A simple little jam to try out a fairly uncommon scale! The style and tuning was roughly inspired by the cifteli, a two-stringed Albanian folk instrument - the lower string is typically played as a drone, and the upper plays melody.

The scale is essentially a minor pentatonic with an additional neutral second and neutral sixth (neutral being a microtone in between major and minor in 12 tone equal temperament).

Fretless is great for microtonal music because it can play any tuning or scale. Fretless is terrible for microtonal music because, without frets to lock in the pitch, you have to be very precise to not just sound out-of-tune.

I found that encircling the neutral tones with more familiar 12TET tones really helped establish them and give credibility to these outsiders. Let me know if you agree or not!

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