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I find impressive the way his fingers search and find each and every one of what I can only describe as the half-tones of the board to end up making a set of sounds that posses an unmistakeable parentesque to the song its trying to imitate.
Gonna probably look like an outsider in this comment section but I can't for the life of me imaginine what I would do with notes that sound objectively awful for the sake of sounding awful after nearly 30 years of 12 tone ear training...
I saw another guy in the comment section with like 5 years of microtonal ear training, im guessing their meat vessel's ears feel different to your meat vessel's ears and it sounds like how it's like for you in 12
To me microtones are like spice. If you know how to use them, they're wonderful. But if you start trying to base chord progressions on them, then you're using them as a main ingredient, and it can ruin the whole recipe. BTW, this guy knows how to use them. I know this because he's making my ears happy.
The 12 notes are NOT "EQUALLY DIVIDED". They are a group of 12 notes from 20 Equally divided notes. I tune by frequency. I can get 19 notes , 20 notes, and 21 of the most pleasing notes to the ear that 12 have not because 12 notes are equally divided. You are thinking of 12 EDO. 12 Equal tempered notes are not equally spaced. It is the tempering of the 12 notes by only the shear physical placement of the 12 frets on a guitar. As it is justly placed if you align the frequencies properly. You cannot rule note selection by cents. You are always forcing A to be 440 and C to be what it is in 12 equal tempered. 12 TET or 12 ET. With this formula it is impossible to create the correct note selection in frequency. Cents and frequency are not linear starting at any frequency. However they are aligned with only specific set of frequency. The PHYSICAL fret placement on standard mass sold guitars are derived by the 12th square root of 2. Not anything else. This only works with select frequencies. Namely 12 TET or 12 ET. However it is also a just fractions placement when aligned to 240HZ as B. Thanks. And your welcome. I am awaiting my pulitzer prizes for my box of works of frequency alignment and EDOs. Many of you may have been taught only the sold teachings by that i mean you bought poop of uselessness. i am and my books shall reveal to you the word and works of the holy lord thy holy holy holy GOD. I am that i am. And am the very election 144,000. For I.E. = the 12 frets on a guitar can produce different fractions based on frequency alignment. For instance i can derive the notes by the perfect fifth 1.5 ratio or 12 ET at 1.4983072071etcetc. Thus it is proven, the frets can be aligned by frequency and fractional equations. And A doesn't must be a thing and C another and all must fit to that. That is not how it is done. Just saying for anyone learning this microtonal enrichment. Music can be enriched, it doesn't have to sound out of tune just because it is microtone. Your peices sound great though. Thanks for your video.
the layout seems like it's extremly similar to neo-riemannian theory. Makes sense that it makes the theory more straight forward, neo-riemannian is all about the connections between notes and chords
making highly expressive music instruments is very difficult, especially if its 280 individual keys. you can easily make an arduino beep when you press a button on a breadboard for a mere $24, but that is no replacement for an expressive keyboard. if you want a "budget" subpar version there's the axis-49 for $600, which itself popularized the harmonic table layout. if that's still outside of your price range i don't know what else to say
Sounds like a digital piano. Is this the new way to learn keyboard now. I'm a classically trained in the piano, i find this really off- putting and i can't get my head round it.
