Saturday, March 24, 2012

Brainfart Gem Discovered While Editing

An e-book version of "Chaos In Boxes" is currently in the editing phase. While I was editing, a footnoted brainfart got a bit of exploration, and an exciting new observation is the result.

Ready?
Here it is:

QUESTION: What do you get when you subtract the Major Scale from the Chromatic Scale?

PROCEDURE: The C Major Scale contains the notes C, D, E, F, G, A, B. The Chromatic scale contains all of these, plus C#, D#, F#, G#, A#. Those notes make up the F# Major Pentatonic Scale.

ANSWER: the Chromatic Scale minus any chosen Major Scale results in the Major Pentatonic Scale whose root is a tritone away from the root of the chosen Major Scale.

At the risk of attracting ridicule from the establishment, I'm sticking my chest out real far while putting a big old "Quod Erat Demonstrandum" on this document.

Q.E.D.
Booyah, baby!

Sean Luciw,
authour, "Chaos In Boxes: twisted adventures in music theory"