emusonacid!

this goes out to those of you who have little to no music knowledge. that may not be anyone on here yet, but this site continues to grow every day...

most every one knows the c major scale... just the white keys, that is all. and there are at least 35 standard scales to learn, excluding the sharps and flats, and all the other scales with strange names that i can't remember how to spell them. i have only learned about six or seven of these scales off the top of my head. i can of course play all of them, just give me a moment to count the steps... but this idea will make it so that any one can play any scale fast and easy. but i would suggest learning the scales the right way. this will be good for those how just don't have the time right now to learn any music theory at the moment.

what you do is this:
you take the instrument you are using, lets say from an emu emulater sound disc or whatever, and lets say you want to play a riff in g major. but you don't know the keys to hit to make a riff in g major. all you have to do is move the origin from c to the f# below it, and now when you hit c on you controller or whatever you will actually be playing g, and then you can just hit all the white keys and play a g major scale. and if you also know the minor modes of c, you will play the minor modes of g, this should work with all the scales.

this might help some of you out that don't know music theory or the scales too well and don't have time to learn them right now.

Belated thanks for the info dude, gonna look for some on line site for learning scales! I got some books bought by my woman but it's in some strange language called music Will post any scales info here that i find.

nice one, i'm in the process of trying to learn the musical theory and any help or links is cool!!

if i have time today... i will send you some of my notes.

ezman... i think i know what exactly you are going through. i bought a college level theory book and when i started to read it. none of it made sense. but then i did some other studies before going back to that book, and now i am understanding it well. I haven't visited it for a while because i haven't been recording my records over to cd, since i have a song that i am working on. but as soon as that song is done i will be back on it, and i am sure you will see my posts on music theory again on doa...

the reason why this trick works is because our music... well western music is what they call equal tempered music. what that means is that in the octave, there are twelve equal parts. the half step. this is the chromatic scale. when you talk about c major, what you are refering too in that regard is the diatonic scale... this only having eight tones, counting the octave of the next scale as the 8th, or tonic, of course. once you figure out the all the scales intervals, if that makes sense. you can really just a pull any scale you want out of the air. my goal is to memorize them all.