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I Guess Im Not Done With Four Chord Loops (A Response To Patricia Taxxon)

12tone 2026-09-18 | I Guess Im Not Done With Four Chord Loops (A Response To Patricia Taxxon)

The Easiest Way To Improve Your Lyrics

12tone 2024-10-11 | Probably my single best piece of songwriting advice.
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Lyrics are the first thing most people notice, so more than any other aspect of a song, they really need to be perfect. Many great pieces of music have been dragged down by poorly executed lyrics, and while there are, of course, many factors to a great lyric, there's one often-overlooked aspect that regularly causes unprepared songwriters to lose control: The shapes of the words themselves. It sounds simple, and honestly it kind of is, but trust me, really understanding those subtle nuances of sound is an absolute game-changer, and once you know how to think about it, it's one of the easiest ways to make your lyrics better.

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And thanks as well to Henry Reich, Jon Hancock, Gene Lushtak, Eugene Bulkin, Oliver, Adam Neely, Dave Mayer, OrionWolfie, David Bartz, CodenaCrow, Arnas, Caroline Simpson, Michael Alan Dorman, Blake Boyd, Charles Gaskell, Tom Evans, David Conrad, Ducky, Nikolay Semyonov, Kenneth Kousen, h2g2guy, Andrew Engel, Peter Brinkmann, naomio, Alex Mole, Betsy, Tonya Custis, Walther, Graeme Lewis, Jake Sand, Jim Hayes, Scott Albertine, Evan Satinsky, Conor Stuart Roe, ZagOnEm, רועי סיני, Brian Miller, Thomas Morgan, Serena Crocker, Adam Ziegenhals, Mark, Amelia Lewis, Justin St John-Brooks, DialMForManning, Andrew Wyld, JD White, Graham Orndorff, gunnito, Foreign Man in a Foreign Land, Kyle Kinkaid, Tom, William Christie, Joyce Orndorff, Isaac Hampton, Mark Mitchell Gloster, Andy Maurer, William Spratley, Don Jennings, Cormag81, Derek Hiemforth, Bryan, Mikeyxote, Milan Durnell, Dan Whitmer, Thel 'Vadam, FAD3 Chaos, Michael Morris, Bill Owens, Martin Romano, George Burgyan, Marc Testart, Carlfish, Matthew Soddy, Flavor Dave, Alin Nica, DraconicDon, Megan Oberfield, morolin, An Oni Moose, Ken Birdwell, Blue 5alamander, Cliff Hudson, JayneOfCanton, Ethan Savaglio, Robert Bailey, Deirdre Saoirse Moen, juneau, Sina Bahram, Ira Kroll, Patrick Minton, Justin Katz, Roahn Wynar, Chuck Dukhoff of The Stagger Lee Archives, Bob D'Errico, Robert Shaw, Donald Murray, David Shlapak, JD, Rennie Allen, Travis Briggs, Claire Postlethwaite, Greyson Erickson, Matt Deeds, Jordan Nordstrom-Young, Strife, Brian Covey, Miles_Naismith, Jay Harris, Sean Murphy, JasperJackal, Tommy Transplant, Wolfgang Giersche, Olaf, Colleen Chapman, ParzivaLore, Gil, d0d63, Jon Purdy, Ken Brown, Colin Kennedy, The Mauses, christopher porto, Billy Abbott, William Wallace, Karel P Kerezman, Ted Trainor, mightstill, Nick Loh, Randy Thomson, rpenguinboy, Antarct, Mikaela, Erika Lee, Vinayak Nagaraj, sandra zarbatany, Aenne Brielmann, Emma Finch, Eric Berg, Michael Dmytriw, Brian Gregory, Klaus, and robert johnston! Your support helps make 12tone even better!

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Understanding Personal Jesus

12tone 2024-09-27 | How Depeche Mode built their own false god.
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Much like its title character, Personal Jesus is a song with many interpretations. There are optimistic, almost evangelical readings, but there are also dark, frightening stories of predators lurking inside: To see that duality, one need look no further than the covers by Johnny Cash and Marilyn Manson. But while each of those stakes out its claim, the original leaves things much more ambiguous, as Depeche Mode invites you to reflect on your own relationship to the concepts of divinity, salvation, and exploitation. Who is your personal Jesus?

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And thanks as well to Henry Reich, Jon Hancock, Gene Lushtak, Eugene Bulkin, Oliver, Adam Neely, Dave Mayer, OrionWolfie, David Bartz, CodenaCrow, Arnas, Caroline Simpson, Michael Alan Dorman, Blake Boyd, Charles Gaskell, Tom Evans, David Conrad, Ducky, Nikolay Semyonov, Chris Connett, Kenneth Kousen, h2g2guy, Andrew Engel, Peter Brinkmann, naomio, Alex Mole, Betsy, Tonya Custis, Walther, Graeme Lewis, Jake Sand, Jim Hayes, Scott Albertine, Evan Satinsky, Conor Stuart Roe, ZagOnEm, רועי סיני, Brian Miller, Thomas Morgan, Serena Crocker, Adam Ziegenhals, Mark, Amelia Lewis, Justin St John-Brooks, DialMForManning, Andrew Wyld, JD White, Graham Orndorff, gunnito, Foreign Man in a Foreign Land, Kyle Kinkaid, Tom, William Christie, Joyce Orndorff, Isaac Hampton, Mark Mitchell Gloster, Andy Maurer, William Spratley, Don Jennings, Cormag81, Derek Hiemforth, Bryan, Mikeyxote, Milan Durnell, Dan Whitmer, Thel 'Vadam, FAD3 Chaos, Michael Morris, Bill Owens, Martin Romano, George Burgyan, Marc Testart, Carlfish, Matthew Soddy, Flavor Dave, Alin Nica, DraconicDon, Megan Oberfield, morolin, An Oni Moose, Ken Birdwell, Blue 5alamander, Cliff Hudson, Olivia Herald, JayneOfCanton, Ethan Savaglio, Robert Bailey, Deirdre Saoirse Moen, juneau, Sina Bahram, Ira Kroll, Patrick Minton, Justin Katz, Roahn Wynar, Chuck Dukhoff of The Stagger Lee Archives, Bob D'Errico, Robert Shaw, Donald Murray, David Shlapak, JD, Rennie Allen, Travis Briggs, Claire Postlethwaite, Greyson Erickson, Matt Deeds, Jordan Nordstrom-Young, Strife, Brian Covey, Miles_Naismith, Jay Harris, Sean Murphy, JasperJackal, Tommy Transplant, Wolfgang Giersche, Olaf, Colleen Chapman, ParzivaLore, Amanda Jones, Gil, d0d63, Jon Purdy, Ken Brown, Colin Kennedy, The Mauses, christopher porto, Billy Abbott, William Wallace, Karel P Kerezman, Ted Trainor, mightstill, Nick Loh, Randy Thomson, rpenguinboy, Antarct, Erika Lee, Mikaela, Vinayak Nagaraj, sandra zarbatany, Aenne Brielmann, Simone Andolfo Andolfo, Emma Finch, Eric Berg, Michael Dmytriw, and Brian Gregory! Your support helps make 12tone even better!

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How Radiohead Writes A Song

12tone 2024-09-13 | Dissecting rock's most enigmatic band.
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Radiohead is a weird band. After cutting their teeth in the '90s britpop scene and crossing over to the US with familiar alt rock sounds, they decided to take things in a slightly... different direction. Since the late '90s, Radiohead has refused to retread musical ground, constantly pushing themselves to explore surprising sounds and experiment with new compositional techniques. No two Radiohead albums are alike, and yet through all that variety they've remained surprisingly recognizable. There's something that makes their work sound inherently Radiohead, and I want to know what.

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Understanding Have A Cigar

12tone 2024-08-23 | Come in here, dear boy, have a cigar! You're gonna go far.
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What do you do when you've spent your entire life working toward a single goal, and then you accomplish it beyond your wildest dreams? That was the conundrum faced by Pink Floyd after the release of Dark Side Of The Moon, and while each member had their own response, the overall answer seemed to be "mourn the loss of a purpose". They'd done it, and they weren't happy, so the band, led by their famously cantankerous bassist Roger Waters, decided to look inward. They didn't like what they saw, but as artists, they knew how to handle that sort of darkness: You turn it into more art. Wish You Were Here wasn't a passion project, it was a project of necessity, ground out of the band by a music industry that demanded a follow-up to keep the money flowing, and at the heart of the album, Waters struck back, laying bare all his sharpest critiques of the business that had destroyed his soul.

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Write Better Drum Parts

12tone 2024-08-09 | The most overlooked instrument needs love too.
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Drums are the hardest instrument to write for. Or, rather, they're the easiest, and that's the problem. For arrangers without a lot of percussion experience, it's natural to just default to a simple pattern and leave it alone, or to try to overcomplicate things without understanding their purpose, and either way, the end result is often a pretty lackluster beat. But I'm also an arranger without a lot of percussion experience, and over the years I've had to learn a lot of drum lessons the hard way, so for all my fellow non-drummers, I thought I'd put together a little guide on how I approach the rock ensemble's most challenging instrument.

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Understanding The Ballroom Blitz

12tone 2024-07-19 | Always listen to the man in the back.
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Rock music is about many things, but in its purest form, I think it's often about performing rock music. The showmanship of rock is baked into its musical DNA, and that's especially true of the early hard rock era of the '70s, where the bombastic arrangements and aggressive, virtuosic technique were intrinsically married to wild costumes and elaborate stage shows that transformed bands from mere performers into ringleaders of their own audience circus. And perhaps no song captures that marriage quite like The Ballroom Blitz, an explosive rock song about how explosive rock shows can be, inspired by real events and transforming the studio recording into a proxy for the wild experience of an actual live gig.

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And thanks as well to Henry Reich, Jon Hancock, Gene Lushtak, Eugene Bulkin, Oliver, Adam Neely, Dave Mayer, OrionWolfie, David Bartz, CodenaCrow, Arnas, Caroline Simpson, Michael Alan Dorman, Blake Boyd, Charles Gaskell, Tom Evans, David Conrad, Ducky, Nikolay Semyonov, Chris Connett, Kenneth Kousen, h2g2guy, Andrew Engel, Peter Brinkmann, naomio, Alex Mole, Betsy, Tonya Custis, Walther, Graeme Lewis, Jake Sand, Jim Hayes, Scott Albertine, Evan Satinsky, Conor Stuart Roe, ZagOnEm, רועי סיני, Brian Miller, Thomas Morgan, Serena Crocker, Adam Ziegenhals, Mark, Amelia Lewis, Justin St John-Brooks, DialMForManning, Andrew Wyld, JD White, Graham Orndorff, gunnito, Douglas Anderson, Foreign Man in a Foreign Land, Tom, Kyle Kinkaid, William Christie, Joyce Orndorff, Isaac Hampton, Mark Mitchell Gloster, Andy Maurer, William Spratley, Don Jennings, Cormag81, Derek Hiemforth, Bryan, Mikeyxote, Milan Durnell, Dan Whitmer, Thel 'Vadam, FAD3 Chaos, Michael Morris, Bill Owens, Martin Romano, George Burgyan, Marc Testart, Carlfish, Matthew Soddy, Flavor Dave, Alin Nica, DraconicDon, John W Campbell, Megan Oberfield, morolin, An Oni Moose, Ken Birdwell, Blue 5alamander, Cliff Hudson, Olivia Herald, JayneOfCanton, Ethan Savaglio, Robert Bailey, Deirdre Saoirse Moen, juneau, Sina Bahram, Ira Kroll, Patrick Minton, Justin Katz, Roahn Wynar, Chuck Dukhoff of The Stagger Lee Archives, Bob D'Errico, Robert Shaw, David Shlapak, Donald Murray, JD, Rennie Allen, Travis Briggs, Claire Postlethwaite, Greyson Erickson, Matt Deeds, Jordan Nordstrom-Young, Strife, Brian Covey, Miles_Naismith, Jay Harris, Sean Murphy, JasperJackal, Tommy Transplant, Wolfgang Giersche, ParzivaLore, Amanda Jones, Olaf, Colleen Chapman, Autographedcat, Gil, d0d63, Jon Purdy, Ken Brown, Colin Kennedy, The Mauses, christopher porto, Billy Abbott, William Wallace, Tom Belknap, Karel P Kerezman, Ted Trainor, mightstill, Nick Loh, Randy Thomson, rpenguinboy, Antarct, Erika Lee, Mikaela, Vinayak Nagaraj, sandra zarbatany, Aenne Brielmann, Simone Andolfo Andolfo, and Emma Finch! Your support helps make 12tone even better!

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This Music Trick Shouldnt Work

12tone 2024-07-05 | But it does. What's up with that?
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One thing I've always believed is that music theory is more than just a toolbox. It's useful, sure, but it's also an art form, a way of constructing new kinds of beauty and meaning, and when I get the chance, I like to try to show that side of it. There's lots of great examples, but one of my favorites has always been Jack Douthett's infamous Cube Dance, a deceptively simple map of triads that both hides a ton of insight about harmonic relationships and also just looks really frickin' cool!

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And thanks as well to Henry Reich, Jon Hancock, Gene Lushtak, Eugene Bulkin, Oliver, Adam Neely, Dave Mayer, OrionWolfie, David Bartz, CodenaCrow, Arnas, Caroline Simpson, Michael Alan Dorman, Blake Boyd, Charles Gaskell, Tom Evans, David Conrad, Ducky, Nikolay Semyonov, Chris Connett, Kenneth Kousen, h2g2guy, Andrew Engel, Peter Brinkmann, naomio, Alex Mole, Betsy, Tonya Custis, Walther, Graeme Lewis, Jake Sand, Jim Hayes, Scott Albertine, Evan Satinsky, Conor Stuart Roe, ZagOnEm, רועי סיני, Brian Miller, Thomas Morgan, Serena Crocker, Adam Ziegenhals, Mark, Amelia Lewis, Justin St John-Brooks, DialMForManning, Andrew Wyld, JD White, Graham Orndorff, gunnito, Douglas Anderson, Foreign Man in a Foreign Land, Tom, Kyle Kinkaid, William Christie, Joyce Orndorff, Isaac Hampton, Mark Mitchell Gloster, Andy Maurer, William Spratley, Don Jennings, Cormag81, Derek Hiemforth, Bryan, Mikeyxote, Milan Durnell, Dan Whitmer, Thel 'Vadam, FAD3 Chaos, Michael Morris, Bill Owens, Martin Romano, George Burgyan, Marc Testart, Carlfish, Matthew Soddy, Flavor Dave, Alin Nica, DraconicDon, John W Campbell, Megan Oberfield, morolin, An Oni Moose, Ken Birdwell, Blue 5alamander, Cliff Hudson, Olivia Herald, JayneOfCanton, Ethan Savaglio, Robert Bailey, Deirdre Saoirse Moen, juneau, Sina Bahram, Ira Kroll, Patrick Minton, Justin Katz, Roahn Wynar, Chuck Dukhoff of The Stagger Lee Archives, Bob D'Errico, Robert Shaw, David Shlapak, Donald Murray, JD, Rennie Allen, Travis Briggs, Claire Postlethwaite, Greyson Erickson, Matt Deeds, Jordan Nordstrom-Young, Brian Covey, Miles_Naismith, Jay Harris, Sean Murphy, JasperJackal, Tommy Transplant, Wolfgang Giersche, ParzivaLore, Amanda Jones, Olaf, Colleen Chapman, Gil, d0d63, Jon Purdy, Ken Brown, Colin Kennedy, The Mauses, christopher porto, Billy Abbott, William Wallace, Karel P Kerezman, Ted Trainor, mightstill, Nick Loh, Randy Thomson, rpenguinboy, Antarct, Erika Lee, Mikaela, Vinayak Nagaraj, sandra zarbatany, Aenne Brielmann, Simone Andolfo Andolfo! Your support helps make 12tone even better!

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Understanding Time After Time

12tone 2024-06-21 | I have a surprising number of thoughts.
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What makes a great love song? Time After Time has been covered so many times that it's easy to forget there was an original, but before it became a cultural standard, it was a simple last-minute addition to Cyndi Lauper's debut album, She's So Unusual. Even at the time, she and her cowriter Rob Hyman knew they had something special, and they treated the process of writing this song with a level of reverence and care that comes through in every aspect of the final production, from its hauntingly simple melody to its hollow, ticking groove. It's a timeless classic that transcends its origins while remaining intrinsically tied to them. So let's talk about it!

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And thanks as well to Henry Reich, Jon Hancock, Gene Lushtak, Eugene Bulkin, Oliver, Adam Neely, Dave Mayer, OrionWolfie, David Bartz, CodenaCrow, Arnas, Caroline Simpson, Michael Alan Dorman, Blake Boyd, Charles Gaskell, Tom Evans, David Conrad, Ducky, Nikolay Semyonov, Chris Connett, Kenneth Kousen, h2g2guy, Andrew Engel, Peter Brinkmann, naomio, Alex Mole, Betsy, Tonya Custis, Walther, Graeme Lewis, Jake Sand, Jim Hayes, Scott Albertine, Evan Satinsky, Conor Stuart Roe, ZagOnEm, רועי סיני, Brian Miller, Thomas Morgan, Serena Crocker, Adam Ziegenhals, Mark, Amelia Lewis, Justin St John-Brooks, DialMForManning, Andrew Wyld, JD White, Graham Orndorff, gunnito, Douglas Anderson, Foreign Man in a Foreign Land, Tom, Kyle Kinkaid, William Christie, Joyce Orndorff, Isaac Hampton, Mark Mitchell Gloster, Andy Maurer, William Spratley, Don Jennings, Cormag81, Derek Hiemforth, Bryan, Mikeyxote, Milan Durnell, Dan Whitmer, Thel 'Vadam, FAD3 Chaos, Michael Morris, Bill Owens, Martin Romano, George Burgyan, Marc Testart, Carlfish, Matthew Soddy, Flavor Dave, Alin Nica, DraconicDon, John W Campbell, Megan Oberfield, morolin, An Oni Moose, Ken Birdwell, Blue 5alamander, Cliff Hudson, Olivia Herald, JayneOfCanton, or dahan, Ethan Savaglio, Robert Bailey, Deirdre Saoirse Moen, juneau, Sina Bahram, Ira Kroll, Patrick Minton, Justin Katz, Roahn Wynar, Chuck Dukhoff of The Stagger Lee Archives, Bob D'Errico, Robert Shaw, David Shlapak, Donald Murray, JD, Rennie Allen, Travis Briggs, Claire Postlethwaite, Greyson Erickson, Matt Deeds, Jordan Nordstrom-Young, Strife, Brian Covey, Miles_Naismith, Jay Harris, Sean Murphy, JasperJackal, Tommy Transplant, Wolfgang Giersche, Autographedcat, ParzivaLore, Amanda Jones, Olaf, Colleen Chapman, Gil, d0d63, Jon Purdy, Ken Brown, Colin Kennedy, The Mauses, Tom Belknap, christopher porto, Katherine Drevis, Billy Abbott, William Wallace, Karel P Kerezman, Ted Trainor, mightstill, Nick Loh, Randy Thomson, rpenguinboy, Antarct, Erika Lee, Mikaela, Vinayak Nagaraj, sandra zarbatany, and Aenne Brielmann! Your support helps make 12tone even better!

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Why Genre Still Matters (A Response to Polyphonic)

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So, a funny thing happened to me recently. I was watching the recent Polyphonic video about the death of genre, and suddenly, Noah called me out. By name! He challenged me to explain the academic perspective on genre, and I can't just say no to that sort of thing, so here I am stepping up and doing it. Musical genre's a really complicated thing, but it's also really important to how we understand and relate to the music we love, so let's dig in and try to figure it all out!

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Understanding Pinball Wizard

12tone 2024-05-17 | There *has* to be a twist!
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Tommy is an... interesting project, with a complicated legacy. It's a challenging, fascinating work, and it revolutionized the music world by introducing the concept of the rock opera, with a long, interconnected narrative running through the album, the narrative itself certainly raises some eyebrows. That legacy and complexity have meant that, while Tommy is remembered for its historical importance, the actual music on it has mostly not survived in pop culture in the same way as other important albums of the time, with one glaring exception. Outside musical theater circles, Tommy is remembered mainly as the album that brought us Pinball Wizard, Pete Townshend's bombastic celebration of an arcade classic, shoehorned into the plot as an inside joke with rock critic and pinball fan Nik Cohn. That song has become emblematic of the album as a whole, and while there's a lot more to Tommy than that, I think it's a pretty good introduction.

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The Greatest Guitar Solo Ever Played

12tone 2024-04-26 | Was there ever any doubt?
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What makes a great guitar solo? How do you transcend beyond merely playing notes and create something truly sublime? Easy: Be Prince. The Purple One's guitar skills are legendary, but perhaps his crowning achievement came in 2004, when he joined an all-star tribute to George Harrison for the late Beatle's induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Prince waited patiently for his moment, and as they reached the end of Harrison's iconic ballad, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, he stepped forward and made history, playing what is often described as the greatest guitar solo ever played. Let's talk about why.

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Understanding Bad Guy

12tone 2024-04-12 | Pop is weird now and I love it.
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What is pop music? It used to be a pretty simple question, but in the last few decades, changes in the landscape of music consumption and distribution have begun to dissolve the boundaries between genres, and not even the carefully curated landscape of pop has been safe. There are many examples of the increasingly obscure, esoteric, and divergent soundscapes that have come to define modern pop, but if I had to sum it up in one artist, I think the clear choice is Billie Eilish. So let's talk about her.

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How Chord Loops *Really* Work

12tone 2024-03-22 | I've been thinking way too much about this.
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As I'm sure you all know by now, I'm kind of a fan of chord loops. They've been a primary focus of my own music theory work for years now, and I've done, like, way too many videos trying to wrap my head around them, so you can imagine my excitement when some professor friends of mine dropped a brand-new music cognition study that aimed to answer some of the questions I'd been asking this whole time. But the results were... well, let's just say I've been reconsidering some things, and I'd like to explain why.

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Understanding Careless Whisper

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When you think iconic saxophone songs, there's practically nothing in the same league as George Michael and Wham!'s Careless Whisper. Ok, maybe Baker Street. And Born To Run. And Giant Steps, in its own way. And... ok, look, the point is Careless Whisper has become practically synonymous with the sax in popular culture, taking on all the rambunctious, seductive connotations of the instrument, and I wanna talk about a saxophone so I'm gonna do it. Who's gonna stop me?

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Finding The BEST Musical Scale

12tone 2024-02-16 | I promise this is the best way to find out!
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Music theorists would have you believe that there is no best possible scale: Different scales have different uses, and are appropriate for different musical goals, so picking an objective "best" is not only pointless, it's actively counterproductive. And that's true... but what if it wasn't? What if we *could* work out the best scale, through the careful, scientifically grounded process of running a bunch of my favorites through a single-elimination bracket? Would that be a good idea? I mean, probably, right? 'Cause that's what I did.

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Understanding People Are Strange

12tone 2024-02-02 | This song is 2 minutes and 12 seconds long.
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The Doors are one of the most important bands in rock history, which is a strange thing to say when their music sounds so... unique. No one sounds like The Doors: Guided by the singular voice of Jim Morrison, the band played a pivotal role in the genre's reinvention in the late '60s, and while their career was short due to Morrison's untimely death, they left an indelible mark on rock music for generations to come, and songs like People Are Strange remain culturally relevant, if somewhat anachronistic, to this day.

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And thanks as well to Henry Reich, Gene Lushtak, Eugene Bulkin, Oliver, Adam Neely, Dave Mayer, David Bartz, CodenaCrow, Arnas, Caroline Simpson, Michael Alan Dorman, Blake Boyd, Charles Gaskell, Tom Evans, David Conrad, Ducky, Nikolay Semyonov, Chris Connett, Kenneth Kousen, h2g2guy, W. Dennis Sorrell, Andrew Engel, Peter Brinkmann, naomio, Alex Mole, Betsy, Tonya Custis, Walther, Jake Sand, Graeme Lewis, Jim Hayes, Scott Albertine, Evan Satinsky, Conor Stuart Roe, ZagOnEm, רועי סיני, Brian Miller, Thomas Morgan, Mark James, Matty Crocker, Adam Ziegenhals, Mark, Amelia Lewis, Justin St John-Brooks, DialMForManning, JD White, Andrew Wyld, gunnito, Graham Orndorff, Douglas Anderson, Foreign Man in a Foreign Land, Paul Tanenholz, Tom, William Christie, Kyle Kinkaid, Joyce Orndorff, Mike Wyer, Stephen Tolputt, Isaac Hampton, Mark Mitchell Gloster, Andy Maurer, William Spratley, Don Jennings, Cormag81, Derek Hiemforth, Bryan, Mikeyxote, Milan Durnell, Dan Whitmer, Thel 'Vadam, FAD3 Chaos, Michael Morris, Bill Owens, Martin Romano, George Burgyan, Marc Testart, Carlfish, Matthew Soddy, Flavor Dave, DraconicDon, John W Campbell, Jimmy2Guys, Megan Oberfield, morolin, An Oni Moose, Ken Birdwell, Blue 5alamander, Panda, Cliff Hudson, Olivia Herald, Alin Nica, JayneOfCanton, or dahan, Ethan Savaglio, Robert Bailey, Deirdre Saoirse Moen, juneau, Sina Bahram, Ira Kroll, Patrick Minton, Justin Katz, Roahn Wynar, Chuck Dukhoff of The Stagger Lee Archives, Bob D'Errico, Robert Shaw, Shawn Beshears, David Shlapak, Donald Murray, JD, Rennie Allen, Travis Briggs, Cindy Klenk (Highlands Recording Arts LLC), Jonah C., Greyson Erickson, Matt Deeds, Claire Postlethwaite, Strife, Brian Covey, Miles_Naismith, Jordan Nordstrom-Young, Jay Harris, Sean Murphy, JasperJackal, Tommy Transplant, Wolfgang Giersche, Autographedcat, ParzivaLore, Amanda Jones, Olaf, Colleen Chapman, Gil, M. Dodge Mumford, Jon Purdy, Ken Brown, Colin Kennedy, The Mauses, Tom Belknap, christopher porto, Steffan Andrews, Katherine Drevis, William Wallace, Billy Abbott, Karel P Kerezman, Ted Trainor, mightstill, Nick Loh, Randy Thomson, Antarct, Erika Lee, and Vinayak Nagaraj! Your support helps make 12tone even better!

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Understanding Even Flow

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Growing up, I was never really sure what Even Flow was about. Something about butterflies, maybe? But over the years, as I've listened more closely and parsed more of the words, I've come to appreciate it much more as a powerful message about empathy and the struggles of homelessness. And for decades, Pearl Jam has been putting their money where their mouths are on that issue, raising millions of dollars to support programs aiming to end homelessness once and for all, so in honor of that mission, I want to talk about the song that started it all.

UCLA Homelessness study: escholarship.org/uc/item/46n649n0#main
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And thanks as well to Henry Reich, Gene Lushtak, Eugene Bulkin, Oliver, Anna Work, Adam Neely, Dave Mayer, David Bartz, CodenaCrow, Arnas, Caroline Simpson, Michael Alan Dorman, Blake Boyd, Charles Gaskell, Tom Evans, David Conrad, Ducky, Nikolay Semyonov, Chris Connett, Kenneth Kousen, h2g2guy, W. Dennis Sorrell, Andrew Engel, Peter Brinkmann, naomio, Alex Mole, Betsy, Tonya Custis, Dave Shapiro, Walther, Jake Sand, Graeme Lewis, Jim Hayes, Scott Albertine, Evan Satinsky, Conor Stuart Roe, ZagOnEm, רועי סיני, Kottolett, Brian Miller, Thomas Morgan, Mark James, Matty Crocker, Adam Ziegenhals, Mark, Amelia Lewis, Justin St John-Brooks, DialMForManning, JD White, Andrew Wyld, Joe Johnston, gunnito, Graham Orndorff, Kayla Sparks, Douglas Anderson, Foreign Man in a Foreign Land, Paul Tanenholz, Tom, William Christie, Joyce Orndorff, Kyle Kinkaid, Stephen Tolputt, Mike Wyer, Isaac Hampton, Mark Mitchell Gloster, Andy Maurer, William Spratley, Don Jennings, Cormag81, Derek H., Bryan, Mikeyxote, Milan Durnell, Dan Whitmer, Thel 'Vadam, N Zaph, FAD3 Chaos, Michael Morris, Bill Owens, Martin Romano, George Burgyan, Marc Testart, Carlfish, Matthew Soddy, Flavor Dave, Belinda Reid, DraconicDon, John W Campbell, StellarDrift, Jimmy2Guys, Megan Oberfield, morolin, An Oni Moose, Ken Birdwell, Blue 5alamander, Panda, Cliff Hudson, Olivia Herald, Macy Allen, JayneOfCanton, or dahan, Alin Nica, Ethan Savaglio, Robert Bailey, Deirdre Saoirse Moen, juneau, Sina Bahram, Ira Kroll, Patrick Minton, Justin Katz, Roahn Wynar, Chuck Dukhoff of The Stagger Lee Archives, Bob D'Errico, Robert Shaw, Shawn Beshears, David Shlapak, JD, Rennie Allen, Travis Briggs, Donald Murray, Cindy Klenk (Highlands Recording Arts LLC), Jonah C., Greyson Erickson, Matt Deeds, Claire Postlethwaite, Strife, Brian Covey, Miles_Naismith, Jordan Nordstrom-Young, Jay Harris, Sean Murphy, JasperJackal, Tommy Transplant, Wolfgang Giersche, Autographedcat, ParzivaLore, Alexander Whisnant, Amanda Jones, Olaf, Colleen Chapman, Gil, M. Dodge Mumford, Jon Purdy, Ken Brown, Colin Kennedy, Christopher Bork, The Mauses, Tom Belknap, christopher porto, Katherine Drevis, Steffan Andrews, William Wallace, Billy Abbott, Otto Koivunen, Karel P Kerezman, Ted Trainor, mightstill, Nick Loh, and Randy Thomson! Your support helps make 12tone even better!

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So... About The New Beatles Song

12tone 2023-12-08 | I'm not the only one who feels weird about this, right?
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There's a new song out by the Beatles. That's... weird, right? I've spent the last month thinking about how weird it is, and when my brain gets stuck on a question the only way to clear it out is to make a video, so this is gonna be about 20 minutes or so of me trying to figure out how I feel about the fact that there's new Beatles music in 2023, when half the Beatles have been dead for decades. What does it say about us that this is a thing that happened, and what does it say about us that this is a thing that matters? Oh, and while we're on the topic anyway, is it actually a good song?

Mic The Snare's video: youtu.be/YQBjG1FPBMs
David Bennett's video: youtu.be/yjYb_Io6RPA

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0:00 Intro
0:51 How did this happen?
5:54 Serious music analysis
9:05 What does it mean?
12:14 The part where I'm cynical
17:05 The part where I'm less cynical

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Understanding In The End

12tone 2023-11-17 | It starts with one thing.
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Linkin Park was one of the bands that absolutely defined my teenage years. Their work sounded like nothing else going on at the time, taking the evolving nu metal scene and elevating it to new heights. Songs from Hybrid Theory and Meteora were in constant rotation on my iPod, so if you'll indulge me, I'd like to take a moment to revisit that era of my life and connect with some of the music that made me who I am today.

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And thanks as well to Henry Reich, Gene Lushtak, Eugene Bulkin, Oliver, Anna Work, Adam Neely, Dave Mayer, David Bartz, CodenaCrow, Arnas, Caroline Simpson, Michael Alan Dorman, Blake Boyd, Charles Gaskell, Tom Evans, David Conrad, Ducky, Nikolay Semyonov, Chris Connett, Kenneth Kousen, h2g2guy, W. Dennis Sorrell, Andrew Engel, Peter Brinkmann, naomio, Alex Mole, Betsy, Tonya Custis, Dave Shapiro, Walther, Jake Sand, Graeme Lewis, Jim Hayes, Scott Albertine, Evan Satinsky, Conor Stuart Roe, ZagOnEm, Kai, רועי סיני, Kottolett, Brian Miller, Thomas Morgan, Mark James, Matty Crocker, Adam Ziegenhals, Mark, Amelia Lewis, Justin St John-Brooks, DialMForManning, JD White, Andrew Wyld, Joe Johnston, Claymore Alexander, A Devoted Servant of the Holy Water Bottle, gunnito, Graham Orndorff, Kayla Sparks, Douglas Anderson, Foreign Man in a Foreign Land, Paul Tanenholz, Tom, William Christie, Joyce Orndorff, Kyle Kinkaid, Stephen Tolputt, Isaac Hampton, Mark Mitchell Gloster, Andy Maurer, William Spratley, Don Jennings, Cormag81, Derek H., Bryan, Mikeyxote, Milan Durnell, Dan Whitmer, Thel 'Vadam, M3RK Chaos Official Patreon page, Mike Wyer, Michael Morris, Bill Owens, Martin Romano, George Burgyan, N Zaph, Marc Testart, Carlfish, Matthew Soddy, Flavor Dave, Belinda Reid, DraconicDon, John W Campbell, StellarDrift, Jimmy2Guys, Megan Oberfield, morolin, An Oni Moose, Ken Birdwell, Blue 5alamander, Panda, Cliff Hudson, Olivia Herald, Macy Allen, JayneOfCanton, or dahan, Alin Nica, Ethan Savaglio, Robert Bailey, Deirdre Saoirse Moen, juneau, Sina Bahram, Ira Kroll, Patrick Minton, Justin Katz, Roahn Wynar, Chuck Dukhoff of The Stagger Lee Archives, Bob D'Errico, Robert Shaw, Shawn Beshears, David Shlapak, JD, Rennie Allen, Travis Briggs, Donald Murray, Cindy Klenk (Highlands Recording Arts LLC), Jonah C., Greyson Erickson, Matt Deeds, Claire Postlethwaite, Strife, Brian Covey, Miles_Naismith, Jordan Nordstrom-Young, Jay Harris, Sean Murphy, JasperJackal, Tommy Transplant, Wolfgang Giersche, Autographedcat, ParzivaLore, Alexander Whisnant, Amanda Jones, Olaf, Colleen Chapman, Gil, M. Dodge Mumford, Jon Purdy, Ken Brown, Colin Kennedy, Christopher Bork, Granger Meador, The Mauses, Tom Belknap, christopher porto, Steffan Andrews, William Wallace, Billy Abbott, Otto Koivunen, Karel P Kerezman, and Ted Trainor! Your support helps make 12tone even better!

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What Makes Heavy Metal Heavy?

12tone 2023-10-27 | A metalhead's quest for meaning.
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As a metalhead, I've been calling things "heavy" for most of my life, but I never really stopped to think about what I meant. It's such an intuitive label to me, with such a clear meaning that neatly translates to the music I'm describing. But these days, stopping to think about what I mean when I talk about music is pretty much my entire job, so I think it's finally time to ask that question: When a metalhead calls a piece of music heavy, what are they actually saying?

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Jill Jones
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Warren Huart
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Chris Prentice
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Kelly Christoffersen
Christopher Lucas
Andrew Beals
Dov Zazkis
Hendrik P
Thomas Morley
Jacob Helwig
Donal Botkin
Stephen Cook
b-rom
Jon Hancock
Hendrik Stüwe
Dan Bonelli
Kevin Boyce
Luke
Ian Seymour
Neil Moore
Blake White
Dhruv Monga
Ken Jones
Obadiah Wright
Carlos Rendon
Kylie McInnes
OrionWolfie
Laurence T Maloney
Michael Mol
RAD Donato
Oliver Marchand
Reiji Kobayashi
Catherine Berry
Matt Ivaliotes
Chris Davis
Luke Klima
Hikaru Katayamma
Fred Kroon
Chris Burgess
HardScale
Chris Piro
Matt Robbins
Ryan Evans
Leigh VanHandel
Geoff
Aaron Boodman
Samuel Ollesh
Mikko Koli
Jonathan Lonowski
DrJRad
David Krieger
Staal
Jay Roman
Gopal
George Romaka
Romain Baugue

And thanks as well to Henry Reich, Gene Lushtak, Eugene Bulkin, Oliver, Anna Work, Adam Neely, Dave Mayer, David Bartz, CodenaCrow, Arnas, Caroline Simpson, Michael Alan Dorman, Blake Boyd, Charles Gaskell, Tom Evans, David Conrad, Ducky, Nikolay Semyonov, Chris Connett, Kenneth Kousen, h2g2guy, W. Dennis Sorrell, Andrew Engel, Peter Brinkmann, naomio, Alex Mole, Betsy, Tonya Custis, Dave Shapiro, Walther, Jake Sand, Graeme Lewis, Jim Hayes, Scott Albertine, Evan Satinsky, Conor Stuart Roe, ZagOnEm, Kai, רועי סיני, Kottolett, Brian Miller, Pamela O'Neill, Thomas Morgan, Mark James, Matty Crocker, Adam Ziegenhals, Mark, Amelia Lewis, Justin St John-Brooks, DialMForManning, JD White, Andrew Wyld, Joe Johnston, A Devoted Servant of the Holy Water Bottle, Claymore Alexander, gunnito, Graham Orndorff, Kayla Sparks, Douglas Anderson, Foreign Man in a Foreign Land, Paul Tanenholz, Tom, William Christie, Joyce Orndorff, Stephen Tolputt, Kyle Kinkaid, Isaac Hampton, Mark Mitchell Gloster, Andy Maurer, William Spratley, Don Jennings, Cormag81, Derek Hiemforth, Bryan, Mikeyxote, Milan Durnell, Dan Whitmer, Thel 'Vadam, N Zaph, M3RK Chaos Official Patreon page, Mike Wyer, Marc Testart, Carlfish, Michael Morris, Bill Owens, Martin Romano, George Burgyan, Belinda Reid, Matthew Soddy, Flavor Dave, DraconicDon, John W Campbell, StellarDrift, Jimmy2Guys, Megan Oberfield, morolin, An Oni Moose, Ken Birdwell, Blue 5alamander, Panda, Cliff Hudson, Olivia Herald, Macy Allen, JayneOfCanton, or dahan, Alin Nica, Ethan Savaglio, Robert Bailey, Deirdre Saoirse Moen, juneau, Sina Bahram, Ira Kroll, Patrick Minton, Justin Katz, Roahn Wynar, Chuck Dukhoff of The Stagger Lee Archives, Bob D'Errico, Robert Shaw, Shawn Beshears, David Shlapak, JD, Rennie Allen, Travis Briggs, Donald Murray, Cindy Klenk (Highlands Recording Arts LLC), Jonah C., Greyson Erickson, Matt Deeds, Claire Postlethwaite, Strife, Brian Covey, Miles_Naismith, Jemuel Gardner, Jordan Nordstrom-Young, Jay Harris, Sean Murphy, JasperJackal, Tommy Transplant, Wolfgang Giersche, Autographedcat, ParzivaLore, Alexander Whisnant, Amanda Jones, Olaf, Colleen Chapman, Gil, M. Dodge Mumford, Jon Purdy, Ken Brown, Colin Kennedy, Christopher Bork, Granger Meador, The Mauses, Tom Belknap, christopher porto, Steffan Andrews, and William Wallace! Your support helps make 12tone even better!

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Understanding In The Air Tonight

12tone 2023-10-13 | Let's talk about a drum fill!
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In the pantheon of legendary drum fills, few songs come close to the legacy of Phil Collins' solo debut single. But In The Air Tonight is about more than just a drum fill: The song is a perfectly crafted slow burn, patiently building up an overwhelming atmosphere before finally delivering on the implicit promise made by its slow crescendo. So let's talk about it!

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Script: tinyurl.com/3y5tdtys

Huge thanks to our Elephant Club members:

Susan Jones
Jill Jones
Howard Levine
Warren Huart
Len Lanphar
Ken Arnold
William (Bill) Boston
Damien Fuller-Sutherland
Chris Prentice
Jack Carlson
Kelly Christoffersen
Christopher Lucas
Andrew Beals
Dov Zazkis
Hendrik P
Thomas Morley
Jacob Helwig
Donal Botkin
Stephen Cook
b-rom
Jon Hancock
Hendrik Stüwe
Dan Bonelli
Kevin Boyce
Luke
Ian Seymour
Neil Moore
Blake White
Dhruv Monga
Ken Jones
Obadiah Wright
Carlos Rendon
Kylie McInnes
OrionWolfie
Laurence T Maloney
Michael Mol
RAD Donato
Oliver Marchand
Reiji Kobayashi
Catherine Berry
Matt Ivaliotes
Chris Davis
Luke Klima
Hikaru Katayamma
Fred Kroon
Chris Burgess
HardScale
Chris Piro
Matt Robbins
Ryan Evans
Leigh VanHandel
Geoff
Aaron Boodman
Samuel Ollesh
Mikko Koli
Jonathan Lonowski
DrJRad
David Krieger
Staal
Jay Roman
Gopal
George Romaka
Romain Baugue

And thanks as well to Henry Reich, Gene Lushtak, Eugene Bulkin, Oliver, Anna Work, Adam Neely, Dave Mayer, David Bartz, CodenaCrow, Arnas, Caroline Simpson, Michael Alan Dorman, Blake Boyd, Charles Gaskell, Tom Evans, David Conrad, Ducky, Nikolay Semyonov, Chris Connett, Kenneth Kousen, h2g2guy, W. Dennis Sorrell, Andrew Engel, Peter Brinkmann, naomio, Alex Mole, Betsy, Tonya Custis, Dave Shapiro, Walther, Jake Sand, Graeme Lewis, Jim Hayes, Scott Albertine, Evan Satinsky, Conor Stuart Roe, ZagOnEm, Kai, רועי סיני, Kottolett, Brian Miller, Pamela O'Neill, Thomas Morgan, Mark James, Matty Crocker, Adam Ziegenhals, Mark, Amelia Lewis, Justin St John-Brooks, DialMForManning, JD White, Andrew Wyld, Joe Johnston, A Devoted Servant of the Holy Water Bottle, Claymore Alexander, gunnito, Graham Orndorff, Kayla Sparks, Douglas Anderson, Foreign Man in a Foreign Land, Paul Tanenholz, Tom, William Christie, Joyce Orndorff, Stephen Tolputt, Kyle Kinkaid, Isaac Hampton, Mark Mitchell Gloster, Andy Maurer, William Spratley, Don Jennings, Cormag81, Derek Hiemforth, Bryan, Mikeyxote, Milan Durnell, Dan Whitmer, Thel 'Vadam, N Zaph, M3RK Chaos Official Patreon page, Mike Wyer, Marc Testart, Carlfish, Michael Morris, Bill Owens, Martin Romano, George Burgyan, Belinda Reid, Matthew Soddy, Flavor Dave, DraconicDon, John W Campbell, StellarDrift, Jimmy2Guys, Megan Oberfield, morolin, An Oni Moose, Ken Birdwell, Blue 5alamander, Panda, Cliff Hudson, Olivia Herald, Macy Allen, JayneOfCanton, or dahan, Alin Nica, Ethan Savaglio, Robert Bailey, Deirdre Saoirse Moen, juneau, Sina Bahram, Ira Kroll, Patrick Minton, Justin Katz, Roahn Wynar, Chuck Dukhoff of The Stagger Lee Archives, Bob D'Errico, Robert Shaw, Shawn Beshears, David Shlapak, JD, Rennie Allen, Travis Briggs, Donald Murray, Cindy Klenk (Highlands Recording Arts LLC), Jonah C., Greyson Erickson, Matt Deeds, Claire Postlethwaite, Strife, Brian Covey, Miles_Naismith, Jemuel Gardner, Jordan Nordstrom-Young, Jay Harris, Sean Murphy, JasperJackal, Tommy Transplant, Wolfgang Giersche, Autographedcat, ParzivaLore, Alexander Whisnant, Amanda Jones, Olaf, Colleen Chapman, Gil, M. Dodge Mumford, Jon Purdy, Ken Brown, Colin Kennedy, Christopher Bork, Granger Meador, The Mauses, Tom Belknap, christopher porto, Steffan Andrews, and William Wallace! Your support helps make 12tone even better!

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Isaac Newtons Lost Musical Insights

12tone 2023-09-29 | The father of gravity had some thoughts about music.
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Music history is littered with great thinkers, bringing a broad range of unique perspectives to the exploration of the art form. But a name you might not expect to see on that list is Sir Isaac Newton, president of the Royal Society and leader of the Scientific Revolution. And for good reason: he pretty much never wrote about music. It wasn't an area particularly that interested him, and he rarely if ever listened to music for fun. But as a part of his well-rounded education, he did learn music *theory*, and a nearly-forgotten notebook from his college years tells us a lot about how he understood the subtle art of sound.

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Script w/ sources: tinyurl.com/2vetb33p

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Jill Jones
Duck
Howard Levine
Warren Huart
Len Lanphar
Ken Arnold
William (Bill) Boston
Damien Fuller-Sutherland
Chris Prentice
Jack Carlson
Kelly Christoffersen
Christopher Lucas
Andrew Beals
Dov Zazkis
Hendrik P
Thomas Morley
Jacob Helwig
Donal Botkin
Stephen Cook
b-rom
Hendrik Stüwe
Dan Bonelli
Jon Hancock
Kevin Boyce
Luke
Ian Seymour
Neil Moore
Dhruv Monga
Ken Jones
Obadiah Wright
Carlos Rendon
Kylie McInnes
Michael Mol
RAD Donato
OrionWolfie
Laurence T Maloney
Blake White
Oliver Marchand
Reiji Kobayashi
Catherine Berry
Matt Ivaliotes
Kai
Chris Davis
Luke Klima
Hikaru Katayamma
Fred Kroon
HardScale
Chris Piro
Matt Robbins
Ryan Evans
Chris Burgess
Leigh VanHandel
Aaron Boodman
Samuel Ollesh
Mikko Koli
Jonathan Lonowski
Isaac Hampton
DrJRad
Geoff
David Krieger
Staal
Jay Roman
Gopal
George Romaka

And thanks as well to Henry Reich, Gene Lushtak, Eugene Bulkin, Oliver, Anna Work, Adam Neely, Dave Mayer, David Bartz, CodenaCrow, Arnas, Caroline Simpson, Michael Alan Dorman, Blake Boyd, Charles Gaskell, Tom Evans, David Conrad, Ducky, Nikolay Semyonov, Chris Connett, Kenneth Kousen, h2g2guy, W. Dennis Sorrell, Andrew Engel, Peter Brinkmann, naomio, Alex Mole, Betsy, Tonya Custis, Dave Shapiro, Walther, Jake Sand, Graeme Lewis, Jim Hayes, Scott Albertine, Evan Satinsky, Conor Stuart Roe, ZagOnEm, רועי סיני, Kottolett, Brian Miller, Pamela O'Neill, Thomas Morgan, Mark James, Matty Crocker, Adam Ziegenhals, Mark, Amelia Lewis, Justin St John-Brooks, DialMForManning, JD White, Andrew Wyld, Joe Johnston, Taylor Malik, A Devoted Servant of the Holy Water Bottle, Claymore Alexander, gunnito, Graham Orndorff, Kayla Sparks, Douglas Anderson, Foreign Man in a Foreign Land, Paul Tanenholz, Tom, William Christie, Joyce Orndorff, Stephen Tolputt, Kyle Kinkaid, Mark Mitchell Gloster, Andy Maurer, William Spratley, Don Jennings, Cormag81, Derek Hiemforth, Bryan, Mikeyxote, Milan Durnell, Dan Whitmer, Thel 'Vadam, N Zaph, M3RK Chaos Official Patreon page, Mike Wyer, Marc Testart, Carlfish, Michael Morris, Bill Owens, Martin Romano, George Burgyan, Belinda Reid, Matthew Soddy, Flavor Dave, DraconicDon, John W Campbell, StellarDrift, Jimmy2Guys, Megan Oberfield, morolin, An Oni Moose, Ken Birdwell, Blue 5alamander, Panda, Cliff Hudson, Olivia Herald, Macy Allen, doug lute, or dahan, Alin Nica, Ethan Savaglio, Robert Bailey, Deirdre Saoirse Moen, juneau, Sina Bahram, Ira Kroll, Patrick Minton, Justin Katz, Roahn Wynar, Chuck Dukhoff of The Stagger Lee Archives, Bob D'Errico, Robert Shaw, Shawn Beshears, David Shlapak, JD, Rennie Allen, Travis Briggs, Donald Murray, Cindy Klenk (Highlands Recording Arts LLC), Jonah C., Greyson Erickson, Matt Deeds, Claire Postlethwaite, Strife, Brian Covey, paganpuppy, Miles_Naismith, Jemuel Gardner, Jordan Nordstrom-Young, Jay Harris, Sean Murphy, JasperJackal, Tommy Transplant, Wolfgang Giersche, Autographedcat, ParzivaLore, Alexander Whisnant, Amanda Jones, Olaf, Colleen Chapman, Gil, M. Dodge Mumford, Jon Purdy, Ken Brown, Colin Kennedy, Christopher Bork, Granger Meador, The Mauses, Jim Becca, Tom Belknap, and christopher porto! Your support helps make 12tone even better!

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Understanding Fast Car

12tone 2023-09-15 | You've got a fast car.
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What is there to say about Tracy Chapman's devastatingly beautiful debut single? It's a powerful story told with incredible finesse and craft, supported by music that stays out of her way while also building the world of her story. It was a near-instant classic on release, and has remained relevant and beloved for decades since. Let's talk about it.

Emily Yahr's article: web.archive.org/web/20230717080307/washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2023/07/13/tracy-chapman-luke-combs-fast-car-cover

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In Defense Of Bad Lyrics

12tone 2023-08-25 | What even are good lyrics, anyway?
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Lyrics are the first thing most listeners notice in a song, and everyone has their own opinions about what you need to do in order to make your lyrics "good". But are those opinions... wrong? Maybe! Well, no, but I think they're often overspecified, and lyrics that are actually really good get overlooked because they seem, on the surface, to be incoherent, so instead of just letting other people have different tastes from me, I decided to invent a whole new category of lyrics in order to justify my own love of cool-sounding nonsense!

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Understanding Smoke On The Water

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Rock is full of incredible riffs, but if you had to pick the most iconic, most instantly recognizable riff in the history of the genre... I mean, it's gotta be Smoke On The Water, right? That one four-note blues line established Deep Purple as rock legends, and even as pioneers in the developing world of metal, part of the "Unholy Trinity" with fellow hard rock acts Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin. But how did it all happen?

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Understanding Call Me Maybe

12tone 2023-07-07 | Ha! Now that song's stuck in your head.
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About a decade ago, Carly Rae Jepsen's career exploded. She went from being a reasonably successful artist on Canadian radio to an international superstar practically overnight, all thanks to one lucky break. After the lead single for her sophomore album happened to catch the attention of another Canadian pop star, the world immediately fell in love with it, setting her on a journey that would see her local hit become an international sensation. But what makes it so dang catchy?

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The Most Sampled Song Ever

12tone 2023-06-16 | How one simple drum break changed the entire world.
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In 1969, GC Coleman played some drums on a song not many people would listen to. You'd be excused for assuming that was the end of the story, but over a decade later, his solo would be dug up by an enterprising hip-hop producer. That producer republished the song, sharing Coleman's drum break with the world, and the world went nuts for it, sampling, remixing, and transforming that humble, formerly obscure break into one of the most iconic sounds in music history. Let's talk about it.

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Understanding London Calling

12tone 2023-06-02 | The Clash didn't have to go that hard. They did that for us.
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The Clash's London Calling is one of the most important albums in punk rock history, reimagining what punk was allowed to sound like and pushing the genre forward without losing any of its intensity or spirit. The title track is a scathing critique of contemporary British society, but more than that, it's an anthem for change, putting a voice to issues that have plagued society for generations, and it remains just as relevant today as it was in 1979. It's also a great demonstration of how much skill and craft goes into making an iconic punk song!

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Direangel
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DrJRad
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The Music In Winter Levels Sounds Like Winter

12tone 2023-05-19 | Support 12tone on Patreon to help us keep making cool videos! patreon.com/12tonevideos
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Have you ever noticed how every video game winter level sounds kinda the same? Not identical, obviously, but there's definitely a characteristic sound, to the point where you can often tell a piece was written for a winter level without ever actually seeing the level in question. But how does that work, and why?

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DrJRad

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Understanding Never Gonna Give You Up

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Few songs have had quite the legacy of Rick Astley's debut single. When it was released in 1987, it became a #1 hit in the US, UK, and all around the world, but that initial success was nothing compared to what it would become with the rise of the internet. Over the last 15 years, the meme of Never Gonna Give You Up has refused to die, and at this point its opening tom fill may be the most recognizable drum part ever recorded, but with all that attention, it feels like the song itself has become secondary to the joke. Let's fix that.

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Ken Jones
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Neil Moore
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Jody
Michael Mol
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Jon Hancock
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Matt Ivaliotes
Kai
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Luke Klima
Liz Webb
HardScale
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Matt Robbins
Ryan Evans
Fred Kroon
Shanta Kaneshiro
Chris Burgess
Leigh VanHandel
Aaron Boodman
Timothy Halloran
Leo Bellantoni
Steven Fines
Mikko Koli
Direangel
Jonathan Lonowski

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The Hardest Music Question Ive Ever Been Asked

12tone 2023-04-07 | It's not what you think.
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People ask me a lot of questions about music, but the hardest ones aren't the ones you'd expect. Dealing with complex musical structures can be tricky, sure, but some of the most challenging questions I've ever been posed were ones that pushed me to re-examine things I'd always taken for granted. In a recent episode of my podcast, I had to figure out how to explain major scale to someone with zero pre-existing musical knowledge, and I found the exercise so interesting that I decided to make a whole video about it!

Check out the Ghost Notes episode with Nate: nebula.tv/ghost-notes/ghost-notes-and-friends-nate-holder

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Kai
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Shanta Kaneshiro
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Leigh VanHandel
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Timothy Halloran
Leo Bellantoni
Steven Fines
Mikko Koli
Direangel
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Understanding Mr. Brightside

12tone 2023-03-24 | Because it's great, that's why.
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I was a teenager when Mr. Brightside came out, and if I'm being honest, most of the music that came out when I was a teenager didn't really have much staying power. Like, I still love a lot of it, but even the biggest hits of the era, at least in rock music, seem to have largely faded from the public consciousness. So why is Mr. Brightside different? How has it managed to so quickly establish itself as a timeless icon when it sounds so thoroughly dated? It's clearly of its era, and yet it's transcended it in a way that few other songs from that movement have. But why?

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b-rom
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Kevin Boyce
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Luke
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Ken Jones
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Neil Moore
Kylie McInnes
Jody
Michael Mol
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Reiji Kobayashi
Catherine Berry
Jon Hancock
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OrionWolfie
Laurence T Maloney
Oliver Marchand
Kai
Chris Davis
Liz Webb
Luke Klima
Fred Kroon
HardScale
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Matt Robbins
Ryan Evans
Shanta Kaneshiro
Chris Burgess
Leigh VanHandel
Aaron Boodman
Timothy Halloran
Leo Bellantoni
Steven Fines
Mikko Koli
Direangel
Jonathan Lonowski

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What Makes A Great Vocal Mix?

12tone 2023-03-03 | Mixing is an artform.
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It's a common misconception that the goal of recorded music is to replicate, as accurately as possible, the experience of hearing that same music live. To an extent, that is often true: A song on a record should sound like the same song when you hear the band play it on tour. But the tools of the studio, and especially the mix, provide incredible opportunities for clever artists and audio engineers to enhance the listener's experience, creating a better, clearer, and richer experience that what could be performed live. A key component of that is vocal placement, or the use of different elements of the mix to create specific personas for the singers, allowing them to more accurately embody the song's story. It's an area that music theorists really haven't looked too closely at, but we're starting to see some really interesting approaches begin to take shape.

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Analyzing Voices video: youtu.be/1TzbiX12vBA

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Chris Prentice
Jack Carlson
Christopher Lucas
Andrew Beals
Dov Zazkis
Hendrik P
Thomas Morley
Jacob Helwig
Kelly Christoffersen
Davis Sprague
Donal Botkin
Stephen Cook
b-rom
Hendrik Stüwe
Dan Bonelli
Kevin Boyce
Damien Fuller-Sutherland
Darius Rudominer
Luke
Ian Seymour
Dhruv Monga
Ken Jones
Obadiah Wright
Carlos Rendon
Neil Moore
Kylie McInnes
Jody
Michael Mol
RAD Donato
Reiji Kobayashi
Catherine Berry
Jon Hancock
Matt Ivaliotes
OrionWolfie
Laurence T Maloney
Oliver Marchand
Kai
Chris Davis
Liz Webb
Luke Klima
Fred Kroon
HardScale
Chris Piro
Matt Robbins
Ryan Evans
Shanta Kaneshiro
Chris Burgess
Leigh VanHandel
Aaron Boodman
Timothy Halloran
Leo Bellantoni
Steven Fines
Mikko Koli
Direangel
Jonathan Lonowski

And thanks as well to Henry Reich, Gene Lushtak, Eugene Bulkin, Logan Jones, Oliver, Anna Work, Adam Neely, Dave Mayer, CodenaCrow, Arnas, Caroline Simpson, Michael Alan Dorman, Blake Boyd, Charles Gaskell, Trevor Sullivan, Tom Evans, David Conrad, Ducky, Chris Connett, Kenneth Kousen, h2g2guy, W. Dennis Sorrell, Andrew Engel, Peter Brinkmann, naomio, Alex Mole, Betsy, Tonya Custis, Dave Shapiro, Jacopo Cascioli, Rafael Martinez Salas, Walther, Graeme Lewis, Jake Sand, Jim Hayes, Scott Albertine, Evan Satinsky, Conor Stuart Roe, ZagOnEm, Dragix PL, רועי סיני, Kottolett, Brian Miller, Pamela O'Neill, Thomas Morgan, Mark James, Matty Crocker, Adam Ziegenhals, Mark, Amelia Lewis, sonicolasj, William Merryman, Ryan Mayle, Justin St John-Brooks, DialMForManning, JD White, Andrew Wyld, Joe Johnston, A Devoted Servant of the Holy Water Bottle, vivi mouse emoji, Claymore Alexander, gunnito, Graham Orndorff, Daniel Sim, Drunk Wookiee, Taylor Malik, Douglas Anderson, Foreign Man in a Foreign Land, Boomer Dell, Paul Tanenholz, Tom, William Christie, Jeffrey Mann, Joyce Orndorff, Stephen Tolputt, Patterner, Messier42, Mark Mitchell Gloster, Andy Maurer, William Spratley, Samuel Ollesh, Don Jennings, Cormag81, Derek Hiemforth, Bryan, Mikeyxote, Milan Durnell, Dan Whitmer, Thel 'Vadam, Mireille C, N Zaph, David Dynes, M3RK Chaos Official Patreon page, Peter Golbus, Ceri Williams, Marc Testart, Carlfish, Kyle Kinkaid, Peter, Michael Morris, Bill Owens, Martin Romano, George Burgyan, Kenneth Boardwine, Belinda Reid, Matthew Soddy, Mike Wyer, DraconicDon, John W Campbell, StellarDrift, Isaac Hampton, Jimmy2Guys, Megan Oberfield, acefusti138, morolin, An Oni Moose, Ken Birdwell, Blue 5alamander, Panda, Cliff Hudson, Olivia Herald, Donnie, Macy Allen, doug lute, Patrick McKenna, or dahan, Ethan Savaglio, Robert Bailey, Deirdre Saoirse Moen, Elizabeth Reckers, Alin Nica, Simiusmagnus, juneau, Sina Bahram, Ira Kroll, Patrick Minton, Justin Katz, Roahn Wynar, Chuck Dukhoff of The Stagger Lee Archives, Bob D'Errico, Robert Shaw, and Shawn Beshears! Your support helps make 12tone even better!

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Understanding Smells Like Teen Spirit

12tone 2023-02-17 | With the lights out, it's less dangerous.
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If you were to write a list of the most historically important rock songs, odds are Smells Like Teen Spirit would be in the top 10. As the vanguard of the grunge revolution, Nirvana's breakthrough hit set the stage for the reinvention of rock music in the '90s, and it remains an iconic example of the sound that shaped my childhood. And it all started with a drunken scribble on Kurt Cobain's bedroom wall.

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Chris Prentice
Jack Carlson
Christopher Lucas
Andrew Beals
Dov Zazkis
Hendrik P
Thomas Morley
Jacob Helwig
Kelly Christoffersen
Davis Sprague
Donal Botkin
Stephen Cook
b-rom
Hendrik Stüwe
Dan Bonelli
Kevin Boyce
Darius Rudominer
Damien Fuller-Sutherland
Luke
Ian Seymour
Dhruv Monga
Ken Jones
Obadiah Wright
Carlos Rendon
Kylie McInnes
Jody
Neil Moore
PhilRosas
Reiji Kobayashi
Catherine Berry
Matt Ivaliotes
OrionWolfie
Laurence T Maloney
Oliver Marchand
Kai
Chris Davis
Liz Webb
Luke Klima
Fred Kroon
HardScale
Chris Piro
Matt Robbins
Ryan Evans
Shanta Kaneshiro
Chris Burgess
Leigh VanHandel
Brandon B. Roderick
Aaron Boodman
Timothy Halloran
Leo Bellantoni
Steven Fines

And thanks as well to Henry Reich, Gene Lushtak, Eugene Bulkin, Logan Jones, Oliver, Anna Work, Adam Neely, Rick Lees, Dave Mayer, CodenaCrow, Arnas, Caroline Simpson, Michael Alan Dorman, Blake Boyd, Charles Gaskell, Trevor Sullivan, Tom Evans, David Conrad, Ducky, Chris Connett, Kenneth Kousen, h2g2guy, W. Dennis Sorrell, Andrew Engel, Peter Brinkmann, Michael Mol, naomio, Alex Mole, Betsy, Tonya Custis, Dave Shapiro, Jacopo Cascioli, Rafael Martinez Salas, Walther, Graeme Lewis, Jake Sand, Jim Hayes, Scott Albertine, Evan Satinsky, Conor Stuart Roe, ZagOnEm, Dragix PL, רועי סיני, Kottolett, Brian Miller, Pamela O'Neill, Thomas Morgan, Mark James, Adam Ziegenhals, Mark, Amelia Lewis, sonicolasj, William Merryman, Ryan Mayle, Justin St John-Brooks, DialMForManning, Matthew Moore, JD White, Andrew Wyld, Joe Johnston, A Devoted Servant of the Holy Water Bottle, vivi mouse emoji, Claymore Alexander, gunnito, Graham Orndorff, Daniel Sim, Joel LaRosa, Drunk Wookiee, Douglas Anderson, Foreign Man in a Foreign Land, Vigilance Deadname, Boomer Dell, Taylor Malik, Paul Tanenholz, Tom, William Christie, Joyce Orndorff, Stephen Tolputt, Patterner, Messier42, Bradley Crowley, Mark Mitchell Gloster, Andy Maurer, William Spratley, Samuel Ollesh, Don Jennings, Cormag81, Derek Hiemforth, Bryan, Mikeyxote, Milan Durnell, Dan Whitmer, Thel 'Vadam, Mireille C, N Zaph, David Dynes, M3RK Chaos Official Patreon page, Kenneth Boardwine, Peter Golbus, Ceri Williams, Marc Testart, Carlfish, Peter, Michael Morris, Bill Owens, Stephanie Miller, Martin Romano, George Burgyan, Kyle Kinkaid, Belinda Reid, Matthew Soddy, Mike Wyer, DraconicDon, John W Campbell, StellarDrift, Isaac Hampton, Jimmy2Guys, Megan Oberfield, acefusti138, morolin, An Oni Moose, Ken Birdwell, Blue 5alamander, Panda, Cliff Hudson, griffin cofell, Olivia Herald, Donnie, Macy Allen, doug lute, Patrick McKenna, or dahan, Ethan Savaglio, Robert Bailey, Deirdre Saoirse Moen, and Elizabeth Reckers! Your support helps make 12tone even better!

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Is Cb The Same Note As B? (A Response To Adam Neely)

12tone 2023-01-27 | Actually Adam's mostly correct.
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So, recently, Adam Neely decided to use his platform to weigh in on the debate about whether or not Cb and B are the same note, and surprising no one, he got it wrong. Wait, no, that's not true. He got it pretty much entirely right. But! I feel like there are important aspects of the debate that got left out of his video, and while I don't disagree with any of his arguments I found his conclusion unsatisfying, so now I'm making a really long video about why he's only mostly correct. Enjoy? Or I'm sorry? Whichever feels more appropriate to you.

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Understanding Hungry Like The Wolf

12tone 2023-01-13 | Duran Duran is good, I will die on this hill.
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The '80s were a weird time for rock music, and we're kinda still trying to figure out how to think about it. Was it corny? Was it good? Or was it both? And the thing is, it was definitely both. There's plenty of good examples of incredible rock music that came out in the '80s, but the songs that stood the test of time have mostly done so by avoiding many of the cliches of the era. But what about the songs that are '80s to the core and yet still rule? Well, if you're looking for that, then we're gonna have to talk about Duran Duran.

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Whats The Point Of A Prechorus?

12tone 2022-12-09 | It's a musical ramp.
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The prechorus is a relatively recent invention in Western popular music, but despite being late to the party, it quickly established itself as an essential part of our shared musical vocabulary on song form. A good prechorus not only elevates the chorus, it transforms the song, changing its narrative and musical structure to more effectively tell certain kinds of musical stories. But where did they come from, and more importantly, how do they work?

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Understanding The Safety Dance

12tone 2022-11-18 | Why do I do this to myself?
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What is it that moves a person to dance? For Ivan Doroschuk, lead singer of Men Without Hats, the need to dance was an intrinsic part of himself, one that was under threat by bouncers who insisted his dancing was "unsafe". Ivan disagreed, and in trying to express that, he wound up making one of the greatest dance tracks of all time.

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How To Write A Hardcore Punk Riff

12tone 2022-11-04 | It's more than just power chords.
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Punk is an interesting genre for music theorists, because it very much doesn't care what music theorists have to say. This rebellious attitude toward musical norms can make it difficult to study, and most scholarship on punk simply focuses on its politics and culture instead, but there's also a lot of really cool musical ideas happening, so let's talk about how punk riffs actually work.

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Chris Burgess

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Understanding Zombie

12tone 2022-10-21 | Not an easy story, but an important one.
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Written as a response to the violence of The Troubles, Zombie is a raw, intensely emotional look at the damage and pain caused by these sorts of conflicts. It's a plea for humanity, and one that still resonates today, decades after the end of the specific conflict it was written for. It was a hard song to spend this much time with, but it remains an important piece of art, and I hope I did it justice.

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Chris Prentice
Jack Carlson
Christopher Lucas
Andrew Beals
Dov Zazkis
Hendrik P
Thomas Morley
Jacob Helwig
Davis Sprague
Kelly Christoffersen
Braum Meakes
Donal Botkin
Hendrik Stüwe
Stephen Cook
Dan Bonelli
Kevin Boyce
David Bartz
Darius Rudominer
Luke
Ian Seymour
Dhruv Monga
Ken Jones
Obadiah Wright
Carlos Rendon
Kylie McInnes
Jody
Damien Fuller-Sutherland
PhilRosas
Reiji Kobayashi
Neil Moore
Catherine Berry
Matt Ivaliotes
Kai
Chris Davis
Liz Webb
Luke Klima
Fred Kroon
OrionWolfie
Laurence T Maloney
Oliver Marchand
HardScale
Chris Piro
Matt Robbins
Ryan Evans
Shanta Kaneshiro

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This Rhythm Is Impossible

12tone 2022-10-07 | Not hard, just impossible.
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The word "impossible" gets thrown around a lot in music, but usually what we really mean is just extremely difficult. That's not always the case, though: Sometimes, there are musical ideas so complicated that they wind up being not just physically impossible, but conceptually impossible as well. But did Brahms write one of those? Well... It's complicated.

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Understanding Get Lucky

12tone 2022-09-16 | I'm up all night to analyze music.
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Get Lucky was a cultural phenomenon, and it revitalized the careers of Daft Punk. The band had been slowly fading into obscurity, but by radically reimagining their approach to music and bringing in amazing collaborators like Nile Rodgers and Pharrell Williams, the robot rockers were able to capture lightning in a bottle one more time. Let's talk about how!

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The Book That Changed Jazz Forever

12tone 2022-09-02 | Taking on music theory's biggest idea.
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In music circles, the Lydian Chromatic Concept by George Russell has built a reputation as a daunting model, a brilliant but esoteric idea best suited for the minds of geniuses like Miles Davis. And that reputation isn't entirely unearned, but it's led a lot of people to not engage with Russell's work when it's actually not that hard to understand, so I'm gonna try to demystify it a bit and explain what he was actually trying to do.

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Understanding Free Fallin

12tone 2022-08-12 | I thought this one would be easy, but... yeah.
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I've lived in Los Angeles for over a decade now, so I think it's finally time that I tackle perhaps the most LA song ever written. Free Fallin' is both Tom Petty's celebration and his admonishment of my adopted city, wrapped in layers of complex production and lyrical nuance that challenge listeners to reexamine their concepts of freedom while also being just super fun to sing along with.

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Grant Aldonas
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Jack Carlson
Christopher Lucas
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Dov Zazkis
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Thomas Morley
Jacob Helwig
Davis Sprague
Kelly Christoffersen
Braum Meakes
Hendrik Stüwe
Donal Botkin
Dan Bonelli
Kevin Boyce
Stephen Cook
Darius Rudominer
David Bartz
Luke
Dhruv Monga
Ken Jones
Obadiah Wright
Carlos Rendon
Michael Mol
Aleksandar Milojković
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Jody
PhilRosas
Reiji Kobayashi
Catherine Berry
Neil Moore
Kai
Damien Fuller-Sutherland

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What *Is* Butt Rock?

12tone 2022-07-29 | For reasons I'm not sure I could explain if I tried, I've recently found myself thinking a lot about the concept of butt rock, so in order to get it out of my head, I decided to do a deep dive on the history and practice of this oft-maligned genre. What makes something butt rock? What does it mean, and what does it sound like? These are not questions that anyone really needs an answer to, but I've decided to answer them anyway. Or at least I've decided to try. We'll see how it goes.

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Jill Jones
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Grant Aldonas
Chris Prentice
Jack Carlson
Christopher Lucas
Andrew Beals
Dov Zazkis
Hendrik P
Thomas Morley
Jacob Helwig
Davis Sprague
Braum Meakes
Kelly Christoffersen
Hendrik Stüwe
Dan Bonelli
Kevin Boyce
Donal Botkin
Stephen Cook
Luke
David Bartz
Dhruv Monga
Ken Jones
Obadiah Wright
Carlos Rendon
Aleksandar Milojković
Kylie McInnes
Jody
Michael Mol
PhilRosas
Reiji Kobayashi
Catherine Berry
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Kai

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Understanding The Middle

12tone 2022-07-15 | There's some songs that you never really outgrow, and for me, The Middle is one of those. The relentless optimism of the track feels like a weird match for the dark cynicism of teenagehood in the early 2000s, but the earnest insistence that everything would be alright captured something about that moment in time, and it still resonates with me today. I have no idea how well-known a song it is these days, but for those of us who grew up in that era, it's something we'll probably never forget.

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Why Is It So Hard To Talk About Sound?

12tone 2022-07-01 | The tools we have to precisely discuss sound kinda... suck. Ok, maybe that's a bit much, but as a music theorist, it's hard not to notice how underdeveloped our vocabulary is when it comes to what is arguably the single most important component of musical experience: The actual tones of the instruments that comprise songs. It seems like such an obvious thing, but it's actually really difficult to do well. Why is that, and can we do better?

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Understanding Landslide

12tone 2022-06-10 | Landslide is one of those songs where it's hard to imagine that anyone actually wrote it. It just feels like it's always existed, being molded by artists to tell beautiful stories for generations. And yet it was written, by Stevie Nicks, in 1974. That's not even that long ago. So how did she manage to tap into such a timeless, enduring sound and create something whose legacy feels like it extends back so much further than its actual existence? She did it by harnessing the raw power of simplicity. Well, that and some lucky breaks.

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Naming All The Chords For Some Reason

12tone 2022-05-20 | Sometimes, the work I do explores deep, fundamental questions about music and our relationship with it. Sometimes my videos are intended to challenge viewers on their assumptions, or to provoke deep thoughts on important topics. And sometimes I spend 20 minutes naming chords because why wasn't there already a list of chord names out there? This seems like a pretty serious oversight, and fortunately, I have enough spare time to fix it. So I did! You're welcome. And I'm sorry.

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Understanding Hearts Alone

12tone 2022-05-06 | Donate directly to the National Network of Abortions Funds: donate.abortionfunds.org/give/323375/#!/donation/checkout or find an abortion fund in your state: abortionfunds.org/funds

There's a subtle art to taking a great song and making it your own, and while most of these discussions tend to focus on already well-known songs that were transformed, like All Along The Watchtower, we rarely think about the songs saved from obscurity by a cover. Alone is one of the best power ballads to come out of the 80s, but it almost went nowhere until Heart came along and showed the world just how great it really was.

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