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  • · Lady RKO
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    No problem, I don't look for any in return. If you ever need to ruin someone's square life, holla at me, bruh.

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    ...The approach also intends to avoid affecting the relationship (i.e. the interval) between the 7th degree and the 5th & 6th degree, so it makes the interval between the 5th degree and the root an augmented 5th ("8"), and the 6th degree a major 6th ("9"), knowing that 10-7=11-8=3 and 10-8=11-9=2.

    This trichotomy also applies to the 4th degree. There are perfect 4th (5-0), the diminished 4th (4-0) and the augmented 4th (6-0).

    IMO you'll definitely do better if you remember the scales by heart, instead of only knowing how to construct them step by step. Your musical vision will expand drastically if you think that way.

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    The interval formed by "7" and "0" is called the perfect 5th because there are still the diminished 5th (6-0) and the augmented 5th (8-0). Both major and minor scales don't contain these intervals, but there are other scales and composition systems that make use of them. Two famous examples are:

    1) the Locrian scale (0-1-3-5-6-8-10-12) which has the "6";
    2) the composition approach in classical music that raises the latter part of the minor scale by 1 semitone, i.e. from "0-2-3-5-7-8-10-12" to "0-2-3-5-8-9-11-12". Its main intention is to change the 7th degree from minor 7th to major 7th (for convenience, you often just call "11" a "major 7th", just make sure you don't confuse the concept of scale degrees with intervals), so as to create a more intense feeling when the harmony progresses from the 7th to the root. ...

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    Yes, the 1st degree IS the root note. So, a "second" is literally the interval formed by the root (1st degree) and the 2nd degree; likewise, a "third" is just the interval formed by the root and the 3rd degree (I made a stupid mistake in my last replies, should have said major/minor third instead of second, sorry about that!). As I said, the major scale is "0-2-4-5-7-9-11-12", the natural minor scale "0-2-3-5-7-8-10-12". You can see that they both have "2", which forms a major second together with the "0" (the root note). The same goes for the "7", which forms a perfect fifth with"0". But when we look at the 3rd degree there's a difference: the major scale has "4", which forms a major third along with "0", and the minor scale has "3", which forms a minor third with "0". The same can be said for the 6th degree, the major scale has "9" while the minor scale has "8". These differences are the reason why the scales have unique characteristics that distinguish themselves from each other.

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    Anyway, those are the two lines of thinking that I know when it comes to interpreting note intervals. There is no fixed way of interpreting music, so how you choose to rationalize note intervals (or any other music concepts) is really up to your personal preference. Though I'd say this, you'll never go wrong if you try to listen to quality pieces and read scores of them as much as possible.

    Enjoy music!

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    I started with guitar too, and I have been using guitar tabs exclusively until a few years ago. Perhaps it is for that reason that I personally find it easier to figure out how everything works when I see everything from a chromatic perspective. For example, I interpret the major scale as "0-2-4-5-7-9-11-12", and the (natural) minor as "0-2-3-5-7-8-10-12". This way, all the intervals are but numbers; a major 2nd is just "2" (semitones), a minor 2nd a "1", and a perfect 5th a "7". The benefit of this is that when I discovered the "cracks" in the scale system (i.e. the parts that aren't strictly in the scale or even not strictly tonal), I didn't just leave it be and instead I went and looked for similar examples so that I'd get a better understanding about it, because from the beginning I understood that there is more than just major/minor scales and classical harmonic progressions to music.

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    Hi! In the teaching system of classical music, one learns the major/minor scales first, then interpret note intervals as the distance between the root note (the 1st degree) and any other note on the scales. For example, the interval formed by the 1st & 2nd degree of the major scale is called "Major 2nd" (i.e. a whole tone), the 1st & 5th degree the "Perfect 5th" (i.e. three and a half whole tone); the interval formed by the 1st & 2nd degree of the minor scale is called "Minor 2nd" (i.e. a semi tone), the 1st & 5th degree still the "Perfect 5th" as the 5th degree of the minor scale is the same as that of the major scale.

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    What PM is thus, been away for a while so very lost with my notifications

    · Super Moderator Going Backwards With WF
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    I meant to say put everything after the = in the YT link inside YT tags lol.

    So [youtube][youtube]

    Putting the / before the Y in the second box

    To embed videos in threads.

    :eek:

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    Thanks man. Yeah, it's a great movie and great game. I loved the game too, still play it occasionally. I Speedrun it!

    All the best bud.

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    Actually I got that from the title of an ABBA song. Seemed like a fun thing to do at the time.

    And the rep was just me wondering if we had met before. If not, you are welcome. If so, then ;)
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