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'''Key''': Every song has a “base tone” in the octave — the “key” — which the melody is based around. This is an anchor, and determines which notes sound nice and which do not. So, pick a key. All of the scales and intervals above revolve around that key.<li> | '''Key''': Every song has a “base tone” in the octave — the “key” — which the melody is based around. This is an anchor, and determines which notes sound nice and which do not. So, pick a key. All of the scales and intervals above revolve around that key.<li> | ||
'''Modes''': Okay now it gets a bit ninja. The western interval is 2 - 2 - 1 - 2 - 2 - 2 - 1, but it is like one of those choose-your-own adventure books. You can make any of the seven notes your key. Depending on where you start you get a different ''flavour'' of Western music. They have names which are needlessly arcane: | '''Modes''': Okay now it gets a bit ninja. The western interval is 2 - 2 - 1 - 2 - 2 - 2 - 1, but it is like one of those choose-your-own adventure books. You can make any of the seven notes your key. Depending on where you start you get a different ''flavour'' of Western music. They have names which are needlessly arcane: | ||
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!Name !! Mood !! colspan="7" |Interval | |||
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|Ionian|| Major|| {{bg|green}} whole || {{bg|green}} whole || {{bg|yellow}} half || {{bg|green}} whole || {{bg|green}} whole || {{bg|green}} whole || {{bg|yellow}} half | |||
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|Dorian|| Jazz. Avoid.|| {{bg|green}} whole || {{bg|yellow}} half || {{bg|green}} whole || {{bg|green}} whole || {{bg|green}} whole || {{bg|yellow}} half || {{bg|green}} whole | |||
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|Phrygian|| Jazz. Avoid.||{{bg|yellow}} half || {{bg|green}} whole || {{bg|green}} whole || {{bg|green}} whole || {{bg|yellow}} half || {{bg|green}} whole || {{bg|green}} whole | |||
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|Lydian|| Jazz. Avoid.|| {{bg|green}} whole || {{bg|green}} whole || {{bg|green}} whole || {{bg|yellow}} half || {{bg|green}} whole || {{bg|green}} whole || {{bg|yellow}} half | |||
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|Mixolydian|| Blues|| {{bg|green}} whole || {{bg|green}} whole || {{bg|yellow}} half || {{bg|green}} whole || {{bg|green}} whole || {{bg|yellow}} half || {{bg|green}} whole | |||
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|Aolian|| Natural Minor|| {{bg|green}} whole || {{bg|yellow}} half || {{bg|green}} whole || {{bg|green}} whole || {{bg|yellow}} half || {{bg|green}} whole || {{bg|green}} whole | |||
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|Locrian|| Jazz. Avoid.||{{bg|yellow}} half || {{bg|green}} whole || {{bg|green}} whole || {{bg|yellow}} half || {{bg|green}} whole || {{bg|green}} whole || {{bg|green}} whole | |||
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''Do re me'' is a tune set to the major scale, the main musical scale of Western music. <li> | ''Do re me'' is a tune set to the major scale, the main musical scale of Western music. <li> | ||
'''Why do re me'''? Eleventh-century Italian Guido of Arezzo invented a notational system after the first syllable of each line of the Latin “{{plainlink|https://open.spotify.com/track/1sXoq787SP50CH0ee5Zvxr?|Hymn to St. John the Baptist}}”, each of which started on a successive note of the major scale. A seventh tone, ''ti'' was added later. The eighth note of the “octave” is the first one repeated up one level (which, er, “brings us back to doh”.)</ol><li> | '''Why do re me'''? Eleventh-century Italian Guido of Arezzo invented a notational system after the first syllable of each line of the Latin “{{plainlink|https://open.spotify.com/track/1sXoq787SP50CH0ee5Zvxr?|Hymn to St. John the Baptist}}”, each of which started on a successive note of the major scale. A seventh tone, ''ti'' was added later. The eighth note of the “octave” is the first one repeated up one level (which, er, “brings us back to doh”.)</ol><li> | ||