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Subject: eastern scales
Original Message 1/32 05-Mar-02 @ 06:06 AM - eastern scales
Message 2/32 05-Mar-02 @ 08:09 AM - RE: eastern scales
basically, and this is probably not a 'proper' definition, but you get the modal scales by playing the notes of say cmajor but starting on different notes, d for dorian which is used a lot in jazz, e for phrygian, which sounds a bit spanish.
modes are generally concerned with melody, it's how ppl wrote tunes way before they started thinking about harmony. bear in mind that there are some non-western scales that don't use the same notes as your keyboard, but some notes in between. some synths/romplers will let you use non-western tunings.
Message 3/32 05-Mar-02 @ 05:23 PM - RE: eastern scales
Message 4/32 05-Mar-02 @ 05:39 PM - RE: eastern scales
Message 5/32 06-Mar-02 @ 11:08 PM - RE: eastern scales
I do do that already I think. Aolian or likes. Can't remember how to spell those scales. I use a scale but change the tonic and just use the same notes from that scale with a diferant root. Is that what you mean?
Thank everyone, including Sitar for making me laugh.
Message 6/32 06-Mar-02 @ 11:25 PM - RE: eastern scales
can't remember who insulted who or where, but
Orbital has been getting thrown around alot. LOL
Message 7/32 07-Mar-02 @ 12:19 AM - RE: eastern scales
all with the same length (1 beat each or crotchets) around 100 bpm i'm guessing. maybe a little slower, with feeling this time, ok? ;)
all these notes are in the scale of c major but does it hell sound like c major. that's because it's in a modal scale. they're the first notes from 'concerto de aranjuez' by rodriguez or 'sketches of spain' by miles davis. go listen to them. and listen to the 'kind of blue' album by miles davis.
you can download 'so what' by that album from kazaa. just two modal 'keys' up and down. beautifull. 'maiden voyage' is another.
Message 8/32 07-Mar-02 @ 05:45 PM - RE: eastern scales
brett, I'm not interested in being your little online enemy or anything, so in the spirit of civility I urge you to check out Miles' "In a Silent Way", perhaps *the* clearest example of a 'modal sound' I can think of.
Message 9/32 07-Mar-02 @ 07:30 PM - RE: eastern scales
if you feel like some reading, there's a Jazz Improvisation Primer online that can 'splain some of these modal concepts at ya. but the indian thing, as sitar explained in that "goa goa" thread, is not just a particular series of flatted this or that notes but that you slide from one note to another. maybe I'm oversimplifying here though. sue me.
Message 10/32 08-Mar-02 @ 01:02 PM - RE: eastern scales
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