jj: It takes a long time, but slow and sure study always helps.
Ant: Thank you! Glad I could be of service!
ICN: I’ll wait until the check clears.
Haha…
Just want to mention again that I’ll be addressing all this in the videos I’m making for Phil. A quick update on that: Phil has given me great feedback on the “Meter/Is Everything Covered By Your Drums?” videos, and I am in the process of drastically tightening the videos to be as concise as possible. They should be done this weekend, and thanks to Phil, they are much clearer this time around. I’m new at the “Let’s Make Some Videos” idea, so it takes some getting used to, but I think I got the hang of it.
Cant wait for it Jamie… Sounds great Mate 
Yes… Phil gave some great feedback. They are much shorter, and I think they explain the concepts much better. I kind of fell into the trap of how overwhelming music making can be, and with all its distractions and directions one can go. So difficult to keep a focus, especially at my age!
J
Also, there are other scales in World Music which can make your productions stand out in interesting ways.
For example, there are several pentatonic scales (meaning 5 note scales) to look at:
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentatonic_scale[/url]
These are used in West African music, Celtic Folk music, American Gospel, Hungarian folk music, Javanese Gamlan music…and many others including the traditional Japanese “Sukura” I mentioned before.
Here is the relative minor pentatonic:
A C D E G A
Cheers Jamie! That helped a lot, silly me forgot about A minor being the relative minor to C, so I should have clocked!
I just lately have been using this book as a guide and for some reason they put it down as harmonic without stating it was ‘harmonic’.
I’d love to get my head around it all much better, but like you say it does take time!
Thanks latte, I do know about pentatonic scales actually
[quote]TheAnt (13/05/2011)[hr][quote]JamieinNC (13/05/2011)[hr]
Hope this helps!
Jamie[/quote]
It does for me. That was as clear an explanation as I could hope for.
Good skills Jamie :)[/quote]
+1
[quote]lattetown (13/05/2011)[hr]Also, there are other scales in World Music which can make your productions stand out in interesting ways.
For example, there are several pentatonic scales (meaning 5 note scales) to look at:
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentatonic_scale[/url]
These are used in West African music, Celtic Folk music, American Gospel, Hungarian folk music, Javanese Gamlan music…and many others including the traditional Japanese “Sukura” I mentioned before.
Here is the relative minor pentatonic:
A C D E G A
[/quote]
the pentatonic scale is also the basis for tons of rock n roll.
Noel Gallagher from the band oasis uses the pentatonic scale a LOT. Like the whole album (What’s the Story) Morning Glory? is based from that scale. different key’s obviously… but Noel uses it alot.
its probably the first thing I play when i pick up my guitar.
[quote]UnitedVision (13/05/2011)[hr][quote]lattetown (13/05/2011)[hr]Also, there are other scales in World Music which can make your productions stand out in interesting ways.
For example, there are several pentatonic scales (meaning 5 note scales) to look at:
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentatonic_scale[/url]
These are used in West African music, Celtic Folk music, American Gospel, Hungarian folk music, Javanese Gamlan music…and many others including the traditional Japanese “Sukura” I mentioned before.
Here is the relative minor pentatonic:
A C D E G A
[/quote]
the pentatonic scale is also the basis for tons of rock n roll.
Noel Gallagher from the band oasis uses the pentatonic scale a LOT. Like the whole album (What’s the Story) Morning Glory? is based from that scale. different key’s obviously… but Noel uses it alot.
its probably the first thing I play when i pick up my guitar.[/quote]
pretty much all rock songs use the minor penta scale. some added minor scale notes added in for gd measure and the “blue” note (b5, flattened 5th note of the scale).
add these together and u get…
2+2=lenny kravitz
lol 
[quote]UnitedVision (13/05/2011)[hr]…Noel Gallagher from the band oasis uses the pentatonic scale a LOT…[/quote]
Yeah! Another Gallagher 
-Jer Gallagher
(aka Lattetown)
[quote]jpgetty2win (13/05/2011)[hr]
pretty much all rock songs use the minor penta scale. some added minor scale notes added in for gd measure and the “blue” note (b5, flattened 5th note of the scale).
add these together and u get…
2+2=lenny kravitz
lol :D[/quote]
Nice! 