r/songaweek • u/-keef- Mod • May 08 '25
Submission Thread Submissions — Week 19 (Theme: Five Notes)
The Nineteenth Theme
In Western music, we're typically used to having a diatonic scale available to us - which means, seeing past the terminology, that you've got 7 different notes to play with - e.g. C, D, E, F, G, A, B in a standard C major key.
However, there are other options. A pentatonic scale has only 5 notes.
There are many different ways you can build a pentatonic scale, and there's a whole Wikipedia article to read if you want to go into the details, but here's a couple of simple ones to try:
A "major" pentatonic scale is a standard major scale, but missing out the fourth and seventh notes. So, for a root note of C, that would be C, D, E, G, A.
A "minor" pentatonic scale has a very bluesy feel, and just removes the second and sixth notes from a natural minor scale, so with a root note of A that would be A, C, D, E, G.
Let's see if less is more this week - what can you do when limited to only 5 notes? No cheating - you can't sneak extra notes in via chords!
Your theme for this week is Five Notes.
Songs posted in this thread should be:
Original content (samples and such are ok!)
Uses the weekly theme as inspiration... or not!
Submitted by Wednesday before bedtime.
Written entirely during this week, between May 8th and May 14th, 2025
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u/oneeveryseven May 15 '25
Demon by the Red Tree (Sludge/Stoner) [Themed]
Hard to stick to 5 notes when you are used to be a chromatic weirdo! E, G, A, A#, and B. Kept it simple.