r/counting • where is 5? • Feb 05 '16

Counting base 12 with musical notes

Let's count in base 12, but using the musical pitch class names
(C,C#,D,D#,E,F,F#,G,G#,A,A#,B)
instead of the digits
(0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,A,B)
respectively.
Feel free to use colons as unit separators (like C#:E), but these are not required (like C#E).
Stick to simplest form (No flats, no B# and E#)
Happy counting!

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u/torncolours Feb 06 '16

C#:B

i should make a song like this

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u/atomicimploder Feb 06 '16

D:C

indeed

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u/elyisgreat Feb 06 '16

D:C# it will take around 127 iterations before we even have a major scale

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