note patterns - array mbira

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The Array System of note arrangement The black notes of the keyboard are designated by black letters The white notes of the keyboard are designated by grey letters

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Page 1: Note Patterns - Array Mbira

The Array System of note arrangement

The black notes of the keyboard are designated by black lettersThe white notes of the keyboard are designated by grey letters

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The highest and lowest notes are not spaced far apart vetrically.This allows the fingers of either hand to reach across the entire range of the instrument with ease.

Highest Notes

LowestNotes

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Every note is surronded by the other notes that are most harmonious with it.Numbers designate intervals, +/ - designates notes higher / lower than the note designated as the 1st. This makes it easy to play the most harmonious intervals.

Example 1using F as the �rst

Example 2using D# as the �rst

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The spacing between seperate unisons is always the same.This allows the right and left hands to have seperate access to any note.

Example 1unisoms in F

Example 2unisoms in D#

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The rightward rising diagonal rows always = fifthsThis makes the classical music theory which is based on the circle of fifths easy to understand.

Example 1fifths risingfrom a low C

Example 2fifths rising from a low F#

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The leftward rising diagonal rows always = fourthsThis makes jazz music theory which is based on the circle of fourths easy to understand.

Example 1fourths risingfrom a low C

Example 2fourths risingfrom a low D

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The pattern for the DO RE MI FA SO LA TI is always the same regardless of the range or key signature its played in.This greatly simplifies transposition and modulation of the scale.

Example 1DO on C#

Example 2DO on F

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All the notes of a key signature are together in a block that excludes notes not part of the key signature.This makes is very easy to stay within a single key signature, or to avoid staying withing a single key signature.

Example 1key signatureof C Major orA Minor

Example 2key signatureof E Majoror C# Minor

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