Forum: Talk Instruments
06-11-2013, 03:15 PM
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06-09-2013, 10:02 PM
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Forum: Talk Instruments
06-09-2013, 09:58 PM
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Actually, to say an octave is 7 or 8 tones IS...
Actually, to say an octave is 7 or 8 tones IS dead wrong. You can span an octave in any number of notes up to 12.
Within those 12 notes that make an octave, 7 are played for a diatonic scale.
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Forum: Talk Instruments
06-09-2013, 09:48 PM
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No wrong, all of that.
An octave is 12 notes...
No wrong, all of that.
An octave is 12 notes higher not counting the first note.
A diatonic scale is seven tones within a given octave (and repeats exactly each octave).
However, chromatic...
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Forum: Talk Instruments
06-09-2013, 10:07 AM
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Forum: Talk Instruments
06-09-2013, 08:19 AM
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All right, now you're starting to get really...
All right, now you're starting to get really annoying and stupid.
"Dia" as in diatonic from Greek roots means, regardless of literal translation or how much of an arse you want to be, SEVEN tone...
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Forum: Talk Instruments
06-09-2013, 02:14 AM
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It goes back to Pythagorean mathematics and...
It goes back to Pythagorean mathematics and theory, it means 7. It only means through in Latin contexts and is completely irrelevant, diatonic is ALWAYS a 7 tone scale, so it doesn't matter.
Dia...
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Forum: Talk Instruments
06-08-2013, 08:07 PM
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Depends on origin.
diatonic (adj.)
c.1600,...
Depends on origin.
diatonic (adj.)
c.1600, from French diatonique, from Latin diatonicus, from Greek diatonikos, from diatonos "extending; pertaining to the diatonic scale," from dia- (see dia-)...
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Forum: Talk Instruments
06-08-2013, 06:05 PM
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