Beginner's guide to scales and tunings
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Welcome to the world of Xenharmonic music! Here you will find a wealth of information regarding the research and experimentation along with various ideas and theories for different tunings and scales. However, although the information is available to you, it doesn't help you much if you don't understand what the heck you're doing. That's why i've written this nice, little guide here to guide you along your journey in the world of alt-tuned music! The biggest problem people have when they go online to learn about microtonal music is either **A**. They see a bunch of confusing math which is a bit higher than high school algebra, or **B.** They see a bunch of theory ideas about ratios and chords that makes no sense. While I cannot educate you in the math area as I suck at math myself even though I find higher maths interesting, its not my thing. What is my thing, is music theory, I believe I'm good at seeing the connections, patterns and can simplify those for others who have more trouble. This guide hopefully will tell you everything you need to know about tunings and scales that involves as little as math as necessary. Some obviously will be needed to understand certain principles but this guide mainly focuses on scales and how they are constructed. **What you can learn from this guide** * **How scales are constructed by the use of various step sizes** * **Understand Generators and periods and how they can be used to build scales** * **Learn how Just Intonation ratios are approximated in a scale** * **Understand how different Equal Temperaments work for different purposes** * **Learn how to construct chords from scales** * **much much more! :)**
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<html><head><title>Beginners Guide to Scales and Tunings</title></head><body>Welcome to the world of Xenharmonic music! Here you will find a wealth of information regarding the research and experimentation along with various ideas and theories for different tunings and scales. However, although the information is available to you, it doesn't help you much if you don't understand what the heck you're doing. That's why i've written this nice, little guide here to guide you along your journey in the world of alt-tuned music! The biggest problem people have when they go online to learn about microtonal music is either <strong>A</strong>. They see a bunch of confusing math which is a bit higher than high school algebra, or <strong>B.</strong> They see a bunch of theory ideas about ratios and chords that makes no sense. While I cannot educate you in the math area as I suck at math myself even though I find higher maths interesting, its not my thing. What is my thing, is music theory, I believe I'm good at seeing the connections, patterns and can simplify those for others who have more trouble. This guide hopefully will tell you everything you need to know about tunings and scales that involves as little as math as necessary. Some obviously will be needed to understand certain principles but this guide mainly focuses on scales and how they are constructed. <br /> <br /> <strong>What you can learn from this guide</strong><br /> <ul><li><strong>How scales are constructed by the use of various step sizes</strong></li><li><strong>Understand Generators and periods and how they can be used to build scales</strong></li><li><strong>Learn how Just Intonation ratios are approximated in a scale</strong></li><li><strong>Understand how different Equal Temperaments work for different purposes</strong></li><li><strong>Learn how to construct chords from scales</strong></li><li><strong>much much more! :)</strong></li></ul></body></html>