What are the best notes for trance?

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What are the best notes for trance?

Post by EvilEvilEvilEvilEvil » Sat Nov 18, 2006 11:02 pm

What are the best notes for trance? For instance, I'm making a trance song. What are the best notes to use?
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Post by Patch » Sat Nov 18, 2006 11:05 pm

£50 notes. 2 £20's and a £10 just aren't the same.


Use £50 notes.

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Post by timothyallan » Sat Nov 18, 2006 11:28 pm

:lol: Best Question Ever.


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Post by Cryptic UK » Sat Nov 18, 2006 11:31 pm

All of them.
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Post by Machinate » Sat Nov 18, 2006 11:57 pm

Cryptic UK wrote:All of them.
That's funny, I was thinking more along the lines of :

"just pick one, and stick to it!"
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Post by Cryptic UK » Sat Nov 18, 2006 11:59 pm

Machinate wrote:
Cryptic UK wrote:All of them.
That's funny, I was thinking more along the lines of :

"just pick one, and stick to it!"
:lol:
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Post by HiEnergy » Sun Nov 19, 2006 12:12 am

How to play a church organ:

Use the white keys for weddings and the black ones for funerals.

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Post by hoffman2k » Sun Nov 19, 2006 12:22 am

What do you get when you drop a piano down a mine shaft?
A flat minor.

What do you get when you drop a piano on an army base?
A flat major.

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Post by EvilEvilEvilEvilEvil » Sun Nov 19, 2006 12:43 am

HiEnergy wrote:How to play a church organ:

Use the white keys for weddings and the black ones for funerals.
HA! Funny thing is I'm not playing at either.

Are there specific notes for trance? Should I just use = 1 or should I use some harmony?
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Post by decoder » Sun Nov 19, 2006 12:49 am

B sharp

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Post by Poster » Sun Nov 19, 2006 12:55 am

Machinate wrote:
Cryptic UK wrote:All of them.
That's funny, I was thinking more along the lines of :

"just pick one, and stick to it!"
:lol: :lol:

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Post by jb61264 » Sun Nov 19, 2006 1:15 am

some of those shorter black keys followed up by a couple of the white keys...thats the best for sure...just be sure to only use 42 notes in the entire song.

This question officially lowers the stupid question bar...sorry, but how dense of question is this?
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Post by YILA » Sun Nov 19, 2006 1:18 am

black keys? Your joking right?

All the white keys - and the most basic boring obvious chord progressions known to man without any rythm or feel, that shoul do it...
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Post by EvilEvilEvilEvilEvil » Sun Nov 19, 2006 1:31 am

jb61264 wrote:some of those shorter black keys followed up by a couple of the white keys...thats the best for sure...just be sure to only use 42 notes in the entire song.

This question officially lowers the stupid question bar...sorry, but how dense of question is this?
42 notes? That doesn't seem right. Do you mean 42 different notes or 42 notes altogether? I already have something here and I just counted 113 different notes. That includes drum notes too.
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Post by COSM » Sun Nov 19, 2006 2:35 am

Make sure you don't use F (I am pretty sure metallica have it copywrited)

I'm going to give a serious answer here and say G is a good starting point as I find a low G bass is a nice deep solid frequency, with headroom to do changes either side while still keeping it nice and subby. I used to write everything in c but I find C1 is too low, and C2 is too high :)

F is good too
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