Someone just emailed me an hour ago about modes and had a video and some questions, and the return address on the email was just to the “forums” here at SA. Who was it? Just wanted to make sure you got an answer promptly returned…
J
[quote]JamieinNC (27/08/2011)[hr]Someone just emailed me an hour ago about modes and had a video and some questions, and the return address on the email was just to the “forums” here at SA. Who was it? Just wanted to make sure you got an answer promptly returned…
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Jamie emailing too yourself is just sad - however forgetting that you emailed yourself is just tragic - but then posting it is just disastrous :P:D:hehe::w00t:
Shush! You’re ruining my marketing strategy! 
[quote]slender (27/08/2011)[hr][quote]JamieinNC (27/08/2011)[hr]Someone just emailed me an hour ago about modes and had a video and some questions, and the return address on the email was just to the “forums” here at SA. Who was it? Just wanted to make sure you got an answer promptly returned…
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Jamie emailing too yourself is just sad - however forgetting that you emailed yourself is just tragic - but then posting it is just disastrous :P:D:hehe::w00t:[/quote]
Jamie
It was me but I m apparently not good at using forums.
My email adress is …
pieter_van_nieuwenhove@hotmail.com
useraccount : Pieter Van Nieuwenhove
Thanks A lot !!
Hi Pieter!
It’s no problem at all! I just didn’t know who had sent the email, even though I replied to it anyway. Haha, it’s probably floating around somewhere in the universe!
Anyway, the video you sent me certainly shows an interesting way of creating chords within a mode, and you could certainly build your chords in this way! To answer your question about changing the tonic to a different note, YES, it is the same pattern. All you would need to do is drag all the notes to the new key location and you’ll be good to go!
Jamie
[quote]pieter van nieuwenhove (27/08/2011)[hr]Jamie
It was me but I m apparently not good at using forums.
My email adress is …
pieter_van_nieuwenhove@hotmail.com
useraccount : Pieter Van Nieuwenhove
Thanks A lot !![/quote]
Dear J.
Thanks for the reply. It worked and If you think of it … when using the fold button in this particular way is logical …
Anyway, I’ve read your post today about … people asking the wrong questions on the forum, not how to make this or that genre … but Why. And also that people where unsatisfied because not all genre’s are discussed… etc. Remember?
Well, I must say, I totally agree ! I have recommend SA to a lot of my friends but I ve always said … don t mind what kind of genre there are making but try to understand the concepts behind it and study them. My girlfriend keeps saying , well you ve have spent the last two years on ableton. And you’re still not able to make a (GOOD) song/music ? (I mean, thats an insult to all the people who have been occupied with music in general for a long time)
My response , I ve started enjoying ableton and sounds in general the day I didn’t want to make music anymore but understanding what s behind it. Ableton or any DAW is an instrument. And learning how to play with it takes time, knowledge …
So to wrap things up, the scales and modes tuts, the rhythm tut and the ‘melody …and a continuation’-video’s on the forum are an enlightment for me …
If you’re planning to start your so-called institution count me in …
Yours sincerely
Pieter
Totally agree, Pieter!
As for the institution, I have no interest. It’s too much work and takes too much time away from sitting at my computer and making music! Plus, it seems as if it might not be worth the “headache” one gets from running a business.
J
[quote]pieter van nieuwenhove (29/08/2011)[hr]Dear J.
Thanks for the reply. It worked and If you think of it … when using the fold button in this particular way is logical …
Anyway, I’ve read your post today about … people asking the wrong questions on the forum, not how to make this or that genre … but Why. And also that people where unsatisfied because not all genre’s are discussed… etc. Remember?
Well, I must say, I totally agree ! I have recommend SA to a lot of my friends but I ve always said … don t mind what kind of genre there are making but try to understand the concepts behind it and study them. My girlfriend keeps saying , well you ve have spent the last two years on ableton. And you’re still not able to make a (GOOD) song/music ? (I mean, thats an insult to all the people who have been occupied with music in general for a long time)
My response , I ve started enjoying ableton and sounds in general the day I didn’t want to make music anymore but understanding what s behind it. Ableton or any DAW is an instrument. And learning how to play with it takes time, knowledge …
So to wrap things up, the scales and modes tuts, the rhythm tut and the ‘melody …and a continuation’-video’s on the forum are an enlightment for me …
If you’re planning to start your so-called institution count me in …
Yours sincerely
Pieter
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Dear J.
I’ve seen and paused all the music theory video’ s over and over on SA, I ve looked up additional info on the www and I have tried looking for other video’s on the web. I m - very slowly - getting a grip on the basics BUT your video about circle of fifth… there, I’ m losing it … you talk about adding sharps (on the 5th interval off course) clockwise, adding flats counter clockwise… I feel a bit stupid to ask but aren’t sharps and flats the same notes … apparently not. I ve found this on the web with gives me an (almost) clearly insight about the difference …
OpenStax
They talk about sharp and flats (accidentals …)
In the SA tuts (using notes that are not in scale) Graham also mentions accidentals as being wrong notes … for example for a bass sound use E , F# , … to build tension in a C minor scale … wrong notes because they aren t in a C minor scale … that I understand
so to wrap it up … what do you mean by adding sharps or flats when talking about circle of fifths … it s the same note ??
or am I missing crucial basic insight ? ?
thanks for your patience
just count 5 semitones up or down . and that is pretty a circle of fifth hehehe .
[quote]alinenunez (01/09/2011)[hr]just count 5 semitones up or down . and that is pretty a circle of fifth hehehe .
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or start from C C=0 Cb=1 Bb=2 A=3 you got the relative minor of C so on and so on
Pieter,
Sharps and flats aren’t exactly “notes” per se. They are simply alterations to the musical alphabet that helps accommodate the pattern of whole and half steps that serve as the arrangement for a specific scale or mode. Sharps and flats could be the same physical note on the keyboard, which is what we call enharmonics. So for example, F# and Gb are the same note on the keyboard, but serve a different purpose on a notated score. The reason we have these accidentals is so that we can build the scales and modes on each note and maintain the consistency of whole and half-step patterns within.
I think using the term “wrong” to describe a note isn’t the best idea, but I think Graham was using that to describe notes that are located “outside” a particular scale pattern. I would use the term “chromatic” to describe notes outside the scale, and “diatonic” to identify notes in the scale.
[quote]pieter van nieuwenhove (31/08/2011)[hr]Dear J.
I’ve seen and paused all the music theory video’ s over and over on SA, I ve looked up additional info on the www and I have tried looking for other video’s on the web. I m - very slowly - getting a grip on the basics BUT your video about circle of fifth… there, I’ m losing it … you talk about adding sharps (on the 5th interval off course) clockwise, adding flats counter clockwise… I feel a bit stupid to ask but aren’t sharps and flats the same notes … apparently not. I ve found this on the web with gives me an (almost) clearly insight about the difference …
OpenStax
They talk about sharp and flats (accidentals …)
In the SA tuts (using notes that are not in scale) Graham also mentions accidentals as being wrong notes … for example for a bass sound use E , F# , … to build tension in a C minor scale … wrong notes because they aren t in a C minor scale … that I understand
so to wrap it up … what do you mean by adding sharps or flats when talking about circle of fifths … it s the same note ??
or am I missing crucial basic insight ? ?
thanks for your patience
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