Talk:Mason Green's New Common Practice Notation: Difference between revisions
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3) W and H mean whole and half, and imply that the L/s ratio is 2:1. But in 19-edo, the ratio is 3:2. L and s are better names because they don't imply an incorrect L/s ratio. --[[User:TallKite|TallKite]] ([[User talk:TallKite|talk]]) 09:44, 26 April 2019 (UTC) | 3) W and H mean whole and half, and imply that the L/s ratio is 2:1. But in 19-edo, the ratio is 3:2. L and s are better names because they don't imply an incorrect L/s ratio. --[[User:TallKite|TallKite]] ([[User talk:TallKite|talk]]) 09:44, 26 April 2019 (UTC) | ||
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Thanks for the response. I listened to the Pink Floyd song again, and I'm pretty sure that the tonal center is Bb for the passage in question, not Gm. The change from Gm to Gbmaj, then, being vi - bVI - I, so I was wrong earlier. | |||
Since when is a "whole step" exactly two times the distance of a "half step," though? Isn't it still common to refer to those steps as such in the context of a just major scale? Under that umbrella, there is more than one type of whole step and a half step is not exactly half of either. Maybe my knowledge ofvthe jargonnis just too outdates. | |||
Bozu. | |||