Although I listen to music for hours every day I'm embarrassingly devoid of knowledge when it comes to how it is made, time signatures, keys etc. And this. What are the implications of doing this? #harp
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Replying to @keefeglise@mastodonapp.uk
"I am not a harp player"(!) but my guess would be a very different playing technique, but when mastered, probably brilliant for jazz or other 'less structured' music!
You do realise BTW, that 'somewhere on the Fedi' there will be a harp player going "oo, oo, I know!"
Replying to @bytebro@mastodonapp.uk
@bytebro Well I did use the tag! But what's a chromatic note?
Replying to @keefeglise@mastodonapp.uk
@keefeglise @bytebro Jargon, innit. Chromatic means all the piano notes (black and white keys), as opposed to ‘diatonic’ which is only the seven white key notes = (for example) a major scale, and almost all folk tunes and nursery songs.
Replying to @keefeglise@mastodonapp.uk
Forgive me if I'm 'teaching granny to suck eggs' here, but you did ask!
Normal scale starts at a root, and progresses through some full tones and some semitones (white and black keys on a keyboard?) for the octave, so in the key of C as an example, it's all 'white notes', seven of them.
A chromatic scale is *all* semitones, so imagine running the scale on a keyboard, but playing *every note*, whether white or black. There are 12 to an octave.
Replying to @bytebro@mastodonapp.uk
@bytebro Thanks!