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Bill Sloyer
During our 16th lesson on Tuesday, 11/21, Larry and I talked about:
# = sharp note
“NATURAL” = regular note
“DO” doesn’t necessarily mean starting in C
-Suspended Chord aka “SUS” - Larry tuned his acoustic this way
When written, might have the chord noted, such as “Csus”
-There are 12 keys/steps on a keyboard (and 12 keys in music)
-Reminder that space between keys is either a full step or a half step.
-A note is your basic building block of music. A note is one key on a piano
-A chord is 3 or more notes played together at the same time.
-A scale is a group of notes that fit together in a certain order. Unlike chords, not every group of notes is a scale.
-The major scale or Ionian scale is one of the most commonly used musical scales, especially in Western music. It is one of the diatonic scales. Like many musical scales, it is made up of seven notes: the eighth duplicates the first at double its frequency so that it is called a higher octave of the same note. The simplest major scale to write is C major, the only major scale not requiring sharps or flats: C-D-E-F-G-A-B-C
-HALF STEP = SEMITONE, The smallest musical interval used in Western music. It is the distance between two notes which are next to one another in pitch. To go from a C to a D is a tone.
-AN OCTAVE IS DIVIDED INTO TWELVE SEMITONES.
-For every major key, there’s a minor key.
RELATIVE KEYS are the major and minor scales that have the same key signatures. A pair of major and minor scales sharing the same key signature are said to be in a relative relationship.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relative_key
-To CHANGE TEMPO, you can use Audio Suite --> Pitch Shift --> Time Shift
-3 types of elastic audio:
Rythmic – for drums, etc
Monophonic – for mono notes / one chord at a time
Polyphonic – multiple notes/chords
-Disable elastic audio to save tempo
TRANSPOSE – change the key, etc., of a whole song. OPTN + T
-An 808 uses a pure sine wave, so it actually has a note/pitch.
