
If you play the minor chord loudly, you connect the same will with a feeling of rage. If you play the minor chord softly, you connect the will “I don’t want any more…” with a feeling of sadness. If you perceive a minor chord, you identify normally with the will “I don’t want any more…”. Here, too, just the process of identification generates emotions.Īn example: If you perceive a major chord, you normally identify with the will “Yes, I want to…”. The same happens when we watch an exciting film and identify with the volitional processes of our favorite figures. Then in the process of identifying the volitional processes are colored with emotions. It says that music can’t convey any emotion at all, but merely volitional processes, the music listener identifies with. The solution of this problem is the Theory of Musical Equilibration. The most difficult problem in answering the question of how music creates emotions is likely to be the fact that assignments of musical elements and emotions can never be defined clearly. Examples: modern jazz, movies about Dracula. Same pitches as Eb, Gb and A octatonic scales. Same pitches as Eb, Gb and A diminished scales. Example: Background parts in the Simpsons theme song. Same pitches as D, E, F#, G# and A# whole tone scales. These scales are based on regular, symmetric patterns. Here’s a blog post about playing pentatonics on guitar. Widely used in rock, world and folk music. Joyful widely used in world and folk music.
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The blues scale is the minor pentatonic plus the flat fifth. Same pitches as C-sharp/D-flat melodic minor. Use over a C7 chord to make it sound very intellectual and jazzy. C minor pentatonic with sharp fourth/flat fifth added. Neither major nor minor Blues scaleīluesy, obviously. Same pitches as C-sharp/D-flat major and B-flat natural minor. These scales have a flat third (the note that is three semitones above the root), which gives them a darker and more tragic feel.

Mixolydian b6Īnother film-score-sounding mysterious scale. Example: “Hava Nagila.” Harmonic major scale Phrygian dominant modeĮxotic, Middle Eastern, Jewish. Same pitches as the G melodic minor scale and the F-sharp/G-flat altered scale. Example: “Possibly Maybe” by Björk (from the line “As much as I definitely enjoy solitude…”) Lydian dominant modeĪlso known as the overtone scale or acoustic scale, because it is close to the first seven pitches in the natural overtone series. Example: “ Tomorrow Never Knows” by the Beatles. Examples: “Mary Had A Little Lamb,” “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star.” Mixolydian modeīluesy, rock can also be exotic/modal. Happy can be majestic or sentimental when slow. These scales have a major third (the note four that is four semitones above the root), which makes them feel happy or bright. You can play all of these scales and more using the aQWERTYon. Here’s a handy guide to the commonly used scales in Western pop, rock, jazz, blues and so on. So maybe you want to write a song or an instrumental in a particular mood or style, and you’re feeling overwhelmed by all the scales. 6, and the third mode of the C harmonic minor is Ionian ♯5.See also a post about making chords from scales, and all of these scales in one giant flowchart. However, they are derived from the modes of the Harmonic Minor, meaning the second mode of the C harmonic minor is D Locrian Nat. On this page, the 7 modes of the harmonic minor scale are presented as if they are all separate scales (beginning on C). This will help you master the harmonic minor scales. So learn all of the patterns, and practice them as relative to each other, for instance F harmonic minor, A Locrian natural 6, going all the way up the neck. Here is the C altered natural 6, the last mode. Here is the Lydian sharp 9, the sixth mode. Here is the C Mixolydian flat 9 flat 13, sometimes also called the Phrygian dominant, the fifth mode. Here is the C Dorian sharp 4, the fourth mode. Here is the C Ionion sharp 5, the third mode. Here is the C Locrian natural 6, the second mode. Here are the modes, beginning with Harmonic Minor pattern. But in this case, we're going to play them all on the same fret on the VIII fret. We're going to play all patterns from C but it's also a great idea to play them all in the key of the same harmonic minor mode: for instance, you could playing F harmonic minor and then playing A Locrian natural 6. We're going to talk about the harmonic minor, and the six modes that can be built from it.
