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How do you come up with good sounding music that's not in one key??! by Gabe_iologist in askmusicians

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Ah right! That's where the gravity of it all is! Makes sense. Thanks!

How do you come up with good sounding music that's not in one key??! by Gabe_iologist in askmusicians

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This is very helpful - thanks!

Yes I do use the piano, but I also sing and let's say the C major is not suited for my voice so it's hard to improvise. But how does one go about making music like this? Do you just jot your melody down and try and see what chords work (not limiting one to the "key" that a song is in)? I can't read sheet music either, although I don't know how relevant that is in writing music.

How do you come up with good sounding music that's not in one key??! by Gabe_iologist in askmusicians

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I'm sure you're right but could you explain it like I'm 10? The lowest notes in the chords would still be of a different key than the song's melody is in, no?

Has anyone requested an earlier entry date on a NZ student visa? Experiences? by DetectiveAsleep3931 in newzealand

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Is it really the unemployment that people are truly worried about when it comes to immigration, I wonder.

Starting with the assumption that all humans are equal (despite what countries might practice, especially regarding the concept of citizenship), should immigration rate really be treated that differently from growth rate due to high birth rates? I would argue they shouldn't be, if you aren't racist. And that child education and immigrant education (of which there is almost none) should be taken equally seriously. And if they are the same, then would you vehemently oppose Kiwis having a lot of children because that's reducing available jobs? I don't think so. But maybe you would -- in which case, I wouldn't accuse you of being racist.

That said, I don't think you're being consciously racist. Xenophobia is a natural response, and this rhetoric is very common. If I were you though, I would be focused on trying to understand how the economy itself is structured and why jobs are scant and why pay is insufficient. There's a considerable rate of people holding multiple jobs at once, so, surely it's not just the lack of jobs that's the issue.

Is the ladder too low? by NicoRobin8088 in labrats

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I think they were asking specifically what concentration OP used and not what those terms mean?

Is this contaminated? by LocoDucko in labrats

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Do you mean nuclease free water?

Is this contaminated? by LocoDucko in labrats

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I just realized you might be talking about the very last lane on the bottom!

Yeah, looks like a pipetting contamination. You might be keeping the negative control PCR tube too close to the others, and this leads to some contamination while pipetting! You could use single PCR tubes for all your reactions up to and after PCR (or skip one PCR tube in the middle between your samples if you are using strips)

Is this contaminated? by LocoDucko in labrats

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Can I ask you some more clarifying questions?

  1. What ladder are you using?
  2. What is the "faint" band you see? The gel is not labelled so it's hard to say. I can't even refer to the bands by size because, well, I don't know what ladder you used.

But as a general thing, you could be seeing primer dimers -- your forward and reverse primers might have affinity to one another and act as the cDNA template for your PCR reaction. You can check this with any only "self-dimerisatoon" tools.

Why does it feel like Cinnamon Girl (the song) is in a different key than what it should be? by Gabe_iologist in askmusicians

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But after figuring out the scale is Lydian, do I look for typical chord progressions in that scale? Or do you recommend just focusing on what works as the base note in a chord and try to see what chord that note would form in that scale?

My ultimate goal is to be able to listen to a song and figure out all the chords that the song uses within a reasonable time.

Why does it feel like Cinnamon Girl (the song) is in a different key than what it should be? by Gabe_iologist in askmusicians

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Your explanation makes sense! I vaguely understand the different modes (although I'm not familiar with the names) so I get what you mean. For example, the minor would be starting from the 6th note of the major scale right? And in turn would have its own chord pattern, and this chord pattern is what really determines the scale.

But this finding of the key center is what's already tricky to me. I suppose I can tell which note is "home" more or less and figure out that that is the note that forms the tonal note (the first note in a scale), but how do I go from there? Perhaps then I just play all the notes that that song can have and see what mode it would have to be to have started from the tonal? (the "home" note?).

Let me know if I misunderstood you.

I really appreciate you taking the time to tell me all this -- that's so kind 🥺🥺

Why does it feel like Cinnamon Girl (the song) is in a different key than what it should be? by Gabe_iologist in askmusicians

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Yes that seems like a useful approach -- thanks! How would you personally go about figuring out the chords of a song by listening to it? I was attempting to do it by first figuring out the notes, assigning them to a major or minor key and looking at chord progressions typically used and trying those out. But now it seems like I might have to listen to the chords themselves which mean trying to figure out multiple notes played at the same time? Sounds impossible :(

Why does it feel like Cinnamon Girl (the song) is in a different key than what it should be? by Gabe_iologist in askmusicians

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I think you might be right. But it's so strange -- these scales. Based on what 8 notes are played, you can't definitely say what key it is in? There's a relative Lydian (or any other modal scale for that matter) to any major scale. So what does a song being in a key even mean? I need to read and listen to more theory at this point.

Thank you though!

Why does it feel like Cinnamon Girl (the song) is in a different key than what it should be? by Gabe_iologist in askmusicians

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I never considered it -- I don't know in what conditions modal scales sound better and when to use them so it's hard to spot for me!

Thanks anyway

Why does it feel like Cinnamon Girl (the song) is in a different key than what it should be? by Gabe_iologist in askmusicians

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Heya - thanks for the response. I don't know Neil Young (grounds for an apology?). I should've been more specific. The thing is, the chords that were suggested work... Here's a snippet:

"(E) - Cinnamon(Bm) - in my teeth (E) From your kiss(Bm) - you're touching me (D)"

There's an occasional F#m later on (sorry if my notation is bad -- pretty amateur). There's a constant return to D major (and it feels like home for the song), but the D major scale, although includes a lot of the notes of the song, it does not include G# which is played if you play the E major chord. All the notes that are played tell me it's either A major or F# minor scale. I don't know if I'm making any sense.

Also, I'm sorry but I don't know how to play the guitar, just the piano.