The formless form of divine light that dwells in all the temples of Kartikeya sounds like it would be pretty far out, if it were a musical scale, and indeed it is. Jyoti Swarupini is an unusual Carnatic scale that hasn't come up too often before in these parts so I thought I'd have a look at it. No more mangling of Hinduism, I promise. read more| Cochrane Music - Lessons
Last time we looked at what we can make from the minor pentatonic scale plus two of the notes b2, 3, b5 and 7. This time we look at the remaining possible notes 2, b6 and 6. The previous batch of scales were rather well-behaved but these are a bit more of a mixture. We'll look through them all, recap everything and see if we can find a higher-level perspective on it all. read more| Cochrane Music - Lessons
The "blues scale" is a common name for the hexatonic you get from adding a b5 to the minor pentatonic (1-b3-4-b5-5-b7). The idea is to play minor pentatonic with a "spicy note". Other spicy notes are the major 3 and (less often employed) the major 7 and b9. As a bit of fun, let's see what happens when we add two of these to minor pentatonic to produce a seven-note scale that, in theory, ought to have one foot in blues / rock language that everyone who has heard twentieth century pop music wil...| Cochrane Music - Lessons
Continuing from my previous post, this is an exploration of the tritone sub hexatonic (e.g., C-Db-E-F#-G-Bb) and its complement (e.g. D-Eb-F-G#-A-B). They're the same pitch class set (6-30) but feel and sound very different on the instrument. read more| Cochrane Music - Lessons
I had a thought today that ended up in a bit of a rabbit hole. This is one of those posts that's probably just pseudo-academic hocus-pocus but there are lots of weird chords and scales in it and maybe there's even something to the "theory" stuff too.| cochranemusic.com
