Kigurumi by Namae published on 2021-10-02T23:32:28Z Day 2 of Musictober 2021, the theme was Suit. Ok so... I was totally not inspired by the theme at first... I'm not the kind of person that would wear a suit, and I usually am not inspired by stuff I don't really like. So I thought that maybe I could do something about kigurumi... you know like... pajama suit... does that makes sense? (I'm not a native english speaker, so I genuinely don't know if that makes sense) Aaanyway... I liked the idea of kigurumi, like it's comfy and all, pretty chill. So I wanted to do something with some kind of lo-fi vibe (well something chill at least). And since kigurumi are a japanese thing, I though "hey why not use some japanese scale?!". But in the end it almost sounds more like middle-east stuff. Meh whatever... I think the end result is nice, even though it's pretty far from the theme at this point (I guess the important part is more to find inspiration than to really respect the theme). WARNING: Lots of music theory stuff down here, don't bother reading if you're not interested. I already worked a bit with japanese scales, I did a transcription of "Tennyo no Uta" by Joe Hisaishi (here he is again...), from the movie "The Tale of the Princess Kaguya". So I kinda knew how to deal with it, well at least for the Hirajōshi scale (if I'm correct, the second part of Tennyo no Uta uses the D Hirajōshi scale). But this time I wanted to try something new, and I tried what is explained in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7o8zKMrj9P0 I don't know if that's really something super relevant to traditional japanese music (I can't seem to find good sources of information online, if anyone has some I would love to see that). But well, it seems pretty cool anyway, so I went with the "Ryukyu + Miyako-bushi" form (explained at 7:16 in the video), and basically wrote 2 chords: One with the notes of the Ryukyu part, and another with the ones of the Miyako-bushi part (with a bit of voice-leading), and we just switch back and forth between those two chords. And to that I just added a minor 7th to the scale, to have more colors to use... Then in the end the track is pretty much just in D mixolydian b6 except I'm not using the second degree of the scale (actually there's a very quick grace notes on the very last note of the flute, which is this second degree, but it's not very noticeable). Ok, enough with all that nonsense... Why are still reading me seriously?