Music theory

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Welcome to Grimmy's Guide to music theory.

Warning this only teaches simple concepts and how to write music on keyboards and DAWs!

How to begin you may ask? First, download your DAW (digital audio workstation) of choice. I recommend LMMS because I'm poor or something.

Secondly add instruments, press the "My Presets" icon and look for ZynAddSubFx and pick you're piano of choice.

now lets start making music.

The Scales

The scale is the relationship of the Key tonic to its neighboring notes.

dont forget that scales are different from keys. the keys are the note origin and the scales are the pattern.

How to build? use the pattern below.

W for whole step or 2 semitones.

H for half step or 1 semitone.

T for tonic or origin.

Major scale: T W W H W W W H

Dorian scale: T W H W W W H W

Phrygian scale: T H W W W H W W

Lydian scale: T W W W H W W H

Mixolydian scale: T W W H W W H W

A Minor scale: T W H W W H W W

Locrian scale: T H W W H W W W

The Circle of fifths

Circle of fifths in relation to keys.

Circle of Fifths, what is it? The circle of fifths is a concept where you find the scale and key of you're composition. its made by stacking fifth notes from the octave by 8 semitones apart.

This teaches you how to travel in different keys.

(You) and I could make a melody that starts in the key of C major to the key of C minor or in the key of A minor to the key of Eb major.

Ex: C - F - Emin - Amin - F - Bb - Ddim - Eb

The chord progression as a wave file. instrument called FM synth1 in AddSubFx

_{A must have: you must use diminished chords to anchor the song to another key. ex. Ddim to Eb to establish key of Eb major further, Bdim to Cmaj to establish key of C major further.}

Chord progression Syntax and scales

we use Roman numerals to identify chords.

The first Letters are the tonic chord. now look at this, you can see how you can apply the wheel of fifths on the scales by identifying where is the diminishing chord and major key.

Upper case letters are major chords, small case letters are minor,and postfix an 'o' to make it diminished.

Major scale: I - ii - iii - IV - V - vi -viio

Minor scale: i - iio - bIII - iv - v - bVI - bVII

Emotional Model

fig.1 shows the brightest scale to the darkest and depressive scale. also added that this diagram shows what accidentals use ie. # sharps and b flats.

fig.2 shows a simplistic emotional map of chords.

The scales fig.1

The emotional Map fig.2