Five musicians, one scale

[musicbassman]

Adam Neely is joined by four other incredibly talented musicians who each rise to the challenge of making great sounding music using the scale from Hell.....

Most enjoyable. Who's your favourite?

 

 

[Crawford13]

This video convinced me that Ben Levin is indeed from another planet...

[lowdown]

 

Nahre Sol for me. 

 

 

Edited November 19, 2020 by lowdown

[scalpy]

First one was good as well I thought but a really interesting exercise. Some people are so good.

Edited November 20, 2020 by scalpy
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[Linus27]

Nahre Sol for me also.

[Mykesbass]

Another one for Nahre Sol. Wow, what talent. All great musicians. Thanks for posting.

[Nail Soup]

I’m not much of a music theorist. All the ‘scale talk’ gave me a much queasier feeling than the actual scale was purported to give!

Apart from the last one (which was too much of a jazz noodle for me) they all sounded good........ I just don’t get why they shouldn’t?

[scalpy]

16 minutes ago, Nail Soup said:

I’m not much of a music theorist. All the ‘scale talk’ gave me a much queasier feeling than the actual scale was purported to give!

Apart from the last one (which was too much of a jazz noodle for me) they all sounded good........ I just don’t get why they shouldn’t?

It's the relationship between the tonic, the home note, and the fifth, called the dominant. In the other six modes based on the major scale this is always a perfect fifth, sometimes known as a power chord. This interval is very strong, is very closely related to the harmonic series and importantly is stable, it doesn't want to resolve. 

The locrian mode has a diminished fifth, one semitone (or fret- sorry I don't where your theory is up to) smaller. This is discordant to the western ear and wants to either resolve back up by a semitone or move down to a perfect fourth. Therefore the principle chord, chord I in the locrian mode doesn't feel like it's finished. Try playing B D F as a chord and see what I mean. This is sometimes known as tritone- you can wiki that all day long! 

[Nail Soup]

9 minutes ago, scalpy said:

It's the relationship between the tonic, the home note, and the fifth, called the dominant. In the other six modes based on the major scale this is always a perfect fifth, sometimes known as a power chord. This interval is very strong, is very closely related to the harmonic series and importantly is stable, it doesn't want to resolve. 

The locrian mode has a diminished fifth, one semitone (or fret- sorry I don't where your theory is up to) smaller. This is discordant to the western ear and wants to either resolve back up by a semitone or move down to a perfect fourth. Therefore the principle chord, chord I in the locrian mode doesn't feel like it's finished. Try playing B D F as a chord and see what I mean. This is sometimes known as tritone- you can wiki that all day long! 

Oh, the devils chord! I did know that one already, but my music theory does not stretch much further.

Maybe I'll google the locrian scale later and try it out.

 

[Frank Blank]

Nahre Sol followed very closely by Samurai guitarist, that surf guitar was killer.