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15-Jul 2010
The Trance Scale
Hexaphone's Trance Scale is a selection of 6 notes from a plain-old
minor scale
. It can be best understood by looking at the top and bottom rows as two distinct triads:
m6
minor 6th
m7
minor 7th
1
root
M2
major 2nd
m3
minor 3rd
5
perfect 5th
m6
minor 6th
m7
minor 7th
1
root
M2
major 2nd
m3
minor 3rd
The top row is a
minor triad
starting on the 5.
The bottom row is a
major triad
starting on the 6.
It just so happens that the notes from these two chords can be used to produce a "typical" trance form:
