Chord Progressions
Paul Griffin (he/him)And if you want to hear a track where I *really* went crazy with similar ideas (but a different vibe), check out one of my personal faves from this past #jamuary :
https://soundcloud.com/paul-griffin-482718112/jamuary-13-25-moon-jelly-blacksmith
Jamuary 13 25 - Moon Jelly Blacksmith
I love how weird and spacey Lydian mode can sound, especially with the right textures. That wasn’t weird enough on its own, so I put things in 5/4 time. That *still* wasn’t weird enough, so I switched
- a lot of the bits of ear candy vacillate between happening in the 4/4 meter and the 7/8 meter
The overall result is a slightly "drifty" feel (I hope) where it might be a bit hard to fully nail down what is going on, but the 4/4 drums keep things on track.
This was a fun little project, I hope you enjoy it!
A couple of fun notes about Dotted Pots:
- The additional percussion that comes in around 0:55 is a bunch of sounds I recorded off of one of my moka pots
- All of the delays in the track are set to dotted 8th notes, creating the baseline syncopation in the track
- The synth that comes in at 0:20 is playing mostly dotted 4th notes throughout, but in 7/8 time. The polymeter is subtle bc it melts into the syncopation!
Dotted Pots, by Paul Griffin
track by Paul Griffin
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RythurDoes anybody else here get so into music that your keys end up being super exotic sometimes?
I wrote instruments for a song last night...
In the sixth mode of a Bebop scale.
So much symmetry, so much tension :-)
Four majors, Four minors, and...
A dim and Aug on the tonic!!!
So many possibilities here.
#composition #music #musictheory #tones #scales #writing #musictism
Oh, and please listen to my new album!
Oh, and the song has an odd measure dance break. Lol.
Nicolas MOUARTSo much to learn and so little time..
In music theory, the bridge is the B section of a 32-bar form. This section has a significantly different melody from the rest of the song and usually occurs after the second "A" section in the AABA song form. It is also called a middle eight because it happens in the middle of the song and the length is generally eight bars. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty-two-bar_form#Middle_eight
Walls Come Tumbling Down! By The Style Council
https://youtu.be/k5HfOipwvts
Keiran RowellOh this is *well* cool,
"The Euclidean Algorithm Generates Traditional Musical Rhythms"
https://cgm.cs.mcgill.ca/~godfried/publications/banff.pdf
So elegant the title says everything - the oldest algorithm in history for the greatest common divisor covers most #rhythm lines in the world.
Humans like even distributions