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    How many of you intentionally use different musical scales when coming up with new ideas? I use the app Xynthesizer on my iPhone for random ideas to/from work on the train and it’s usually set to a minor pentatonic scale. Started changing a pattern to other scales and found that the Hirajoshi scale was particularly interesting.

    Is a scale a thing you consciously choose when making tunes?

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    • totally, but find its a bit of rabbit hole starting like that... when you're quantised in it's hard for your ear to adjust after a while.kingsteven
    • if i write on the guitar, stack a bunch of parts and figure out where the chords and melody lie, i find i'm shifting all over the show.kingsteven
    • extreme example: https://is.gd/bIAELP… seemingly simple melody but the underlying scale changes every 2/3 notes.kingsteven
    • I pick a scale, write a melody, and harmonize the melody. Sometimes, I'll swap in arpeggios in place of scale notes though.section_014
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