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adamneelyyoutubecomments · 5 years ago

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why hello there, thank you for sticking around. i thought i would uh, talk a little bit more about some theoretical concepts i did not talk about in the main video, just for time reasons. you know, if i- (slight chuckle) - talked about all the stuff i wanted to in the main video, it would've been way too boring, way too dry, and in this more, uh, informal, off-the-cuff aspect, i might inject a little bit of uh, levity and wit.

so, here we go. so there's something called the "anhemitonic pentatonic scales". and in a- an ann ene he mt ito ncic pentantoci dsfjsd - jeez, i can't talk... in those scales, you don't have half steps. anhemitonic- no half steps. major pentatonic scale's anhemitonic. minor pentatonic scale's anhemitonic. and they're really awesome for us, and we use them because they're anhemitonic.

half steps are kinda hard to work with. now, the major scale has two half steps, it has them between b and c and it has them between e and f, but it doesn't have consecutive half steps. why's that important? well, you hear all this harmony, all this sounds nice! and one of the reasons why it sounds nice is because in none of those scales and in no combination of anything, really, can you ever have consecutive half steps. if you ever had a scale that has consecutive half steps, like maybe [blues scale sound], the c blues scale, you couldn't really use some of the chords in that. for example, this chord, if i used this- those are all notes from the c blues scale. it sounds... well, i wouldn't say horrible, it sounds really crunchy. mmmmmmmrrmmm. yeahhhh.

and those-[slight chuckle]- those sorts of scales which have consecutive half steps might not be great for harmony. so, what i wan-wanted to try and do, is i wanted to try and create a compendium of all of the scales that would be good for harmony. all of the seven note scales that would be good for harmony. a- uhhhhh.... and basically that would mean that, you know, wouldn't contain consecutive half steps. so. major scale... does not contain conse-consecutive half steps. other scales which don't contain consecutive half steps include... [facecam shrinks] the melodic minor scale, the harmonic minor scale, and then also a little-used one which is called the harmonic major scale. you might not have heard of that, but it goes like this- [major scale b6 sound] it's the major scale, with the flat... uhh, flat 6. yes. the flat 6. (clicking, lip smacking)

so i'm 'onna lower these, i'm 'onna minimize these... (sibelius pages are minimized)... so... let's talk a little bit more about that dorian brightness stuff, and then we'll go into all of the other scales which do not have consecutive half steps. um... the dorian scale's really interesting, for a lot of reasons. one, you know, the stuff that i talked about in this video, because if you take this dorian brightness idea, take all of these scales and relate them into-back to dorian, in terms of how many notes are changed... back to dorian, uhhhmmm... it inverts to the opposite polarity. so lydian inverts to locrian, you can see right there, ionian to phrygian, mixolydian to aeolian, et cetera. (inhale) there's some other things that are interesting about dorian, (lip smack), uhmmmm... it's radially symmetric... to the perfect fifth. what the hell do i mean by that? okay, radally... ray-dee-ah-lee symmetric. (inhale). if i take a c, and then i build up a perfect fifth up from the c, and then build a perfect fifth down from the c, i have the notes... f and g. so far, i have these three notes. c, f, and g. [quintal chord sound].

if i do that again, if i take an f.... which was down here, but i've just sort of jumped up here, and build down a..... fifth... i get a b flat... if i take that g... im gonna move it up down here and then move up a perfect fifth... i have a d! so far, we have the notes c, d, f, g, b flat. if we do that process one last time, we take the b flat, do a perfect fifth down from the b flat, we get an e flat, and then we take the d and do a perfect fifth up from the d, we get an a... all of the sudden... we have a dorian scale! oh my gooooosh!

so we say that d- d.... or, sorry, dorian... is radally... radially symmetric, and oddly enough, thats also how the pythagorean tuning comes about... pythagoras of yes, the pythagorean theorem, came up with this... with this method of tuning scales based upon perfect fifths going out in opposite directions, and he basically would create a dorian scale... so, dorian as sort of the basis of harmony and the basis of brightness and balance, and this sort of weird system.. has a long history. it goes back to the ancient greeks. and if you, like, listen to it, just sort of with an ear for brightness, an ear for like, light and dark, the beginning of the scales kinda dark... and then it kinda lightens up a bit towards the top... so its a nice yin-yang balance of bright on top, and sort of dark on the bottom. aweseome.

okay, so dorian as the center of the major scale is awesome, but it gets a little bit more deep than that... because, if i take up the melodic minor scale, bring this stuff up... (slight pause, lip smack)... you see all this stuff? this is all the brightness back to dorian... in other words, these are all the notes that you need to change in lydian #5, which is the third mode of the melodic minor, in order to get dorian.. in this direction. (breath)... and here's the interesting thing, it also inverts like this. going back to dorian! so lydian #5 inverts to locrian b4... the opposite polarity, again, this is all arranged by brightness relative back to dorian in the major scale. hmmmmm.... interesting.... (breath)... um.... the plot is thickening a little b

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smoljinhc · 7 years ago

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The 8 Questions Tag

So I was tagged by the awesome @king-jaehwan, i loveloveloveeee your url dude and you’re a really great blog 😎✨

Rules: Answer 8 questions and come up with your own 8 questions. Tag others to answer your questions.

1. What’s the most useless talent you have?

Oh boy I’m blank on this uhmmmm the first thing that comes to mind is that I can make a star out of a rubber band... pretty lame but that was like my party trick when i was younger and people would always be so amazed lol

2. What makes you roll your eyes every time you hear it?

‘Trump’. Like okay let me explain; so one day during maths a friend realised that whenever he, or somebody else, mentioned ‘Trump’ I’d sigh and roll my eyes and I didn’t even notice this myself. So he concluded that it’s an automatic reaction whenever I hear ‘Trump’ so yeahhhh idk if i still do this tho

3. Dream vacation?

Oh honestly I just want to travel everywhere. However, one of my dream vacations is taking a road trip through North America!

4. Favourite Disney movie?

Okay well I R E A L L Y love Mulan okay, like one of my all time favourite movies in general, but Beauty and the Beast is also one of my favourite disney movies. So i’m just gonna say those two and not pick between them 😛

5. Would you rather have Jaehwan scream in your ear for 10 minutes or Jihoon do gugu kaka every time you blink?

So basically the question is would i rather turn extremely deaf in a short span of time OR would i rather die because of too much cuteness and dryness of my eyes because of keeping them open for extended periods of time... this is really a question only you’d come up with asldjflsdf okay as much as i love Jihoon and his aegyo... seeing and hearing it every single time I blink... is a bit much.. so I’m gonna take my chances and go with the screaming, I’ll just scream along lmao

6. Broduce bias excluding ot11

Oh my god nooooooooo okay tg ot11 ain’t included.. sooo it’d definitely be Jonghyun and Youngmin i love others too tho

7. When was the last time you facepalmed?

Wow I haven’t facepalmed today yet so it was yesterday bc of something my sister said

8. What fictional characters have you had a crush on over the years?

Holy cow okay hard question hmmmm, I don’t really know tbh since I don’t really ‘crush’ on fictional characters nowadays, when I was younger sure likeeeeee Cody from Zack and Cody orrrrr yeah no I’m blanking out sorry

My questions:

If you could pick 2 languages to speak and understand fluently, which ones would you pick?

If time travel is possible, to which period would you want to travel to?

Which idol would you want to hang out with for an entire day?

If you could pick one song to listen to again for the first time, which song would you pick?

What is/are your favourite ice-cream flavour(s)?

What’s the first K pop song you listened to?

Dogs or cats?

What’s a group you’d recommend your followers to go check out right now?

I tag: @jimin-ism, @caiider, @iknowyounow, @softwandy, @map6si, @smolnkindagay, @starbins, @renjuniee - you don’t have to do this if you don’t want to, you can just ignore it :’)

#i havent done a tag in a loooong time #haven't been tagged in a while either :')#thanks for tagging me <3333 #i tagged some old followers but also a few new ones so sorry if you didn't want to be tagged!#tag

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