Lp9x9

5

4

11

3

2

6

10

9

0

Also a valid grid

7

1

8

Also a valid grid (same notes different layout)

9

Back to our pad

Some pads are similar

Like this one

This one is exactly the same

The other friends

Other pads are different

This one is different from the first

First

Second

This second one has its own friends

This

This is a pad

It plays a musical note

This is another pad

It plays another note

These are all pads

They play other notes

We put them in a grid

There are different grids

Like this 8x8 one

Or this 5x5 one

Selected notes

Pad notes are relative

This one sounded like this

It now sounds like this

Its friends have also changed

Same for the second note and its friends

Let’s go back to the original layout

Actually

Let’s use the 5x5 one

Notes relate to one another

This note

Relates to this one

the same way that

this one

relates to this other note

Or this

relates to the original one

That relationship is called a “fourth”

It’s the distance between four notes

If this is A

This would be D

A

B

C

D

There’s another D

That’s a “fifth”, five notes from A

G

F

E

D-A-D