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kentaku_sama
September 18th, 2013, 12:37 pm
So after messing with this stuff forever, I finally recorded some quarter tone music. If you've never heard quarter tone music, you'll probably think it's out of tune but it's not. Quarter tone, which is half a semitone, consists of 24, so essentially you get all the regular notes, plus twelve more sandwiched between keys key.

This one is written in an arabic maqam, E bayati which is a minor scale with a half flattened 2nd degree:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rwhwk-V8nI0&feature=c4-overview&list=UUvq5bg-LvOS6adpB5efPTyQ
Sounds more melodic than phrygian to me.

Enjoy, I had so much fun with these! :heh:

kentaku_sama
September 18th, 2013, 12:38 pm
This one is written in something called mohajira which is like a 7 note scale that sounds like a pentatonic as it's slightly static and ambiguous.
It's basically a neutral key as in it exists between major and minor giving a whole new tonality, neutral.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1Lp8AtKK9o&feature=youtu.be

Le Wiz
October 7th, 2013, 10:28 pm
Ooh.. I had been curious about these notes that don't exist on a ''regularly''-tuned piano.
It think it'll take some time to get used to this, haha. But I like it already :D

How did you play this anyway? Is it a different instrument or did you tune your piano differently?