by djnarrative | 18 Dec, 2012 | The Reckorder Project
Revisiting the Lpc and it's scale mode led me to explore something ive been interested in for a long time but never really had my head around. Fully understanding the circle of fifths, scales and keys have somewhat eluded me on the whole, but today i made some good progress in understanding them and found some really useful tips and tutorials along the way. As mentioned yesterday, the lpc allows you to select from a load of different scales. This is like the midi function in ableton and bascially gives you the set notes to play within. This is great if you dont know scales and can provide great starting points for melodies when you have an idea of the mood or feeling you want to create. For example major or minor keys, or eastern, gypsy, oriental, sounding scale types. While this is great for starting musical ideas on the lpc, the majority of harmonic ideas come from playing without set structures in mind, and i find these come a lot more naturally when creating music, so i wanted to find a way of understanding how you could find the scale from the notes that you've just played. This led me to first nail down exactly what is the difference between a scale and a key, as they always seem to be in the same sentences, which wikipedia and this page was very useful for. ----------------------------------- A key is the collection of notes in relation to the note (e.g in the key of c) and a scale is the order of those notes (e.g c major scale). So the collection...
