As the Winter white noise fades, the peepers emerge from their silent hibernation to once again sing the sexy song of Spring. Choruses of these pinkletinks take the stage of wetland venues all along the Eastern seaboard to jam on a single note; a slightly rising G tone. This is the highest G found on [...]
Archive of entries posted on March 2010
The People’s Jam of China
Here’s a China-style jam using a chinese keyboard. The scale is C Major Pentatonic, the most popular key in China. Below you can hear both the 7-note and the 5-note major scales. The major scale is known as the happy scale, because it has less natural dissonances than the sad minor scale. The Major Pentatonic [...]