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03-12-2009, 03:03 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Ventura County | | | Created my own original functioning scale.
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I call it the Douglas scale after me, or the augmented second scale. Its a nice scale with a good amount of dissonance. Functions pretty well for harmony too. http://www.filedropper.com/douglasscale
Here is a midi of it being played.
First is the scale up and down.
Second is stacked triads for each scale degree.
Then Stacked triads plus their 7ths.
Then a I IV V Then a ii V I (and yes I know the letters don't match the chords but i was referring to the root notes)
And finally is going through chords of the cycle of fifths.
Thoughts?
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03-12-2009, 07:31 AM
| | gone to Longstanton Spice Museum | | Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: UK | | | what are the intervals of the Douglas Scale??
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03-12-2009, 07:36 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Halifax, Nova Scotia | | | It sounds good, but what makes it original? As far as I know, every possible combination of notes in the Western 12 tone scale has been used before.
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03-12-2009, 07:41 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: MD | | | Yeah, I can't listen right now. What are the intervals?
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03-12-2009, 08:11 AM
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03-12-2009, 08:49 AM
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Originally Posted by onlyclave do ra mi fa sol le te do | That doesn't look right to me.
The scale , in midi, looks like
1 #2 3 #4 5 6 7
but i think , started on the 3, it's the harmonic minor, which makes it the 6th mode.
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03-12-2009, 10:02 AM
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03-12-2009, 10:08 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: New Delhi, India | | so am i free to use this scale or you'd sure me? 
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03-12-2009, 11:33 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: MD | | | Whether it be onlyclave's or mambo4's scale it's definitely not new or original, it's just a displacement of the harmonic minor. Onlyclave's is mixo b9 b13, and mambo's is lydian #9. Both are cool sounds though.
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03-12-2009, 04:38 PM
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started on the 3, it's the harmonic minor, which makes it the 6th mode.
| Correct 
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03-12-2009, 08:05 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Ventura County | | | Yeah it is a mode of the harmonic minor.
But I like it a lot and will start using it.
So maybe it isn't original then as a scale, but this mode functions really well.
D E# F# G# A B C# D
E sharp (Keeping the diatonic letter)
Chords are
D major
E# minor flat 5
F# minor
G# minor flat 5
A Augmented
B Minor
C# Major
D major
Do Ri Mi Fi So La Ti Do
And I could not find an Augmented Second Scale on Google. And on guitar pro i did a scale search and nothing was 100% close.
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03-12-2009, 09:23 PM
|  | Dr. Jim | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Denton TX, Kailua HI, New York | | How exciting. F# harmonic minor. Send an email to J. S. Bach, oh, wait...he has proly already tried it out. 
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03-12-2009, 10:09 PM
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Originally Posted by Jim Carr How exciting. F# harmonic minor. Send an email to J. S. Bach, oh, wait...he has proly already tried it out. | Alert the Middle East, and pass it on to the jazz world as well.
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03-12-2009, 10:29 PM
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Originally Posted by EADG mx Alert the Middle East, and pass it on to the jazz world as well. | Will do. 
You tell Bach, just to make sure.
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03-12-2009, 10:37 PM
| | Dr. Jim | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Denton TX, Kailua HI, New York | | Don't forget to warn Ockegum, Josquin, Byrd, Palestrina, and all the renaissance trans-alpina infidel polyphonic mafia, too. They are gonna be pissed. So many harmonies they could have used if only they had just taken a few hundred years to understand the modes!!! Wait, they might have. Oh. Yeah.
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03-12-2009, 11:42 PM
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03-13-2009, 02:51 AM
| | Dr. Jim | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Denton TX, Kailua HI, New York | | Yes, but why so soon? We just had one in 1990. Isn't once every 1000 years about right?
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03-13-2009, 03:17 AM
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03-13-2009, 03:46 AM
| | gone to Longstanton Spice Museum | | Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: UK | | | let's give the guy a break - it's amazing how you 'invent' stuff when you're learning
I personally (and this is no lie) 'invented' the 12 bar blues and the pentatonic minor when I first started playing... you come up with something that sounds good to your ear and think you've made an amazing discovery.... oops
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03-13-2009, 09:26 AM
| | Dr. Jim | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Denton TX, Kailua HI, New York | | Quote:
Originally Posted by cowsgomoo let's give the guy a break - it's amazing how you 'invent' stuff when you're learning
I personally (and this is no lie) 'invented' the 12 bar blues and the pentatonic minor when I first started playing... you come up with something that sounds good to your ear and think you've made an amazing discovery.... oops | You are right. My dopey wisecrack about Ockeghem was needlessly ornate AND I misspelled his name. Sorry. 
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