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larelli on Oct 9, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Plink, a multiplayer HTML5 music game

To me it sounds as if the reason for the music not sounding like total crap is, that the author uses pentatonic scales, which are also used in improvisations. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentatonic_scale)

Goladus on Oct 9, 2011 [–]

I agree, I noticed that almost immediately. Also, the rhythms are quantized and the tempo is fixed.

It's still a very cool demo, though.

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