Description
🎶 **Did you notice something about the background music in this video?**
We composed the entire soundtrack using the very concepts we explore in Fantastic Scales! By choosing different scales and harmonies, we shaped the music to evoke different emotions throughout the video.
So you're not just learning about the relationship between musical structure and emotion—**you're actually hearing it in action!**
Discover Fantastic Scales — The Periodic Table of Musical Scales!
🌐 Explore Fantastic Scales: https://mdecks.com/fantasticscales.phtml
🍎 Download for iPhone, iPad & Mac: Soon to be available
What if musical scales could be organized like the elements in the periodic table?
What if we could explore the entire universe of musical scales—not just by their names or notes, but by their structure, sound, color, and emotional character?
That's the idea behind Fantastic Scales, a new way to discover, understand, and experience musical scales.
Just as the periodic table reveals relationships between chemical elements, the Periodic Table of Scales reveals fascinating connections between musical scales, helping us understand why they sound the way they do and how they relate to one another.
But this isn't just about music theory.
It's about discovering new musical possibilities.
Imagine searching for a scale that sounds mysterious, peaceful, dramatic, floating, or restless. Or taking a familiar musical passage and transforming it into something entirely different simply by changing its scale.
With Fantastic Scales, you can explore 2,036 musical scales, discover their relationships, visualize their structures, and hear how they transform real music.
🎼 What you can explore with Fantastic Scales:
• The Periodic Table of Musical Scales
• Discover scales by mood, character, and emotion
• Explore the mathematical relationships between scales
• Visualize scales through unique Scale Portraits
• Discover new harmonic colors for composition and improvisation
• Transform musical passages using different scales
• Explore chord-scale relationships
• Import and export MIDI files
Whether you're a composer, improviser, music educator, or simply curious about the fascinating world of musical scales, Fantastic Scales opens the door to an entirely new musical universe.
Where Science, Art & Emotion Meet.
Created by mDecks Music.
🌐 https://mdecks.com
Chapters
00:00 What If Musical Scales Had a Periodic Table?
00:52 Why Do Scales Make Us Feel Different Emotions? Listen to the background music in this video :)
02:24 The Circle of Fifths: Revealing the Hidden Structure
03:24 From Pentatonic to Lydian: How Scales Evolve
04:11 The Seven Modes: One Family, Different Sounds
05:03 How Many Musical Scales Are Possible?
05:59 Exploring the Universe of 2,048 Scales
07:52 From Mathematics to Music: Bach, Schoenberg & Messiaen
08:30 How 2,048 Scales Become 344 Families
09:03 Symmetry: The Secret Behind Musical Scale Families
11:28 Building the Periodic Table of Musical Scales
12:27 Scale Portraits: Visualizing Musical Structure
13:40 The Interval Fingerprint: Understanding Tension & Consonance
14:26 How Scales and Chords Create Musical Character
15:28 Exploring the Emotional Spectrum of Scales
16:10 Transforming Music with Scales: Composition & Improvisation
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