[PD] pd-based procedural chord progression database..

Chuckk Hubbard badmuthahubbard at gmail.com
Sun Aug 13 19:03:20 CEST 2006


On 8/13/06, patco <megalegoland at yahoo.fr> wrote:
>
>
> There's a girl studying composition here who writes kind of new-agey
> piano-voice stuff, maybe a la Tori Amos, definitely a la some anime
> themes, and we were chatting once (my motivation was not strictly
> musical) when she said, "I really like to write mixolydian, I just
> feel like that's my mode." What do you say to that? "My apartment
> seems very mixolydian"?
>  We can make a mixolydian mode sounding lydian (my favorite) as well as
> sounding like other modes, for any chord in the major scale, we just have to
> insist
>  on the pattern of the lydian arpeggio, for having a lydian sounding
> mixolydian, where the chord would also tend to be the fourth of the major
> scale with using the fifth note for the bass.

I can't quite follow this.


>  ( Just try that, and you will sound like F. Zappa in Inca Road's chorus, or
> Shut Up And Play Guitar's solo, which is from the same song).

I'd love to sound like Inca Roads.
You mean like, SOL in the bass, and FA, LA, DO, MI, and TI?
That does sound like FZ.  Kind of reminds me of 'Yo Mama', but it
could be my imagination.
-Chuckk

-Chuckk




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