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Tutorial - How to create "Okinawan Strings Quartet" by changing musical scale |
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This page is a tutorial
of specific usage of ACS.
You will learn music through ACS by operating parameters such as
"Scale", "Time Sign", and "Basic Beat" and by seeing how they
influence music. |
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What is Musical Scale? |
To put it simply, what musical scale means is
how to make music by using "Do Re Mi Fa So La
Ti". For instance, if you use only "Do Mi Fa So
Ti" in your music, it will sound like Okinawa
music no matter how you make it. This musical
scale of "Do Mi Fa So Ti" is what we call
"Okinawa Scale". (There are various other
ways to call "Do Mi Fa So Ti".)
Musical scale that uses all of "Do Re Mi Fa So
La Ti" sounds is called "Diatonic Scale". For
instance, major music in Europe and USA such as
Pops and Classical music are in diatonic scale. |
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Does Musical Scale Have a
Strong Impact on Music? |
Musical instruments, rhythm, and accompaniment
are some of the factors that decides the
atmosphere of music. For instance, when the tune
is performed by distortion guitar and played
with accompaniment in 8 beat, it will sound like
rock music no matter what melody they play.
However, musical instruments and accompaniment
are not the only factors that determines music
style. For example, if you play the music of The
Beetles by Okinawa Shamisen (Sanshin), it will
not sound like Okinawa music. Therefore, the
musical scale is what makes Okinawa music sounds
like Okinawa music. |
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Experience the Effect of Scale
Through ACS! |
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Start ACS and select "Strings
Quartet" from "Classic" in the [Music Style
Selection] dialog box. |
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When you see the
[Music Style Definition] dialog box, click [Tune] button. |
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Change the parameter of scale
from "Just Intonation" into "CEFGB". |
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Go back to main dialog box of ACS
and click [Compose] button. Followings
are the MIDI files that are created by above
steps. |
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