People who remember being new to music: if we're explaining the major scale, how much, like, "this is why it is how it is" should we be going into? Should we:
- ...leave it as "yes, there's reasons for these arbitrary notes being the scale, don't worry about it right now"?
- ...talk about, like, primary triad construction?
- ...describe the pre-12-tone-equal-temperament tunings, Pythagorean tuning and meantone tuning and so on?
- ...compare 12-tone intervals to just intonated intervals?
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@packbat I think that depends on what context you're going into it in
if you're making an intro-to-music thing, start with option 1
if you're going for a music 201 class, go for option 3 or 4
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@packbat in that case then yeah, going level 1 or 2 on the detail and then adding an appendix that gets into 3 and 4 is a good idea, since you'll invariably have people wondering why *these* pitches
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@packbat random interesting aside: on the NES, at least, each game tended to use its own tuning
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@Felthry that makes sense - I remember hearing that making notes on the NES was basically a programming exercise because of how the sound system worked, so you're not really starting from an already-existing keyboard
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@Felthry *nods*
we're thinking about writing a zine for PICO-8 programmers who want to make their own music and don't know what keys are
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