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Putting aside the rest of the nits here, there are two things that stick out in my mind. First of all, what he calls 4-chord songs are really more "4-bar songs"
by slyrus 9y ago
Putting aside the rest of the nits here, there are two things that stick out in my mind. First of all, what he calls 4-chord songs are really more "4-bar songs" (which given his restriction of one chord per bar end up being at most 4-chord songs), but we should be clear about the distinction between the tones being played and the duration of those tones.
Second, I don't know if this is an artifact of my fluidsynth setup or not, but when I translate his midi files into WAV files the 6 and 7 chords are from the octave below, which sounds odd to my ears. If we're listening to, say, 1.5.6.4 we shouldn't drop down an octave at the 6.
- peterburkimsher 9y agoYou're actually using the data! That's really encouraging. It's probably a bug in my script. How do I know which octave to choose? If you can explain it to me using the Parsons Code method, I think it's easier for me to understand. 1.5.6.4 is udud, right?
- slyrus 9y agoI have no idea how you generate the MIDI file, but let's use the piano keyboard to describe what I'm hearing. When I play the WAV files from your progressions and we get to, say, an Amin chord, the Amin sounds like it is lower in pitch than the the Cmaj chord. This is OK, but it means that the 6 chord sounds an octave lower than I'm expecting it to. My ears aren't trained enough to know if what I'm hearing is an inversion where you're playing the A note in Amin from the same octave as Cmaj but you're also playing the C and E notes from the same octave, or the A note itself is lower in pitch than the C. I would have expected to hear an Amin chord where the A note was a whole step above the G in Cmaj, and the C and E both higher than the A note.