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I brought a MIDI keyboard but I don't like using it, why?
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a212121
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Posted : Apr 23, 2010 16:03
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Thaanks Vermeee . 7th octave? I don't think that's what Maine Coon meant, the rest of the notes are in the 2nd octave, why would I want to put a note in the 7th? lol |
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Kryten
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Posted : Apr 23, 2010 18:01
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On 2010-04-23 03:19, Vermeee wrote:
me also doesnt like to use the midi keyboard.. i find a lot more fun and less complicated to do in the mouse... THO i dont have abilities to play the piano.. maybe if i knew how to play the piano the midi keyboard would be more useful...
by the time i try to record something cool playin the keyboard i was able to do at least 3 nice riffs in the mouse so it took me to the decision of left the keyboard aside  ....
maybe one day i should make some classes 
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I never played piano or anything like that.
But still, I find my midi keyboard very useful. It just saves me time...I can listen to chords and single notes before I put them into the sequencer, so I dont have to fiddle there until it sounds good. Pressing some keys is way faster than putting notes in with mouse, listen, rearrange then, listen again and so on until you got the sound you want.
Nobody says that you have to use it for recording stuff...although thats cool too(my timing sucks too tho).
Its just a very good tool for prelistening when tweaking synths or deciding on notes. |
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Maine Coon
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Posted : Apr 23, 2010 18:14
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On 2010-04-23 15:17, a212121 wrote:
I'm using the natural minor scale, from what I have read, I don't what E cord that is. From what I read there's only Em. Did I miss something?
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No, you are right, you did not miss anything.
Natural minor is an archaic scale, though. You’ll hear it in folk songs and medieval church chants, but not so much in anything past the Renaissance time.
If you decided to stay in natural minor, you are right - it would be
Dm->Em->Am
(as you’ll hear in many folk songs – old folk, not Shania Twain or Jewel)
In the modern music, though, Em would usually be switched to E, because the scale is usually either melodic or harmonic minor – so, it will have a G# note instead of a G. Because the G# note is closer to A, the E chord flows easier into Am than Em would.
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What does the 7 in E7 mean?
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Sorry, didn’t mean to create the “seventh octave” confusion 
In the E chord you play 3 notes, each one a 3rd away from its neighbor: [EG#B] So, they span a 5th between the top and the bottom of the chord. If you add another note a 3rd higher than the top one, you’ll end up with [EG#BD].
The chord spans a 7th between E and D, so it’s called a “seventh chord” and we’d write “E7” to distinguish it from the regular [EG#B] triad. The reason we’d add a D on top of the E triad is because it increases the anticipation of the Am chord that follows. So, the transition from E7 to Am is even easier than from “regular” E chord.
The switches I made in those examples are just something I personally would like. I did those just because I did not like the Dm->C transitions you originally had. But I am no authority – it’s just an example. I am sure you can come up with a progression that works better than mine. Or you may come up with a melody that fits your original progression best.
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Another question, I'm free to use the same notes from the next or previous octave right? That's what you mean in your other comment.
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That’s exactly what I meant, yes. By doing that, you put the notes of neighboring chords in your progression closer to each other, so the flow between chords sounds easier, less jumpy. Like in that “Solarcoaster” tune, you’ll hear
Am Am F Am etc.
If you spell out each chord, you’ll get
[ACE] [ACE] [FAC] [ACE]
But it would sound more natural if you do it like
[ACE] [ACE] [ACF] [ACE]
(which is what they did in this track, I think)
Besides, it will make your life easier, when you play this progression on a keyboard. You’d have to move one finger from the E note to the F note instead of making your whole hand jump to a totally different location.
The same with your progression: playing
[ACE] [GCE] instead of
[ACE] [CEG]
requires just to move one finger down from A to G instead of the whole hand jumping a 3rd up.
Good luck!
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