Octatrack arp scales

[Open_Mike]

This posts dives into some music theory to shed some light on why this works:

Music theory moments

Modes are trippy things… They are way more related to each other than they might seem, in fact they are all using the same relationship of spacing between notes just starting from different points. I’ll try to explain. Western music is comprised of 12 notes. The modes use a group of seven out of the twelve notes. Take the basic major scale. Let’s use the sound of music… do re mi fa so la ti do That’s 8 notes but as you see there are two "do"s, the last one is an octave up from the first one, …