![]() Does it sound Japanese? Beats me - you should ask someone who knows Japanese traditional music. G-A-Bb in tight voicing feels a bit pointless, but if you spread out the voicing to different octaves, it's an awesome chord. Which of them sound nice? Pretty much all of them, IMO. So, combine notes from the scale and use the chords like you would use them in songs in the key of Gm. ![]() 4-1-2-3 is a bit like Cm6add2/A, but with the C omitted.Works like a Dsus4 but with an oriental twist. 1-2-3-4 is something like Dsus4 add b2.Chords with A in the bass work like stuff in Gm works when it has A in the bass. Chords with D in the bass work as some kind of D or /D chords. So, how to select which chord to use? My Western musical common sense tells me to look at them as chords in a Gm key context. And I'll assume one of the notes is a bass note, so for "chord progression" purposes we'll differentiate between chords containing the same notes depending on what the lowest note is.Īs far as I can tell, applying ad-hoc combinatorics, here are all 3-note chords in the Hira-choshi or Hirajoshi pentatonic scale (meaning "regular tuning" according to this web page), 1:D, 2:Eb, 3:G, 4:A, 5:Bb. How to make chords from a scale - by combining notes from the scale. Here's my beginner answer, based on only common sense, not knowledge of Japanese music, except what I could quickly find on English web pages. ![]() NOTE: I may have the "In" and "In Sen" scales confused - in different texts I see the terms used a little differently, but the gist of the question remains - how to construct chords in pentatonic scales with wide/irregular intervals. Should all the notes in the chords I use with the InSen scale come from that scale? Are there suggested formulas or sets of intervals that I can apply to creating chords in the InSen or other similar scales? Is there any concept of "leading chords" that applies to this kind of music? In the western scales the chords and progressions that I've been learning are all diatonic for whatever scale I'm using. I want to learn about how to construct pleasant-sounding chords for such a scale with its wide intervals. I quite enjoy it and writing little compositions in it, and as I've been listening to koto music I often hear them accompanying the main melody line with chords. Just as I was learning basic chords and chord progressions in western music I was introduced to the Japanese In Sen scale, one of several pentatonic scales common in Japanese music. I'm a beginner but I've been learning music theory and practicing on a MIDI keyboard and FL Studio DAW.
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