Hey everyone, so after seeing @Riley's poll about removing noteblocks from FFA, I realized that a fair amount of people are annoyed by the noteblocks in FFA/lobbies. Instead of removing them though as I love noteblocks, I think there is a much better and easier way to make these less annoying: tune all noteblocks to a note in the pentatonic scale and prevent people from tuning noteblocks themselves.
Without getting too much into music theory, the pentatonic scale is just a 5 note scale that sounds generally nice to most people no matter what notes are played in it. It's commonly used in various pop music genres and most of you have probably heard it before in some shape or form.
Here's a quick example of me going through the scale on noteblocks and trying to be as annoying as possible with only the pentatonic scale:
Note that I'm holding left-click hear to just plat the notes instead of right-click to tune the noteblocks which makes it sound even worse and is what most players do in these lobbies.
I'm sure that the pentatonic scale sounds better to the majority of you even when played by just spamming notes. Almost anything you do with these notes playing slower is going to sound at least decent if not great to most people. In fact, this music is so good apparently, that I have had a game on the solo skywars music map recently where I just had 5 noteblocks tuned to the pentatonic scale where the last player said that the music was playing was very beautiful and jumped into the void immediately afterwards because of it!
With that, I think that there should be only the 11 different notes in the pentatonic scale that noteblocks can be tuned to and players should no longer be able to right-click noteblocks to tune them in lobbies or FFA. Here's the number of right clicks you need for each noteblock to be tuned to a note in a pentatonic scale: 0, 2, 4, 7, 9, 12, 14, 16, 19, 21, 24. Any of these notes could be picked and placed together at random and it would still sound ok for the most part.
I encourage you to try out playing random notes on a noteblock pentatonic scale yourself just to see how much better it sounds compared to what you usually here in waiting lobbies.
I look forward to see what all of your thoughts/ideas are on this as well! :)
Without getting too much into music theory, the pentatonic scale is just a 5 note scale that sounds generally nice to most people no matter what notes are played in it. It's commonly used in various pop music genres and most of you have probably heard it before in some shape or form.
Here's a quick example of me going through the scale on noteblocks and trying to be as annoying as possible with only the pentatonic scale:
I'm sure that the pentatonic scale sounds better to the majority of you even when played by just spamming notes. Almost anything you do with these notes playing slower is going to sound at least decent if not great to most people. In fact, this music is so good apparently, that I have had a game on the solo skywars music map recently where I just had 5 noteblocks tuned to the pentatonic scale where the last player said that the music was playing was very beautiful and jumped into the void immediately afterwards because of it!
With that, I think that there should be only the 11 different notes in the pentatonic scale that noteblocks can be tuned to and players should no longer be able to right-click noteblocks to tune them in lobbies or FFA. Here's the number of right clicks you need for each noteblock to be tuned to a note in a pentatonic scale: 0, 2, 4, 7, 9, 12, 14, 16, 19, 21, 24. Any of these notes could be picked and placed together at random and it would still sound ok for the most part.
I encourage you to try out playing random notes on a noteblock pentatonic scale yourself just to see how much better it sounds compared to what you usually here in waiting lobbies.
I look forward to see what all of your thoughts/ideas are on this as well! :)
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