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Yeah it does make the learning process much easier for me too.
I'm glad it's helping others

Great timing on this thread, I have been trying (and failing horribly) to understand some music theory in the last week after the realisation my tunes all have a touch of the Willy Wonka about them despite my best efforts at darker sounds...

Suffice to say, the above posts make my head feel like it's about to explode, but it's actually a bit easier to grasp when someone is talking about it on a forum than trying to make sense of some of the books I am reading.

Thanks for giving us some material to study man, big up

daft tnuc wrote: You said in that other thread you were no expert ?
Thanks for that, interesting read.

lol, I'm not, I'm alright on modes from (badly) playing guitar, it's just modes don't get mentioned a lot outside of guitar world which is a shame as they are very useful for creating different moods with melody and they show how all keys/scales are interconnected.

I just checked out something on your triads list, the A natural minor scale is indeed played all on the white notes, useful for piano spastics like me

stereotactic wrote:Great timing on this thread, I have been trying (and failing horribly) to understand some music theory in the last week after the realisation my tunes all have a touch of the Willy Wonka about them despite my best efforts at darker sounds...

Suffice to say, the above posts make my head feel like it's about to explode, but it's actually a bit easier to grasp when someone is talking about it on a forum than trying to make sense of some of the books I am reading.

Thanks for giving us some material to study man, big up

If you want instant musical evil, just use the note 6 semitones above your key/root note (ie. six keys on a piano above). it's sound when played is so nasty that it was actually banned in the middle ages and named "the devil's note". The heavy metal community has abused this note to good effect for years as has the blues community before it, check Black sabbath here using the devil's note (also called the flat fifth) in about the most simple way possible




the opening riff is just root/octave/flat fifth

bilsner wrote:

Huge props for this dude. Thanks for converting to a PDF as well. It's nice to have this kind of information right at the fingertips rather than digging through music theory articles and books trying to piece it all together.

daft tnuc wrote:

That's just brilliant \m/

daft tnuc wrote:

cheers for the harmonic minors too......best thread on DSF

Thanks for the nice comment.

I also recommend to everybody who wants to get serious about music theory to read "Music theory for computer musicians" by Michael Hewitt.
I find it confusing at times, like when the author throws in examples of chord inversions a couple of chapters before actually explaining what they are but apart from a few things like that,it's a great resource.

safe. reminds me of a-level music I-IV-V and all that