Melodic And Harmonics

    
Melodic And Harmonics    18:59 on Saturday, December 29, 2007          

PEKPEK
(51 points)
Posted by PEKPEK

what are melodic and harmonics?
and how do u play melodics and scales and stuff. thanks




Re: Melodic And Harmonics    00:02 on Sunday, December 30, 2007          

Scotch
(660 points)
Posted by Scotch

The word melodic is an adjective, not a noun, and thus there is no such thing as a melodic. The adjective melodic merely means pertaining to melody. A melodic minor scale beginning on C traditionally goes C D Eb F G A B C ascending and C Bb Ab G F Eb D C descending, although in bop and in the works of certain twentieth-century classical composers it may descend C B A G F Eb D C.

A harmonic is a sine or cosine function component of a complex wave. When you bow your open A string on your violin, not only is the entire string vibrating from the nut to the bridge, but so are the two halves of the string, the three thirds, the four fourths and so on. This means that you are actually playing a multitude of pitches (theoretically an infinite number--at progressively diminished loudness) simultaneously. Individually these pitches are called harmonics.

To play an harmonic on the violin means to isolate one of these pitches. There are two kinds of violin harmonics: natural and artificial. Natural harmonics are played by touching nodes (points dividing the string into even parts) lightly. Artificial harmonics are played by stopping a note with your left-hand index finger (first finger) and lightly touching the node a perfect fourth above with your fourth finger, which causes the fourth harmonic of the stopped note to sound, two octaves above the stopped note.


Re: Melodic And Harmonics    00:07 on Sunday, December 30, 2007          

Scotch
(660 points)
Posted by Scotch

The harmonic series up to the sixteenth harmonic beginning on your open A string is A A E A C# E (G) A B C# (D#) E [F] (G) G# A. Pitches in parentheses are significantly flat. Pitches in brackets are significantly sharp.

The C harmonic minor scale goes C D Eb F G Ab B C.


   




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