Tuesday, April 03, 2007

Force Vomit - Melodies & Scalings II

As said in my previous post, Force vomit has been describes as surf rock too. Examples of surf rock music can be found here.. http://www.myspace.com/dickdalecom listen to the elimintor for a good example.

the following are some excerpts on surf music scales

most surf is in a minor key, but the five chord is usually major, very harmonic minory.
most surf melodies are bassed on the minor pentatonic scale, athough a full minor scale, harmonic minor, and blues scale could be employed succesfully.
It is sort of related to traditional mexican folk music, as far as the chords go, and to some extent, middle eastern music.

Middle eastern soundin scales help.
E F G# A B C D E
or, if you like to count intervals:
1/2, 1 1/2, 1/2, 1, 1/2, 1 (starting at the root)

it can be seen that both surf and malay music have some roots in middle eastern music. of course it cant be said that all of malay and surf music comes from middle eastern music. both the genres are a mix of many different musical traditions. i feel that in the case of force vomit, they have inculcated both to achieve a certain unique sound dat is neither fully malay nor fully surf, butt has strong leanings to both.

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