Mikael's theory knowledge

[Poison Godmachine]

Originally posted by Hondo
Leper Affinity sounds kind of dissonant, especially that first riff. Basically when the notes don't sound like they go together that well. Inharmonious. And that little part in Bleak is very dissonant. I can't name much else offhand.

Thats because they are tritone chords. They are at the beginning of The Moor as well.

 

[Dvoters]

Originally posted by phon1c
meshuggah have some fucking weird time signatures in their polyrhythms. just look at the time signatures notated throughout this tab http://www.meshuggah.net/tabs/remko/cyanide.txt

I feel like really dumb, but I have to know this, what is a time sig??

 

[Poison Godmachine]

time signatures
4/4 --> 4 beats in a measure, quarter note gets the beat.
6/8 --> 6 beats in a measure 8th note gets the beat

The top number says how many beats are in a measure while the bottom determains how long a beat is.

 

[samoniac]

I feel like really dumb too, but I have to know what is a 'tritone chord'. I can hear those dissonant chords in the beginning of Leper Affinity.

 

[Poison Godmachine]

These are tritone chords
e|--------5--|
b|--------4--|
g|----10--2--|
d|-7--9------|
a|-6--8------|
E|-5--7------|

 

[bleedingskeptic]

i love tritone chords, its hard to fit them into a riff but when i do it sounds so badass.

and i went to that freakguitar site and looked at those scales. the weird thing is i already had stumbled across almost all of them by fucking around, i just didn't have names for them. just goes to prove that music theory is just an attempt to rationally explain what people just fucked around with.

 

[Ermz]

Yeah tritones are awesome. You get to hear them alot in 'evil sounding' music. haha, they were outlawed back in medieval days, so guys got like hanged and shit for writing music... coz it's 'the devil's interval'.

Oh yeah, for any guitarists out there... play

e|---0-----|
b|---5-----|
g|---------|
d|---------|
a|---------|
E|---------|

then bend the b string down about a step. it should come out sounding pretty cool on your amp

 

[justus x]

Originally posted by Poison Godmachine
6/8 --> 6 beats in a measure 8th note gets the beat

No. Dotted quarter gets the beat.

 

[Ermz]

ohohoh, question! *raises hand*.

what does dotting a note do...?

 

[transfixed]

Increases it's length by half of it's value. Like, dotted quarter is as long as a quarter note and an 8th note together. And a dotted half is as long as a half note plus a quarter note...

 

[genizah]

what a guitar technicque