G# harmonic base

Harmonic base verification

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

With the G# 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, C# or D#, suits you better in the context of the G# drone.

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

Reference loops

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

G# with D#

C# with G#

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. G#, your chosen fundamental pitch, may well be the fundamental of your individual tonalities, together with D# as quint. However, if verifying your harmonic base you chose C# over D#, through the miracle of nature, C# becomes the fundamental of your individual tonalities, and your chosen personal fundamental pitch becomes their quint.