Prelude in the Hungarian Gypsy Scale on A by Irbis (critique requested)

Prelude in the Hungarian Gypsy Scale on A

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Prelude in the Hungarian Gypsy Scale on A (critique requested)

Irbis

December 23, 2015 at 16:54:17 UTC

Gypsy is the name of the scale, not the people. The people are the Roma.

A short piece I did up last night and finalized this morning.

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PlayPossum on December 23, 2015 at 17:20:44 UTC

Cool tune, dude!
I tried doing something with the gypsy scale a couple months ago for some folk flavor, but my harmony knowledge is too underdeveloped to improvise with non-diatonic stuff. How do you go about it?
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  Irbis on December 23, 2015 at 17:48:22 UTC
  
  1 - I have been working through Tchaikovsky's "Guide to the Practical Study of Harmony" in order to get better at understanding harmony.
  2 - I just built up some minor harmonies and let the scale modify the resulting notes with sharps/flats as it would if I just blindly played the notes. xD The underlying harmony is so straightforward that it isn't hard for it to accept the modifications and still sound cool.
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    PlayPossum on December 23, 2015 at 18:48:24 UTC
    
    LOL. that's exactly the book I have lying here in my music folder for when I quit being a lazy bum.
    
    The thing that holds me back is the staff... I need to get a keyboard to have some non-boring way of practicing my reading. Deciphering note per note then transcribing to a piano roll consumes too much time.
    
    Thanks for the info, I'm saving this piece for later analysis. (:
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      Irbis on December 23, 2015 at 19:55:58 UTC
      
      I can send the orig. .myr file, or a .mid file, if those would help you.
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Silent-Hunter on December 23, 2015 at 20:54:27 UTC

This is super!