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Yes, you're right and none of those factors are dealt with in traditional music theory to my knowledge which is kinda my point.
The closest you will get is in mixing / production theory I reckon and that is often at best subjective, you can get different guys saying totally contradictory things, plus it is to an extent also driven by the context of what else is being released at the time.
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
Edit - your piano picture just shows the 12-TET frequencies, so I'm not sure what you mean by "relevant" frequencies with respect to the pic. Though I do agree with the point in general.
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
Have you noticed in "Money" from Pink Floyd - most of the tune is in 7/4. 7 beats.
...Except when the instrumental/solo comes in and it goes to 4/4. So we're going from 7 beats to what sounds in context more like a straight ahead 8 beats. It sounds (to me) like it's going into high gear at that point, even though the tempo doesn't vary that much.
This is an example of the things you notice with a little theory, if you're interested. (But if you're not interested, it doesn't matter.)
Well there are many potentially successful ways to arrange or mix the same piece of music.
Understanding the notes being tied to frequencies is useful regardless of the approach you then take.
Similarly to knowing the notes of a scale or potential harmonies are useful even if you then just write a piece of music by ear without thinking consciously about the theory behind it.
Probably just a case of not using the correct word.
I just mean that Musical Pitch = Frequency... the other useful fact being octave up doubles the frequency etc. I find it useful to know and reference, as opposed to just guessing by ear what to do with an EQ.
I agree that if the intervals are imperfect it will influence the sound. Actually for some music, to get the really clean sounding 'modern production' sound with guitars you do need to re-tune a guitar and do a lot of punch ins for recording, to keep the intervals as perfect as possible. Even with good fretting and picking technique a guitar can't be played perfectly in tune. It does change the feel as the overtones end up being clearer if it's all in tune, vs beating slightly against each other if the intervals aren't quite close enough to perfect.
A lot of 60s and 70s stuff isn't really in tune compared to modern standards (i.e. closer to perfect intonation), even though most of the time the guitars were probably 'in tune', as in the open strings were correct. It does really affect the feel, at least to me anyway.
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Yes absolutely it does affect the feel. The frets of a guitar are tuned to 12-tet, whereas the strings are tuned to whatever your tuning system is (12-tet if you use a tuner; just if you use your ear, except for the G-B interval which is woefully wrong), and whichever tuning you use you're going to struggle with the 1st finger on the G string in E major. You can never get it perfect on a guitar. (Or any other instrument, but the guitar is horrendous).
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
It is a tad outdated.
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
OT -
I really want to try an evertune bridge to at least have the option to remove the link between dynamics and tuning. You can't pick a guitar hard without the attack going sharp relative to the decay, which is pretty limiting... it's also part of the sound of guitar, but I'd like to have the choice!
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a point to note…
theory is not a set of rules that confine your creativity..
it's simply a means to enable folks to describe what they are hearing
a technical language I guess..
it only becomes a set of hard and fast rules if you have to pass an exam in it..
or authentically compose a specific type of piece from a specific era [which can also be an exam task]
I mean, £14k in tuition fees and a piece of paper saying BMus(Hons) hopefully means I have a decent grasp of it!!
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.