@@TheTourtopoulais I don't know a single example of metal tune in Locrian. Even those highly dissonant Slayer riffs are more Phrygian with an eventual b5 than Locrian.
I still don't get how she manages to make it so melodic and, well...like a normal song, rather than one that's very obviously intended as a kind of exercise. There's no way you could hear Paul David's one and not realize that it's locrian, but her song just sounds very natural.
More seriously, Adam, I watched (and adored) the Nebula video yesterday, yet I’m so glad to have this music-only compilation, which I will listen to repeatedly! (Does it help you that I generally watch your videos on Nebula and also “like” them on UA-cam? Would I need to watch them all the way through on YT as well?)
@@Anukaonline great job indeed, super atmospheric! can you post the lyrics please? I could only hear "ain't it funny" and something about "locrian trap" :D oh and also "can't wrap my head around this"
Ben, please make an entire album that sounds like this (0:59) Update: I asked Ben in a twitch stream and he said he's putting together a full album expanding some musical ideas from bits and pieces he produced on streams and videos and this one might make it in.
I wholeheartedly second this. I love the heavy industrial / dark electro sound. It reminds me of Nine Inch Nails with some Combichrist or Suicide Commando.
Couldn't hear Reich during first listen, but I can certainly catch the Reichian garb now! The low, rhythmic piano chords and the mixed time signatures reminds me of Reich's Quartet.
I didn't like it that much (in the context of the challenge) because it doesn't sound Locrian at all. It just sounds like it's in B major but accentuating the third.
All amazing, but Ben's and Paul's destroyed me. That playful/menacing vocal melody over Paul's, and the pulsing, grinding dissonance of Ben's made feel things.
I loved Ben Levin's Prodigy/Marilyn Manson homage, I kept expecting after the floaty part to drop into a MASSIVE mega distorted guitar riff, I need more!
Sammy g: sound track of cutting people down with a katana Ben: alien metal Paul: pop music of the future Sol: nier automata alternative ost Adam: J A Z Z
4:25-4:51 sounds to me like an incredible mixture of Kirby's Epic Yarn, LoZ: BotW, and maybe a little bit of the Ori games, and it's just so good. That entire piece is so solid. I love it.
Man, Ben's song makes SUCH a good first impression. Like a doorway swings open and a menacing silhouette is standing there with its fists clenched. Nahre's makes me think of a day long after the world ends. Natural light has a sickly green hue and the water in rivers and streams looks heavier than it should. Nobody alive was born before the apocalypse, so we're witnessing mostly content people going about their everyday lives.
nahre's piece is so cool! reminds me of john adams or something. i'm not qualified to say how well she followed the rules of sticking to the locrian, but this has definitely left me wanting to check out her other work now!
The two last ones don't really scream locrian although they are my favourites. However I think Ben's arrangement fullfills the goal of making locrian listenable while not sounding like anything other than locrian. I guess textures and timbres can do marvels and change one's vision of other elements in music.
Adam did say himself he struggled with not making his piece sound like the relative major, but the lack of the b5 makes it hard to not hear it as the relative major
Honestly, I just can’t get over how all these songs wanted to come to rest the whole way through, but then never did. It’s like anticipation with no payoff. Just part of the locrian scale I guess.
Locrian gives me this giddy delight of seeing a completely worthless scale being used so well. I've always had a soft spot for things that aren't the best.
Can't be worthless if all of these were composed from it, this thought process is why nearly nobody uses it, it's such a beautiful mode but everybody is afraid of it
I think I'll just repeat my comment from the original video haha 1: Ben's piece KICKS ASS, and the vibe reminds me of Periphery's "Crush" A LOT 2: Nahre's piece is AWESOME! So delicate and thoughtful, and the vibe really reminds me of Steven Wilson's "Routine"
My first encounter with locrian was... well, the band, Locrian. Their album, The Crystal World, to be exact. Coming at it from that perspective, I was blown away by all the unique approaches and excellence delivered by every single musician. Thank you all.
You guys (and girls) made me fall even deeper in love with this mode than I already was prior to watching! Loving the head banging screamo too. Fits locrian so well. I also enjoy how the singer in Paul Davids song actually USES the flat fifth whereas most singers will sing a raised fifth, AKA phrygian. I like locrian because it sounds *just* minor enough to get a point across, bit not overbearingly sad like aolian or phrygian, or even ionian! I am highly sensitive to the third degree of ionian so that nasty phrygian degree creeps me out. But here it's like I expect it to resolve to a depressing minor or that uncomfortably sad happy chord of the ionian scale but...nope! It's just neither.
Have you guys considered making an xmas/winter songs album in a manner similar to this or to Tuplets for Toddlers? With each of you interpreting one song on your own, and then with some kind of collab for one other song? And maybe even sell it for charity, apart from uploading it on streaming services? I think it would be a hit.
I love all of these. I also wish this album was 60 minutes and not 6 minutes, but I understand these were intended to be more proof-of-concept... but still... wish we had more of these amazing jams.
I would like to be able to buy an album of all the tracks from all the "exploring this scale" series. Or, perhaps, are individual tracks available to Patreon subscribers?
Timestamps
0:00 - Samurai Guitarist
0:59 - Ben Levin
2:35 - Paul Davids
4:05 - Nahre Sol
5:32 - Adam Neely
thank you, kind soul
not all heroes wear capes
im just commenting a lot so this gets seen by more ppl :^D
Yes
Bump
i didn't realize how much i need locrian surf rock until right now
It fit sooo well
Exactly, it sound like something off the soundtrack of God Hand, old ps2 game. I could see it so well
@@mihneazote8283 EXACTLY
"Naughty naughty!"
@@mihneazote8283 Right? Or a Tarantino movie
Tell me about it
the number of songs that employ locrian just increased fivefold
Zero times five is still zero though
There was that one Bjork song.
I mean locrian is all over metal but I see what you meant :p
@@TheTourtopoulais I'm not sure. I see a lot of b5 and b2 on metal. But rarely a b3 or b6.
Is it really Locrian, Locrian?
@@TheTourtopoulais I don't know a single example of metal tune in Locrian.
Even those highly dissonant Slayer riffs are more Phrygian with an eventual b5 than Locrian.
Nahre Sol's song sounds 100% like some secret JRPG soundtrack that we've just been blessed with.
The Nahre Sol is my favorite of the group
Like you've just entered the Mystical Garden area of a quirky Metroidvania game.
I still don't get how she manages to make it so melodic and, well...like a normal song, rather than one that's very obviously intended as a kind of exercise. There's no way you could hear Paul David's one and not realize that it's locrian, but her song just sounds very natural.
reminded me of the undertale soundtrack a little bit
Parts of it have Hallow Knight Vibes
Nahre's piece makes me think of a kitten playing in a witch's home when they're out of the house. An eerie place with a cute focus
Every single Nahre Sol commenter has a perfect scene for all of her music lol
So, "A Whisker Away"?
Well that’s funny because thought of a kitten flying through the dreamy sky singing the melody in her piece
Strong Ryuichi Sakamoto vibes if you’re looking for more like that (unless you already knew :))
Ben Levin for the next Doom game
MUSSST BEEEEE
Seriously. It's hellish
I get more Cyberpunk vibes than DOOM, so respectfully I disagree. Loved Ben’s track though!
Sounded like Trent Resnor to me, and he did the sound track to the original Quake. Nicely full circle :)
More along the lines of devil may cry I thought but dooms a shout too
Perfect soundtrack for grave digging
This comment inspired me to search grave digging jobs near me lmao
@@Anthony-V-Music Lol
Digging graves is my delight
Is this a reference to John Kirkpatrick's version of Dust to Dust?
@@zkeepah i hope so, otherwise my reply is just really weird and off putting
So very locreative!
More seriously, Adam, I watched (and adored) the Nebula video yesterday, yet I’m so glad to have this music-only compilation, which I will listen to repeatedly! (Does it help you that I generally watch your videos on Nebula and also “like” them on UA-cam? Would I need to watch them all the way through on YT as well?)
Props to the vocalist on Paul David’s tune for singing in Locrian
No, Paul just has a very pretty voice. lul
The power of practicing audiation.
Thanks!
@@Anukaonline great job indeed, super atmospheric! can you post the lyrics please? I could only hear "ain't it funny" and something about "locrian trap" :D
oh and also "can't wrap my head around this"
Ben, please make an entire album that sounds like this (0:59)
Update: I asked Ben in a twitch stream and he said he's putting together a full album expanding some musical ideas from bits and pieces he produced on streams and videos and this one might make it in.
Bro. Wtf that’s the best song I’ve heard all year.
@Eras To Eons so true
I wholeheartedly second this. I love the heavy industrial / dark electro sound. It reminds me of Nine Inch Nails with some Combichrist or Suicide Commando.
No
thanks for the update
Ben and Pauls were so fucking good ughh
I just love the minimalistic / Steve Reich-esque touch in Nahre's short composition.
Couldn't hear Reich during first listen, but I can certainly catch the Reichian garb now! The low, rhythmic piano chords and the mixed time signatures reminds me of Reich's Quartet.
I think its by far the best one out of these, and im not a full piano guy
Why is no one talking about Paul's piece like goddamn 😍
He needs to release the whole song it slaps hard af
I didn't like it that much (in the context of the challenge) because it doesn't sound Locrian at all. It just sounds like it's in B major but accentuating the third.
I need an hour long version of Nahre Sol’s piece *now*
When there are five smartest kids in the class and start arguing who's more smartest
Locrian surfrock lives in my head rent free
Man... just man.... That was all so good. Paul and Sami G, though.... and Nahre. and of course Ben and Adam. Can't wrap my head around it...
All amazing, but Ben's and Paul's destroyed me. That playful/menacing vocal melody over Paul's, and the pulsing, grinding dissonance of Ben's made feel things.
and lamp... I love lamp
I want paul's full version!
I loved Ben Levin's Prodigy/Marilyn Manson homage, I kept expecting after the floaty part to drop into a MASSIVE mega distorted guitar riff, I need more!
Yes.
Yes.
Sammy g: sound track of cutting people down with a katana
Ben: alien metal
Paul: pop music of the future
Sol: nier automata alternative ost
Adam: J A Z Z
Seriously not fair now I need full albums from all of them
4:25-4:51 sounds to me like an incredible mixture of Kirby's Epic Yarn, LoZ: BotW, and maybe a little bit of the Ori games, and it's just so good.
That entire piece is so solid. I love it.
I knew I was't the only one who thought it sounded like BotW
Man, Ben's song makes SUCH a good first impression. Like a doorway swings open and a menacing silhouette is standing there with its fists clenched.
Nahre's makes me think of a day long after the world ends. Natural light has a sickly green hue and the water in rivers and streams looks heavier than it should. Nobody alive was born before the apocalypse, so we're witnessing mostly content people going about their everyday lives.
nahre's piece is so cool! reminds me of john adams or something. i'm not qualified to say how well she followed the rules of sticking to the locrian, but this has definitely left me wanting to check out her other work now!
The two last ones don't really scream locrian although they are my favourites. However I think Ben's arrangement fullfills the goal of making locrian listenable while not sounding like anything other than locrian.
I guess textures and timbres can do marvels and change one's vision of other elements in music.
Adam did say himself he struggled with not making his piece sound like the relative major, but the lack of the b5 makes it hard to not hear it as the relative major
Can't stop listening to Paul's piece! 3:25 so pretty!
real
Honestly, I just can’t get over how all these songs wanted to come to rest the whole way through, but then never did. It’s like anticipation with no payoff. Just part of the locrian scale I guess.
Each guy made a really great job 👍
But Ben Levin... It was so powerful and weird in a good sense. This expression. I love his work the best.
my god Nahre...
I know right?! I get a Studio Ghibli/CoWave Mix Studio/"A Whisker Away" vibes from her piece!
i seriously need to get the chords for that piece
When I first heard Paul's I didn't really like it but shortly after it and after relistening to it I like it a lot more
it's like Dutch Travis scott in Locrian
I love it, it has an Arabic vibe for some reason, probably because the melody is sung and the b2 reminds me of Phrygian.
Dude Paul's was my favourite one by far haha. Wish he released a whole album around the concept.
You can't leave us with just 6 minutes and 40 seconds... More of this please !!! Locrian, lydian, mixolydian, whatever...
Now I want to hear some early-twentieth-century radio advertising jingles in the locrian mode. Or a locrian parade march.
Paul's is amazing. Got me singing in locrian because I can't get it out of my head.
Nahre Sol is sooooooooo good
Locrian gives me this giddy delight of seeing a completely worthless scale being used so well. I've always had a soft spot for things that aren't the best.
heh, guess past me was right. Named myself after it.
Can't be worthless if all of these were composed from it, this thought process is why nearly nobody uses it, it's such a beautiful mode but everybody is afraid of it
Paul and Adam made me fall in love with Locrian, but it's a very guilty pleasure kind of love.
I think I'll just repeat my comment from the original video haha
1: Ben's piece KICKS ASS, and the vibe reminds me of Periphery's "Crush" A LOT
2: Nahre's piece is AWESOME! So delicate and thoughtful, and the vibe really reminds me of Steven Wilson's "Routine"
I thought the same thing about hearing that Periphery song in Ben's piece!
My first encounter with locrian was... well, the band, Locrian. Their album, The Crystal World, to be exact.
Coming at it from that perspective, I was blown away by all the unique approaches and excellence delivered by every single musician.
Thank you all.
Locrian can be so cute! Samurai, Nahre, and Adam’s sound like perfect background music in an adventure game.
I need more locrian trap in my life
Ben Levin? More like Bevin E. Levin
Seriously his music is awesome
Ben “Seven Sharpie” Levin
Ben10
Nahre’s piece reminds of every jrpg I can think of (:
locrian surf rock sounds like a Mr. Bungle (California era) song, just before some bizarre unexpected change
its literally just Juicebox by the strokes
@@rassault Thanks, i knew i can't be the only who thought that.
it sounds like smuggler's corridor to me.
I NEED THE FULL PAUL DAVIDS VERSION PLEASE
I WILL PAY WITH KIDNEY
+
The locrian surf rock is genuinely enjoyable.
Would love this on Spotify!!!
Ben's sounds like The Residents doing Industrial.
man i come back to this only to listen this insane future stuff that Paul did
The surf rock one sounds like the Addams Family doing a beach episode.
I'm absolutely mesmerized by Nahre's piece
Full versions of all five songs, please... Please! PLEASE!!!!
Hey adam is there somewhere i can listen to them separately (like on spotify or even here on youtube)?
I would recommend just screen recording the part you like do you can just watch it in your camera roll
@@analytical768 i guess lol
@@danielqueiroz6723 honestly Idk just spitballing here
Nahre Sol has hers on her channel. Don't know about the others.
@@coragon42 wish it was on Spotify tho thats my favorite one
Paul's was the most Locrian out of them, really great job
I would watch an infinite amount of these.
you just did the unthinkable
You guys (and girls) made me fall even deeper in love with this mode than I already was prior to watching! Loving the head banging screamo too. Fits locrian so well. I also enjoy how the singer in Paul Davids song actually USES the flat fifth whereas most singers will sing a raised fifth, AKA phrygian. I like locrian because it sounds *just* minor enough to get a point across, bit not overbearingly sad like aolian or phrygian, or even ionian! I am highly sensitive to the third degree of ionian so that nasty phrygian degree creeps me out. But here it's like I expect it to resolve to a depressing minor or that uncomfortably sad happy chord of the ionian scale but...nope! It's just neither.
I wish these were on spotify!!
the transition in the ben levin one is unbelievable
Damn, Sammi G, Paul and Nahre really blew my mind. Ben and Adam are awesome as usual too.
Thanks for the great content Adam
I need these on Spotify now
For anyone who enjoyed the surf rock and want more, try Daikaiju
I absolutely love this
I liked them all so much!
All brilliant. My personal favourite is Nahre Sol's.
these are all so great
the ben levin music video was fucking unreal. ive never seen a music video look exactly how the music sounds
0:00 Surf rock but you're trying to escape from Cthulhu.
I’m amazed! Love Locrian from now on thanks to you
freakin Nahre Sol man...
Cool use of Locrian and great arranging and videos.
Man so top notch, this made my afternoon 🤘
I love these challenges! I wish I could find a playlist of all the Phrygian songs.
Thanks so much for this. y'all are amazing.
Really loved Paul's lead tone, reminds me al lot of the one used in Omnadawn by Mike Oldfield
This is so excelleeeeeeeeeeeeent!!!!!
THE SWING PERCENTAGE ON THE LAST TRACK 🔥🔥🔥
Have you guys considered making an xmas/winter songs album in a manner similar to this or to Tuplets for Toddlers? With each of you interpreting one song on your own, and then with some kind of collab for one other song? And maybe even sell it for charity, apart from uploading it on streaming services? I think it would be a hit.
Loved all but Sammy G, that was sweeet!!
Nahare's gave me some Zelda BOTW vibes it was pretty nice
The first seconds of the first song sound exactly like a crash bandicoot level soundtrack :D
I'd kill for seperate downloadable versions of each track
samurai guitarist smashing his fingers on the keyboard...my entire mood for 2020
Straight to spotify
YESSSS THIS IS WHAT I WAS LOOKING FOR
that levin piece is amazing.
Gaaaah - so good
Nahre Sol sounds like a new type of Ryūichi Sakamoto composition
PLEASE release these on Spotify!
I love all of these. I also wish this album was 60 minutes and not 6 minutes, but I understand these were intended to be more proof-of-concept... but still... wish we had more of these amazing jams.
I need more!!!!!!!?
The video portion of Ben Levin's song looks like a Code Orange music video.
Can you post those as singles
HAH. SICK!!!
You read my mind.
the transition into and out of bens song are giving me whiplash
4:05 sounds like something from Ori And The Blind Forest, I really dig.
sick nasty
I would like to be able to buy an album of all the tracks from all the "exploring this scale" series. Or, perhaps, are individual tracks available to Patreon subscribers?
Thank you
nahre’s piece sounds like it came out of breath of the wild