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- From: rost@tecrus.dec.com (My name is Brian Rost)
- Newsgroups: rec.music.folk,rec.music.misc
- Subject: Re: Locrian mode? (was: Re: Modes)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.191507.13257@ryn.mro4.dec.com>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 22:12:05 GMT
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- In article <packer-211292113359@excalibur.swarthmore.edu>, packer@forum.swarthmore.edu (Asa Packer) writes...
- >Does anyone know of any tunes that use the Locrian mode?
- >(Locrian is B C D E F G A B or C Db Eb F Gb Ab Bb C)
- >Anytime I've seen this mode mentioned in books the author always said
- >something
- >like "this mode has never been much more than a theoretical possibility".
- >
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- Not in western folk music. But in some oriental music forms and in jazz
- fusion, the Locrian and the Superlocrian (I forget what this is right now but
- it's a variant, not a "true" mode) are used. I ocassionally mess with when
- doing solos, it sounds really odd because of the minor second. It's not
- complex, of course, just a major scale played from 7th to 7th. It's like a
- diminished scale with lowered second.
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- Brian Rost @tecrus.enet.dec.com
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