Have LOTS of fun with your grandma.
Are you moving completely to another computer?
can someone tell me if this is good? its in a really hard key only used by poker face by lady gaga(we all know how that turned out ) and 2 random awful classical pieces
Sounds good ixsetf
That’s very nice! I love working with difficult keys because it makes the song seem more complicated XD.
Well the song sounded good enough, but really you should just find a key you are comfortable using often. In my own experience, using a hard key just to show off doesn’t really affect the song or how it sounds, so unless you mention it most people will not notice it. I know because I’ve tried twice. A Soft Interlude is in D# minor.
well that’s not necessarily true, classical music often shifts key multiple times mid song so I have to get used to writing in multiple keys, also different keys convey different moods some are darker some are more happy and some don’t allow certain chords
Logic = Fail
I suppose you are somewhat correct on the fact that some (actually it should be most) chords don’t work on any given scale. For instance D major doesn’t work on a C major scale because it contains an F#. But the rest is rather pointless. Key shifts are always good because they can change the mood of the song, but I don’t see how using G# Major is helpful. And honestly the mood isn’t conveyed by the key but the instruments and notes. If I wrote a scary song, it would sound scary in C Minor or G# Minor, and the only difference is pitch. That what my point was before, key doesn’t affect the sound of a piece overall, so find a key where the pitch and notes all sound just right for your style. So please, don’t use it just to show-off. If you had never said anything about the key, we would never have had this argument.
LOL HAI GUISE ME AND KALA ARE DOIN COLLAB
AND HARD METUL YO, SO MAH SONG.
Where’s Kalamaraiaasfdfgdfg
@ octo YEAH KALIMBA METAL didn’t sound quite right try thrash metal
@ star
actually there are also sonatas that use only one key and they aren’t just C major or A minor they are other keys too like G minor which is more resentful Eb major which is the key of love, devotion and such G# is the simpler enharmonic to the key of the grave so it has a more intense feel
Okay, first, that song was in C# Major, not G# Major. Derp derp.
Now, I believe StarWars’s point is not that a song cannot change keys throughout it, but that in general it doesn’t make so great a difference what key a song starts in, as long as all other tones are the same relative to the key. To put it simply, take for example a C Major scale and a D Major scale. Although the latter is shifted a whole step up, all increments, or spacings between the notes, are exactly the same; thus, they are almost exactly the same in “meaning”. This is analogous to, say, a person saying “I have a green shirt” in a deep voice and a person saying “I have a green shirt” in a higher voice. Sure, they sound different compared to each other, but taken by themselves they express the same idea. Now, StarWars’s other point is that you shouldn’t strain yourself telling us about your awesome green shirt in an irregular voice you think sounds cool when you can do the same with your more natural voice. Now personally, I don’t really mind people doing stuff like that to boost their epeen, but I’ll just be direct and say that it’s not especially difficult to compose a song in G# Major. If you want to compose a song in G# Major, then be my guest; I have no objections, but don’t think that it will be any more impressive to pull off!
But now this article…holy hell, that must be the biggest load of bullshit I’ve ever seen. I mean WHAT IS THIS I DON’T EVEN. That guy has to be so full of hot air to bloat those things up with more meaning than it can hold. I don’t know what he was smoking when he pulled that out of his ass, but no, just no… I mean, okay, maybe the guy wasn’t being completely serious and factitious with those, but come on, there’s no reason you should be taking those things literally, word for word, as if it’s the Official Handbook of Music or some shit like that. It’s that dude’s own opinion, I think it sucks, and you can probably come up with a better one. Now let’s end this argument before I have to pull out my train picture again. (Wait, what?)
…yeah, sorry, I got a little carried away back there. o_O Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to stop talking as if I knew shit and just step out of here…
actually is G# minor not major which is probably why you are confused also key sigs do have different tones to them different emotions they do better
Well, still, it would be C# Minor if you wanted it to be that way. Believe me, I had to listen to that snippet a lot before deciding on whether I’d consider that major or minor. Really, I’m more used to listening to music that is obviously black or white major or minor (and I’m positive it’s C#). Your piece, to me, seemed to straddle the fence a bit; that chord you used I think is a sus chord or something like that, which is by itself neither major nor minor, and you would have to tell be listening to the context it’s in. But I’m probably wrong. I don’t take music theory; I just like listening to music.
Paragraphs in a song thread.
MIND = BLOWN
I’ll just clarify here, G# minor (starting on C#), and C# minor (also starting on C#):
G# minor: C#, D#, E, F#, G#, A#, B, C#
C# minor: C#, D#, E, F#, G#, A, B, C#
The song matched G# minor (this is careful analysis, mind, not opinion), but I can see why it would’ve been confusing. I’m not going to get drawn into this whole “which key is better for which or if it really is necessary at all and does loose change really cause cancer?” argument, because, generally I just pick a scale, don’t moan about having to match it up to some emotion or setting or lyrical coherency or alcohol volume or banana shape and just crack on with it, really. I would say that musical scales might be better suited to illicit different emotions, etc., but not necessarily that that makes it more difficult. Apart from practical information, such as scales and chords and frequencies, etc, music theory is all bollocks anyway.
WOW!
I left few days… and I missed a lot of discussion
PS: What’s happened on your avatar Octo?!.. Who’s He? I don’t know
Me…–
screw it. It’s Bob Saget.
Goddammit Octo, stop making unfinished songs! They’re just too good.