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- Mon Nov 01, 2021 11:03 am
- Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
- Topic: Sets of modal tunings, especially for digital/midi chroms
- Replies: 8
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Re: Sets of modal tunings, especially for digital/midi chroms
It's a fair and good question. Ever since I introduced Inverted Bebop https://www.brendan-power.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=612&hilit=Inverted+bebop#p2619 over two years ago I have been fascinated by keeping the tonic, third and fifth in the draw layer. I understand that having a note-bending joys...
- Thu Oct 28, 2021 11:58 pm
- Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
- Topic: Sets of modal tunings, especially for digital/midi chroms
- Replies: 8
- Views: 7069
Re: Sets of modal tunings, especially for digital/midi chroms
Absolutely! I'm nearly ready to pull that trigger.You might like to do that with your many scale ideas also, rather than pay for analogue harps to be made.
Q: For an alt tuning nerd like me, would I be better off with the DM48 or the HM12?
- Thu Oct 28, 2021 7:34 pm
- Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
- Topic: Sets of modal tunings, especially for digital/midi chroms
- Replies: 8
- Views: 7069
Re: Sets of modal tunings, especially for digital/midi chroms
I studied the database of over 25,000 songs at https://www.hooktheory.com/cheat-sheet/key-popularity and found this: By diatonic modes: Ionian 50.4% Aeolian 39.5% Dorian 3.8% Mixolydian 3.7% Phrygian 1.1% Lydian 1.1% Locrian 0.3% By parent major scale (includes all relative modes of each parent majo...
- Thu Oct 28, 2021 4:22 pm
- Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
- Topic: Sets of modal tunings, especially for digital/midi chroms
- Replies: 8
- Views: 7069
Sets of modal tunings, especially for digital/midi chroms
This discussion will be an extension of this: https://www.brendan-power.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=829#p3642 and this: https://www.brendan-power.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=845#p3752 Here I propose a set of tunings (two sets, actually) which are designed for digital/midi chromatic harmonicas (o...
- Tue Oct 26, 2021 5:00 pm
- Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
- Topic: Spiral-DLT tuning (a working title)
- Replies: 15
- Views: 23679
Re: Spiral-DLT tuning (a working title)
Figures 5 and 6 in the posts above (Dorian and Mixolydian, respectively) place the a tonic at the 4 draw . The tuning in Figure 7a (below) also does this but for the Aeolian mode. Figure 7b (also below) shows how these three tunings can be reconsidered by instead placing their respective tonics at t...
- Mon Oct 25, 2021 9:31 pm
- Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
- Topic: Spiral-DLT tuning (a working title)
- Replies: 15
- Views: 23679
Re: Spiral-DLT tuning (a working title)
The tuning in Figure 5 (several posts above) was optimised for Dorian play. This one (Figure 6, below) is optimized for Mixolydian play.
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- Thu Oct 21, 2021 3:06 pm
- Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
- Topic: 91% of Irish music with 2 harps and only 1 breath pattern!
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5725
Re: 91% of Irish music with 2 harps and only 1 breath pattern!
Regarding the excellent questions and comments of Brendan and Edvin (above) .... No doubt that holes 8-10 look funny. As I said in the original post, "In all likelihood I will tinker with it a bit – especially in the top five holes". It's a bit of a stopgap; however, there is a method to the madness...
- Thu Oct 21, 2021 1:44 pm
- Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
- Topic: Snake Solo. Countering the regular-breath hegemony!
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5971
Re: Snake Solo. Countering the regular-breath hegemony!
My favorite part is this Subject's title. You've got verve, Edvin!
- Wed Oct 20, 2021 10:25 pm
- Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
- Topic: 91% of Irish music with 2 harps and only 1 breath pattern!
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5725
91% of Irish music with 2 harps and only 1 breath pattern!
This Topic's title is audacious indeed! Surely, there are provisos. Yes, of course there are. Let's get started ... I begin by drawing on the “nine is fine” principle of George Kelischek . https://www.susato.com/collections/nine-is-fine If you don’t already know about George, look him up. https://yo...
- Wed Oct 20, 2021 8:36 pm
- Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
- Topic: Keys of Irish songs
- Replies: 9
- Views: 8726
Re: Keys of Irish songs
In his act the very talented Michael Davis would explain,
A comic says funny things,
but a comedian says things funny,
which makes me ...
a juggler.