#music nerd shit

[relicsongmel]

As a musician I will never not be obsessed with the plot of Turnabout Serenade. Like what do you mean a professional guitarist gets accused of murder by Some Guy and one of his bandmates backs it up because he's upset the dude couldn't play a fucking quarter-note triplet correctly. What do you mean he uses that as evidence he did the murder. WHAT DO YOU MEAN HE WAS RIGHT

[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!"

[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

[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

[veluigi]

🤣🤣🤣as a former choral singer, i had the mirrored version of this confusion when i heard about the tv show..."hey wait, why are there a bunch of dudes on the cover? where's the women(treble) singers?? i thought this was a show about sopranos..."

[veluigi]

gosh this song😭 it just floated into my head today...as a kid who picked up spoken gujarati at home with no official education (my parents were disabled and busy af), i only understand a few hindi phrases/words here and there, but it's so musically beautiful...the instruments are allowed to resonate and speak for themselves, i could swear that Kumar Sanu's vocals come straight from his heart chakra, and the rhythm is like a beating heart in a cycle of blissful forever. songs about yearning sometimes just 🏹❤️😭

ek ladki ko dekha to aisa laga - "upon seeing that one lady, this is how it moved me--" (gtranslate says "when i saw a girl, i felt like this" but i don't feel like that captures it)

[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.

[cockodemon]

Hey bestie, heard you like lighter picks

[relicsongmel]

hi! i was reading your pinned post and it made me think - what color(s) are each of the aa main characters' theme songs! :0

Synesthesia question yippee!!!!! Here are all main character themes from the games I’ve played <3 so far I’ve done AA1 through AA4 as well as both Investigations games~

Phoenix Wright (Objection! 2001): G minor—dark green

Phoenix Wright (Objection! 2002): F minor—gray-blue

Phoenix Wright (Objection! 2004): D minor—sea green

Maya Fey (Turnabout Sisters 2001/2002): A♭ major—purple (roughly the same shade as her haori <3)

Miles Edgeworth (Great Revival): F minor—gray-blue

Franziska von Karma (Great Revival): G minor—dark green (though it’s worth noting that the Great Revival themes despite being in minor use a lot of borrowed harmonies from the major mode that end up brightening the overall color a little)

Dick Gumshoe (It’s Detective Gumshoe/I can do it when it counts, pal!): C minor—sea blue

Ema Skye (Turnabout Sisters 2005): C major—yellow

Ema Skye (Scientific Detective): G major—pink

Pearl Fey (Pearly Questioning): F major—cerulean

Godot (The Fragrance of Black Coffee): D major—green

Larry Butz (When Something Smells, It’s Usually Me): G mixolydian—yellow (but some sections sound blue due to borrowed flat harmonies)

Apollo Justice (Objection! 2007): G# minor—dark magenta

Trucy Wright (Child of Magic): D major—green

Klavier Gavin (Guilty Love): E♭ major—royal blue

Kay Faraday (The Great Truth Burglar): A minor—light gray

Shi-Long Lang (Speak Up, Pup!): E minor—gold

Raymond Shields (Joking Motive): A minor—light gray (with additional analysis available here if you’re interested :3)

Justine Courtney (Goddess of Law): F minor—gray-blue

Gregory Edgeworth (A Defense Attorney’s Knowledge): C major -> C minor—yellow -> sea blue

Sebastian Debeste (First-Class Reasoning): C major -> F major -> G major—yellow -> cerulean -> pink

Sebastian Debeste (A First-Class Farewell): G minor—dark green

You'll notice that not all colors necessarily match the character's color schemes. This is because while sometimes a character design can influence my synesthetic experiences (which is a whole other conversation in and of itself), they are still primarily based on the key of the theme itself—so a character theme in C major, for example, will always sound yellow regardless of which character it's meant to represent. This is both a blessing and a curse as sometimes the synesthetic color/mood will match a character perfectly whereas other times it will be completely off the mark. But it is still a very fun thing regardless—thank you for the ask!

[humanpeoplefanblog]

did i mention i like detune

[yournowheregirl]

yknow what really gets me? the fact that we all seem to think that robin doesn’t enjoy jock things. while she’s canonically seen enjoying and cheering at the basketball game in s4 and more importantly, SHE PLAYS SOCCER!!!! she literally says so in s3?!!!! don’t come at me with your “robin is a music nerd ONLY” because she’s so much more than that!! and we should explore soccer player robin in fics bc i’m pretty sure whoever you ship her with will have an aneurysm watching her play soccer

[italiantea]

in which cure gives me brainrot 5 months after release

so ive been transcribing the guitar parts for cure and i just have some thoughts regarding the music and its relation to the video

first of all, the guitar motif that you hear front and center in the teaser is pretty hard to spot in the actual song.

it plays very quietly in the left audio track starting from when ivan begins singing his part, and lasts for 7 bars until the main guitar riff kicks in. i think there's interesting ways to interpret this, if you think of this little guitar motif as representative of ivan. by choosing this motif to represent the entirety of round 6 in the teaser video, it's made clear that ivan's feelings are the focus of round 6. in the song it plays quietly, hidden in the mix, as if symbolizing his masking of his true emotions. however, it plays loud and clear as the sole melody in the teaser; not the guitar riff from the intro of the song or the stuttering guitar of the chorus, even though they are more recognizable parts of the song. it's like an audio representation of ivan throwing his round: this is not about the song, or the performance; that is all cast aside for ivan's emotional outburst. something that should have been neatly hidden away is now the focal point of the round.

the next part i wanted to talk about is the ending, the part that deviates from the studio release. after till and ivan sing their individual parts, there is a call and response section where they take turns singing.

till stops singing halfway through this part, and ivan tips over the microphone and goes in for the kiss.

during the kiss, the guitar part from the chorus plays, as if to say that this is ivan's chorus now. it's an expression of his feelings, and ivan is the one in control.

after confirming their scores, ivan leans back and holds till's neck. till closes his eyes.

during this part, the guitar part from that previous call and response section repeats.

the shot switches between ivan and till. till closes his eyes. ivan is shot. ivan looks at till. till's eyes are closed. ivan looks at till. till's eyes are still closed. the guitar returns to the tonic chord, Fm, again and again, and the visuals parallel the same failed call and response as the music. ivan is waiting for a reaction from till, anything in response to his outburst—and till is giving him nothing. and that's how the round ends, no duet, no last run of the chorus, no callback to the intro. it just ends, unresolved.

so anyway i thought that was neat.

[cupophrogs]

I just got back from a concert so have a miscellaneous scribble of a choral nerd spotting the local music spider @ark-fork