QUOTE (Pedja Simovic @ Jun 6 2009, 10:36 AM)
Thats great to hear that improvements are already made Andy.
I suggest couple of things regarding instrumentation :
- Baritone Sax, Tenor Sax, Alto Sax and Trumpet (here you can also add Soprano Sax!). This is pretty standard 4 way arranging method in small jazz bands or any sort of backing for chord stabs in popular music songs. 4 instrument equals 4 note chords. You can also add BASS to that so that listener hears root of the chord in the bass. Perhaps you can expand it and make it available for listener to choose whether he/she wants to practice ROOT, 1st , 2nd , 3rd inversion of chords. That way bass note would not be root but rather change function based on inversions.
- Violins, Cellos and other string section instruments. This is also pretty standard orchestration tool and was used in early jazz stages (think Singer based music Ella Fitzgerald for example). A lot of film composers use this type of scoring to portrait emotions (like when the main character finally kisses with the girl he was chasing after whole movie, then you hear lydian mode and this sort of scoring!).
- Combination of Guitar Bass Piano and anything from above. You can of course change type of pianos from Acoustic to Electric, Fender Rhodes etc. It changes sound completely in 4 way context.
I can send you ranges for instruments if you want and need any !
Anyway I hope this was somewhat useful Andy. It might take a lot of work but this is from my experience really necessary tool for anybody to train ear to perfection. Especially if you plan to write good arrangements and understand other instrumentation, this is very much needed.
Take your time with all this, I am sure if you manage to pull it off it will be one of a kind website regarding ear training !
That was extremely helpful Pedja.
Main work is to create all the soundfiles. To integrate them as sets is easily done. I have tried to create some sets, but i don't have good sounding VSTs for these instruments. My father is doing orchestration work with cubase and has some VSTs of good quality. I will check with him which instruments he has.
I was thinking about Bass, but a bass is normally some octaves lower. My question is, does octave differences matter somehow in ear training? Is for example a C1 played by bass and D3 played by guitar still a major 2nd in this context?
Inversions are a great idea !!
I got some work to do i think
... thanks a lot Pedja !!
QUOTE (Oxac @ Jun 6 2009, 10:46 AM)
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I just realized that this would take a huge amount of code, but if you have nothing to do for a week I think you should give it a try.
QUOTE (Pedja Simovic @ Jun 6 2009, 11:23 AM)
Speaking of chord progression, there are many things that could be done !
For starters, make it available for listener to isolate and practice hearing in every key I IV V I , I VI II V , II V I, I V IV V I for example. Then besides this, you can offer Modal harmony and cadences in major scale modes. You can then add harmonic and melodic minor cadences. Not to mention that to all of this you can add Secondary dominant chords !
I realize this will really take a lot of time so thats why I mentioned instrumentation additions as it will have positive effect immediately !
By now the idea was to create simple "Click & Learn" tools .. one question one answer. To work on some more complex tools will be great, but for this my knowledge on theory/harmony is limited. The programming part is not really the problem and can be done quickly. Flash development is basically my job. What needs a lot of time is to find a concept, think about the content and structure it.
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