With the same philosophy that drove to the development of the chord phenotype, the melody phenotype follows the pentatonic scale, the most commonly used scale in rock songs. Keeping 4 bits per beat for the melody, there are 16 possible states - two of which are reserved for the canonical hold and pause states - which allow us to spread our melody in three octaves, an already wider range than the one normally featured in rock melodies.
Alessandro Bruni
2011-02-18