What Taylor Swift Can Teach Us About Pop Music @12tone

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Pop music is weird. Or, I mean, it's not, it's pretty normal, but music theory is bad at explaining it because we're so focused on notes and chords that we miss out on what makes a great pop song so special. Can we do better? Sure! But how? Well, one possible approach would be to build some new models that actually incorporate pop production, and fortunately for us, Dr. Asaf Peres has already done that, and to understand how it works, I want to talk about one of my favorite pop albums of all time: Taylor Swift's 1989.

Dr. Peres's article: top40theory.com/blog/sonic-functions-the-alternative-to-harmonic-functions-in-modern-music

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What Taylor Swift Can Teach Us About Pop Music

12tone 2020-12-11 | I swear I didn't know she was gonna drop a new album.
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Pop music is weird. Or, I mean, it's not, it's pretty normal, but music theory is bad at explaining it because we're so focused on notes and chords that we miss out on what makes a great pop song so special. Can we do better? Sure! But how? Well, one possible approach would be to build some new models that actually incorporate pop production, and fortunately for us, Dr. Asaf Peres has already done that, and to understand how it works, I want to talk about one of my favorite pop albums of all time: Taylor Swift's 1989.

Dr. Peres's article: top40theory.com/blog/sonic-functions-the-alternative-to-harmonic-functions-in-modern-music

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Understanding Pinball Wizard

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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

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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

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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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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, Graeme Lewis, Jake Sand, Jim Hayes, Scott Albertine, Evan Satinsky, Conor Stuart Roe, ZagOnEm, רועי סיני, Brian Miller, Thomas Morgan, 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, 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, StephAgosta, Claire Postlethwaite, 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, 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, Vinayak Nagaraj, sandra zarbatany, and Jan Hofman! Your support helps make 12tone even better!

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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

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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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Jay Beard's Mystic Chord video: youtu.be/lTx2LOcAh3g
My Lydian Chromatic Concept video: youtu.be/lAt1Vcuy5LY
My Elephant Scale video: youtu.be/f4eXdIlXZ7k
Ethan Hein's Blues Tonality post: ethanhein.com/wp/2022/blues-harmony-primer
My Enigmatic Scale video: youtu.be/YMyr4a7wHGE
Adam Neely's Locrian video: youtu.be/el1ZhkN85Mc

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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.

Go watch Matt's video! youtube.com/watch?v=br-Ed3NxjN4

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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

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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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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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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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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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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Geoff
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Gopal
George Romaka

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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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Staal

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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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Leo Bellantoni
Jonathan Lonowski
DrJRad
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Staal

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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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Dr. Hein's article: ethanhein.com/wp/2023/building-the-amen-break
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Ryan Evans
Fred Kroon
Shanta Kaneshiro
Chris Burgess
Leigh VanHandel
Aaron Boodman
Samuel Ollesh
Leo Bellantoni
Steven Fines
Mikko Koli
Direangel
Jonathan Lonowski
DrJRad
David Krieger

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, Walther, Graeme Lewis, Jake Sand, Rebel RMS, 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, William Merryman, 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, Taylor Malik, Graham Orndorff, Daniel Sim, Drunk Wookiee, Douglas Anderson, Foreign Man in a Foreign Land, Boomer Dell, Paul Tanenholz, Tom, William Christie, Jeffrey Mann, Joyce Orndorff, Stephen Tolputt, Messier42, 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, StephAgosta, Ceri Williams, Kyle Kinkaid, Marc Testart, Carlfish, Peter, Michael Morris, Bill Owens, Martin Romano, George Burgyan, Mike Wyer, Belinda Reid, Matthew Soddy, DraconicDon, John W Campbell, StellarDrift, Isaac Hampton, Jimmy2Guys, Megan Oberfield, acefusti138, morolin, An Oni Moose, Ken Birdwell, Blue 5alamander, Panda, Cliff Hudson, Olivia Herald, doug lute, or dahan, Ethan Savaglio, Robert Bailey, Deirdre Saoirse Moen, Trudii, Macy Allen, Patrick McKenna, Alin Nica, 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., Head_Canon, rondell merrill, Greyson Erickson, Matt Deeds, Claire Postlethwaite, Strife, Brian Covey, paganpuppy, and Miles_Naismith! Your support helps make 12tone even better!

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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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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?

Check out the paper: mtosmt.org/issues/mto.23.29.1/mto.23.29.1.lavengoodwilliams.html
8-Bit's Christmas video: youtu.be/OfV4y5AWN14

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Mikko Koli
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Understanding Never Gonna Give You Up

12tone 2023-04-28 | Support 12tone on Patreon to help us keep making cool videos! patreon.com/12tonevideos
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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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b-rom
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Hendrik Stüwe
Dan Bonelli
Kevin Boyce
Darius Rudominer
Luke
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Dhruv Monga
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Jody
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Luke Klima
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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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Stephen Cook
b-rom
Damien Fuller-Sutherland
Hendrik Stüwe
Dan Bonelli
Kevin Boyce
Darius Rudominer
Luke
Ian Seymour
Dhruv Monga
Ken Jones
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Carlos Rendon
Neil Moore
Kylie McInnes
Jody
Michael Mol
RAD Donato
Jon Hancock
Reiji Kobayashi
Catherine Berry
OrionWolfie
Laurence T Maloney
Oliver Marchand
Matt Ivaliotes
Kai
Chris Davis
Luke Klima
Liz Webb
HardScale
Chris Piro
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

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, Taylor Malik, Drunk Wookiee, 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, StephAgosta, Ceri Williams, Marc Testart, Carlfish, Kyle Kinkaid, Peter, Michael Morris, Bill Owens, Martin Romano, George Burgyan, Belinda Reid, Mike Wyer, Matthew Soddy, DraconicDon, John W Campbell, StellarDrift, Isaac Hampton, Jimmy2Guys, Megan Oberfield, acefusti138, morolin, An Oni Moose, Ken Birdwell, Blue 5alamander, Panda, Cliff Hudson, Olivia Herald, Macy Allen, doug lute, Patrick McKenna, or dahan, Donnie, 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, Shawn Beshears, David Shlapak, JD, Rennie Allen, and Travis Briggs! Your support helps make 12tone even better!

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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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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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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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Mike's video on vocal mixing: youtu.be/TsFohUiLWEA
Analyzing Voices video: youtu.be/1TzbiX12vBA

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Ken Arnold
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William (Bill) Boston
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

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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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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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Shanta Kaneshiro
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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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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Fred Kroon
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Laurence T Maloney
Oliver Marchand
HardScale
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Matt Robbins
Ryan Evans
Shanta Kaneshiro

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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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Jill Jones
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William (Bill) Boston
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
Dan Bonelli
Kevin Boyce
Stephen Cook
David Bartz
Darius Rudominer
Luke
Ian Seymour
Dhruv Monga
Ken Jones
Obadiah Wright
Carlos Rendon
Aleksandar Milojković
Kylie McInnes
Jody
PhilRosas
Reiji Kobayashi
Catherine Berry
Neil Moore
Damien Fuller-Sutherland
Kai
Chris Davis
Luke Klima
Fred Kroon
HardScale
Chris Piro
Matt Robbins
Ryan Evans

And thanks as well to Henry Reich, Gabi Ghita, Gene Lushtak, Eugene Bulkin, Owen Campbell-Moore, 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, JH, David Conrad, Ducky, Todd Davidson, Chris Borland, Jake Lizzio, Elliot Burke, Aaron Epstein, Chris Connett, Tim S., Elias Simon, Kenneth Kousen, James, h2g2guy, W. Dennis Sorrell, Jerry D. Brown, Ohad Lutzky, Peter Leventis, Symmetry, James A. Thornton, Andrew Engel, Peter Brinkmann, Stefan Strohmaier, Shadow Kat, Adam Wurstmann, Angela Flierman, Richard T. Anderson, Michael Mol, Kevin Johnson, Joshua La Macchia, naomio, Alex Mole, Rodrigo "rrc2soft" Roman, Jeremy Zolner, Patrick Callier, Danny, Francois LaPlante, Volker Wegert, Britt Ratliff, John Bejarano, Gary Butterfield, Betsy, Tonya Custis, Dave Shapiro, Jacopo Cascioli, Steve Brand, Rene Miklas, Walther, Red Uncle, Doug Nottingham, Graeme Lewis, Jake Sand, Nicholas Wolf, Robert Beach, Jason Nebergall, Jim Hayes, Scott Albertine, Mathew Wolak, S, Lincoln Mendell, Sam Rezek, Destros, Lucas Augusto, ZagOnEm, רועי סיני, Evan Satinsky, Conor Stuart Roe, RaptorCat, Dragix PL, Jigglypuffer, leftaroundabout ., Jens Schäfer, Mikely Whiplash, Austin Amberg, Francisco Rodrigues, Michael Tsuk, Kottolett, Dylan Vidas, ThoraSTooth, Brandon Legawiec, Hikaru Katayamma, Brian Miller, Rob Hardy, Patrick Chieppe, Eric Stark, David Haughn, Gordon Dell, Bryn Davis, Pamela O'Neill, Byron DeLaBarre, Matty Crocker, anemamata, Lee-orr Orbach, Eric Plume, Thomas Morgan, Ludwick Kennedy, Jason Peterson, Peggy Youell, EJ Hambleton, Caitlin Olsen, Ridley Kemp, Mark James, Jos Mulder, Daryl Banttari, J.T. Vandenbree, John Castle, Adam Ziegenhals, Mark, Amelia Lewis, sonicolasj, Kristofer Hill, William Merryman, Ryan Mayle, AkselA, Justin St John-Brooks, Sam Plotkin, David MacDonald, Nellie Speirs Baron, Charles R., Joshua Lewis, Sam, DialMForManning, Wayne Weil, Joseph Satin, Piush Dahal, Matthew Moore, Andrew Wyld, David T Peterson, Bryan C. Mills, JD White, XCompWiz, Michael Blaby, Joe Johnston, Jordan Friendshuh, Bean, A Devoted Servant, Milan Brezovsky, Edmund Horner, NinoDoko, M. Bock, Daniel Joseph Moynihan, vivi mouse emoji, Claymore Alexander, Dixon Roberts, Josh Witkowski, You Can Face Reality, Graham Orndorff, gunnito, Jason McPherson, Chris Robson, A.J. Yates, Matt Moulder, Leander Tietjen, Alex Tafur, findRED, Howl’s one-handed, Gary Backaus, Joel LaRosa, Daniel Sim, Chris Breault, Eugen Lounkine, Fernando Gros, Geoffrey Barnett, OVB_2nd, William, David Wagner, Joe Molloy, Jeffrey Mann, Drunk Wookiee, RoxyPop, Douglas Anderson, Foreign Man in a Foreign Land, Vigilance Deadname, Liz Webb, Boomer Dell, Paul Tanenholz, Lev, Julio D, Justin Zboyovski, Adam Poata-Smith, J.R. Hyde, A, Christopher Beattie, triskadecaepyon, Abie, Charles Jordan, Kelly Walker, Tom, William Christie, Stephen Tolputt, Patterner, Taylor Malik, Messier42, Bradley Crowley, Mark Mitchell Gloster, Andy Maurer, William Spratley, Don Jennings, Cormag81, Derek Hiemforth, Bryan, Michael K, Milan Durnell, Dan Whitmer, Thel 'Vadam, Brian Hall, Cole McIntyre, Andrew Herald, Mireille C, Justin Carpenter, N Zaph, David Dynes, M3RK Chaos, Marc Testart, Charles Miller, and Ceri Williams! Your support helps make 12tone even better!

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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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William (Bill) Boston
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
Dan Bonelli
Kevin Boyce
Stephen Cook
David Bartz
Darius Rudominer
Luke
Ian Seymour
Dhruv Monga
Ken Jones
Obadiah Wright
Carlos Rendon
Aleksandar Milojković
Kylie McInnes
Jody
PhilRosas
Reiji Kobayashi
Catherine Berry
Neil Moore
Damien Fuller-Sutherland
Kai
Chris Davis
Luke Klima
Fred Kroon
HardScale
Chris Piro
Matt Robbins
Ryan Evans

And thanks as well to Henry Reich, Gabi Ghita, Gene Lushtak, Eugene Bulkin, Owen Campbell-Moore, 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, JH, David Conrad, Ducky, Todd Davidson, Chris Borland, Jake Lizzio, Elliot Burke, Aaron Epstein, Chris Connett, Tim S., Elias Simon, Kenneth Kousen, James, h2g2guy, W. Dennis Sorrell, Jerry D. Brown, Ohad Lutzky, Peter Leventis, Symmetry, James A. Thornton, Andrew Engel, Peter Brinkmann, Stefan Strohmaier, Shadow Kat, Adam Wurstmann, Angela Flierman, Richard T. Anderson, Michael Mol, Kevin Johnson, Joshua La Macchia, naomio, Alex Mole, Rodrigo "rrc2soft" Roman, Jeremy Zolner, Patrick Callier, Danny, Francois LaPlante, Volker Wegert, Britt Ratliff, John Bejarano, Gary Butterfield, Betsy, Tonya Custis, Dave Shapiro, Jacopo Cascioli, Steve Brand, Rene Miklas, Walther, Red Uncle, Doug Nottingham, Graeme Lewis, Jake Sand, Nicholas Wolf, Robert Beach, Jason Nebergall, Jim Hayes, Scott Albertine, Mathew Wolak, S, Lincoln Mendell, Sam Rezek, Destros, Lucas Augusto, ZagOnEm, רועי סיני, Evan Satinsky, Conor Stuart Roe, RaptorCat, Dragix PL, Jigglypuffer, leftaroundabout ., Jens Schäfer, Mikely Whiplash, Austin Amberg, Francisco Rodrigues, Michael Tsuk, Kottolett, Dylan Vidas, ThoraSTooth, Brandon Legawiec, Hikaru Katayamma, Brian Miller, Rob Hardy, Patrick Chieppe, Eric Stark, David Haughn, Gordon Dell, Bryn Davis, Pamela O'Neill, Byron DeLaBarre, Matty Crocker, anemamata, Lee-orr Orbach, Eric Plume, Thomas Morgan, Ludwick Kennedy, Jason Peterson, Peggy Youell, EJ Hambleton, Caitlin Olsen, Ridley Kemp, Mark James, Jos Mulder, Daryl Banttari, J.T. Vandenbree, John Castle, Adam Ziegenhals, Mark, Amelia Lewis, sonicolasj, Kristofer Hill, William Merryman, Ryan Mayle, AkselA, Justin St John-Brooks, Sam Plotkin, David MacDonald, Nellie Speirs Baron, Charles R., Joshua Lewis, Sam, DialMForManning, Wayne Weil, Joseph Satin, Piush Dahal, Matthew Moore, Andrew Wyld, David T Peterson, Bryan C. Mills, JD White, XCompWiz, Michael Blaby, Joe Johnston, Jordan Friendshuh, Bean, A Devoted Servant, Milan Brezovsky, Edmund Horner, NinoDoko, M. Bock, Daniel Joseph Moynihan, vivi mouse emoji, Claymore Alexander, Dixon Roberts, Josh Witkowski, You Can Face Reality, Graham Orndorff, gunnito, Jason McPherson, Chris Robson, A.J. Yates, Matt Moulder, Leander Tietjen, Alex Tafur, findRED, Howl’s one-handed, Gary Backaus, Joel LaRosa, Daniel Sim, Chris Breault, Eugen Lounkine, Fernando Gros, Geoffrey Barnett, OVB_2nd, William, David Wagner, Joe Molloy, Jeffrey Mann, Drunk Wookiee, RoxyPop, Douglas Anderson, Foreign Man in a Foreign Land, Vigilance Deadname, Liz Webb, Boomer Dell, Paul Tanenholz, Lev, Julio D, Justin Zboyovski, Adam Poata-Smith, J.R. Hyde, A, Christopher Beattie, triskadecaepyon, Abie, Charles Jordan, Kelly Walker, Tom, William Christie, Stephen Tolputt, Patterner, Taylor Malik, Messier42, Bradley Crowley, Mark Mitchell Gloster, Andy Maurer, William Spratley, Don Jennings, Cormag81, Derek Hiemforth, Bryan, Michael K, Milan Durnell, Dan Whitmer, Thel 'Vadam, Brian Hall, Cole McIntyre, Andrew Herald, Mireille C, Justin Carpenter, N Zaph, David Dynes, M3RK Chaos, Marc Testart, Charles Miller, and Ceri Williams! Your support helps make 12tone even better!

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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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Jill Jones
Duck
Howard Levine
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Kevin Wilamowski
Grant Aldonas
Chris Prentice
Jack Carlson
Christopher Lucas
Andrew Beals
Dov Zazkis
Hendrik P
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
Kylie McInnes
Jody
PhilRosas
Reiji Kobayashi
Catherine Berry
Neil Moore
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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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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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Kai

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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

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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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Why Does Metal Have To Be So Loud?

12tone 2022-04-15 | Metal has always been one of my favorite genres, and like most metalheads, I've never listened to it quietly. Turning the volume down on a brutal metal riff feels almost sacrilegious, like it's disrespectful to the music to hear it at anything but full volume. But why? Many genres can be enjoyed perfectly fine at a nice, comfortably quiet level, but metal resists that, and metalheads reject those efforts. So what's going on? Why does metal only work when it's loud as hell?

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Understanding Everybody Wants To Rule The World

12tone 2022-04-01 | Tears For Fears were famous for their meticulous production, spending months dialing in the exact sounds they needed to make their audacious synthpop anthems work. But what would happen if you took that attention to detail and forced them to make a whole song, start to finish, in like 2 weeks? Well, that's how you get Everybody Wants To Rule The World. It was a last-minute addition, conceived and created at the very end of the production process for the album, but that risk paid off.

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How Sheet Music Lies To You

12tone 2022-03-18 | Sheet music is everywhere these days. As musicians, we all learn to read the little dots and lines that translate into notes and chords, but we don't really think about what those dots and lines are actually doing. The process of turning music into notation and then back into music is hazardous, and while it's still a very useful tool, we should really talk more about the things we lose along the way.

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Understanding Under The Bridge

12tone 2022-03-04 | It's easy, in retrospect, to underestimate the importance of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, but despite all the jokes about their fixation with California, the truth is their music is actually really good and nuanced, and they were one of the most influential acts in the alt rock movement that defined the '90s. They helped fundamentally change the world of rock music, and if we want to understand how, there's no better song to start with than their complex exploration of the struggles of addiction: Under The Bridge.

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My Biggest Musical Pet Peeve

12tone 2022-02-18 | I'm generally a pretty understanding person, but when it comes to the way people talk about music, I sometimes get my heckles raised a little too much. One of the things that annoys me most is what I like to call the Wiggly Air Fallacy, or the idea that music can be meaningfully reduced to just its sonic components. It's not true, it's a bad way of conceptualizing music, and here's a video about why.

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Understanding Bohemian Rhapsodys Opera

12tone 2022-02-04 | Last week I tried to analyze Bohemian Rhapsody, and after it took me 21 minutes to get through the first 3 minutes of the song, I decided I needed to make it two videos, so... here's the second one! This one starts with the opera section and goes through the rest of it from there. Honestly, these are some of the most interesting parts of the song, the parts that really make it unique in the rock canon, so this video turned out even longer. Whoops!

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Understanding Bohemian Rhapsody

12tone 2022-01-28 | So... Bohemian Rhapsody. Do I have to tell you what this song is? Probably not. It's one of the most well-known, beloved rock songs ever made, and a long time ago, I promised that if I ever reached 500,000 subscribers, I'd turn my analytical lens on it. We finally made it, so... here it is. Analyzing this song was a daunting task, but it's hard to imagine a song more deserving. I hope you enjoy this one, 'cause it was a lot of work.

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Solving James Browns Rhythmic Puzzle Correctly (A Response To Adam Neely)

12tone 2021-12-17 | I promise this is 100% real drama.
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It brings me no joy to say this, but Adam Neely is wrong on the internet. Or, ok, honestly, it brings me a little joy, and also it's not really true, so... not sure where that leaves us, but the point is I disagree with some of the stuff Adam said in his video on James Brown, and I wanted to talk about how important those sorts of disagreements are in music theory!

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Understanding Blister In The Sun

12tone 2021-12-10 | Blister In The Sun is one of those songs that doesn't really make sense, not because it's too complicated, but because it almost doesn't feel complicated enough. On the surface it's extremely simple, and that simplicity made it a hard sell to the record label that was supposed to promote it, but it also made it a hit with fans, and the song quickly took off as an underground sensation. It's a delicate balancing act of naivety and raunchy fun, but how do the Violent Femmes pull that off?

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