Chris Tondreau
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That's the point. With sixteen semitones to the octave, the scale will NOT be diatonic with respect to the typical conventions of Western music. Much Asian music makes use of quarter tones, which is what Roy Harper was alluding to with the "22 frets" reference. That is probably THE key thing that separates the character of Eastern music from Western music. (that and instrumentation, choice of intervals, etc.....)
The flat two and flat five that Shawn Gibson referred to sounds like the basis of a typical locrian mode. I'm guessing that the tone and a half jump probably occurred between the sixth and seventh scale degrees (from the minor sixth to the major seventh), making it sound roughly like the top end of a typical melodic minor (not harmonic minor, which is more diatonic "sounding").
Chris
The flat two and flat five that Shawn Gibson referred to sounds like the basis of a typical locrian mode. I'm guessing that the tone and a half jump probably occurred between the sixth and seventh scale degrees (from the minor sixth to the major seventh), making it sound roughly like the top end of a typical melodic minor (not harmonic minor, which is more diatonic "sounding").
Chris
