Post #2649428
2025-06-08 01:33 UTC
So, the bass line to Love Buzz by Nirvana is in the harmonic minor scale, specifically Eb Harmonic min, 5th mode. Did Novoselic know this? Honestly, wouldn't surprise me either way. He's going up and down the scale in a fairly straight forward way. On the other hand, he could have just been messing around and came up with the riff. Cobain is doing some things that are in the scale and some things that aren't.
The thing about music theory is
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@ModusMatt@zirk.us 2025-06-08 01:34
it's a way of understanding harmony, not a set of rules for writing music. That part is up to you, the composer. There's plenty of composers that don't know any theory and still write great stuff. That was me for most of my teenage and adult life until fairly recently getting into theory. The inspiration is either there or it isn't for you, although I think knowing theory can potentially make your music more sophisticated. You see more harmonic possibilities.