2025 March Monthly Contest

[Online Sequencer]

 Hello Online Sequencer! It's time to announce the 2025 March Monthly Contest!

This month's theme is to create music using the locrian mode. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locrian_mode

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General Information

The entry period is from 3/1 ~ 3/21 (11:59 PM EST). Winners will be announced on 3/31/2024!

While we will post general notes on every contest, please refer to the Monthly Contest announcement thread for more details on Monthly Contests themselves.

• Entry limit of 2 sequences per person.
  

• Committee members are allowed to enter the contests, but will not enter their example sequence nor will they vote for their own entry.
  

• Sequences made prior to the current Monthly Contest are allowed, although entering the same sequence in different Monthly Contests is not. If you are unsure about whether or not you have entered a sequence in a previous monthly contest, a list of all the sequences that have been entered into previous monthly contests can be found here.
  

• Making a remix of an existing song is allowed.
  

• Editing an entry after the entry period is strictly prohibited and will result in that entry being disqualified.
  

• You cannot "collaborate" with alt accounts. Abusing alts to circumvent the 2 entries per person rule is not allowed.
  

• Entries that are collaborations should not be posted on a shared alt account. They should be posted to the account of one of the collaborators. You cannot enter a sequence on another account's behalf.
  

• The standard Online Sequencer Rules will apply and any entries violating a rule will automatically be disqualified.
  

I look forward to seeing what you guys come up with. Good luck to you all!

-Kirbyderp

[-E.D.E.N-]

wtf is locrian code?!

[MrMCgrady]

wtf is locrian code?!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQRKaADlbCM

it's a type of music scale

[Legendary_.]

here are some locrian scales to help understand the concept (this is NOT my entry btw)

[SlimeJime]

Locrian mode is a mode of the major scale where you drop the 2nd, 3rd, 5th, 6th and 7th notes in the scale by a semitone, or one note (1, b2, b3, 4, b5, b6, b7).

For example:

C Major: C, D, E, F, G, A, B, C
C Locrian: C, C#, D#, F, F#, G# A#, C

Locrian is particularly challenging to compose in because its root chord is a tritone, super unstable
You can make it sound resolving by hammering home the root note or the tritone (in C Locrian that’d be either C or the chord C, D#, F#)

Most music composed in it is very tense, and that’s the easiest direction to go.

Attached below is a sequence with C Locrian, pull the scale up a semitone to get C# Locrian, and down a semitone to get B Locrian, and so on…



(legendary also beat me to it sorta, check out his sequence for all the Locrian scales)

[guitar_duide34543]

would a real-world example be kinda like "Last words of David"? but the dropped notes make it seem like these songs are going to have a key change very second

[kaicer551]

I have a question, does the whole song have to be in Locrian mode or is it only necessary for a part to be in Locrian mode?

[TheUpperDiamond]

dude this contest is really confusing.

[kaicer551]

Luckily I always have something similar before the contests are set up, I'm lucky

[Citizen_Z]

wth (what the heck) is a locrian mode?