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@quinlanhogan7543 3 года назад

For sale: Lumi MIDI keyboard, lightly used. D key no longer works

@apollobyprod 3 года назад

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

@stephydae 3 года назад

LOL 😂 good one..

@Spaced1sco 3 года назад

New Sale!: Lumi keyboard with only D key all others are optional.

@jobanbrar92 3 года назад

😂😂😂😂

@gammergames3322 3 года назад

@@Spaced1sco weekend: I'm listening

@Malinda 4 года назад

Alternate title: Andrew Huang Exposes The Weekend

@cdigames 4 года назад

Hell, on the album Starboy, The Weekend calls out other people for 'stealing' his trick, but acknowledges that it's super simple and easy to get along with.

@exiliate17 4 года назад

Hi malinda 😄

@kamaalthewanza 4 года назад

@@cdigames 😂😂

@kamaalthewanza 4 года назад

🤣🤣🤣

@janbonne 4 года назад

I wonder if he was like this back during his shoe gaze days

@fedegwagwa 3 года назад

I got perfect pitch for the D note after this video

@tl1882 3 года назад

i already did from megalovania

@hridinsbiju9023 3 года назад

True

@fabricioaf89 3 года назад

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@chrrive 3 года назад

same:)

@ph4n7om36 3 года назад

Ick

@sreesanthsasidharan3841 3 года назад

The supertonic is that one kid who hangs out with every group in school.

@Fayevalentina541 3 года назад

Me.😂

@supersucks 2 года назад

im that kid lol

@Jernofenz 2 года назад

i m tht lmaooo

@impfromdoom9137 2 года назад

@thegameowl11 2 года назад

Me lmao

@ianhebert91 3 года назад

I was not prepared to receive that much "D" in 8 minutes.

@tartar1016 3 года назад

That's what she said

@thefallenfighters 3 года назад

That’s what she said

@headphonezmusic1727 3 года назад

you have 69 likes on this comment

@paballoleballo9101 3 года назад

Worse on weekends

@emiliodelbozo3155 3 года назад

That's what she said

@sanes4402 3 года назад

"You know that The Weekend song that goes like D D D D D D D D D C?" "Which one"

@statomic 3 года назад

This is funny cuz all of them ahahhahahahaha

@BBAACKE 3 года назад

Lolol

@randommemeclone1021 3 года назад

Do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down?

@dragringer1480 3 года назад

Blinding lights?

@craftze_ro5734 3 года назад

@@dragringer1480 no

@BarafuAlbino 4 года назад

Theory: 36 second. Andrew hitting the same key: 8 minutes.

@bobdole7127 4 года назад

...And proving how unoriginal most modern pop music is today for the duration.

@beatsxlucas8021 4 года назад

Bob Dole yeh for sure. It’s missing authentic emotion and melody writing

@emberleona6671 4 года назад

No wonder I hate pop music nowadays email me if you wanna hear a song idea emberleona2020@gmail.com

@brankol.4563 4 года назад

I skipped all the examples asking myself if there's more to come... But no

@beatsxlucas8021 4 года назад

Ember Leona yo u wanna collab? I make deep house/ pop stuff if u wanna work together :)

@Goddot 3 года назад

I found pop music pretty one-note, I didn't expect to be THIS right

@JoE_Songs 2 года назад

well actually real pop music was never about one note - until 10-12 years ago...

@snowjix Год назад

@@JoE_Songs real pop music? What does that even mean?

@multisplace3783 Год назад

That must be partly why I prefer older music. They don't hang on one note a bunch in older songs.

@quifesco3635 Год назад

he's saying pop music before this time was better and more varying whereas nowadays popular stuff is a lot of the same thing. hes somewhat right, i mean you used to see key changes or experimentation with indian instruments in Beatles songs. Also, jazz was pop music. basically the guy is saying modern popular music is oversaturated.

@TantuBeats 4 года назад

aaaand there goes the monetization of this video

@kabehhhh 4 года назад

umg having a party right now

@kaimundo 4 года назад

ik was depressief en toen deed ik niet zo lief

@charlieroush3402 4 года назад

Definitely

@kingofdoodoo1877 4 года назад

No cuz the songs are on c major

@TantuBeats 4 года назад

@@kingofdoodoo1877 look at the bottom of the description

@DafterHindi 4 года назад

I love how Andrew knew this wasn't gonna be monetized, so he used all the songs he could

@bradley5800 4 года назад

I mean a lot of them are in a different key?? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@EliRickard 4 года назад

f4de RU-vid detects key changes regardless

@bradley5800 4 года назад

@@EliRickard frick

@quariusmusic 4 года назад

But I see no copyright claims by their respective labels

@quariusmusic 4 года назад

@@DafterHindi i think its andrew huang thats why..😂... because i have seen other RU-vidrs being very cautious, they don't play the track ,they dont take any risks.

@scrofol1634 4 года назад

never want to hear a d-note on piano ever again

@dmtinyhut 4 года назад

megalovania starts

4 года назад

It's not always a D in the original songs. Huang has transposed all the songs to C major in this video, including pitch adjustment of the original clips that he uses.

@rserg3789 4 года назад

Same bruh 😆

@TXLogic 4 года назад

Shirley Márquez Dúlcey I think you’re kind of making Scrofol’s point... :-)

@gitsurfer27 4 года назад

I can still hear it 10 minutes after the video ended...i think its part of me now.

@pak009 3 года назад

Take a shot of any alcoholic drink everytime Katy Perry's "Never Really Over" hits the D note.

@_Iscream 3 года назад

You’d die, even if it was beer.

@servvo 3 года назад

aka chug

@prismarinestars7471 3 года назад

death

@hanakosan4404 3 года назад

I came at that part of the video as I read this comment

@sajeewanrai 3 года назад

@@_Iscream You would die even if it's water

@TechBoxNorth 4 года назад

"Hey catchy tune, what music software did you use?" "Microsoft OneNote"

@KuroHebi 4 года назад

I don't get it.

@samszotkowski 4 года назад

@@KuroHebi one note

@KuroHebi 4 года назад

@@samszotkowski I get it, now.

@NvincibleIronMan 4 года назад

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤓👍👍

@KuroHebi 4 года назад

@@NvincibleIronMan that is actually a great joke, for real.

@swordierre9341 3 года назад

When I was little I must've somehow figured this out, because i spammed that D and thought i was a song writing prodigy.

@DrRadio155 3 года назад

You still have chance! :D

@pieflower6419 3 года назад

I tried to play pop songs in music and thought I was doing something wrong just spamming D

@Metamerist625 3 года назад

Yeah well it turns out that every pop musician working from 2015 onwards thinks the same XD

@dancershan 3 года назад

I still have not outgrown that ...

@xmortimorxmortimorx 4 года назад

a few people in the comments missing the point. he's not saying its the D note. he's saying its the supertonic in the given scale. he clearly explained that he was going to transpose all his examples to the same scale for comparison. he transposed them to the C scale and the supertonic in the C scale is the D note. if he would of transposed them to the D scale then it would of been an E note that he was playing since in the scale of D the supertonic is the E note. and so on and so on for every other scale. Edit: (this is just to help those who might be new to music theory and might be a little lost.)

@coolpoolb 4 года назад

actually- it is you missing the point! the songs are NOT all transposed to the key of c. so the continuous orange (or d) note represents different degrees of the scale in each of the songs. in essence- the songs 'sound' like they are in the same key because of the continuous d (or orange) note, but in fact they are in different keys, and therefore not an illustration of the supertonic; it's no more than an aural illusion.

@xmortimorxmortimorx 4 года назад

0:35 there you go genius!

@coolpoolb 4 года назад

@@xmortimorxmortimorx haha dude. USE YOUR EARS! get out a keyboard, guitar- don't take his word for it OR mine. anyone with a decent pair of ears can hear that the tracks are modulating into different (relative) keys and do NOT stay in the same key as he claims. (and thanks for calling me a genius :-P )

@James-im2ip 4 года назад

@@coolpoolb he doesn't transpose the song, but he does transpose what he's playing. the song and what he's playing aren't always in the same key.

@christowers7307 4 года назад

@@coolpoolb I think you need this ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Jk6jVl1fAn0.html

@Cry_ct 3 года назад

No wonder so many pop songs fit so well with Megalovania, Megalovania also is played with D

@alteredanimesh 3 года назад

now this one is a masterpiece

@huldanoren951 3 года назад

@@alteredanimesh It is a proven fact that it is impossible to make Megalovania sound bad

@libremercadoencrisiseconom2118 Год назад

megalovania is an awful melody, it can't be worse

@Wazzen563 11 месяцев назад

@@libremercadoencrisiseconom2118 ok, one guy

@musiqaman 4 года назад

That keyboard, not having a high C gives me anxiety.

@NateSassoonMusic 4 года назад

so close yet so far

@DeanLawrence_ftw 4 года назад

I'm fairly sure it's so you can connect multiple lumi keyboards to make a bigger keyboard

@musiqaman 4 года назад

Can I just connect an extra C?

@crawbug8932 4 года назад

@@musiqaman just have a bunch of modular individual black and white keys

@musiqaman 4 года назад

Matthew someone get LEGO on the phone right now!!!

@munksterrr7845 3 года назад

Now I want a music themed bar with a drink called "supertonic"

@JimmiCottam 3 года назад

Yeah but that drink will only contain two ingredients Root beer and tonic water

@ZakMeow 3 года назад

@@JimmiCottam Clever! I Lol'd

@seanfromtheyukon 3 года назад

And all the songs are transposed to the same key so when you leave the supersonic just resonates in your brain

@pieflower6419 3 года назад

I'd go

@Gamer-uf1kl 3 года назад

(D)rink

@anbudamodaran4162 4 года назад

Alternate title: Confusing the copyright claim system

@DFPercush 4 года назад

lol... I think as long as it's less than 5 seconds it's fine, don't quote me on that.

@iplaysdrums 4 года назад

Yeah, I guess if it's pitch shifted down a fifth the software's going to have a hard time recognizing it.

@agentofchaos2901 4 года назад

@@DFPercush i can i will

@DFPercush 4 года назад

@@agentofchaos2901 ... but you didn't

@G60syncro 3 года назад

@@iplaysdrums If I hammer a bunch of D's on the keyboard for more than 5 seconds, it might get flagged though... right??!?

@anti64 2 года назад

This really shows you how important rhythm is to make your melody unique

@DavidPuckArtist 3 года назад

This was the most intelligent way to throw shade at the entire pop music industry I’ve ever seen 😂

@CaveyMoth 3 года назад

I knew that modern pop music was monotonous and repetitive. But I didn't know there was so much reliance on one single note. Yikes!

@TheBrickLot 3 года назад

@@CaveyMoth ikr. crazy

@bmxkamikazee 3 года назад

@@CaveyMoth it's not quite that simple. one could make the same argument for the tonic (first scale degree) for all of classical music. one could make the same argument for the dominant in a lot of eras. andrew is playing all these songs in c, but the supertonic is only d in c major, which further makes it seem simpler than it is. if anything the use of the supertonic as a note to bass melodies on actually adds to the complexity of music as a whole because it wasn't always so common to do this. another method explored.

@eo4295 3 года назад

@@bmxkamikazee I’m pretty sure classical music doesn’t repeat the same 4 chords over and over and over again throughout the whole piece lol

@jpabcede5016 3 года назад

@@eo4295 I believe you've heard of Pachelbel's "Canon in D" and Ravel's "Bolero".

@BadLipReading 4 года назад

Well done

@dyray732 4 года назад

We live in a world where Bad Lip Reading only gets 6 likes in 24 minutes.

@just-a-me1168 4 года назад

@@dyray732 we live in a world where Bad Lip Reading only gets 37 likes in 3 hours.

@elinaylor6861 4 года назад

We live in a world

@BrandonYates 4 года назад

was just wondering about you guys the other day. you been doing well?

@IdoBerg 4 года назад

holy shittt i wish u will comment in 1 of my videos too xD

@edugui99999 3 года назад

Me: plays D key RU-vid: copyright Me: Bankrupt

@LYN4X 3 года назад

LMAO underrated joke

@whoslaysee 3 года назад

lol nice one 😂

@iLLStaticProductionsBeats 3 года назад

bawahaahahaha you won the internet today sir

@robertmahaney6831 2 года назад

I got mine for an unpublished video.

@aadhiseshandc7260 2 года назад

Yeeee

@AURESHION 3 года назад

this explains my constant deja-vu moments at work (pop-radio)

@mosley3485 3 года назад

More to do with the fact that pop music is literally engineered to sound familiar, I think.

@truecuckoo 4 года назад

Andrew Huang, also known as the Supertonic Slayer 🗡

@-_-shakezula 4 года назад

cuckoo!

@gregvsmj 4 года назад

Can’t here a D for one week now..

@saedt 4 года назад

TING TING TING TING TING TING

@ceemoon8556 4 года назад

They called him... the Supertonic Slayer. (The Only Thing They Fear is You ensues)

@woodenhoe 3 года назад

Supertonic Slayer Also Slayer: 0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0

@pcfllms 4 года назад

After hearing D repeating over and over, I think I can identify a D flawlessly.

@DisturbedVette 4 года назад

Can you still now?

@elimg.3684 4 года назад

In relation to another note (of which you know what not it is) maybe, but unless you have absolute pitch, its gonna be tough...

@drphdmd7064 4 года назад

All you really need to learn is one note by ear, and memorize how the intervals move. Then you are set.

@stephenmitchell3191 4 года назад

give it 10 minutes

@aedile2819 4 года назад

your mom can identify this D

@BrothersandCoFilms 3 года назад

The Weekends been pretty quiet since this dropped.

@jasperlawson6315 3 года назад

Thank God..... If only it could last forever

@lukeconnellan9008 3 года назад

@@jasperlawson6315 you said it

@theundeadbowman9824 3 года назад

Press F to pay respects (and not D)

@benjclarke3010 3 года назад

He's looking for a new note.

@vsnnyc721 3 года назад

The Weeknd*

@TarousDT 3 года назад

Now I just want to hear a song that is not all D's.

@szeth14 4 года назад

I mean, I wasn't aware of it before, and now I probably can't stop hearing it.

@rwrunning1813 4 года назад

Oh... Oh no... This is going to make pop music even harder to listen to...

@haslo_ 4 года назад

@@rwrunning1813 Not possible, is it?

@chriszanf 4 года назад

I was aware of it (that a lot of pop music was sounding similar) but not why.

@zipperozicvideodump 4 года назад

this will single-handedly ruin everything

@LukezyM 4 года назад

What a big pile of orange shit this was. Meaning the pop music of today’s.

@stegokitty 3 года назад

This is horrifying. Now I've got that note stuck in my head -- like when you hear a car alarm going on and on and on, and then it finally gets shut off, but your brain keeps hearing it "in the distance". I hope I'm not up all night with D playing on a loop.

@catpoke9557 3 года назад

...Yeah, to make matters worse I'm getting (and playing) my first instrument tomorrow. Now I'm just going to have one note in my mind the whole time. Wonderful

@matthewdemasi1363 3 года назад

When you said "car alarm" it triggered this musical memory: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-xV7nHX2RLjQ.html

@kirill3032 3 года назад

Can't stop thinking about D huh?

@jennmichelle2 3 года назад

Exactly!!!

@MrReedMiester 4 года назад

I feel like I learned an entire "pop music's formula" type of course that gets advertised on RU-vid so much, for free.

@BradsGonnaPlay 4 года назад

seriously, this seems like any basic musician could produce “world class hits” using nothing but samples, loops, and 1 note with 4 ornament notes

@harshvardhandewangan3997 4 года назад

@@BradsGonnaPlay Looks like classicalness in modern music is required!

@jeanpillet-conery2479 4 года назад

BradsGonnaPlay no that’s not how it works. The difficulty is to make interesting melodies that are simple and easy to grasp. You need balance in your song, between repetition and variation. Your melodies need small melodic fragments that are recycled through the song without feeling too repetitive. You also need 1-2 hooks, a new aspect/idea + a perfect use phonetics. It is hard to create a pop hit today, especially with the number of bad music there is out there

@stevenwatson9678 3 года назад

@@jeanpillet-conery2479 bro that's called writing a basic song, it sure as hell isn't easy but very underwhelming

@Kieran_Davey 3 года назад

Record Label: "So, what makes you think you can break into the pop industry?" Me: "This little melody is in C-Major." *presses the D key* Record Label: "Well, that's not really special. Everyone does tha-" Me: *presses it again* Record Label: "Here's a pen. Sign here."

@litterbox019 2 года назад

_proceeds to press it again but one octave up, and then an A key on the original octave_

@marshed0mallow Год назад

@@litterbox019 Ab G F D F G

@clipPRmusic Год назад

@@marshed0mallow sans?

@Smuckeroni 8 месяцев назад

@@clipPRmusicsans!

@DJBassBoomBottom 3 года назад

Makes sense why my classically trained dad thinks people "talk-sing" in pop songs.

@ldhdjzjjaklzjdbd6610 3 года назад

@@activitine62 I disagree, I don’t think they are failing, some of them are, and some of it is good, it’s just a different style

@artschiloyan9101 3 года назад

@@activitine62 few artists like Bruno Mars for example are nailing it. Most of them aren't🤣

@rickf6375 3 года назад

You don't have to be classically trained to realize they're not singing but talk-singing

@陳懷生-y7w 3 года назад

ah pop just sounded boring to people who practice classical music.

@ADeeSHUPA 3 года назад

@@陳懷生-y7w 古翼庭

@elishscott 3 года назад

The Weeknd's name should be "D Weeknd"

@radorigami 3 года назад

Oh my gosh You’re right

@prometheus6474 3 года назад

except it's the supertonic

@notsogreatsword1607 3 года назад

Except its only D for the video. Music doesn't work like that. The supertonic refers to a specific distance from the root note. It's about intervalic relationships not specific notes. This concept is not complicated once you understand the underlying principle. You're misleading people by saying it has anything to do with the D note.

@elishscott 3 года назад

@@frag4007 exactly, people these days 🤦🏻‍♂️ can’t seem to take a joke.

@dolphinberserk 3 года назад

Okay then, let's make it "Supertonic Weekend" There's a song in that. Bagsed it!

@rumble_bird 3 года назад

Once I tried to pick melodies by ear and realised that i was playing mostly one note when hearing the lyrics, now I know why.

@SeekerGoldstone 3 года назад

I'm an amateur musician and I take requests. 9 times out of 10, when someone asks if I can play a current song from the radio, the answer is "Technically yes, but you don't want me to."

@LL-tr5et 3 года назад

lol same. it's upsetting :p

@LL-tr5et 3 года назад

i tried to pick roland faunte's song melodies by ear and for such gorgeous tunes they really are simple

@catpoke9557 3 года назад

@@SeekerGoldstone Yeah it sounds like most of these songs aren't going to sound good when converted to basically any instrument.

@beaverronald4046 3 года назад

The note D just makes megalovania play in my head

@RadenWA 4 года назад

Pop Music then : Only 3 chords Pop Music now : _Only one note_ _It's evolving, just backwards_

@woodenhoe 4 года назад

so it's *gnivlove*

@themessenger8334 4 года назад

So, devolving then.

@enrott8560 4 года назад

pop music back in mozart and bach time... 20, 000 notes.

@SAM-yq2lm 4 года назад

🤩🤩😂🤩😂😂😂🤩😂😂🤩😂🤩😂🤩🤩🤩 Nailed it

@gillianomotoso328 4 года назад

This is actually more complex. The song's progression starts in a suspended minor harmony and finds its way occasionally back home

@MuffinTunes 4 года назад

As an American Music History instructor, this is absolutely something that will help me highlight were we currently are at the end of the semester. Please know I'll be using this video to present to my courses for educational purposes as non of the elective students understand music theory, you explained this VERY well. 5/5 Muffintastic starts, just subscribed for more!

@Jayhjl 4 года назад

@@arcadepiano nobody asked

@DFPercush 4 года назад

@@arcadepiano That's gotta be the most toxic thing I've read all day, good job. Personal slights, ideological rejection, lack of positive alternative, demeaning metaphors... It actually invokes a sense of perverse admiration at the sheer concentration of vitriol, like a work of art that you despise but can't look away from.

@seabassthegamer6644 4 года назад

@@arcadepiano Well, if your list of EVERY CHORD IN THE HISTORY OF EVER is so great, why don't you try using it to teach us _pitiful ignorants?_

@gabrielcabello9227 4 года назад

Inventor Maybe you wouldn’t sound as much of a loser if you actually shared your “amazing” knowledge in a positive manner instead of using that knowledge to be a pretentious prick.

@seabassthegamer6644 4 года назад

@@arcadepiano You know what? I'll give you some benefit of the doubt. And some advice on how to get some traction going, hopefully both in attention and in money. Start by offering some small slivers of your knowledge. I noticed that you have a video showing your favorite chord, and some details about that chord in the description. I would suggest making a short video along the lines of "This is my favorite chord." (chord plays) "This chord can do (thing) when paired with (some other chords), like in (example piece)" (relavant part of example piece plays) "It does this because (some list of reasons)." And so on, with more things the chord can do and more examples of those things. Do this with a few other chords (not the entire list, though, obviously). Additionally, put some music out into the world. People will know you know what you're doing if you show that you can make good music. To reiterate, don't put your whole portfolio out there for free, but do show some of your works. Maybe put your music on a site like bandcamp, where listeners can donate money or (if you're charging money) pay extra if they really like your music. Doing these things will show people that you know what you're talking about, which makes them more likely to pay for special teaching services or further music tracks. Most importantly, drop the pretentious attitude. No matter how legitimately good you are, nobody will want to listen to what you have to say if you constantly insult them.

@fluffartistt 4 года назад

"Let me show you a few songs to see how big the supertonic has become." *gets ad with a song where the main note is LITERALLY D*

@notchieuwu 4 года назад

laughs in adblocker

@rtxf 4 года назад

@Salim Sivaad were those transposed? They all sounded pretty natural in c

@Nightmoore 4 года назад

@@rtxf Yeah, he said he transposed them all. But it totally doesn't matter. You can pick ANY key, and all the notes in the new scale are the exact same distance from each other. You can take any song in a major key and transpose it to 12 different major keys, and it's going to sound the same. It may be way harder to sing if it's outside the power range for the vocalist, but for all practical purposes, it's exactly the same.

@rtxf 4 года назад

@@Nightmoore missed him say they were transposed, but I know how theory works :) thanks for explaining it for the next guy to read this tho.

@noa_1104 4 года назад

Robbert Then it should not come as a surprise they’d all sound perfectly natural, right? You can’t even tell...well, unless you have perfect pitch, that is?

@JavierB1988 3 года назад

I was blown away to see how the supertonic easily slides in with all the different chord functions.

@b1na276 3 года назад

never underestimate the power of re

@hiimsarahtt 3 года назад

Lolllll

@SAagreedSA 3 года назад

Lmao

@julianwarren8059 3 года назад

😂

@jakekideewanihayemainmarja832 3 года назад

You learn indian classical???

@pianoif 3 года назад

the power of D

@JustinY. 4 года назад

It would have been insane if you only spoke with words that contained the letter "D"

@Mumkeylord 4 года назад

hello there

@stickyglue1234 4 года назад

No way at the time I read this comment it only had 6 likes

@fluffartistt 4 года назад

I've saw you so much, you got a music channel theme today?

@Rafa-mv4nn 4 года назад

No way it's the legendary Justin Y! Never thought I would see you appear on an Andrew Huang video.

@rohinagrawal9727 4 года назад

lol

@karol_k 4 года назад

Musicians be like: D D D D D D D D D D D D C D

@matejmihelec3439 4 года назад

RE RE RE RE RE RE RE RE RE RE

@bennybooboobear3940 4 года назад

Wrong. He transposed them to c major. The note that’s played over and over is the SUPERTONIC, the second note in the scale, rather than D.

@spyrix4750 4 года назад

@@bennybooboobear3940 musicians be like: SUPERTONIC SUPERTONIC SUPERTONIC SUPERTONIC SUPERTONIC SUPERTONIC SUPERTONIC SUPERTONIC SUPERTONIC SUPERTONIC SUPERTONIC SUPERTONIC SUPERTONIC SUPERTONIC TONIC SUPERTONIC

@muffinszss 4 года назад

@@spyrix4750 LMAO

@tonyroman6991 4 года назад

There is one impostor among us

@ОлександрПодоляк-р5г 3 года назад

At this point RU-vid has taught me that modern pop music have the four chords, the supertonic, the millenium hoot, bunch of trendy beats and sound effects and the tendency to have less melody. Now i wonder how does it manage to produse new different stuff at all! Also it would be interesting to compare those typical fitures with ones from privious decades.

@archermcclain6587 3 года назад

Alternate title: why pop music is obsessed with being generally monotonous

@KingJellyfishII 3 года назад

Yep the melody is almost always super boring, of course my opinion but I like a melody that you can play and it sounds good even on its own.

@ComposerAdamWhite 3 года назад

It makes sense. Everything is going to lowest common denominator. Find the thing that NOBODY finds offensive in any situation, and overuse it.

@FLH3official 3 года назад

or "How pop kills music"

@brickalmonds 3 года назад

its more that pop music is terrified of any musical tension

@fernwehn5925 3 года назад

Vacuous minds feed off vacuous music. Pop is the sonic equivalent of fast food.

@DestrolioOnline 4 года назад

"i'm gonna play a subdominant melody over a third degree chord". why does this feel like a threat?

@accieT 4 года назад

DestrolioOnline because it is. its a threat to your eardrums

@joninarebekka2966 3 года назад

I wonder if I'll get a perfect pitch sense for the note D after watching this video

@nightski380 3 года назад

I already have a perfect pitch sense for every note 🤩

@bailey1410 3 года назад

perfect pitch people never fail to remind u that they have perfect pitch

@nightski380 3 года назад

@@bailey1410 Yup. I can confirm

@altherebot5593 3 года назад

Nice 👍

@rodbacon2629 3 года назад

@@nightski380 I know this is free-beating but i mean... more than half of all people with perfect pitch either 1 : don't ever try to do something with music and 2 : don't even understand anything about music either emotioanlly or theoretically ^^' So i'm not too sure you should be proud of something you're probably not able to use. Also, if you really have perfect pitch, you should be having quite a few problems with your ears (ex : when something is "off pitch" it will tend to annoy people with people perfect pitch.) Lastly, i believe there are quite a few different abilities that are being called perfect pitch, no one ever knows which one they're talking about :')

@gpoop23 3 года назад

I recently started working on an album consisting of instrumental covers of pop songs and it's really helped me realize how simple a lot of my favourite melodies are when you strip away all the lyrics and production. It was actually sometimes pretty disappointing to realize that this hook that always gets stuck in my head really only consists of like three notes.

@henrikpetersson3463 Год назад

Often it's rhythm and harmonics that makes it special.

@tadhg9558 4 года назад

I'll never get over the insane amount of editing work that goes into Andrews videos that most people just overlook

@slayerficated 4 года назад

I bet his editor is getting payyd.

@Danneleet 3 года назад

And people wonder why alot of people can't stand pop radio music

@simmydimmy 3 года назад

ikr it all just sounds the same

@jaytrain3692 3 года назад

i cant, i listen to an incredible amount of music (not trying to sound like a douche) and i cant stand pop or modern reggae.

@RisingSol 3 года назад

Dude I hate pop radio music with a burning passion

@penguinaka8383 3 года назад

I’m the 69th like

@shmvon 3 года назад

Are those two people referring to the same people?

@andrasfogarasi5014 3 года назад

I feel like the ghost writers are trying to send a message or something.

@genewitch 3 года назад

if i can find the midi files for any of these i'll extract just the supertonics and run it through a CW (Morse code) decoder. could be a grey code, too, i guess.

@augstsh 3 года назад

they like d

@an_annoying_cat 3 года назад

it stands for deez nuts

@genewitch 3 года назад

@@an_annoying_cat no. Yeah. We get it.

@lifelover69 3 года назад

the message is "DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD"

@MikaelMikaelMikael Год назад

That Katy Perry song at least uses the 7th and the 4th note once each, and what a breath of fresh air it was to hear them after first listening to the barrage of the super tonic sprinkled with the same few pentatonic notes.

@scarybarry1323 3 года назад

“What do you have?!” A * supertonic *! “NO!”

@CoolCatJames2002 3 года назад

Is it sharp or flat?

@masondchong 4 года назад

Now I’ll only think of that peachy orange color when I hear a supertonic

@jesuisfudgeman874 4 года назад

dozens of key signatures, with many different ways to play a song: *exists* The Weeknd: *A, C, D AND E*

@cubeofcheese5574 4 года назад

Well Andrew shifted everything to be in the same key

@pingozingo 4 года назад

Weeknd took the E from end and put it in his songs

@smooshfanultra 4 года назад

Blinding lights is in F minor.

@noamgem4756 4 года назад

i hug everyone who listens to this beat ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-953seo4SAL0.html

@31pas0 4 года назад

@@smooshfanultra ...aaaand it was written by Max Martin

@eviternis 3 года назад

D there, now im a master composer

@sharoncastillo2411 3 года назад

comedy

@AlexPies1 4 года назад

0:20 why is everyone talking about the D key and nobody's talking about Andrew playing Pink Fluffy Unicorns Dancing on Rainbows not once but TWICE

@landonvincent7974 4 года назад

it's because he was demonstrating how a song can be transposed to a different key and still be the same song... He did it on purpose

@Andriale 4 года назад

Landon Vincent it was a joke i believe

@feather6502 4 года назад

I was looking for someone to mention this lol

@nobody-sv9xo 4 года назад

I mean he made the song...

@lockyourdoors5886 4 года назад

SO THAT'S WHAT IT WAS CRAP I COULDN'T REMEMBER

@aetheralmeowstic2392 4 года назад

One pop artist is eventually going to sue another over the supertonic. It's inevitable, given the current standing of lawsuits within the music industry.

@jorgechavez7211 3 года назад

I've been afraid of making music cause I think I'm gonna make something I don't know about but already exists and get sued 💀

@NoThrottle 3 года назад

@@jorgechavez7211 I do fear doing the same, but at the same time, there really is no defined copyright/music law in my country. I just make sure to not have my songs too /generic/ and always use royalty-free stuff when sampling. I also upload a video of the project file playing just in case people say /I sampled/ their song.

@oh-ox9sj 3 года назад

sued over the D

@oh-ox9sj 3 года назад

@@jorgechavez7211 nobody cares as long as u dont make too much money on it

@DerekHise 3 года назад

@@jorgechavez7211 Legal Eagle did a good breakdown of the legalities of shard song components: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-zgsL5yW3bao.html

@martingibbs8972 3 года назад

You’ve absolutely nailed it. I listen to pop music radio and wonder why I get bored within a minute. It’s the supersonic! I didn’t realise until you showed it with so many examples!

@mackflynt6094 4 года назад

"Also sidechain compression." That had me dying of laughter idk why

@Cyphule 4 года назад

A D D S O M E R E V E R B

@colour_bloo 4 года назад

I live for sidechain. It makes everything just automatically sound better. Have a monotone subbass? Sidechain. Not enough room for your lead? Sidechain. Wife left you... well, then you probably have other issues to deal with, at least you can cheer yourself up by putting dat sidechain on your mix 😎

@xafraskrazos630 4 года назад

Nobody's talking about OTT ? :o

@portemanteau3802 4 года назад

Bad bass playing? SIDECHAIN!

@samprock 4 года назад

LOL we all guilty of it :)

@cdifreakguy 3 года назад

Another note that works similarly is the fifth. Over the first degree: fifth Over the second degree: fourth Over the third degree: third Over the fourth degree: ninth Over the fifth degree: root Over the sixth degree: seventh Over the seventh: sixth Plus, it's in the tonic chord.

@tsg_frank5829 3 года назад

Ok but the ninth, seventh and sixth aren't really as stable as the tonic, third, fourth or fifth

@cdifreakguy 3 года назад

@@tsg_frank5829 What I’m saying is it’s not a half-step or tritone away from any note in any chord, therefore using it in the melody over any chord wouldn’t be incredibly dissonant. There is no note that sounds completely consonant over every chord but the second, fifth . . . and come to think of it, the sixth all avoid the harshest dissonances.

@tj-co9go 2 года назад

yeah, the fifth thing is a long trope. they used it like during the baroque, classicism, and romantic era classical msuic, but using the fifth note (dominant) especially often during the classicism era in the mid-1700's. Think of Mozart and Haydn.

@xyzyzx1253 2 года назад

@@cdifreakguy the major pentatonic scale! It’s a great tool for grouping the most resolved notes and their tonic, Anything that isn’t the major pentatonic will be a dissonance to the tonic. It’s been a fantastic way to get into improvising for me :)

@xythantiopps 7 месяцев назад

i think the only real difference with the fifth is that you can't just hammer away at it because it's already resolved whereas the 2nd/9th is asking for release

@rrrāmusic963 4 года назад

I love how he just gets straight to the point

@themessenger8334 4 года назад

Made me watch the entire video, despite the clickbaity title, because he went straight in without any bullshit. Good video.

@rrrāmusic963 4 года назад

@@themessenger8334 yeah exactly

@JerryAnimations 3 года назад

i ofically cant unhear this note anymore, or stop looking for it in songs

@jaimeeoww 4 года назад

Quick summary: why are they using this note so much? It fits with anything (basically it's easy mode for melody writing)

@rodrigoodonsalcedocisneros4419 4 года назад

Yeah, laziness at its finest. Tells you how highly producers and artists think of their fans' intellect

@9kanima 4 года назад

@@rodrigoodonsalcedocisneros4419 No its because using only one note gives listeners the freedom of interpretation. thats why using single notes are so powerful right now.

@sharadsemilo 4 года назад

@@9kanima can you please elaborate?

@9kanima 4 года назад

@@sharadsemilo lets say you Are listening to a single sine wave. If you do that you will come to realize that There is no motion or emotions so to say which will lead the Listener to Come up with their own Interpretation which are formed by Their own experiences. A single note is a lower Form of emptiness or Chaos where order can Take place, but must not(but will most likely). Thats why its so Popular too. it's easier to Connect to or in Other words it has a higher range of audience vice versa.

@Moosemoose1 4 года назад

@@9kanima you can have freedom of interpretation with anything, the use of the supertone is a marketing trick to reach the lowest common denominator to maximize profits. This "music's" not about experimentation or soul, its about making money unfortunately.

@petergaley314 4 года назад

When you have to pay to unlock more than one note on your autotune plugin

@ChaosRayZero 3 года назад

So far the first comment today to make me _actually laugh out loud!_ 😄👍

@CaptainJohn 3 года назад

@@ChaosRayZero Same!

@jonathangardner6688 3 года назад

@@ChaosRayZero same lol

@eli.muskett8645 3 года назад

I like your profile picture✌️

@alecrechtiene558 2 года назад

I also believe it has kind of an unresolved sound, but not to the point that we are begging to go back to tonic. Pop music in the past few decades has been very driven and propels forward. In conclusion, I feel the supertonic gives the since that we are driving forward or gliding just above the ground. Edit: supertonic, not supersonic. Typo😆

@mrnelsonius5631 4 года назад

I’ve been calling this “The Weekend Note” when writing the last couple years haha. Which isn’t really a diss, in my mind that’s the first time I heard hammering that 2nd over and over in multiple songs by an artist and now it’s everywhere. Was influential I guess 🤷‍♂️. Trends seem to last way longer in popular music than they used to also. So everyone, enjoy 20 more years of supertonics and trap hats!! (the louder the more popular) 😂

@kapilk1644 3 года назад

I think it's because of how influential rap music has become, people staying on the same note is sort of a melodic take on rap in a lot of casees

@Gichanasa 3 года назад

I guess the supertonic note is the pop music equivalent for the minor third note for blues and rock music. A very nice observation and analysis. Please keep up the great work Andrew!

@xxSk8ing4christxx 4 года назад

This is literally like that scene from Rick and Morty when Jerry was listen to "Human Music" on "Earth Radio."

@AjSmit1 4 года назад

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@williamcompitello2302 Год назад

The super tonic is the Dorian mode. This mode has amazing properties that no other mode in the Major scale has. It's symmetric, repetitive with the min. 3/maj. 3 pattern, and it's probably the most versatile mode ever.

@LohPro 10 месяцев назад

Lydian is considered by some the neighbor, or relative, of dorian (ie; neither have "avoid" notes) Together, they are the only two modes (keys) of the Major scale that have, as their character (modal) tone, the leading-tone of the parent scale. All other modes have the subdominant of the parent Major scale. Ionian, phrygian, Mixolydian, aeolian & locrian= scale degree [4] dorian & Lydian= scale degree [7] in a Major scale, scale degrees [4] & [7] make up the tritone.

@RiffsAndBeards 4 года назад

Never heard the term SUpertonic before. Only Major 2 or 9. Amazing video!

@Rain593 4 года назад

Tonic Supertonic Mediant Subdominant Dominant Submediant Leading tone Every note in the scale has a stupid name like this.

@LychkovIA 4 года назад

Nice to see you in the comment section, Fluff! Yeah, before Andrew explained what that means I was like... A supertonic?! What's that?!!

@2raddude 4 года назад

Riffs, Beards & Gear the other ones have names too! In order from 1-7 it goes: tonic, supertonic, mediant, subdominant, dominant, submediant, and subtonic.

@btat16 4 года назад

@@Rain593 Subtonic: *cries in the corner*

@ashoka9306 4 года назад

it's part of functional harmony, which tries to describe how the notes and their chords work in relation to one another in a progression.

@GarethThomasTunes 4 года назад

Feels like that scene where John Malkovich fell through a portal into his own mind and everything was Malkovich.

@juhanainen 4 года назад

Malkovich, Malkovich, Malkovich. Malkovich!! Malkovich?

@SynthApprentice 4 года назад

... Malkovich?

@EpixManz 4 года назад

Nathan V MALKOVICH!!!

@DJSockmonkeyMusic 4 года назад

@@EpixManz malkovich MALKOVICH malkovich *MALkovich*

@alexvoll1873 4 года назад

Oh my god he put what I've noticed for a while into a scholarly presentation

@rwrunning1813 4 года назад

I love when that happens. 5:44 Oh, yeah. I know what this is going to be. Katy Perry Never Re- YEEEEEEEAAAAAHHHHHHH LET'S GOOOOOOOOO

@AxxLAfriku 4 года назад

I STRONGLY DISAGREE! Being as famous as I am on RU-vid, I know that it gets hard to read every comment I get. I try my best, but I am just so famous, that I can't do it much longer. Sorry, dear alex

@GlitchComputer 4 года назад

right!!!?

@yoshimitsu8922 Год назад

I finally understand why modern pop music all sounds the same to me

@pradeepvincentmusic 4 года назад

RU-vid: wait wait wait... there are too many songs to indentify and issue a copyright claim!

@marcc375 3 года назад

They all should sue each other for copyright infringement.

@ChaosRayZero 3 года назад

I love it when the profile pic matches the comment! ^_^

@shamardaniel4819 4 года назад

The Weeknd: People love my unique melodies and I’m rolling in fresh ideas! Andrew Huang: I’m about to ruin this mans whole career.

@ncjake8916 4 года назад

I actually kinda got the opposite reaction. Watch again and see how much The Weeknd moves off that supertonic anchor compared to a lot of the other examples. Yes it's always where his melodies are anchored around, but there's a much more fluid and consistent motion than in a lot of the other pop songs.

@mixolydian9102 4 года назад

😂🤣😂🤣😂😆💯

@shamardaniel4819 4 года назад

NCJake True. His songs are extremely catchy and manages to keep plenty of interest. His rhythmic and tonal patterns have worked for years now. But I couldn’t help to meme the guy.😂

@TheZooropaBaby 4 года назад

I mean....people have used pentatonic scale over and that’s 5 notes.....Weeknd using 3 or 4 notes isn’t really that much different

@albertoromeo8522 4 года назад

(But I’m not a rapper)

@arvid2644 3 года назад

Me *hitting the supertonic on the piano in the music lessons*: im a musical genius now

@joshbreekveldt3741 4 года назад

Alternative title: "Andrew Huang smashes the D key".

@scottnguyen9382 4 года назад

"Andrew hits the D"

@WillyJunior 4 года назад

ya blew it. should've just said "smashes the D"

@SreenikethanI 4 года назад

@Billy _we need to keep it PG_

@jpbostonian 4 года назад

*PH Intro Plays*

@buchogmars7769 3 года назад

Andrew: In pop music, D is the most popular note. Undertale fans:

@Megasaphire 3 года назад

Hahaha.... SKELETON

@Nai_101 3 года назад

I don't get it

@javym1431 3 года назад

D is used a lot in undertale music such as megalovania

@Nai_101 3 года назад

@@javym1431 ah, i see

@Nerine98 3 года назад

@@javym1431 SO THAT'S WHY IT NEVER SOUNDS BAD

@TheWheatless 4 года назад

I feel like a door just opened, realizing what “that” sound is

@zeroblackstar 2 года назад

Watching this video has improved my pitch recognition for D by about 4000%

@setmason1510 3 года назад

imagine the record companies fighting over which one will take the money this video makes lol

@benwright3367 3 года назад

Except most of these songs are owned by one super corporation.

@tykobray4132 3 года назад

you can play any song or movie you want on youtube. you just have to criticize it. there have been entire reposts of movies with a fake cinema seating and a dude down the front that yells out how crap the movie is.

@taylrthegreat 3 года назад

Whoop post Malone got this one lol

@domainofscience 4 года назад

Very interesting, this was great! Q: What makes a killer riff, killer?

@shub00_ 4 года назад

Why this channel has no verified mark even with 600k+

@gabrielcabello9227 4 года назад

Slayer: 0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0

@ellebhee5045 4 года назад

@@gabrielcabello9227 was gonna say Kerry King lol

@matiasarteaga4548 3 года назад

Long answer: the intrinsic relationship the notes have with each other, generating a feeling such of a forward moving motion, while still having a periodic repetition of said pattern of notes that the listener can recognize and look forward to. Also being a good complementary to the drum part and viceversa. (As we’ve seen that changing the drum part of a song generally completely destroys the riff, not always but a lot of times) Short answer: jimmy page

@ganko2240 3 года назад

When you don't survive it. Otherwise it's just an innocent riff.

@gmspec 4 года назад

This video is so informative but shows the authenticity all of us music producers can relate to! Big up Andrew for this one ✅

@jomesias 2 года назад

Never knew the major 2nd was the sound I was hearing!! Super interesting the root and 5th is single handedly resposible for rock and metal!! And now pop Major 2nd

@ethanedgington3561 3 года назад

All those “D” notes... and he never transitioned into Megalovania *cries in a bad time*

@ChaosRayZero 3 года назад

Or any ocarina songs from Legend of Zelda for that matter. In Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask, the A button plays a D note with the "Song of Storms" probably being the most famous tune in the games to start with that button. (Yes, I know it's the tonic in that case, not the supertonic, _but it's still a D note.)_

@dogman15 3 года назад

Except in Megalovania, "D" is the tonic, and it's used really well.

@coalescence3835 3 года назад

Plus, literally any Hans Zimmer soundtrack is in "D"

@coalescence3835 3 года назад

@@charlesdoesmore5488 We got ourselves a salty boi, bois.

@PiePlayzBASS 3 года назад

*b a d p a i n*

@fen4554 3 года назад

It really drives it home since he's using the Ariel of soundfonts here.

@disgustof-riley8338 3 года назад

Arial

@mellowords 3 года назад

😂 well said, the midi piano D was really annoying about halfway in

@bien.mp4 3 года назад

which one is it

@mellowords 3 года назад

@@bien.mp4 'grand piano 1'

@Kaffeebaum 4 года назад

Oh God is this one of those "Four Chord Songs" things that I will never stop hearing now?

@singflower 4 года назад

That's what I was thinking. Hearing all those songs like that gave me flashbacks from that Axis of Awesome video

@penguindrum264 4 года назад

@@singflower the Axis of Awesome is becoming a lot less trendy now.

@singflower 4 года назад

@Makoa The Ancient Yes, it's true that many songs use only 3 or 4 chords, and it's not really surprising if you think about it. There are seven chords in a scale, so using 3 or 4 is a good compromise between too boring and too messy. But what is usually meant by "four chord song" is a song using the I-V-vi-IV progression, which is used quite a lot in pop music. Of course other genres have common progressions as well, like the II-V-I in jazz.

@singflower 4 года назад

@@penguindrum264 I don't know much about them, I just remembered watching that video a few years ago.

@justinjagt7633 4 года назад

@@singflower *Just if you play in the scale though, and 7s 9s 11s 13s, theres way more to make it interesting

@petter2849 Год назад

You nailed it Andrew. Pop music will be listened to in a very different way after watching this video.

@libremercadoencrisiseconom2118 Год назад

painful way

@HappyFingaz 4 года назад

hey andrew, you've probably already talked about this, but i'd love if you revisted the "loudness war". i watched a video of a mastering engineer talking about recent changes in the the way that streaming services such as spotify handle loudness of tracks - apparently songs max loudness is now based on the catogory (genre) of which the song is uploaded - which the engineer said completely changes the way that artist should be approaching their mix & master. would love to hear you speak on this topic

@jersute 4 года назад

agreed. i've had insipid discussions about which flavor of edm/metal tracks are based solely on compression/loudness and reference levels in dj mixes

@arborealsquid2380 4 года назад

Agreed, that would be awesome.

@steffenherold754 4 года назад

Interesting, didn't know they had changed this. Do you have a link for this video?

@Ferrichrome 4 года назад

I'd love to see the video as well haha

@Motekk67 4 года назад

Jon Sine made a video on this recently

@bonbonpony 3 года назад

"overused" might be the _definition_ of modern pop music :q

@itz_cornchip 3 года назад

Hello!

@lvbboi9 3 года назад

@saltyseaduck5865 3 года назад

@@lvbboi9 why do you say that lol

@jesse_eg 4 года назад

You ever work at a restaurant that makes all its dishes with garlic? It sticks with you all the way home until you take a shower and might even make you hesitate using it in your own cooking. That’s what this feels like.

@evilspoons 4 года назад

There used to be a restaurant here in town, something like "That's Aroma - A Garlic Restaurant & Bar". It even had garlic ice cream. It closed, but only because the building it was in was old and got demolished. You could smell it from half a block away.

@TheBlashMusic 4 года назад

Hahaha 100%

@pepegoodguy2837 3 года назад

0:44 that was soo smooth

@Sc4r4byte 4 года назад

A missed title opportunity: "Why is pop music obsessed with The D?"

@tjnotico 4 года назад

not really accurate

@dariocaporuscio8701 4 года назад

It's actually a wrong title. It's not D, but the 2nd note of the scale. It's only D if we are in C Major, like in the example he made (transposing every song in C). For example if the song is in G major, that note (the second note of the scale) becomes A

@steweeez 4 года назад

Sc4r4byte let’s be obsessed with da B ..

@rasputozen 4 года назад

@@dariocaporuscio8701 Aaaaaakchually most of these songs also happen to be in C so it's still a right title :)

@Fabi-es1xy 4 года назад

Hanz Zimmer also loves the D, damn they re all the same xD

@maryvallettakeith6146 3 года назад

Well this explains why every pop song sounds the same. Thought I was going crazy.

@VArsovski10 3 года назад

Well, that Aaand THIS: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-k5EZgA-fjnI.html Though must admit they tried change it but has gotten a lot worse lately :P

@atai1576 2 года назад

I was thinking about this too

@JishinimaTidehoshi 2 года назад

They also all sound depressing as F!

@JoE_Songs 2 года назад

nope you didn't. lol. I thought a while, was getting old and grumpy. but then I played and found: 3-4 chords, no melody, hook-line composing and no risk. it's a bit old school and extremely cheesy: but search for the original "could it be magic" from Barry Manilow. the chords & harmonies in this song alone. it starts with a theme from Chopin. or the complexity of of Stevie Wonders "another star" ... etc.

@markuskopter 2 года назад

@@JishinimaTidehoshi *depressing as D ;)

@TachyBunker 4 года назад

I hate and like when I learn a new thing that's happening, and suddenly cannot un-see (hear) it.

@thedopeassshow7795 3 года назад

I really appreciate how your videos just go straight into the meat of it. Very underrated thing that.

@thisisnotapplejuice 3 года назад

the weekend uses the supertonic in almost every song of his and still manages to make absolute bangers, incredible

@AmIWhatIAm 3 года назад

Maybe it IS the formula to making BANGERS

@keisi1574 3 года назад

@@AmIWhatIAm Yeah- for people who are easily banged.

@SYQmusic 3 года назад

"the weekend uses the supertonic in almost every song" Yes "still manages to make absolute bangers" No, they're crap.

@thisisnotapplejuice 3 года назад

@@SYQmusic you're making ed sheeran tutorials i think you should step down dude

@SYQmusic 3 года назад

@@thisisnotapplejuice lol, gotta love that you took the time to visit my channel to insult me. Love & peace, bro. :)

@MaemiNoYume 4 года назад

The same can be said to the 5th degree of the scale, it fits with every chord and even fits with many chords outside of the scale like the bVII, bVI(+7), bIII, bII(#11). The position of these two notes in the circle of fifths really help to show why they are so easy to fit with so many chords. But I think the main reason is because these notes aren't really at rest, like when it's the 9th or 11th or 7th or 13th of the chord, it's not only that it fits, but they don't fit perfectly and that's why it's pleasant, because it's not restful. The pleasure of the expectation from the note resting to the first or third degree, doesn't really matter if it does rest or not, the fact that there is the expectation is what matter. (sorry for any mistake, english isn't my native language)

@BlindMelonLord 4 года назад

Maemi No Yume you shouldn’t need to apologize. You did good at writing your comment for English not being your native language. Hell… People who speak English naturally sometimes aren’t that good at writing English. (Myself included, I have my moments).

@MaemiNoYume 4 года назад

@@BlindMelonLord I apologized because I felt like I could have written that with less words idk xD

@crapadopalese 4 года назад

Awesome observation, was just gonna write the same one, more or less. I agree with you -- I just think that the 5th sounds naive since it's so overdone, and the 2nd sounds fresher. Also I think something that Andrew only said in the passing is that the 1st and 3rd are adjacent to the 2nd, so all those lazy writers who just noodle around 3 notes have an easier time with 2nd than with 5th -- noodling on the 6th and 4th won't sound as good.

@MaemiNoYume 4 года назад

@@crapadopalese I agree with you. In my case I use the 5th because my bass notes usually go around the IV degree, so in that context the 5th is interesting and I noodle around using the major pentatonic scale of the 5th (which has the 7th, which is the tritone for the IV, which I really like)