Bohlen-Pierce Guitar

This is a first attempt at investigating Bohlen-Pierce harmonies and tonality on a guitar. BP is an octave-less system; instead it uses the tritave, which is divided into 13 steps. Here I use the open low string as the tonal center; the pitches used are the 0, 4, 6, 7, 9 and 10th (and 13, 17, 19, 20 and 22nd) above the low string.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Bohlen
• Pierce
• scale
• 13-edt
• macrotonal
• microtonal
• nonoctave
• tritave
• guitar
• music

[Parkinson9999]

when I first read about this tuning, I thought it's gonna sound a lot worse than it actually does.

[SamrFoster]

@Parkinson9999 Hey, that's encouraging! I had no idea what to expect when I started playing around with the Bohlen-Pierce scale. Now that I'm getting to know it better, I really believe it has strong musical possibilities.

[666nargarothfreak666]

@SamrFoster

what kind of tone is it?

(sorry if you dont understand me)

but this is not normal. can you please tell me what this is?

[SamrFoster]

@666nargarothfreak666 I think I understand you. The Bohlen-Pierce scale is not the traditional scale. There are no octaves (no second harmonic) in the Bohlen-Pierce scale. It breaks the third harmonic into thirteen steps.

[miselaineeous]

Go Sam!! Nice choice of BP notes.

[SamrFoster]

@miselaineeous Thank you, Miss Elaine! Now if I can just choose about eight minutes worth of notes... :)

[666nargarothfreak666]

@SamrFoster

aha i se :)

well thats hard to play than^^

but it is music you can do anything with it

thanks for you explanation :)

Cheers!

[RSwordIAAA]

@miselaineeous hahaha I like the square wave! especially emulated on guitar! it is very generic though, for compositions featuring only clarinet as the acoustic instrument. Alot of pieces tend to sound the same when everyone's relatively new to the scale and using the same instruments and software. That being everyone should have charles carpenters CD by now "Splat"

[miselaineeous]

@sevishmusic If I hear one more square wave BP piece, I'm going to throw up.

[Smorphine]

@SamrFoster Of course! Silly me! :)) Thanks.