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[fatjack]

Josh, what tab did you use for Phunkdafied?

i didnt use one

[Kahn]

Josh, what tab did you use for Phunkdafied?

i didnt use one

did you tab it out yourself by any chance? or did you use sheetmusic? How did you learn it is what I'm asking....

[fatjack]

Josh, what tab did you use for Phunkdafied?

i didnt use one

did you tab it out yourself by any chance? or did you use sheetmusic? How did you learn it is what I'm asking....

listening and looking at the video

[Kahn]

Josh, what tab did you use for Phunkdafied?

i didnt use one

did you tab it out yourself by any chance? or did you use sheetmusic? How did you learn it is what I'm asking....

listening and looking at the video

ok.

[aleceiffel]

hey FJ what do you know about transcribing maqamat to western notation and to western instruments. for instance the saba and sikah maqamat have things like... quarter flats and the like. is it even possible on a fretted instrument? and if so, what's the nearest translation? or would i have to just suck it up and use things like the hispano-arabian scale?

[aleceiffel]

[i like tictacs]

you can bend a note. or just play it on a fretless instrument

[fatjack]

hey FJ what do you know about transcribing maqamat to western notation and to western instruments. for instance the saba and sikah maqamat have things like... quarter flats and the like. is it even possible on a fretted instrument? and if so, what's the nearest translation? or would i have to just suck it up and use things like the hispano-arabian scale?

i dont know how to read eastern music, but i doubt it would be very convenient to transcribe eastern music the western notation.

and like tictacs said, you have to bend to get quarter tones on a fretted instrument

[Dutch]

or use a slide.

[417roylat]

There's always a handful of ass clowns in music classes. You've been warned.

True. I was in a class in highschool w some weird chick. Well a few years later she gets arrested for injecting bleach into her mothers arm and killing her. The body was dumped near my girlfriend at the time's house. Pretty crazy to see this girl on the news and in handcuffs , just two years after sharing a book with her in music class. Good thing she like me. True story.

tim

[aleceiffel]

hmm, okay. maybe i'll have to get an oud. or better yet, some musical talent.

[MattJ]

Got a question.

Why notate things in minor keys rather than leaving them in the major? In terms of why isn't say J.S.B's Partita 3 in Aminor not just Partita 3 in Cmaj, if its the same key sig/notes.

Is it just a style choice or convention or are their really different notes in there (harmonic vs natural minor or some other concept I'm also fuzzy on)? Or is it just that you're "centered" around a different tone with the same notes?

This has always kind of confused me...

[DMBFan63]

Got a question.

Why notate things in minor keys rather than leaving them in the major? In terms of why isn't say J.S.B's Partita 3 in Aminor not just Partita 3 in Cmaj, if its the same key sig/notes.

Is it just a style choice or convention or are their really different notes in there (harmonic vs natural minor or some other concept I'm also fuzzy on)? Or is it just that you're "centered" around a different tone with the same notes?

This has always kind of confused me...

Well really, in Am, the chord progression isn't the same exact thing as it would be in Cmaj. Like a I IV V in Cmaj isn't the same in Am. I'm not sure if that's why, just taking a crack at it.

[fatjack]

Got a question.

Why notate things in minor keys rather than leaving them in the major? In terms of why isn't say J.S.B's Partita 3 in Aminor not just Partita 3 in Cmaj, if its the same key sig/notes.

Is it just a style choice or convention or are their really different notes in there (harmonic vs natural minor or some other concept I'm also fuzzy on)? Or is it just that you're "centered" around a different tone with the same notes?

This has always kind of confused me...

for the most part. the reason songs are in major and minor are for very specific reasons, not just because the composer called it whatever the fuck he wanted to.

the main difference is the fact that A is the tonic, not C. this means that all the notes are "centered" (as you put it) around A; that is to say that all the notes resolve to A.

also you mentioned harmonic minor. harmonic and melodic minor are forms of the minor scale and are imbedded within the concept of minor. a song isn't in natural minor or harmonic minor, its just in minor.

also because of these different scale forms, minor has more notes than major. for instance C major has 7 tones: C D E F G A B, while A minor has 9 tones A B C D E F F# G G#. this is because minor ascends with certain tones and descends with other tones, while major ascends and descends with the same notes

[MattJ]

also because of these different scale forms, minor has more notes than major. for instance C major has 7 tones: C D E F G A B, while A minor has 9 tones A B C D E F F# G G#. this is because minor ascends with certain tones and descends with other tones, while major ascends and descends with the same notes

We're talking scales here right, not keys? I was under the impression that they aren't necessarily interchangeable.

So on the way up the minor scale the intervals are WHWWWWH and down is WWHWWHW (what I would have guessed a minor scale's intervals to be both ways). Where does this variation come from? Is there a "mathematical" reason for that structure, for lack of a better word.

That's a minor third between the 6th and the tonic on the way up, but just using the relative majors notes it 'should' be a major 3rd... Crap I'm just spinning my wheels now.