Music

Inspirations

• Lorn
• Rezz
• Amon Tobin
• Aphex Twin
• Girl Talk?

Electronic Music

Techno

Modern techno sounds more repetitive, bass-y, muted and dark.

• http://freepats.zenvoid.org/Piano/acoustic-grand-piano.html
• https://www.fluidsynth.org/

Synths

• https://surge-synthesizer.github.io/

Music Theory

Diatonic Scale

C  D  E  F  G  A  B

Chromatic Scale

Ascending:

C  C#  D  D#  E  F  F#  G  G#  A  A#  B

Descending:

B  Bb  A  Ab  G  Gb  F  E  Eb  D  Db  C

Exercises

On Guitar:

1. Find Chromatic Scale (Asc and Desc) vertically and horizontally

Intervals

Intervals of C chromatic scale:

Note | # Semitones | Interval name
----------------------------------
C    | 0           | Unissone
C#   | 1           | Major 2nd

Chords building

Scales

Modes

Software

• Pyknon by Pedro: https://github.com/kroger/pyknon
• Abjad

References

• Alternative sheet music for piano: https://medium.com/happy-ninja/how-i-d-redesign-piano-sheet-music-355c4f9012f1

• http://getthatprosound.com/hacking-your-listeners-ears-9-psychoacoustic-sound-design-tricks-to-improve-your-music/

• Nice tabs of a Math Rock band: http://www.tabit.net/tabs/list.php?f=5655

• Open source book about music theory! http://openmusictheory.com/contents.html
• http://tobyrush.com/theorypages/

Changelog

18.08.2016

Started to study music. Acoustic or electric guitar as main instrument. Computer as second instrument. I have a physical notebook with some notes. Planned how to study:

1. Review last day topics (e.g. Major Scale)
2. Practice the exercises from previous days
3. Practice new exercise (composition, analysis or interpretation)

What to study:

• Chromatic scale (ascending and descending)
• Tone and subtone

• Major scale (TTSTTTS)

• Basic notation

• Acidents: fifth and forth circles (# and b)
• Chords: CAGED and Triads like 1+3+5 = Major, ... (BUILD ANY CHORD)

• Harmonic Major Scale (I IIm IV V VIm VII' VIII) (WRITE SONGS, SCALES and CHORDS)

• Cadence: Authentic, plagal, ...

• Structure of Diatonic Chord Progressions (JAM WITH A BAND)
• Minor Scales (Natural, Harmonic and Melodic) (EXPAND OPTIONS TO COMPOSE)
• Pentatonic Scale (HOW ROCK/BLUES WORKS)
• Diatonic Serie of Seventh Chords
• Modes (JAZZ BACKGROUND)

Here you should be able to jam songs, write songs and analyse/desconstruct them Now it's time to more "classical" composition/analysis/playing Study the content of Open Music Theory book and start composing Use the computer to compose and ML, constraints...

Refs

• https://opinionatedguide.github.io/music/theory/