Lee Barry Composition Diary

My latest "minute song". The idea would be to make an album 15 minutes long--but not all bass stuff. This is written on bass but could have lyrics added later. It's also interesting that in such a short song there is a modulation to a very rare key, C# Major. It sounds so simple, even overly simple, but there's a complexity in it.    Melange by Lee Barry

  A 2-chord Joe (Am/Ebmaj7(#11)) using two chord scales: A minor pentatonic (or A natural minor) and Eb Lydian. Or you could use a C major scale alternating with a Bb major scale, or C major pentatonic and Bb major pentatonic. The key is to alternate between the B-natural and Bb and E-natural and Eb as the chords change. In some metaphorical way, the Bs and the Es are "mirror reflections" or opposite. Etude: Chord Scale Alternation by meta4s