Talk:Guitar/Scale Theory

The Problem Of Advanced Terms and Ideas
I may have made this section on Scale Theory quite advanced for young readers. However I feel as though there is no other way of condensing the ideas presented without stating some advanced concepts and a broad and incomplete view of music history. Where possible I'll revise or define terms and concepts in a simpler way.

The Pythagorean Comma will always be a problem. Few readers (including myself) will have the desire to do the "maths". I know about it from a television documentary where it was described as the "chord of nature" - a phenomena that leads to succesive intervals not falling into place as you further progress up through the octaves (as shown by the maths). However it is not maths that we make music with and the solution was the invention of "tempered" tuning which allows us to explore modulation and to extend instrument ranges in a way that is pleasing to our ear but is in itself an "artificial" compromise with the intervals as they exist in the world of physics and maths. That's as far as my understanding of it goes.

Sluffs (discuss • contribs) 20:57, 2 September 2012 (UTC)