I have been picking up music theory lately. Mostly as a means to help me make making music easier and help navigating by sorta mapping out this landscape of music instead of just relying on intuition. I use an app for this and currently mostly learning intervals, perfect 5ths and perfect 4ths and recognizing them by ear and stuff.
If I make music, I like to create a lot of movement with having little walks up and down and a lot of slides and bends. But like on a guitar I know a little bit better what to do because I can place my finger by feel and just bend the note down. The thing with slides however is that I don't really think about where to slide to or from precisely. I just know that I either know what the note is that I want to be the clearest and just slide either away to towards it and the rest is a bit "whatever". But if I'm programming on my laptop I have no clue because here I have envelopes that need to program and starting notes or ending notes to set, and thus every time I try to add either a slide or a bend note, it doesn't sound right.
So I wonder is there some theory behind this?
Let's say as an example that you are playing a melody and logically the next note is gonna be a perfect 5th (because of the previous pattern) and you want that to be the main note that draws the attention of the listeniner, is there some logic behind what start or end note to pick? And what kind of envelope would be best for when?
Submitted January 15, 2025 at 10:39AM by Captain_Azius https://www.reddit.com/r/Learnmusic/comments/1i1xky7/what_is_the_theory_behind_slide_or_bend_notes/?utm_source=ifttt
Javier Rodriguez
Wednesday, January 15, 2025