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Cool music theory isn’t exclusive to Jacob Collier or jazz standards. Weird chords, funky time signatures, and other advanced harmonic concepts can be found in everything, from video games, to film scores, pop songs etc. I make these vids to talk about these concepts and make them accessible and fun.
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The GBA is kind of weak. I assume the game just slightly slower than intended because it just makes the console run slow.
The circus songs sound a lot like 3DS games
You should totally do one of these on Murder Drones if you haven’t already
Best explanation of time signatures I've ever seen. Not just because you show examples, but the base explanation you give at the start is also way better then anything I've seen
Shoutout to grandma and her ringtone
Why women love Animal Crossing?
0:55 Reminds me of that one purple cube
16:29 I didn't know Cuphead had lyrical music! =^□
10:46 I love this!
7:24 Goofy ahh music💀
0:50 I've listened to too many Japanese music that I predicted all the chords
10:19 🔥🔥🔥
Amazing job! Kudos for the transcriptions!
The naruto music in the end with upbeat tempo killed me
When they started drawing big chungus jax i think i lost it
I genuinely gave up trying 2 get combos in these songs. I didn’t even understand music back then. This is the equivalent of telling me I had 2 keep in beat 2 a Bjork pop song but I had 2 do it 2 her vocals.
I barely understand music now! How was any1 supposed 2 do this?? I was shocked when I saw videos actually completing these combos.
omg you should've reached out to Sevish. misssed opportunity
"Welcome to the Show" sounds JUST like a bo en track i stfg they did their homework
I KNEW I heard some Prokofiev! mr Evan Alderette this is the channel of music nerds we do care
As boring as it might be, I have to imagine the extra discrepancy between a gameplay recording and the theoretical file is probably just down to random lag frames.
amazing video
I have a few theories on my KK Crusin' whistle is sharp 1. it's to help it stand out against the guitar 2. It's to make it sound more like someone's really whistling/more freeform, even the best musician can't whistle perfectly in tune, and even if KK is a synth, you can use those microtones to mimic the effect
"It's not that bad... it's actually worse" Really fascinating to see how it all works behind the scenes!
I understand now
This was entertaining cuz yknow, kung fu panda and its music is really fun, but also, this basically taught me everything about pentatonic scales.... so uhh, thanks. 👍
Omg this video is awesome, if only I knew music theory better.. subbed!!
Having been in choirs for 8 years now, I finally get time signatures to some degree.
I scrolled through every single comment and I didn't find one that mentioned this, so I'll say it. Your pronunciation of Tamil healed my soul. Almost every person I've met says /tæməl/.
Really great stuff!!! The 29/16 time signature has always felt a bit wrong to me. It's a great approximation, but it always felt like a blanket solution that swept any tempo fuckery under the 3:5-let. The idea of just programming tempo changes every time the heartbeat changes makes far more sense for music that will never have to be played by humans. And for humans, as you said, those complex time signatures definitely capture the "feel" the tracks are going for even if they're not mathematically precise. My uninformed theory is that the ingame audio is slower because the game's audio logic is also checking for other sounds it needs to play? Maybe GBA memory might be an issue too. Some of the calculations it has to do to change BPM may involve floating point or roundoff errors? This all reminds me of the method/effect Ludvig Goransson was going for in Oppenheimer - Can You Hear the Music. There's a video of him breaking it down far better but essentially each rising and falling phrase is played at a new BPM based on mathematical relationships (multiply by 1.5 to make eighth notes sound like triplets with no apparent tempo change, divide by 1.5 to go back, but add 20 BPM so the whole pattern accelerates, repeat) and the orchestra is just absurdly talented at following click tracks and instantly changing tempo.
Le me in the shower trying to hear baka mitai in my head together with the canon D melody lol
I was just like, of COURSE it’d be SiIvagunner that gets it correct
Im really sorry but Im having such a hard time listening when you keep playing all these BANGERS
God I love adventure time music
1:35 it isn't just adjusting the volume, it sounds like a lowpass filter which mimics the way sound travels differently through water than through air!
this was CRAZY interesting. K.K.s sharp whistling sounded so much funkier, I can't believe it might have been a mistake. they should never change it
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Spoilers for mother 3: This is actually really cool because the complexity of the tempo shifts is a reflection of the outward disposition of the strong one who has under gone all these horrid modifications but under it all he's just Lucas' brother a human being with a normal heart so it makes sense that the final time signature is just the good ol' 4/4
Ive been trying to write a song in 8/8 using divisions of 3+2+3, sounds really funky and i like it.
Finally a sequel to Adam Neely's "Seven Levels of Jazz"!
For me 8/8 absolutely exists, and it's the preferable time signature every time you have 8 eight-notes, but you specifically do not want to feel them as 4+4, rather put emphasis on a grouping like 3+3+2. No nintendo example of the top of my head though.
Imagine being mad to music from a op game
"The relative familiarity of 'Strong One' and its associated heartbeat is neat because 'Masked Man' takes advantage of that and turns the otherwise familiar tune into a counterintuitive abomination" I love this because in a way, it's very much what the game does with the Masked Man himself. O really like the degree of story, gameplay and music integration they managed this game to have.
honestly as someone who never used the rhythm side of the game this is interesting to hear about
I know there is no such thing as "too jazzy", but damn, 5 tempo changes every two measures?
Isn't the opening song for the Game Boy version of Link's Awakening in 19/16? It only lasts for a few bars though so it might not be prolonged enough to count for this video
Very cool. (idk what the fuck any of that means)
Losing frames and my mind
the way you used the word isekai as a verb 👌
I really enjoy the way you explain music. Would love some music theory videos in your style!