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[QUOTE="Kontrol Sea, post: 87554"]
[HEADING=2]Secundal Harmony from G#6 in the F# Bebop Dominant Scale[/HEADING]
First, the [B]F# bebop dominant scale[/B] contains these eight notes:
[B]F# – G# – A# – B – C# – D# – E – E# (F)[/B]
Secundal harmony stacks adjacent scale tones (seconds) rather than thirds. Starting from G#6 and moving upward through the scale, your cluster would be:
[B]G#6 → A#6 → B6 → C#7 → D#7 → E7 → E#7 (F7) → F#7[/B]
In FL Studio's piano roll, note that [B]E#[/B] will display as [B]F[/B], so you'd input:

[TABLE]
[TR]
[th]Voice[/th] [th]Note (Theory)[/th] [th]FL Studio Label[/th]
[/TR]
[TR]
[td]1[/td] [td]G#6[/td] [td]G#6[/td]
[/TR]
[TR]
[td]2[/td] [td]A#6[/td] [td]A#6[/td]
[/TR]
[TR]
[td]3[/td] [td]B6[/td] [td]B6[/td]
[/TR]
[TR]
[td]4[/td] [td]C#7[/td] [td]C#7[/td]
[/TR]
[TR]
[td]5[/td] [td]D#7[/td] [td]D#7[/td]
[/TR]
[TR]
[td]6[/td] [td]E7[/td] [td]E7[/td]
[/TR]
[TR]
[td]7[/td] [td]E#7[/td] [td][B]F7[/B][/td]
[/TR]
[TR]
[td]8[/td] [td]F#7[/td] [td]F#7[/td]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]

The intervals between consecutive notes alternate between [B]major seconds[/B] (whole steps) and [B]minor seconds[/B] (half steps), with the two half steps occurring between A#–B and E–F (E#)–F#. You don't have to use all eight voices; four- or five-note clusters are common in practice and tend to sound less dense while still capturing the characteristic crunch of secundal voicing.
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