Kentaku's Approach to 13EDO: Difference between revisions

<span style="font-size: 13px;">With any tuning, we always can start just by playing around chromatically to find some cool ideas. However, playing music in an unfamiliar tuning is much more fun if you have something to work with rather than just BANGING all around all over the place. Scales make composing melody simpler as well as gives us something to organize the tuning in a way that makes sense to our brain. There are at least a few good MOS scales in 13 edo that include not only good melodies and avoid having two small steps in a row, but also contain a wealth of harmonic resources. In a nut-shell, they can be used as a tonal foundation similar to the way 12 EDO uses the major scale. In 13EDO, this is the scale that we will base our notation on:</span>

<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;">Listen to the scale JKLMNOPQJ again:</span>

<span style="font-size: 13px;">We can also look at the entire chromatic scale in 13 Edo:</span>

<span style="font-size: 13px;">This is what it sounds like:</span>

==Archeotonic 7-tone scales:==