Scaler is good at Balkan tunes

try this or this and maybe you’ll change your mind
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You’re right. This is Gipsy music.

No. No it’s not. My brother plays in a Balkan centric band and they are NOT dull. Vibrant and exciting are the works I would use. Hardly dull.

Not Balkan like I’ve listened to. Polka maybe but not Balkan.

Can we call it polkan?
:rofl:

Scaler is not yet there for world music. In the Balkan and Gypsy music, they play fast chromatic and non-diatonic chord runs. Think of jazz played at speeds above 150 BPM.

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Vibrant and exciting are the works I would use. Hardly dull.

Well, I lived for many years there, a long time ago, in a city not far from Slovenia (polka) and Bosnia (“sevdah”), The latter was a dull, looong, slooow, lovesick. Vibrant Gipsy music is quite rare over there, probably more in southern Serbia than in other parts of what was called Yugoslavia and, of course, in Hungary (not really Balkans) and Romania.

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To add a bit of complexity :grinning:, here is the Balkan music wiki
Fanfare Ciocărlia is included…

Wait tomorrow that I’ll post a Scaler folk song :grinning:

in the meanwhile, listen this, this, and this

Ok, a rock song from the '70’s, based on the Macedonian rhythm, Croatian band called Time, title (Makedonija - YouTube).
Also,band Leb i sol, song Aber dojde donke. Special cases in former Yugoslavia’s rock. Oh, yeah, Korni grupa band with their prog rock music, song Put za istok. But this is rock, not folk.

For world music, we need dyads and octaves within them to be generated faster than the workarounds. World music relies heavily on pitch-bend techniques on keyboards. My goal with Scaler for World music is to write track sheets that can be changed fast when need be. Imagine a vocalist in trouble to hit a note.

BTW, what do you mean for “world music”?

AFAIK It’s quite a wide term that includes one zillion of different styles, and I doubt that all them “need dyads and octaves within them”
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The wiki definition
"music that does not follow “North American or British pop and folk traditions”

Musical arrangements sometimes need instruments to support them with a single tone. I like dyads since they leave enough room for other instruments.

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can you give me some link to that dyads?
I am curious

thanks for suggestions: I love LEB I SOL

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Dyads are chords consisting of two notes. Adding octaves to the root additionally is a common technique in playing guitar.

C4 = C+F
C5 = C+G
D4 = D+G
D5 = D+E

If you add 4ths or 5ths to each note in C Major you finish up with 12 different dyads. An effective way to start to learn to hear and write melodies I think.

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OK, and now can I have a link to some band or musician that use those dyads?

Dyads belong to the basic skills of the guitar and music theory. If you watch guitarists in any style you will see how they integrate them into their playing. Be it Jazz or Metal. In dense arrangements, it makes sense to use them.

Dyads and “double stops” are close cousins, so try googling “guitar double stops” for links and videos on the style when applied to the guitar. However, many other players of stringed instruments use the same technique.

Double stops… Strange term. When i saw it for the first time, i thought it was a strange technique of strumming or so,until i found out what it really was. Especially because it was many times related to Hendrix. Fortunately, it’s much simpler.:grinning: