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Genre: Education
Date of upload: Aug 10, 2020 ^^
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We literally live in a time, where advanced concepts are taught for free, on demand, not locally limited, to anyone willing to listen and with access to the internet, which is spread almost anywhere.
Can we please take a moment to appreciate that, and to thank Jake Lizardboi for being one of the people making that possible?
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Interesting point: You can actually resolve ANYTHING to the 1, as long as it has the 5 note in the bass. So if you make a chord that has an E in the bass and any other notes on top (literally any), then resolve it to an A major (or A minor) chord, it will resolve well. This is a great way of introducing really weird melody notes into your song.
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When I started getting into music theory and I was trying to memorize the circle of fifths I would draw it during the downtime at work, and then like some kind of lovecraftian plot or something I began to see all kinds of patterns in the circle and the relationship between notes that really opened my mind to the brilliance in it's simplicity. augmented is fun since it forms a triangle, drawing a right angle gives you the minor, drawing the right angle backwards gives you the parallel minor, etc.
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Maybe it's because I write probably 90% of the stuff I do in minor, and use a lot of phyrgian and locrian (so lots of diminished), but I've never seen the augmented as "creepy" or "old fashioned" To me, it almost feels more like "I should be happy, but I'm not." Like getting a different answer to a question you thought you knew the answer to. Then again, I'm pretty much obsessed with the idea of "emotions of musical keys" which a lot of people say doesn't exist at all. (It's all just wavelengths!). Eh, for a guy whose main influences are metal 'n' Mahler, emotion is a big thing for me. If you want to simplify it that major is "happy" and minor is "sad," augmented is screaming at you that it will never let you see it cry, while tears stream down it's face. So I definitely get the "uncomfortable" part.
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Jake, I marvel at the grasp you have on many musical concepts. Not only that, you have a gift of presenting complex ideas in a simple and understandable way. There are those that can play music but cannot teach. There are those that can teach music that can't play. You are the rare bird that can both play and teach. It is simply a joy to listen and learn from you.
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@vargapatrik2967
3 years ago
If you raise one of the notes of an augmented chord by a half step, you get a minor chord, if you lower one, you get a major chord. And because of the symmetry of the augmented chord, it can be used as a "portal" chord, much like diminished seventh chords.
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