(Untitled)

[jammypac]

define yourself, all the time. so i was being taught the major scale on bass, by my father, and i had a problem. i couldnt understand what an a was. he played the multiple a's on the bass and i didnt get how there could be a difference, how could one a sound different than another?? if there both a?? what makes an a??? is it just placement of the

Comments

[breathless]

um yeah asl? hi bye

[jammypac]

56/mf/kalamazoo, you say hello and i say goodbye, ha haha ha. haha. eh. im a loser..

[charinile]

An "A" is just subjective. It's 440 Hz. Well, the A in the middle of the piano is. The major scale is constructed of 8 repeating notes, just to keep things on a level that people can comprehend. The Hz values are the important part. One octave, from a low A to the A 8 steps above it, are notes that sound exactly the same. They are the same "note" although one is higher and one is lower.

Maybe that helped.

Yes I'm a band geek.

[jammypac]

yea kind of. although i still dont get how its the same note.

[lacoda]

That is the exact same reason why I can never understand the guitar. I am trying to learn, but am tearing my hair out because of that same reason. I just don't understand.

[maelel]

without octaves (low a, middle a, high a and such) music would be boring. you'd only have like a handful of notes to compose from. on the bass you have what your dad showed you, the major scale which is you know abcdefg with half steps too of course. . .

anyway, you've got

abcdefg
abcdefg
abcdefg

listen to a barber shop quartet, they sing in octaves.

blah. . . forget it, I will stop trying. just play the bass and you'll get it sooner or later I hope.

[jammypac]

wow thanks for that.