Kentaku's Approach to 13EDO: Difference between revisions

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This scale is technically in the xen world called "father[8]" but we will call it "Dylathian" which is it's name from another world... haha Just kidding but that is what we call it. The scale is somewhat similar to a major scale but at the same time, very different. The first most obvious thing is that the scale has eight notes instead of the usual seven which makes it very cool. This scale is what I consider the basis for 13 edo harmony and melody meaning, you can go outside the scale all you want but this scale gives us some kind of guide to follow when playing in 13.

This scale is technically in [[The Xen|the xen]] world called "father[8]" but we will call it "Dylathian" which is it's name from another world... haha Just kidding but that is what we call it. The scale is somewhat similar to a major scale but at the same time, very different. The first most obvious thing is that the scale has eight notes instead of the usual seven which makes it very cool. This scale is what I consider the basis for 13 edo harmony and melody meaning, you can go outside the scale all you want but this scale gives us some kind of guide to follow when playing in 13.

So how do we write this scale out in letter names? How do we notate it? Well the problem is, traditional musical alphabet does a poor job at representing 13 notes an octave even with added notes. There are various approaches to notating 13 ET with regular note names such as including a new letter H displacing everything on the musical staff, or adding an extra sharp somewhere. Overall, I found these techniques to be overly confusing as my brain being so accustomed to 12 equal temperament notation is trying to liken it to 13 which will not work. Looking at a staff you've seen for a long time and trying to displace the letter names to notate it where A now means H is like trying to relearn numbers to where 7 now means 8 and 8 means 9. It's extremely counter intuitive and confusing. So what's the solution? Well, some may argue it's unnecessary but I propose an entirely new set of letters producing a new musical alphabet. This is the best way for me because I won't get confused with trying to look at an A and think that it's H, that's just too insane. But couldn't we just notate it with numbers instead? Sure, we could do that with 12 as well, why don't we? I dunno, but I don't really care for numbers, there's something about paring a sound with a letter VS pairing it with a number.

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-<span style="font-size: 13px;">This scale is technically in the xen world called "father[8]" but we will call it "Dylathian" which is it's name from another world... haha Just kidding but that is what we call it. The scale is somewhat similar to a major scale but at the same time, very different. The first most obvious thing is that the scale has eight notes instead of the usual seven which makes it very cool. This scale is what I consider the basis for 13 edo harmony and melody meaning, you can go outside the scale all you want but this scale gives us some kind of guide to follow when playing in 13.</span>
+<span style="font-size: 13px;">This scale is technically in [[The Xen|the xen]] world called "father[8]" but we will call it "Dylathian" which is it's name from another world... haha Just kidding but that is what we call it. The scale is somewhat similar to a major scale but at the same time, very different. The first most obvious thing is that the scale has eight notes instead of the usual seven which makes it very cool. This scale is what I consider the basis for 13 edo harmony and melody meaning, you can go outside the scale all you want but this scale gives us some kind of guide to follow when playing in 13.</span>
 <span style="font-size: 13px;">So how do we write this scale out in letter names? How do we notate it? Well the problem is, traditional musical alphabet does a poor job at representing 13 notes an octave even with added notes. There are various approaches to notating 13 ET with regular note names such as including a new letter H displacing everything on the musical staff, or adding an extra sharp somewhere. Overall, I found these techniques to be overly confusing as my brain being so accustomed to 12 equal temperament notation is trying to liken it to 13 which will not work. Looking at a staff you've seen for a long time and trying to displace the letter names to notate it where A now means H is like trying to relearn numbers to where 7 now means 8 and 8 means 9. It's extremely counter intuitive and confusing. So what's the solution? Well, some may argue it's unnecessary but I propose an entirely new set of letters producing a new musical alphabet. This is the best way for me because I won't get confused with trying to look at an A and think that it's H, that's just too insane. But couldn't we just notate it with numbers instead? Sure, we could do that with 12 as well, why don't we? I dunno, but I don't really care for numbers, there's something about paring a sound with a letter VS pairing it with a number.</span>