#music nerd shit

[cockodemon]

I got a new guitar and amp for Santa's birthday ÒvÓ

[relicsongmel]

the leading tone is the clit of the major scale

[shostakobitchh]

I swear to god, nothing sounds like touching heaven more than Respighi's Church Windows. The last 2 minutes of the final movement bring me to tears every time. The Gregorian chant in the strings, THE ORGAN, the low brass building like a beast in the background.

Fucking sick.

[sailor-tri]

I may scrap Hecate's current Objection theme I fear...

I'm listening to Miles's and Apollo's Objection theme and that shit bangs. It's stately but also funky. Mine is a bit too angst-y and waltz-y and doesn't really fit with everyone's

[notori]

Brief pause to the incoming Harlivy spam but I had the Revue Starlight soundtrack on while travelling and forget how much I love Hokori to Ogori. That rise at 4:25-ish that leaps even higher instead of going for a more 'expected' downturn at the end is such musical beauty exemplifying the overwhelming rise that IS Pride and Arrogance just... -chef's kiss- Perfection.

[0th3rw0rldl1n3ss]

We need more friends who will legit listen to anything because with how varied our system is we collectively have the capacity to enjoy almost *any* music genre and subgenre out there, but we don’t know anyone else like that, even out of our plural friends, so we don’t really have anyone we can talk about music with in a way that doesn’t feel limited.

[lyra-lovecraft]

Love funky time signature shit. Listenin to Good Day by Tally Hall n realized my feet were off step but I was certain I didn't mess up my step off or anything so I started counting n realized that the time signature was changing to 5/4 at the end of each phrase, but more in the feel of 4/4 with an extra beat after rather than full 5/4. So on the following measure I was on the right foot rather than the left on the downbeat. Funky shit

[transgenderuwo]

Saint Pepsi, you say 👀

I had a huge future funk phase and Saint Pepsi was one of my faves, it's wild seeing another person who likes/liked them in the wild

Oh yeah the lighting in here sucks right now but like

I'm not even a record kind of guy (I prefer cassette tapes) but this was the last copy in the warehouse and the man himself said he would be honored to sign it if I brought it to a show/con/whatever someday. I'm gonna make him make good on that promise someday, but people just don't do tours here, OTL

Also for like 3 years or something my username on Flight Rising was SaintPepsi so like. lol. yeah. I only changed it because I felt bad to park myself on someone else's handle like that

[evilfloralfoolery]

do u have any songs that sound like cas or may be close to his voice? curius about how a range like that sounds

Ha, oh yeah. I have some good examples. I have an almost exact match for his voice, but I don't want to put that particular example out on snzblr for personal reasons. I sometimes share it in private, but it depends. HOWEVER!! I'm more than happy to share these that are similar in many ways:

This guy is a close match for the right tone and vibrato on this particular song, but not spot on. He needs to be more "open" in the sinuses and throat. Less head, more chest:

Asylum City by Winter Rose

This guy's range isn't quite as high as Caspian, but it's goddamn impressive and I could 100% see Caspian singing this. Not really the right tone. Caspian's voice is "prettier" than this:

Rock 'n' Roll (I Just Wanna) by Steelheart {Also has super rockin' guitar part that would be great for Miami)

I'll Never Let You Go by Steelheart (could 1000% be something Caspian wrote. It's a whole ass brick of cheese.)

The lower end of the range of this one is really, really lovely. 1000% something Caspian would do as a solo piano piece:

Wait for Sleep by Dream Theater (it's really just this one song. A lot of their other stuff isn't even close.)

[electriccowbell]

so i just shared the stage with eric whitacre for rehearsal and he tossed his hair for us and now all is right with the world

[cockodemon]

Hey bestie, heard you like lighter picks

[relicsongmel]

Okay so I read your pinned post and omg having pitch-colour synesthesia sounds so interesting! I'm curious if you also see those colours/visions(?) when you yourself are singing? Also, did you notice anything interesting with game OSTs like Ace Attorney? (I don't know much about synesthesia so if any of this was weird, feel free not to answer haha)

Not weird at all friend! I love answering synesthesia questions and this one has made my day <3

Generally since much of my singing is done in either a performance or rehearsal/practice setting (and the latter is in preparation for a performance so they’re not that different to me functionally—and even when I’m singing for fun I still end up treating it like a performance a lot of the time), my synesthetic visions usually take a backseat to the more technical aspects of my performance such as proper breath management, good intonation, strong diction, and important elements of musicality like dynamics and emotional expression among other things. That said they are still very much there in the back of my mind and sometimes even influence my performance a little—for instance keys with darker colors tend to make me want to sing with a darker, fuller tone (this one in particular is a double-edged sword because it can be to my detriment if the piece in particular doesn’t really call for that kind of sound).

I have MANY little scattered observations about the Ace Attorney soundtrack—I’m not sure if you’re asking for synesthesia thoughts or general thoughts so I guess I’ll do a bit of both.

A few synesthetic observations:

The Turnabout Sisters theme is in A flat major which in my head is the same shade of purple as Maya’s haori! I always love when a composer’s key choices match up with my synesthetic interpretations like that <3

Objection! 2001 and Objection! 2002 are in G minor and F minor respectively which are blue ENOUGH harmony-wise to match with Phoenix, but Objection! 2004 is in D minor which is closer to a sea-green so I end up associating it more with Godot. Which is odd but it is what it is

A few general observations:

Distant Traces of Beauty actually shares melodic material with The Fragrance of Dark Coffee! In the former you can hear it in an arpeggiated melody at the end of the loop which is the exact same as the first five notes of the latter, which serves as really awesome musical foreshadowing for Godot’s relation to Dahlia!

First-Class Reasoning (Sebastian’s theme) modulates (changes keys) several times over the course of the loop—it starts in C major, then moves to F major and then G major then goes back to C major when the loop replays. It also uses a lot of decorative accidentals (notes outside the key, so for C major which has no sharps or flats an F# would be considered an accidental for example) in its melody—both of these elements are meant to symbolize Sebastian’s winding and sometimes nonsensical logic <3

[kookiezdrawz]

Not a lot of people know about that top secret ghetto cuisine shit yo. 

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Only those at the forefront of culinary expertise would look through these mean streets for this rare delicacy. 

[humanpeoplefanblog]

WHAT READERS ARE SAYING ABOUT "BANGER":

"OH THIS IS SO FUNKY"

"I like how it feels on my brain"

"[humanpeoplefanblog] i[s] reallt[sic] good!"

[wheresdenmark]

Trying to find The Analysis and Cognition of Basic Melodic Structures by Narmour; a book about the Implication-Realization Model, to see if there is a link between the human capacity for Universal Grammar and a human equivalent for music, also to find the basics for melodic structure to work outside of them in music, which Narmour has a second book for.

All of this because I should be doing actual school work and instead I'm doing music-nerd shit to avoid reality.