Accidentals, Loops, Video

The Big Loop

 

Accidental Big Loop

The Big Loop

  • Scale disambiguation
    • Major: MAJ
    • Melodic Minor: JAZ
    • Neapolitan Major: NEA
    • Neapolitan Minor: NEM
    • Harmonic Minor: HAR
    • Harmonic Major: HRM
    • Hungarian: HUN
    • Bizantine: BIZ
    • Enigmatic: NGM
    • Whote Tone: WTN
  • All caps is a major quality; all lowercase is a minor quality
  • Green are the Tonics (first mode) of each scale
  • All outside modes (ie not enclosed) are of major quality.
  • The blue background are loops, the one that is uncut in the diagram and the one that is cut due to 2-D limitations.

 

MAPPING NOTES TO THE BIG LOOP

 

Major Jumps Big Loop

Major Jump (P5/p4) Big Loop: “super diatonic”

Minor Jump Big Loop

Minor Jump (Tt/Tt) Big Loop