So, as I've mentioned already (on another platform, not on this blog), I've pretty much milked the major scale of its melodies dry. Now, I'm trying to experiment with different scales/modes and just then I was seeing if I could compose a tune in the phrygian mode.
I was trying to write down a melody and I remembered someone commenting about the phrygian mode with a risen 3rd and tested to see if it was any interesting, which it was! And then I thought, to make it more interesting, I also decided to raise the 7th note as well.
The result: 1 ♭2 3 4 5 ♭6 7
Didn't know what the scale was called and now I know its name: double harmonic major.
Here's the short loop that I composed:
I've never made a melody like this before and I really feel like I can work off of this! Dunno the inspiration for the rest of it though (a lot of my soundtracks are inspired by a character, location, situation that I have in mind, just so you know)
But here's the feel I picked up from this experience:
- It's pretty daunting
- As if you're trapped in a seemingly inescapable dark spot
- You can see that there's some means of escape, but it's hard to reach (if not, impossible)
- It just reeks of dispair and false hope (at least, to me)
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