Variplaning, a microtonal technique

Variplaning is a technique to quickly and easily generate chord progressions. I'll demonstrate how it works, live and unscripted. Beginner friendly.
This youtube playlist has all my tracks where I have used variplaning:
• Variplaning
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[@dotuxil]

he veri-splaning

[@Runescaper1357]

Vari-splaining!

[@SaintJames14]

Bro you are severely underrated. I love your work and the fact you taught us how to do it ourselves is legendary. God bless you homie. Thanks for the dope music and lesson now

[@drewh.2816]

So thankful!

[@Han-b5o3p]

Same old great stuff

[@LiftPizzas]

Ask yourself, what year is this?

[@dotuxil]

@@LiftPizzas I dunno you tell me

[@dnaroseandthewolves]

​@@dotuxilbetter left unanswered

[@clevelandohiofoosball]

This is fascinating. I am lost but still listening

[@billsybainbridge3362]

BTW - There is a Modern Music Theory Of Jazz Which encompasses aspects including "Planing" or "VariPlaning". The notion might best be described as "Modal Harmony" as defined by James Knapp (author of Jazz Harmony).

[@Gnurklesquimp2]

Planing in general is the bomb, excited to watch this video. This technique yields infinite results: Something else I love doing is plane a whole scale and then invert them onto different roots so every single chord is in it's own key, but a less angular and obviously planed sound. One that always sounds great is descending by 4ths, and it can be a really cool move to withold some of those intervals the keys you're jumping between don't share. If you're going 4ths/5ths, there's tons of notes they do share in common, you can really ramp into the color. (Easy way to blow minds with a solo) I have some quick examples uploaded on soundcloud if anyone want to hear, I could probably find some cooler ones in my mess of a projects folder, though. All intervals and even patterns consisting of several intervals work very well, minor thirds creates a cool full cycle with just 4 chords, planing on those intervals sounds so symetrical and out there, inverting the roots can give it that one drastic touch to make it sound more dynamic. Which reminds me, you have any favorite EDO tunings for symmetrical stuff like wholetone? (Which is essentially edo-ception) I love doing stuff like playing melodies with those scales as the harmony underneath involves different notes over time, really cool with a blues scale too. (I do that with one of my uploaded transposed'/planed and then inverted examples too) I've also got this 14/16+13/16 ~halftime groove on there, I'd love to know if anyone could make sense of why it works. I was just working in 14/16 and noticed I wanted to cut off a bit at the end. I've had this happen a few times (Also the inverse) and I feel like there must be some kind of explanation, the groove just wants to fall in place that way. They should make modular keyboards btw! By which I mean yoy can pop keys in and out flexibly. Would be cool if they came up with a cool system with variable size of the keys. Wouldn't it be satisfying to properly represent tunings that aren't equal temperament? I'd mostly just use it for more compact keys, but that sounds like a cool bonus.

[@roeesi-personal]

There is a way you can have major-minor variplaning in whitewood, but it'd require the scale to be non-monotonic. What you need is a scale where 4 steps are all either a major third or a minor third, like 128.57 171.43 342.86 300. 514.29 471.43 642.86 685.71 As for the name, I'd consider what you call "variplaning" as a combination of 2 (or maybe 3) concepts. The first and the main one you explained here is having a chord shape in a scale, which generates a pleasant chord on most of the scale notes, like the major/minor chords in the diatonic meantone scale or the 7-limit ones in Paul Erlich's generalized 22edo diatonic pajara scales. The second, which I think you took from planing, is having interesting root melodies and letting the other notes be automatically generated, where the automatic generation itself makes this technique easier and may be included as a 3rd combined concept.

[@carsonfarley2560]

I would enjoy hearing about the rhythmic and arhythmic aspect of your music as it has a very non linear timing universe.

[@rarebeeph1783]

i'm only 8 minutes in but your description of variplaning actually describes the use of any number of chords from the same 12edo diatonic key! seeing it as an unequal 7edo, every chord is the same 0-2-4 7edo steps, but sometimes that's major, sometimes that's minor, and sometimes it's diminished after making the tuning unequal.

[@Sevish]

Yep of course you can load in a diatonic subset of 12edo to your synth and use this technique to do quick diatonic progressions. I considered demoing this but decided to skip it!

[@7177YT]

So glad the man is willing to teach us! C heers!

[@Gnurklesquimp2]

45:37 This is why I almost exclusively stick to EDO... Even EDO tunings can tend to nudge you into corners, larger ones can kinda make you drift important notes over longer progressions, but others I pretty much only bust out when I have a specific idea for them. For now it's basically 12EDO (Mostly just if I wanna sample 12EDO stuff), 22EDO, a bit of other EDO tunings here and there, a bit of ji/harmonic series stuff that's usually sound design heavy, and then only very occasionally anything else.

[@cellularautomaton.]

vari-splaining

[@luaujimmy]

Cool!

[@henrikljungstrand2036]

If you have tried Semaphor (tempering out 49/48), perhaps you are brave enough to try Dicot (tempering out 25/24)?

[@henrikljungstrand2036]

Jubilismic (tempering out 50/49) is well known. It is used in most smallish even edo temperaments, like 10edo, 12edo and 22edo. Those where 2/1 is divided in half, except largish ones. Semaphor (49/48 out) is used in e.g. 5edo, 19edo and 24edo. Most smallish temperaments where 4/3 is divided in half, but not largish ones. Dicot (25/24 out) temperaments are usually very small, and optimally they are both Semaphor and Jubilismic (otherwise they are neither). 10edo is a good example of Dicot. All Dicot temperaments divide 3/2 in half.

[@roeesi-personal]

Listen to his track Vidya: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eYHQnXaZf796kLM It's in 10edo which is a dicot tuning!

[@dnaroseandthewolves]

uaAAARGGHHHH I MISSED IT

[@thiagoskapata]

For me, anything beyond 24 EDO is like choosing any frequency.

[@carlafitzgibbon4227]

*Technically* There _are_ different ways to temper the tone within a scale set.

[@Fire_Axus]

too long

[@dotuxil]

noob

[@GizzyDillespee]

That's what she said

[@WadWizard]

too short

[@dotuxil]

@@WadWizard 🔥

[@nowandxenpodcast]

Toulouse Latrec

[@redopal9796]

vari-splaining!