Scales and dance music
Scales and dance music Posted on: 09.11.2012 by Breanne Penge Anyone here know if certain scales are more prevalent in dance music? It would be nice to load my sampler with Synth notes and play something at some point if the mood struck. Drop a loop on the fly in a tune that's pretty open and play away. Suggestions? | |
| Luciano Hyppolite 14.11.2012 |
Originally Posted by jprime
"The pentatonic scale plays a significant role in music education, particularly in Orff-based, Kod |
| Luciano Hyppolite 14.11.2012 |
Originally Posted by jprime
"The pentatonic scale plays a significant role in music education, particularly in Orff-based, Kod |
| Luciano Hyppolite 14.11.2012 |
Originally Posted by jprime
"The pentatonic scale plays a significant role in music education, particularly in Orff-based, Kod |
| Luciano Hyppolite 14.11.2012 |
Originally Posted by jprime
"The pentatonic scale plays a significant role in music education, particularly in Orff-based, Kod |
| Luciano Hyppolite 14.11.2012 |
Originally Posted by jprime
"The pentatonic scale plays a significant role in music education, particularly in Orff-based, Kod |
| Jeannine Drobney 16.11.2012 | I am a perpetual student of EDM and music theory. Two really helpful places for a theory noob like myself have been: This site is ableton based and show some really useful ways of visualizing chords and keys and piano rolls http://www.anthonyarroyodotcom.com/t.../music-theory/ TACheader.png This site is really good for a beginner to understand basic key structure and chord maps for underanding how to get back to a root note. http://chordmaps.com/ shapeimage_14.png And this android app is super useful for me to remember what chords are within a key. https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...oid.chordwheel I really like house music for production but I am having trouble finding a place for chords in house. Am i off base? I find that arpeggiated chords are all over trance which is cool but I am not into making trance. |
| Luciano Hyppolite 14.11.2012 |
Originally Posted by jprime
"The pentatonic scale plays a significant role in music education, particularly in Orff-based, Kod |
| Breanne Penge 09.11.2012 | Anyone here know if certain scales are more prevalent in dance music? It would be nice to load my sampler with Synth notes and play something at some point if the mood struck. Drop a loop on the fly in a tune that's pretty open and play away. Suggestions? |
| Queen Zachariasen 20.11.2012 | If you really need a key, I'm going to go with the two most popular being Cm and F#m. The truth is that the most popular producers use the key that fits the moods and emotions they want. A good baseline is that pretty much all of it is in minor keys. |
| Celine Surico 16.11.2012 | Actually a lot of contemporary dance music from UK is now using very atonal scales which me believes is fun. |
| Jeannine Drobney 16.11.2012 | I am a perpetual student of EDM and music theory. Two really helpful places for a theory noob like myself have been: This site is ableton based and show some really useful ways of visualizing chords and keys and piano rolls http://www.anthonyarroyodotcom.com/t.../music-theory/ TACheader.png This site is really good for a beginner to understand basic key structure and chord maps for underanding how to get back to a root note. http://chordmaps.com/ shapeimage_14.png And this android app is super useful for me to remember what chords are within a key. https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...oid.chordwheel I really like house music for production but I am having trouble finding a place for chords in house. Am i off base? I find that arpeggiated chords are all over trance which is cool but I am not into making trance. |
| Luciano Hyppolite 14.11.2012 |
Originally Posted by jprime
"The pentatonic scale plays a significant role in music education, particularly in Orff-based, Kod |
| Tish Shortsleeve 14.11.2012 | Hey guys... i m new to this community
. Glad to find it as it seems it has a nice friendly atmosphere... anyway, my input on the subject... Well it used to be true that most edm was written in a minor scales just because of the mood those scales bring but is the whole scene got more diverse and popular people started reching for other scales and nowdays its not that rare that to find scales like Dorian or Aeolian. Though nowdays with the bass heavy music certain scales tend to prevail just because the sub in those scales souds better or is easier to fit within the mix. But with music in general and edm specially it always goes... if it sounds good its good... so anything goes. There is even producers out there that dont use scales at all... just their ears. |
| Breanne Penge 13.11.2012 | "The" pentatonic scale? There's more than one (Hemitonic and anhemitonic, Major) At any rate - it's moot now, so no worries. |
| Luciano Hyppolite 11.11.2012 | the pentatonic scale is one of the most versatile scales there is, if you know the key of the song, playing alogside the pentatonic scale will make you sound "good" always, this is the principle that was used when djranking s made the sample pack of power tools. they are sound based upon the pentatonic scale |
| Breanne Penge 11.11.2012 | I'm not concerned about scales in the context of production & sequencing; but rather in a more live PA scenario using a set(s) of scales to bang along to some loops. Was looking for scales that are versatile. I fear psyEdk is right though. I may need to formulate what scales I load in to my sampler based on the tracks in the routine. Good advice al round tho, cheers I'll check out that interview too. |
| Terica Radue 11.11.2012 | It really depends on what genre you're going to be producing in. Within prog house, tech-house, ____- house the scales used are extremely diverse, pretty much anything goes. In Dubstep, Trap, and other Harder 2-step kind of stuff the majority of songs are in some variation of D, E, F, and G. The reason is that the Subbasses used in these productions are wanted to be as low as possible, to make the music feel really heavy. A systems subwoofers can only reproduce certain frequencies clearly. Bassnectar speaks about this in an interview he did for electronicmusician.com. Check it out its a pretty good interview with him, he goes pretty in depth about his music making and why he does what he does. |
| Luciano Hyppolite 11.11.2012 | |
| Sylvia Greener 11.11.2012 | Fully agree with psyEDk! Some might say C major could be less rare as it's the easiest scale but there's nothing like a bunch of typical dance music scales. |
| Estella Waber 10.11.2012 | The short answer: No. Dance music as a whole is a massively broad style, so what might work in funky house might not work in minimal techno or glitch hop or jungle or dubstep. Not to mention different corners of the globe favouring a different sound. E.G: Italian Trance sounds the way it does because of the scales they're used to hearing in their music, same goes for Brazillian Psy-Trance, or Russian DnB. |
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