Thank you! It's Kirikiri Vinegar, a crawling composer!! This time, I will teach you how to make a Japanese style song! Here is a summary of the data necessary for composing Japanese songs. I recommend downloading it!
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(It contains music scores and MIDI data.)
参考音源
(I created it only with the sound source attached to CUBASE.)
Points to create a Japanese-style atmosphere
Let's use the Tokyo Metropolitan scale. Let's use five sounds (pentatonic scale). Let's use a five-time interval. Don't put in a bass (low music instrument).
・Japanese syll scale
What I'm going to introduce this time is a scale called "Miyakobushi scale"! If you use this scale, you can easily create a Japanese atmosphere!! Then what is "Miyakobushi scale" while actually using a reference sound source? Let's take a look~
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This score is the phrase of the reference sound source prepared this time. The mechanism is very easy!!
There are only five sounds used in the Miyakobushi scale!
From "C D E F G A B"
"D G" I'll omit
"C E F A B"
These five sounds are Miyakobushi scales!
As a trick to how to use it, if you start with the sound of "A" and make a phrase A suspicious atmosphere unique to Japanese style will come out!
・Pentatonic
Pentatonic is a scale that uses five sounds. Penta means five, so it's just like that
Because the Tokyo Metropolitan Festival itself uses only five sounds. It's a kind of pentatonic.
For example, let's say you play the chord with an instrument that is not a melody. Normally, the code of "Em" contains "Misage", but I intentionally omit the sound of "So". By composing a song with only these limited sounds The more Japanese-style music will stand out!
・5th interval
5th refers to the sound counted five, including the target sound.
For example, 5th of "C" is "G", "E" is "B".
The score of the koto earlier is a chord using that 5th interval.
Please refer to it when you want to make other hamori!
・ Don't put in the base.
This is very simple! In terms of piano, the keyboard is suppressed with the left hand. In ensembles, bass guitars, tubers, etc. There was no concept of low music instrument in old-fashioned Japanese music. So, by not dare to make a base part You can give a more Japanese feeling. Of course, as a modern approach, it's like a band sound. I think you can put it in if you want to arrange it like EDM.
That's how to make Japanese style songs using Miyakobushi! While using the first MIDI data prepared, etc. Please try to make it your own style song!! Well then, let's go around here today!