Originally posted by smartpatrol smartpatrol wrote:

Originally posted by HolyMoly 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
 
Microtones is right.
 
Anyway, I love F#, but I love Bb.
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Direct Link To This Post 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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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 20 2012 at 10:15
Originally posted by HolyMoly HolyMoly wrote:

Originally posted by smartpatrol smartpatrol wrote:

Originally posted by HolyMoly 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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Direct Link To This Post 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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