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Musical Dice

Posted: Mon Jun 15, 2020 2:11 pm
by jeremyb
Saw a great suggestion in a video on using dice to select which chords in the scale you should try throw together for creating a melody, kind of spark some inspiration kind of thing, select a key and throw 4 dice...

I could have nicked some dice from the kids board games, but why do that when you have a 3d printer!! When searching on thingiverse for models to print out I found a dude had created these: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1040397 which are to help you randomly choose a key or chord and its variants. I printed a set of those along with some normal 6 sided dice (does anyone ever play the 7th chord in a key?!?!?)... and voila! Instant inspiration :thumbup:

Re: Musical Dice

Posted: Mon Jun 15, 2020 2:15 pm
by Capt. Black
Send me a set for free and I’ll post about them on my Instagram. :)

Re: Musical Dice

Posted: Mon Jun 15, 2020 2:16 pm
by jeremyb
Capt. Black wrote:Send me a set for free and I’ll post about them on my Instagram. :)
I feel like this is some kind of a trap :lol:

Re: Musical Dice

Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2021 11:09 pm
by foal30
jeremyb wrote: Mon Jun 15, 2020 2:11 pm Saw a great suggestion in a video on using dice to select which chords in the scale you should try throw together for creating a melody, kind of spark some inspiration kind of thing, select a key and throw 4 dice...

I could have nicked some dice from the kids board games, but why do that when you have a 3d printer!! When searching on thingiverse for models to print out I found a dude had created these: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1040397 which are to help you randomly choose a key or chord and its variants. I printed a set of those along with some normal 6 sided dice (does anyone ever play the 7th chord in a key?!?!?)... and voila! Instant inspiration :thumbup:
You'll need that Vii chord should you go Diatonic Phrygian Tetrachord on us👍

Re: Musical Dice

Posted: Sat Oct 14, 2023 9:48 am
by Vince
You COULD just put the chords on bits of paper and pull them out of a box, Just sayin'...

Interesting idea for lyrics though.

Re: Musical Dice

Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2023 8:04 pm
by Mosfet
Wow cool idea. I’m gonna write a script to do just this