Hello.
I would love your help.
Is there a key signature that contains these notes:
F, G, A flat, B, E
And if so, what is it? I know it's not a standard western scale, but i am wondering if there is some kind of unusual key which can include these notes?
Thanks
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F, G, A flat, B, E - help :)
Started by Jay Taylor, Jan 31 2012 10:28 PM
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Posted 31 January 2012 - 11:10 PM
Try the result of a musical scale-finding tool (located via google).
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Posted 01 February 2012 - 05:31 AM
Hello,
Scales are always a matter of context.
If you have any score or (even better) sound examples of the piece you're working on, it'd be easier to help out - and a lot more informative than a software arbitrarily spitting out a heap of scales.
At a first glance, this looks like a melody over a dominant chord - it might be more comprehensible if you look at the notes as tensions in that case.
e.g.:
G7(b9/13) - quite the usual chord in Jazz!
F: minor seventh (7)
G: root note (1)
Ab: flat ninth (b9)
B: major third (3)
E: major thirteenth (13)
A scale often used with this chord is Half-Tone-Whole-Tone (HTWT), which incidentally shows up on the scale finder, though with the wrong root note.
G - Ab - Bb - B - C# - D - E - F
which is
1 - b9 - #9 - 3 - #11 - 5 - 13 - 7
Good thing about this scale is that there is no avoid note!
Just a wild guess though! You'll have to look where these notes lead next (in this case probably a C major chord) - hence context!
Cheers,
Moritz
Scales are always a matter of context.
If you have any score or (even better) sound examples of the piece you're working on, it'd be easier to help out - and a lot more informative than a software arbitrarily spitting out a heap of scales.
At a first glance, this looks like a melody over a dominant chord - it might be more comprehensible if you look at the notes as tensions in that case.
e.g.:
G7(b9/13) - quite the usual chord in Jazz!
F: minor seventh (7)
G: root note (1)
Ab: flat ninth (b9)
B: major third (3)
E: major thirteenth (13)
A scale often used with this chord is Half-Tone-Whole-Tone (HTWT), which incidentally shows up on the scale finder, though with the wrong root note.
G - Ab - Bb - B - C# - D - E - F
which is
1 - b9 - #9 - 3 - #11 - 5 - 13 - 7
Good thing about this scale is that there is no avoid note!
Just a wild guess though! You'll have to look where these notes lead next (in this case probably a C major chord) - hence context!
Cheers,
Moritz
Check out my Music/Sound Design Reel on moritzpgkatz.de
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Posted 05 February 2012 - 09:52 PM
This is probably way beyond what you are looking for, but it could be the first mode of Harmonic Major or called Ionian Flat 6.
So basically a C major scale with a lowered 6.
C - D - E - F - G -Ab - B
I personally only use this sound when improvising jazz and can't say I've ever composed using it, but it does have some nice tension over a Maj7 chord.
(http://docs.solfege....scales/ham.html) Some info on Harmonic Major for anyone interested.
So basically a C major scale with a lowered 6.
C - D - E - F - G -Ab - B
I personally only use this sound when improvising jazz and can't say I've ever composed using it, but it does have some nice tension over a Maj7 chord.
(http://docs.solfege....scales/ham.html) Some info on Harmonic Major for anyone interested.
