Rhys wrote:
noodles wrote:
Dissonance sounds evil imo
Exactly. Playing out of key/borrowing notes works really well if you want an "evil" riff.
You guys should know by now. I'm the biggest fan of out of place keys. I love harmonic minor in particular as of late. It sounds evil in a way I guess. I like building up an expectation that certain notes will be heard (this happens subconsciously for those of you that don't particularly care about what notes or any theory at all) and then instead of giving you that note making it sharp or flat instead.
A good example is the key of F# Minor, as heard on such songs as Rush's "The Big Money" and A-Ha/Vision Divine's "Take on Me" it is the exact same scale as the very familiar E major, except the D# becomes a D, which gives the E a role we are not used to seeing it in because it is flatter than the tonal centre, but it retains its whole note apart from D and F#, so it gives the strong suggestion of actually playing E Minor, but, the songs tonal center is a bit sharper than we are used to hearing. It's really fascinating how our ears have been molded to expect certain sounds and how you can screw with people's perceptions by stepping outside that box.
To me that sounds most melodic or "evil" as the discussion is detailing. Hanging out in Emin for 20 straight years is a bore and I can't understand why so many go that way. Are they tone deaf and never really understood the one scale they always use to begin with?
That is what the blues scale is all about, throwing your ear in the wrong direction by changing key 3 times in a note progression. I just think Blues goes about it wrong. It is essentially the really lazy way of changing keys without having to learn dozens of scales.
