Post #2832976
2026-04-15 09:02 UTC
@mathias@metalhead.club Just thinking about this some more… if I select the “slice” of the chart with F (outer circle) and Dm (inner circle) and select “Harmonic Minor” (or “Melodic Minor”), should that be F Harmonic Minor or Dm Harmonic Minor? As in, should the modes of the minor scales use the inner circle or the outer circle as their primary reference?
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@mathias@metalhead.club 2026-04-15 11:23
@optilude@techhub.social what if the drop downs chose and the circle of fifths updated to show you where it came from as a key? Edit: one way I might try to explain this in text is that a given “relative major” gives us the diatonic notes in a key, and then every mode in both major and minor use those diatonic notes starting from different points. But of course that’s not entirely true when we leave modes of the major scale or using different kinds of minor keys (there’s modes of each of the degrees in melodic minor for example, but they get names as basically the thing + modifiers, like melodic minor’s 2nd mode is Dorian b2)