@Max0Inq It's been a long time since I recorded this so I had to listen again. I think I was playing what amounts to a mixolydian scale with a flatted third. I was really thinking more in terms of sitar raga modes with the scale divided into two tetrachords, one beginning on the root and the other beginning on the fifth. This way the root-second-flatted third is parallel to the fifth-sixth-flatted seventh sequence. I think that was my thinking at the time.
@stigandr5 It's a four-string banjo and I think I tuned it from low to high in this way: root, fifth, root (octave above low string), with the high string tuned to scale degree four. I'm not even sure of the pitches themselves, I didn't bother with that - but, for example: C-G-C-F. I'm not sure what kind of banjo it is - I can't find a name on it. There is a lovely antique painting on the wooden back.
For me it sounds like african music played on kora and xalam. By the way, I never imagined bajo can sound so unearthly. It makes me imagine ancient times where world all around was a mystery and/or rise of cywilizations like Greek, Phoenitian etc.
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Max0Inq 10 months ago
@Max0Inq It's been a long time since I recorded this so I had to listen again. I think I was playing what amounts to a mixolydian scale with a flatted third. I was really thinking more in terms of sitar raga modes with the scale divided into two tetrachords, one beginning on the root and the other beginning on the fifth. This way the root-second-flatted third is parallel to the fifth-sixth-flatted seventh sequence. I think that was my thinking at the time.
MaxRidgway 10 months ago
thanks for sharing :)
graiypz 1 year ago
What's the specific tuning you used and what kinda banjo was it?
stigandr5 1 year ago
@stigandr5 It's a four-string banjo and I think I tuned it from low to high in this way: root, fifth, root (octave above low string), with the high string tuned to scale degree four. I'm not even sure of the pitches themselves, I didn't bother with that - but, for example: C-G-C-F. I'm not sure what kind of banjo it is - I can't find a name on it. There is a lovely antique painting on the wooden back.
MaxRidgway 1 year ago
For me it sounds like african music played on kora and xalam. By the way, I never imagined bajo can sound so unearthly. It makes me imagine ancient times where world all around was a mystery and/or rise of cywilizations like Greek, Phoenitian etc.
Max0Inq 2 years ago
This is an awesome sound. Thank you for sharing.
hillpolecat 2 years ago