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Subject: The Key of House
Original Message 1/28 20-Nov-02 @ 10:45 AM - The Key of House
I know you lot talk about using your ears but I have zero musical skills. Well, that’s not strictly true. It’s just that my theory doesn’t stretch to the “circle of fifths” and my chord progressions are quite basic. Anyway, I have reached the conclusion that both Cm and Am are my favourite keys (both the blues scales though). I find Cm to be quite “techno” sounding (kinda old school) and Am to sound quite “magical” sounding. Would you agree or have I totally imagined it? Basically I wanted to know if you guys think that a lot of (proper) house seems to be in both these keys.
Ps- no sniggering at the back there :-)
Message 2/28 20-Nov-02 @ 11:00 AM - RE: The Key of House
house key? ... yale! oh, ha haha, ho ho, he, hmm ... i'll get me coat.
Message 3/28 20-Nov-02 @ 11:34 AM - RE: The Key of House
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Message 5/28 20-Nov-02 @ 07:59 PM - RE: The Key of House
Message 6/28 26-Nov-02 @ 04:40 PM - RE: The Key of House
HOWEVER, this practice is meaningful only when using "pure" scales: scales which have supposedly "perfect" golden-rule relationships between the frequencies of the fifth note, the fourth note, and the fundamantal note of the scale. If you use such a perfect scale to tune your piano for C scale, then all other scales will sound "slightly strange" in various ways (depending on the scale). Playing your melody in the other scales will not sound exactly as if you transposed it on the scales we use today.
So what do we use today ?!
We use a sort of "averaged" mapping of notes to frequencies, where the logarithmic difference between all semi-tones is allways 1/12, regardless of which scale you're actually dealing with. Obviously, the same melody transposed, and same chords (primary, fifth, etc.), will just sound "the same", just at slightly higher frequencies, without those "slightly strange" effects.
Message 7/28 26-Nov-02 @ 10:07 PM - RE: The Key of House
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Message 9/28 27-Nov-02 @ 12:55 PM - RE: The Key of House
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