The Mellotron Group

How much of an interval? Do you press one note and then wait for a period  
to press another, or do mean that you press a note and then another but with 
 several unpressed ones in between?
 
It's so great to learn about music.
 
 
 
In a message dated 4/26/2013 9:19:01 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
tron400@yahoo.com writes:

 
 
 
I've noticed that chords with wide intervals sound good, no matter what  
notes you use. Of course, "good" is purely subjective...but I have noticed  
that.

Bernie

--- In _newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com_ 
(mailto:newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com) ,  lsf5275@... wrote:
>
> did you guys know that if you put your  fingers on the keys and kinda do, 
> like, every other key and sometimes  a black one here and there you get a 
> better sound than when you push  down a bunch that are right next to each 
other 
> all at once?
>  
> 
> In a message dated 4/25/2013 9:53:46 P.M. Eastern Daylight  Time, 
> markpringnz@... writes:
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> 
> 
>  
> 
> Simple chord theory isn't difficult, and for popular music  at least you 
> don't need to know much, you could probably harmonize  most popular music 
with 
> 2 or 3 chords, 4 if you want to sound  sophisticated! There are loads of 
> tutorials available on the net.  
> 
> My limited knowledge came from "The Pocket book of piano  chords for 
> dummies" which covers nearly every chord you could think  of and "Music 
> Composition for Dummies." 
> 
> Once you  get used to the various chord shapes on the keyboard you can 
>  improvise without thinking about what chords you are actually playing. 
I'm a  
> bit like Fritz I often don't know what chord I am playing but  probably 
for 
> different reasons! However it does help to know what key  you are in but 
even 
> that is not essential.
> 
> 
>  There are rules but they are made to be broken. J S Bach did absolutely  
> astonishing things with harmony which should sound dreadful, and  
admittedly do 
> when I play them, but in the hands of a good player  they sound wonderful.
> 
> 
> 
> Mark
> 
>  
> 
> On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 3:42 AM, R l <_bluesrock77@..._  
> (mailto:bluesrock77@...) > wrote:
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> Chord construction...it sounds good for a  non-musician like me...could 
you 
> please ellaborate?
>  tks
> 
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> From: _tomdcour@..._ (mailto:tomdcour@...) 
> Date: Thu, 25 Apr  2013 14:04:29 +0000
> Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Re: The Dying  Day.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> My daughters piano teacher  recently gave me a "refresher" course on 
chord 
> construction- very  interesting really, think I wrote like 15 songs right 
> after!!
>  
> 
> 
> 
> From: Tony Moffett <_atm655@..._  (mailto:atm655@...) >
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> Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Re: The Dying Day.
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> 
> Bernie I think it's holding down  more than one key at a time.
> Some arbitrary names were assigned to  them by folks in the "way back 
> times".
> It's my guess, I could  be wrong.
> 
> 
> Tony
> 
> 
> On Apr 25,  2013, at 6:43 AM, "tron400" <_tron400@..._ 
> (mailto:tron400@...)  > wrote:
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> 
> What are these "chords" you  speak of?
> 
> Bernie
> 
> --- In __newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com_ 
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> (mailto:_newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com_ 
(mailto:newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com) )  , fdoddy@ wrote:
> >
> > I never know the chords I  play
> > 
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> > fritz
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> > 
>  > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Mark  <markpringnz@>
> > To: newmellotrongroup <__newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com_ 
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> > Sent: Wed, Apr 24, 2013 3:21 pm
> > Subject: Re:  [newmellotrongroup] The Dying Day.
> > 
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> > 
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> > 
> > 
> > Thanks.  This is a bit embarrassing, I am not certain of the chords as 
it 
> was  a live improvisation. I think it started in e minor and it's mainly 
a 
>  mixture of descending 5ths and 4ths, it wanders around in F for a bit 
then  
> ends in C. The sound is a mixture of the Mark II violins from Redtron  
and 
> the tremolo strings preset from the Synth 1 VST. I recorded it  using 
Reaper 
> and added some extra reverb in Audacity.
> >  
> > 
> > Mark
> > 
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 12:09 AM, R l  <bluesrock77@> wrote:
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> > Very sweet. The opening chord  and sound reminds me of In the wake of 
> Poseidon...what are  they?
> > 
> > 
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> > To:  __newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com_ 
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> > From: marabus@
> > Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 05:57:01  -0400
> > Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] The Dying Day.
>  > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Nice mellow  piece
> > 
> > Pete
> > 
> > On 4/24/13  4:56 AM, Mark wrote: 
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> > 
> > For Anzac Day  
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> > 
> > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuloWbKMapo
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> >  Mark
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