These are dark Times (Dark Ambient with Minibrute 2s, BigSky and Analog Four MK1)

[umonox]

Hi there,

i had to do something like this one day. A very dark, ambient’ish Jam which somehow reflects the current situation in our world quite well i think!

Enjoy! If one could even say “Enjoy” in regards to this darkness!

[t3h]

nice moody one

[dobpoq]

Whoop!

Just tried to catch the same mood with a techno track i just made (just posted it to the forum as well). But your track is somehow much more successfull in transporting the sad aspect of it all, especially with the melody you play on the a4.

Very nice!

[umonox]

thanks man! C-Minor always helps transporting sadness i think. Its a great Scale - and the only one i can actually play without getting confused

[matB]

so here do you pkay in C minor ? Which modes do you use with ?
(Im trying to understand thoses things on those month) your words will helps

Thank dear

[Open_Mike]

Here I just gave a general explanation of the modes, other good stuff in this thread too!

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, …

[umonox]

i have no clue about “Modes” or anything like that. Neither do i have a clue about Music theory at all! I just played these notes a while back and noticed: they sound great together! after a while i looked them up and found out that they belong to the C Minor Scale. And now that i had a more closer look i found out: It’s the C Natural Minor Scale. Have a look here:

https://www.piano-keyboard-guide.com/c-minor-scale.html

The first Notes shown in order are the ones im playing. And according to this Website, this would be C Natural Minor. Interesting in that respect is: My ears are so damn “calibrated” to these Notes, so when i play the C Harmonic Minor (playing the B, rather than the Bb) it sounds odd to me

So - whenever i try to find melodies i only judge by ear. Music theory is way too complicated for me. Maybe im missing the more interesting Scales that way, but at least it fits when i listen to the result!