Musical Necrodancer Gift GA (ended)

yeah, I rather hope they do not take that long. So I cannot gift anyone in the Us right now? this is too confusing

you know it

I figured it fits the theme of the game to an extent :p
you do not have to be a musician to find the answers, but it really helps

haha, there's better ways to learn than remembering everything by heart, there are simple relationships between almost everything musical
in fact things sounds "good" to us in relation to other sounds, the best way to learn is to understand some of those interactions and relationships rather than trying to memorize things as isolated bits of information

I can guarantee google has the answer to all my questions, I tested it personally and took over and hour choosing them :p
I also chose music that is readily accessible without being blocked by any paywalls or was too obscure to search for successfully. But I do have a history of overdoing it with puzzles >.> this is not the first time I've created a puzzle that hasn't been solved by enough people. I will try to explain the 3 things you mentioned back there though, in case you're curios.

a note is the is the pitch of a sound, when represented in written form that representation also contains a duration. As in how long the sound persists. in English notations they are given letters to represent them A B C D E F G - in a keyboard that pattern repeats. A - G and then A again and so on. If we're moving half a tone instead of a full tone between notes, we use a (#)Sharp or (b)Flat symbol to indicate it. so A# (A sharp) is the middle between A and B and sounds exactly like a Bb (B flat)

p.s. not all sounds have notes signifying them in western music, although your car horn might be an A and often is a note or other. It can also be somewhere between an A and a B without being exactly an A# in which case western music has no way of giving it a notation. Other cultures might though. For example middle eastern music actually uses many more sounds between tones than European music does. As does traditional Japanese music for instance.

A scale is a set of notes. I won't go into the details and the structure of scales, but a scale is basically a sequence of notes starting from a note, ending with the same note one octave higher or lower and octave being the distance traversed to reach the same note again in the sequence. Lets take D for example from back there. you go D E F G A B C and then D again. if it's an ascending scale. The example I just gave is syntactically correct but in practice there would be a few more details to add, such as whether the scale is major/minor, harmonic/melodic etc. so a Dminor scale would be that sequence + modifications to some notes with # or (b) accordingly. Those details are not important to you. Just know that in general most classical scales can be Major or Minor, can start from any note (e.g. C#) and the Major scales tend to sound Happy, Jolly, Merry, Jaunty while Minor scales sound Sad, Grim, Serious, Scary. The Piece for example in the 3rd Question is in Dminor, so you can see why it was a popular choice for old horror flicks.

And finally Chords. Chords are simply a grouping of notes from one scale. With a few tweaks here and there (more advanced and not required to understand the basic concept cough cough jazz cough). But basically Most chords in Classical music would consist of a couple or more notes from one scale, spaced in a way that they sound good together. An easy way to make sure notes sound good together is to space them in 3s, such as in the previous example D E F G A.
D + F + A would be a chord. they do not need to be played at the same time, but they can be. There are some conventions to naming chords that makes it a little easier to read them and write them where you do not need to keep writing DFADF for example, and can simply write Dm to signify that. or C instead of spelling out CEG.
Chords are very handy in many ways, they make it easier to both analyse and write music, not to mention being the fastest shortcut to faux playing the guitar lol
I do not play the guitar but I can act like I do just by twanging a few chords

btw, I loved the old neverwinter game before the franchise was acquired by PW, it was a sad day when those vultures got their hands on it.

I keep getting it wrong lol, I believe it s a little less than 48 hours that you still have. I thought it was 24 but I checked and confirmed it's 2 days

any luck Charlie?