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Bubbakron · 18th March 2010

In the blues/pentatonic , whatever you call it, there are really only 8 notes(which are same as chords) to choose from. Your combination of these 8 notes are all the same in different keys. This is the scale that 99.9% of music in the western world is based in, the music that people buy. You do not need to map out this on anything but your brain, its only 8. Even the Lydian Smchidian bullshit labels are just the exact same scales, but just in differentg orders.
You are selling emotion, you have to find out what orders of those 8 notes create the most emotion- its not rocket science. Once you get a good base, as long as you stay in the same scale you can do what ever you want and it will sound good- LESS IS MORE. The best thing to do is sing along with the scale often- even if you dont sound good it will program your brain as to whats what. The only reason people had to read and write music is because they did not have recording machines like we do today!!!!!!

Any music made outside of this musical scale is for musicians only, and can not create that much emotion in the average person- if so then pink floyd would have had many diminised 7 minor chord bullshit( the only way to make that sound half way decent is to do 80's shitty metal distortion to hide what it really is). The scale that poor black people in the south a 100 years ago dominated, is now by far the musical scale that draws in the most human emotion from any culture. Its just 8 notes, write songs in your head first- then make those sounds a reality!!!!!

18th March 2010	#8
Bubbakron Lives for gear Joined: Jan 2008 Location: Southern Cali Posts: 894	In the blues/pentatonic , whatever you call it, there are really only 8 notes(which are same as chords) to choose from. Your combination of these 8 notes are all the same in different keys. This is the scale that 99.9% of music in the western world is based in, the music that people buy. You do not need to map out this on anything but your brain, its only 8. Even the Lydian Smchidian bullshit labels are just the exact same scales, but just in differentg orders. You are selling emotion, you have to find out what orders of those 8 notes create the most emotion- its not rocket science. Once you get a good base, as long as you stay in the same scale you can do what ever you want and it will sound good- LESS IS MORE. The best thing to do is sing along with the scale often- even if you dont sound good it will program your brain as to whats what. The only reason people had to read and write music is because they did not have recording machines like we do today!!!!!! Any music made outside of this musical scale is for musicians only, and can not create that much emotion in the average person- if so then pink floyd would have had many diminised 7 minor chord bullshit( the only way to make that sound half way decent is to do 80's shitty metal distortion to hide what it really is). The scale that poor black people in the south a 100 years ago dominated, is now by far the musical scale that draws in the most human emotion from any culture. Its just 8 notes, write songs in your head first- then make those sounds a reality!!!!!