jadis

Me, a Canadian, conveying my sense of gratitude, relief and jubilation over the latest developments in the Middle East.

Nothing particularly witty or interesting, I just like using Trudeau as a reaction image cause he's a funny fuсk...

The reaction image I need for today is "being annoyed that your chick is nagging you about printing out the documents you need for tomorrow's meeting with the immigration lawyer but knowing that she's right"...

jadis

Maybe some combination of these

BassoonPlatoon

Some are good, some are not so good.

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Mucha na Dziko

I got an internship at a recording studio in Paris!

https://melodiumstudio.com

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Mucha na Dziko

Learn the two basic shapes of chords on a piano (minor and major triads). Then move those shapes around the keyboard and look for combination that you like.

When you have 4-8 chords in a pattern, try recording and looping them.

This will be the basis for your composition. With this in place, you can experiment either with other virtual instruments to improvise a melody, use a beat machine to make a drum pattern underneath, etc etc.

A good way of inventing melodies would be singing them first.

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BassoonPlatoon

Are minor triads and minor chords interchangeable?

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Stabty

It was a great day! Spent it with family

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Yes! Of course

A minor chord IS a minor triad, just like a major chord IS a major triad.

There are 4 basic chord types:

Major — consisting of a minor 3rd stacked on top of a major one

for example: a C major chord is constructed with the notes C - E - G. From C to E you have a major 3rd, from E to G you have a minor 3rd

Minor — consisting of a major 3rd stacked on top of a minor one

for example: a C minor chord is constructed with the notes C - D# - G. From C to D# you have a minor 3rd, from D# to G you have a major 3rd

Augmented — consisting of two major 3rds stacked on each other

for example: a C Augmented chord is constructed with the notes C - E - G#. From C to E you have a major 3rd, from E to G# you have another major 3rd

Diminished — consisting of two minor 3rds stacked on each other

for example: a C Diminished chord is constructed with the notes C - D# - F#. From C to D# you have a minor 3rd, from D# to F# you have another minor 3rd


All other chords (like minor 7th, major 7th, etc) are just stacking more minor/major triads on top of the four types I explained above.
The difference are "suspended" chords, where you don't use the minor/major 3rd that gives a chord it's minor/major flavour, and substituting it with some other note of your choice. They are then designated as for instance "Csus4" — meaning that the major/minor 3rd is substituted with the 4th, which in the case of the C scale would be the note F.
So the notes in a basic Csus4 chord would be C - F - G


This might seem confusing if you're reading this without a keyboard under your fingers. But as soon as you sit down and actually play the chords I explained here, it will be very clear — you usually just move one finger one key up or down.

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