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Created January 13, 2013

Music Theory

HERE IS A .SNG FILE WITH A SHORT CHILLOUT IDEA IN IT http://www.mediafire.com/download/dbvjymvbqt3xr7u/Chilled_song_for_you_guys_to_get_ideas_from.sng
HERE IS A .SNG FOR A DNB DRUM BEAT
http://www.mediafire.com/download/6d61bs9aclzkbn9/DnB_beat.sng

It has come to my attention that many people on soundation don’t have a basic understanding of music theory and subsequently some of them find it hard to make there own loops, stay in a key and make nice sounding melodies. I intend to change that by helping those people get to grips with the basics, I will also be giving a few tips targeted at those who already have a good understanding and have to help really improve there musical depth, such as some really neat key changes (Key changes are barely used on soundation), chromaticism, blues notes, extended chords, countermelodies and many more,

NEW!!!!: KRackEd EkHo had the idea of having a communal account so people can see the ideas of music theory for themselves as well as getting useful ideas. the user name is ‘DusksMusicTheoryProgram@gmail.com’ and the password is ‘duskmusicuk’ feel free to add new projects and test your ideas for others to see, I’ll be putting a few things up for others to use and get ideas from. the only things you cannot do is delete projects, change the password or do anything on the community with this account, this account is purely for use in the studio. if anyone does otherwise the account will be shut down, so please obey by the rules.

The Basics:
there are 12 notes on the key board A, A-sharp/B-flat, B, C, C-sharp/D-flat, D, D-sharp/E-flat, E, F, F-sharp/G-flat, G, G-sharp/A-flat, check the link to see how these relate to the piano roll http://www.ehowtoplaypiano.com/piano-lessons/piano-notes-for-songs/
…but you only use 7 at a time because there are only seven in each key, e.g. C,D,E,F,G,A,B,© an octave is C1 to C2 as C2 is the 8th note from C1 (as there are seven in the scale)
The gap between to note directly adjacent to each other (e.g. B and C or D and D-sharp) is called a semitone, 2 semitones are called a tone (e.g. the gap between C and D is a tone, check the piano roll or link to see for yourself)

Major Keys: the pattern of these tones and semitones for a major scale is T,T,S,T,T,T,S (e.g. C,D,E,F,G,A,B,© for C major or F,G,A,B-flat,C,D,E, for F major you simply pick a major key and to work out the scale for that key you use the pattern T,T,S,T,T,T,S to find all the notes.

Minor Keys: For a natural minor Key the pattern is T,S,T,T,S,T,T but for a harmonic minor the pattern is T,S,T,T,S,T+S,S (mess around and see which you prefer), so an A (natural) minor scale would be A,B,C,D,E,F,G,(A) an A (harmonic) minor would be A,B,C,D,E,F,G-sharp,(A). check this site for more http://www.loopblog.net/tutorials/music-theory-tutorials/understanding-basic-scales-more-loop-fun/ or http://www.music-tutors-uk.com/Theory/scales.html

Basic chords: the most common chord is a triad, it has 3 notes and the have intervals of thirds (in others words they have one note in between them (from the scale of the key), e.g. in C major the notes of the scale are C,D,E,F,G,A,B so a third would be C to E or D to F) in this clip, the chord C major is played first, the first note is C, the next note is E as it is a third away (one note in between), then a G is the next as it is a third away from E this gives you C,E,G and this is how you make triads. check this clip and my comments at the beginning for a proper lesson on chords http://soundation.com/user/duskmusicuk/track/the-basics-of-chords
also check these clips for more on scales and chord sequences (more to come) http://soundation.com/user/duskmusicuk/track/simple-chord-sequence-in-c-major-sequence-i-v-vi-iv-1-5-6-4
http://soundation.com/user/duskmusicuk/track/harmonic-minor-scales-a-minor-to-d-minor-pattern-t-s-t-t-t-s-s
http://soundation.com/user/duskmusicuk/track/major-scales-c-major-to-f-major-pattern-t-t-s-t-t-t-s

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Kracked Ekho / illRipper Avatar
Kracked Ekho / illRipper
over 11 years ago

i really think that profile will help dusk every time i read this i just get more and more confused... is there anyway you could do lessons?

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Kracked Ekho / illRipper
over 11 years ago

wow dusk i looked through some of the comments and realized how bad you needed that account. =D your welcome i saved you everyday comment posting!

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Oozzie
over 11 years ago

quick question. how will you shut the profile down with out the password? unless of course you ask a favour from andreas or report the profile and suspend it but i'm sure you'll need to tell csi your situation. you know what i kinda just answered my own question nvm

Audial Avatar
Audial
over 11 years ago

READ THE NEW SECTION IN THE GROUP DESCRIPTION

DUTCH Avatar
DUTCH
over 11 years ago

i always (if i want) take the link to the song and then set the link on facebook, that works!

Audial Avatar
Audial
over 11 years ago

Sorry that is question for the soundation team, please consult them http://soundation.com/group/team-soundation

froshno Avatar
froshno
over 11 years ago

oh and please message me about this

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froshno
over 11 years ago

so im trying to upload a song to facebook i mixdowned the song but it doesn`t say publish to web anywhere so ya please help.

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Audial
over 11 years ago

i have just posted a new track with a chord sequence some of you might find useful, it is simple and sounds good http://soundation.com/user/duskmusicuk/track/cool-chord-sequence-d-minor-f-major-a-minor I have featured it also. feel free to use it. It is in the key of D minor and the scale of D minor is all the white notes except for b-flat, so it goes d,e,f,g,a,b-flat,c(c sharp if you want to use the harmonic minor), and back to d. as long as you use this scale you should be fine

Amanzio Avatar
Amanzio
over 11 years ago

HELP! I used a preset MIDI to make awesome song, but let me tell you. There are no more that I can use for POP music! I go to the MIDI shop, but all they have is dubstep. Someone, how can I make the same MIDI sound unique to the point where it doesn't sound alike? Or how do you make your own without it skimming so fast (as I put my piano playing keys into it).

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