Tutorial No.11. Combine generated arpeggios, scales and chords into a
tune.
Composers from Bach to Brahms
make frequent use of scale and arpeggio
passages in their works. Musical Discovery enables you to generate such
passages easily, using the Diatonic scale generator screen to create fragments
and save them to the composing board.
- Open the Diatonic and Chromatic Scale Generator from the main
MENU
Create -> Scales and
Passages -> Scales and Arpeggios.
- Under Key, set the drop-down box to E, and leave the option button
at Major, as our key will be E major.
- Under Instrument Family set the drop-down box to Brass,
then set the instrument to French Horn.
- Set Octave to 4, and put a tick in the Up only check box.
- Click the blue button Play
arpeggio.
- Click the orange button Save fragment for use in composing board.
- Set octave to 3, and tick the Down only check box.
- Click the green button
Play scale.
- Click the orange button Save fragment for use in composing board.
- Click yellow button Play chord
- Click the orange button Save fragment for use in composing
board.
- Open the Musical Discovery Composing Board from the main MENU :-
Create -> Compositions -> Composing Board.
There should be 3 icons at the foot of the screen.
- Drag the 3 icons (A, B, and C) to the top row of the composing board,
click the orange button Assemble
fragments, then click the Play
button to hear the result.