the devil's guitar note

[Aagark]

Cjw3454

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lol okay well when i first started playing, the teacher i had (for my first month) said that one of Jimi Hendrix's songs start out with two notes that said were used for witchcraft. Not like a chord, but just two little notes, separately. It was kinda like this:

D:------6---------6---
A:---------------------
E:--4--------4--------

I thought it was


D---------8----------8
A---7-----7-----7---7
E---6------------6----

Jimi's Main testament is possibly to music was the fact he could make his own songs worth re visiting. He did several version's of Purple Haze, for example.

it's also interesting to note that his entire discography was done in two years, and realised after his death.

And now a short history lesson, with resident know it all Aagark:

The 'Diablo en Musica' myth is often misconstrued... ish... As has been stated the intonation was banned during the original scripting of Music (Done by Monks, being the only people at the time with the education to carry out such a task), due to it's disjointed nature. It, at this time, isn't suggested that it would in fact raise any form of demonic entity, merely insight the Devil's will in the listener... Sooo, Moshing monks then?...

Before this, however, during the time Pythagorus put down his triangles for a bit and decided to play with a taught length of string (this ACTUALLY HAPPENED... ish), he theorised upon the emotions and characteristics that can be drawn from music, and devised the original inversion of modes. In this the flattened fifth intonation is also commented on, to have... you guessed it... TOGA MOSH!

A quick pointless, and very un clever and poorly organised zegwe back to Purple Haze, the intro was indeed, to Jimi's understanding, derived from 'witchcraft' and paganism, and THIS is when the summoning and demons and sorts comes in. Historically, this period in time is the biggest culprit in romanticising Christian and Gallic beliefs and scriptures, as well as muddling stuff up, for funsies.

So... now you know...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KXCD5BQiM4 0:25

EDIT: Actually, it's worth watching that whole video. just saying...  

[Aagark]

Absolute Imperfection

Aagark

Also, the diminished 5th, as has been correctly stated, was banned because of its discordant nature, and it was felt that it would bring some form of demon whatchamahoobit. However, historically speaking, the people of this time were the first to notate music, so obviously if something wasn't a perfect triad as far as chords went, plus remembeing the majority of the music was sung by the gregorian monks which vocal style have a natural dark texture, it's kinda understandable they felt the bellzebub was sharpening his pitchfork...

I can't think of a single piece that lacks the V7 chord.

have you ever heard a pop song... ever?

Also, tri tone substitution isn't shown to be in music until the renaissance, when experimentation of such techniques happened... thus 'the renaissance'. In fact it wasn't used freely until the romantic period of music. Although it was understood during middle ages, it was carefully avoided (as best as we can make out... unless you have a time machine, I think we're going off the word of the Historians here).

Modulation can, and was, achieved without the tri tone system, primarily through common tone or common chord, if at all. Again, this is an innovation of Music of which comes much later on.

And finally, 'way back when', the only music WAS the church music. Like I said, as far as Historians can depict most music was the work of the Monks, the only people scholarly enough to study the art. The Minstrels used so commonly now are, again, the fault of that funny renaissance thing. True there are some exceptions, but it wasn't the hobby we consider it today.  

[Aagark]

Doom_Avenger_D

Actually it was the catholic church

The only difference is the addiction to Cats.