All the 251s

I was looking at the MPCs 4 x 4 pads. got me thinkin 4 x 2 = 8 thats an octave in 1 key. 12 for semitones most of the time you don’t even use all those anyway though. 3 major keys, 3 minor nobody uses the diminished.

All the 251s in all 12 keys

1/3 of all 12 keys

2	5	1	6	4
Cm7	F7	Bbmaj7	Gm	Ebmaj7
C#m7	F#7	Bmaj7	Abm7	Emaj7
Dm7	G7	Cmaj7	Am7	Fmaj7
Ebm7	Abm7	C#maj7	Bb-7	F#maj7

2/3 of all 12 keys

2	5	1	6	4
Em7	A7	Dmaj7	Bm7	Gmaj7
Fm7	Bb7	Ebmaj7	Cm7	Abmaj7
F#m7	B7	Emaj7	C#m7	Amaj7
Gm7	C7	Fmaj7	Dm7	Bbmaj7

3/3 of all 12 keys

2	5	1	6	4
Abm7	C#7	F#maj7	Ebm7	Bmaj7
Am7	D7	Gmaj7	Em7	Cmaj7
Bbm7	Eb7	Abmaj7	Fm7	C#maj7
Bm7	E7	Amaj7	F#m7	Dmaj7

• 4x 4 is 16 haha
• its not 12 thats great news
• that means you get off easy …this time
• less to memorize.

when i was looking at those pads on drum machine I was thinking what if each one was a 2-5-1.

The Byzantine Scale Chords

1. Major, Augmented
2. Major, Minor, Diminished
3. Major, Minor, Augmented
4. Min, Diminished, Sus2
5. N/A
6. Augmented
7. N/A

the scale in C

1. c
2. c#
3. e
4. f
5. g
6. g#
7. b

its a 7 note scale just like the major scale: c, d, e, f, g, a, b.
how to get to it from major

• flat the 2 and the 6.

“another name for byzantine is double harmonic major”

instead of thinking of the 6 I just think of the cycle of 5ths and restart my frame of reference half way up to only see the 2s relative to the first half of the scale its less to think about that way.

i just think of it as phrygian on top of phrygian.

the whole half diminished scale is the closely related octatonic cousin of the byzantine.

1. c
2. c#
3. eb
4. e
5. f#
6. g
7. a
8. a#

drawn to the symmetry. I was messing around with diminished and like the harmonic potential of wh but i would always go back to this scale. taking away some of those notes just felt better to me.

wikipedia says…

Symmetry and balance

The double harmonic scale features radial symmetry, or symmetry around its root, or center note. Breaking up the three note chromaticism and removing this symmetry by sharpening the 2nd or flattening the 7th note respectively by one semitone yields the harmonic major and Phrygian Dominant mode of the harmonic minor scales respectively, each of which, unlike the double harmonic minor scale, has a full diminished chord backbone.

This scale (and its modes like the Hungarian minor scale) is the only seven-note scale (in 12-tone equal temperament) that is perfectly balanced; this means that when its pitches are represented as points on a circle (whose full circumference represents an octave), their average position (or “centre of mass”) is the centre of the circle.[6]