Sadness Scale?

[dgk2448]

Does anyone know of a scale that would put out a sad ,gloomy kinda sound. Just something random I was reading but I didnt catch the name of that certain scale.

 

[larry_emder]

Re: Sadness Scale?

It would be foolish to designate one scale as the 'sadness' scale. Conveying emotion is much more complex than just playing a group of notes in no particular order.

The Minor scale may be something to start with though.

 

[DeadSkinSlayer3]

Re: Sadness Scale?

Diminished things can sound fairly sad, and evil as hell.

Melodic minor might also be a good place to start.

 

[vinterland]

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D minor has always been known as one of the saddest scales.

 

[Osensei]

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Dude I give up!

 

[Kev]

Re: Sadness Scale?

Well, anything minor or diminished! Kirk uses a diminished arpeggio on the start of 'one' and i guess thats a fairly sad sounding intro i suppose?

I reckon harmonic minor could sound sad used right maybe!

 

[RushOfBlood]

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D minor has always been known as one of the saddest scales.

beat me to it

 

[Peterku]

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+1. D minor is traditionally the scale of death in classical music.

 

[Erlend_G]

Re: Sadness Scale?

What makes D minor any different to, say, E minor? Except from a couple of hertz?

 

[dgk2448]

Re: Sadness Scale?

Cool, thanks for the help everyone.

 

[Peterku]

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What makes D minor any different to, say, E minor?

Tradition, I guess. The meaning of colors in our society, for instance, is also largely determined by tradition.

 

[shredaholic]

Re: Sadness Scale?

...and Nigel Tufnel

 

[Animal]

Re: Sadness Scale?

Here is the sadness scale:


--------0-----0------------
-------000---000-----------
--------0-----0------------
---------1-1-1-------------
-------1--1--1-1-----------
------1---------1----------

 

[zionstrat]

Re: Sadness Scale?

The scale as a 'sound' thing comes from orchestral music as there are many real differences when you dont have frets-
First, the orchestras range and highlighted timres shift with frequency since different instruments cover differnt parts of the range-

And especially string players have to deal with intonation issues as equal temperment doesnt naturally apply to orcestral instruments and they have the same kind of open string issues we face.

LAst but not least, we also hear pitch changes with some timbre changes since we hear best in midrange- So high dm may not be as 'morose' as low em to some-

Of course this is all relative and you can easily compose 'upbeat' music in minor and visa versa-

 

[seafoamer]

Re: Sadness Scale?

The 6 note Sadness Scale: Fret any note on the 6th stg w/ ur 3rd finger. Pick that stg and bend down (w/ ur 3rd finger) hard enough for the stg to break.
Repeat for the 5th, 4th, 3rd, 2nd & 1st stgs.

 

[daemon barbeque]

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What makes D minor any different to, say, E minor? Except from a couple of hertz?

The feeling!!!I hate to tune my guitar to d.i like g more.it sound better for me!!!
And these hertz are th ground to make different feelings!!!


If you like to create crushing saddness ,try to use different chords ,like in old Black Sabbath albums(The eternal idol is a good song to understand it) ,hear some My DYing Bride and Death.It will show you the way...and....try not to suicide:bigthumb:

 

[Erlend_G]

Re: Sadness Scale?

Well, the saddest scale i've ever heard, would be me trying to play the C major scale on an old, broken accordion.

It sounded like a mother who just seen her baby get killed, mixed with the sound of a little girl crying finding her kitten run over by a car at christmas eve.

Just worse.