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60¢ is also small enough that two frets (120¢) still feels like a minor 2nd, although a large one. Three frets is a small major 2nd and four frets is a large one. Many melodic pathways from note A to note B. And there's more! The next string up has other 2nds in between these. There's a mid-sized minor 2nd of 1.5 frets and a mid-sized major 2nd of 3.5 frets. Right between them is the middle-eastern-sounding 11-limit neutral 2nd of 2.5 frets. All these 2nds are available for heptatonic scales. Or you can use the large major 2nd and the small minor 3rd to make an African-sounding near-equipentatonic scale. Or you can play exotic octotonic, nonotonic and decatonic scales. | 60¢ is also small enough that two frets (120¢) still feels like a minor 2nd, although a large one. Three frets is a small major 2nd and four frets is a large one. Many melodic pathways from note A to note B. And there's more! The next string up has other 2nds in between these. There's a mid-sized minor 2nd of 1.5 frets and a mid-sized major 2nd of 3.5 frets. Right between them is the middle-eastern-sounding 11-limit neutral 2nd of 2.5 frets. All these 2nds are available for heptatonic scales. Or you can use the large major 2nd and the small minor 3rd to make an African-sounding near-equipentatonic scale. Or you can play exotic octotonic, nonotonic and decatonic scales. | ||
Naming all 41 notes in all 41 keys, and all the intervals, scales and chords they make, is no small feat. Kite's [[Ups and Downs Notation|ups and downs]] notation manages it by adding only two symbols to the standard notation. Any notes or chords without these new symbols are | Naming all 41 notes in all 41 keys, and all the intervals, scales and chords they make, is no small feat. Kite's [[Ups and Downs Notation|ups and downs]] notation manages it by adding only two symbols to the standard notation. Any notes or chords without these new symbols are as usual. From C to G is still a 5th, a D chord is still D F# A, etc. So all that music theory you spent years learning still holds true. Ups and downs are simply added in. The notes just above/below C are called ^C and vC (up-C and down-C). The intervals slightly wider or narrower than a major 3rd are called ^M3 and vM3 (upmajor 3rd and downmajor 3rd). Chords are named e.g. E^m and vGv7 (E upminor and down-G down-7). Everything has a straightforward logical name. | ||
In summary, the Kite guitar offers so much. You can play "normal" music and it sounds cleaner. Complex jazz chords become much less dissonant. You can play barbershop. You can play middle eastern. You can get experimental. You gain so much, and lose so little! | In summary, the Kite guitar offers so much. You can play "normal" music and it sounds cleaner. Complex jazz chords become much less dissonant. You can play barbershop. You can play middle eastern. You can get experimental. You gain so much, and lose so little! | ||
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