C# harmonic base

Harmonic base verification

To verify your harmonic base with C#, your personal fundamental pitch, turn on the C# drone loop. Take a moment to tune in.

With the C# drone running, one at a time and with a moment of listening just to the fundamental drone in between, leisurely try out the two pitches below as many times as you like. Determine which one of the two, F# or G#, suits you better in the context of the C# drone.

By choosing G# over F# or both equally, you verify C#, your personal fundamental pitch, to be the fundamental for your individual tonalities, forming their harmonic base with G# as their quint. But if you clearly chose F# over G#, you can proceed with F# as fundamental for your individual tonalities, forming their harmonic base with C#, your personal fundamental, as their quint.

Reference loops

Turn off any running loop before starting another, or they may sound simultaneously.

C# with G#

F# with C#

Explanation

The harmonic base of a tonality is its fundamental together with its quint (fifth), the first overtone or harmonic that is not an octave of the fundamental. C#, your chosen fundamental pitch, may well be the fundamental of your individual tonalities, together with G# as quint. However, if verifying your harmonic base you chose F# over G#, through the miracle of nature, F# becomes the fundamental of your individual tonalities, and your chosen personal fundamental pitch becomes their quint.