Ultimate Pitch

Brian Ordona

What’s He Going to Talk About?

Indian music (the very short version).Demonstration (the long version).Pearls of wisdom.

Indian Music

Also a 12 tone system.Note names: Sa, Re, Ga, Ma, Pa, Da, Ni,

Sa = Do, Re, Mi, Fa, So, La, Ti, Do.“Komal” = “b”, “Tivra” = “#”.

All 12 tones: Sa, Komal-Re, Re, Komal-Ga, Ga, Ma, Tivra-Ma, Pa, Komal-Da, Da, Komal-Ni, Ni.

Note names are relative to a base tone.

Lists vs. Sequences

List: A collection of mutually exclusive items.

Sequence: All items, whether duplicated or not, are necessary and need to be in a specific order.

Example: C, C, G, G, A, A, G, F, F, E, E, D, D, C. – SequenceC, D, E, F, G, A. – List

Western Music

C, Db, D, Eb, E, F, Gb, G, Ab, A, Bb, B

C Major Scale C Minor Scale

Composition

Composition

Composition

Composition Composition

= Lists

= Sequences

Indian Music

S, r, R, g, G, m, M, P, d, D, n, N

Thaat Thaat

Raga

Raga

Raga

Raga

= Lists

Raga= Sequences

Indian Music

S, r, R, g, G, m, M, P, d, D, n, N

Thaat Thaat ≠ Scales

= Scales (kind of..)Raga

Raga

Raga

RagaRaga

Composition

Composition

Composition

Composition

Composition Composition

Composition

Thaat: Ragas Asavari: Adana, Darbari, Desi, Jaunpuri Bhairav: Ahir Bhairav, Bairagi Bhairav, Bhairav, Gunakri,

Jogiya, Nat Bhairav, Kalingada, Vibhas Bhairavi: etc… Bilaval: … Kafi: … Kalyan: … Khamaj: … Marwa: … Purvi: … Todi: … (Misc.): …

Ragas

Aaroha – Ascending sequence

Avaroha – Descending sequence

Demonstration

Before …and After.Scale Screen: Addition of ragas.Arpeggio Screen: Stringing a sequence

together.Composition Screen: Save feature.Tools Screen: Expanded Tuner.Configuration Screen: Controlling count-

offs and controlling the base frequency.

Conclusion (Just give me my ‘A’!)

Pearls of Wisdom:JDK v1.4 and import statements.Swing vs. AWT.When dealing with sound, use threads!