kinda basic music question
i dont really know how i would google this, but maybe you can help me out really quick:
on the piano roll, you have c1, c2, c3 etc. but does the counting of a new octave actually start at c? so would the a below c2 be a1 or a2?
thank you!
on the piano roll, you have c1, c2, c3 etc. but does the counting of a new octave actually start at c? so would the a below c2 be a1 or a2?
thank you!
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Yes. A below c2 would be A1. Doesn't the piano roll on Reason have names for the notes?
thank you. if so, i overlooked it.PhillipOrdonez wrote: ↑26 Nov 2021Yes. A below c2 would be A1. Doesn't the piano roll on Reason have names for the notes?
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Yes, the count starts at C. It's a little weird, but everyone seems to like C.
It's to do with Italian monks and the fixed solafe (I think that's how you spell it)huggermugger wrote: ↑26 Nov 2021Yes, the count starts at C. It's a little weird, but everyone seems to like C.
Ye oldie
Do Re Mi Fa So La Ti
Do is C in the fixed scale
ah, guido of arezzo and all his blessings and cursesBilly+ wrote: ↑26 Nov 2021It's to do with Italian monks and the fixed solafe (I think that's how you spell it)huggermugger wrote: ↑26 Nov 2021Yes, the count starts at C. It's a little weird, but everyone seems to like C.
Ye oldie
Do Re Mi Fa So La Ti
Do is C in the fixed scale
The reason octaves start on C is to make it a bit harder to learn music theory.
"Right kids, you know how the alphabet starts with A? Well the musical alphabet starts with C and the A and B come along a little later. Also, there are 12 different notes but only 7 different letters..."
"Right kids, you know how the alphabet starts with A? Well the musical alphabet starts with C and the A and B come along a little later. Also, there are 12 different notes but only 7 different letters..."
in germany also:DaveyG wrote: ↑26 Nov 2021The reason octaves start on C is to make it a bit harder to learn music theory.
"Right kids, you know how the alphabet starts with A? Well the musical alphabet starts with C and the A and B come along a little later. Also, there are 12 different notes but only 7 different letters..."
"but after a doesnt follow b, but h. h flat is called b though".
well, some people do attribute this to a monk with bad handwriting somewhere in history. but nobody really knows why its like that.
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Accidentals are called so not because of any instrument but because of reading and writing; when you are in a key signature, and at certain point your composition plays a note that doesn't belong to the key, that note is an accidental and will be represented on the paper with a symbol next to it.
That's interesting, I was under the impression that flat or sharps in the key signature were still called accidentals?PhillipOrdonez wrote: ↑26 Nov 2021Accidentals are called so not because of any instrument but because of reading and writing; when you are in a key signature, and at certain point your composition plays a note that doesn't belong to the key, that note is an accidental and will be represented on the paper with a symbol next to it.
Music theory is still something that simply baffles me but I never let it stop me, I'm happy to use any note if it works and always find it funny when scales and chords suggests that it's incorrect.
Half the notes I play are "accidentals", but I may be misusing the term…Billy+ wrote: ↑26 Nov 2021That's interesting, I was under the impression that flat or sharps in the key signature were still called accidentals?PhillipOrdonez wrote: ↑26 Nov 2021
Accidentals are called so not because of any instrument but because of reading and writing; when you are in a key signature, and at certain point your composition plays a note that doesn't belong to the key, that note is an accidental and will be represented on the paper with a symbol next to it.
Music theory is still something that simply baffles me but I never let it stop me, I'm happy to use any note if it works and always find it funny when scales and chords suggests that it's incorrect.
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I've been using www.scales-chords.com/scaledinder.php to find the scale when I need to.
The last one I was using is apparently E eight tone Spanish.
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Could be worse. Math uses X,Y and ZDaveyG wrote: ↑26 Nov 2021The reason octaves start on C is to make it a bit harder to learn music theory.
"Right kids, you know how the alphabet starts with A? Well the musical alphabet starts with C and the A and B come along a little later. Also, there are 12 different notes but only 7 different letters..."
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