@@piratelechuck1911 words come with intentions and that’s where all the magic happens. Words are announcements of your desires. Speak good things for yourself and others.
yea, every language is designed to manipulate something. programming, art, language, law- all these media are ways to control things we normally can’t. like energy, emotion, thought, & behavior of others. we can make magic real within these media. it is through this magic that we are capable of creation.
Yesssss yes yes yes heck yeah. My relationship to music (as a composer/musician/songwriter) has really shifted (in an entirely positive way) ever since I started thinking of music theory as a magic practice rather than a means to an end. Music is some of the most wizardy shit we do and we act like it's not crazy wizard shit! We take this weird naturally occurring process -- air vibrating, the overtone series, the weird ways pitches interact at different frequency ratios -- and we feel emotions based on it... so we decide to manipulate it to our whims and use it to make other people feel emotions! That's wild and super weird!! and we take it for granted! The way that tuning doesn't line up perfectly (even though it feels like it should) and the fact that it has frustrated and perplexed theorists for literally thousands of years, is so beautiful to me. Like despite us making music for as long as we've done literally anything it seems, it still feels like it's hiding secrets that we might not ever understand. But humans will keep tinkering away at it curiously for several more thousands of years to seek knowledge and understand ourselves better and damn that's cool huh??
@@coreyroberts47 Yes! Nowdays whenever I'm working on a song the first bits are easy and then it becomes a lil puzzle - which chord should come next in the progression? what if I'm currently at one chord and I somehow need to end up back at a specific completely different chord... what chords do I pick to get me there? or what if I have this melody and it starts to break out of the bounds of the key I'm in... what chords should I harmonize it with? Once I'm in those new chords, what other scales and notes can I throw in there that feel right? it's like every option becomes a bunch of branching paths like a little map of the multiverse. and the more tools and techniques you acquire in your arsenel, the more paths open up to take from point a to point b satisfyingly. I spend a lot of my composing process just tinkering around like I'm in a lab mixing potions - the alchemy imagery is very apt
As a Born Deaf person it is rather fascinating to witness how a mass group of people can be hypnotised by one song. For a large group, even thousands and thousands to all feel the same emotion and move and think in the same way if they let the music grab hold of their mind. From a church to a rock concert to meditation classes. I imagine time is not linear for these people too as you demonstrated how point A and point B and so on, can connect via ‘shapes’ with frequency. Thank you for this video. It really helped me visualise what you called ‘witch craft’ 🌀🤟🏼🌀
I must admit that the first five words of this comment surprised me. this is fundamentally a video for musicians. I did not expect the audience would reach so far. :P happy to see my funny novel illustrations offered some insight
DARPA are using frequencies to abuse and mind control the population, that is pretty scary but mainstream vids prefer to talk about music cos it is safer
I can’t remember where I heard this but it resonated with me: when you take a tree and craft a wood wind instrument from it, when you blow into it you are bringing the spirit of that tree back to life in the form of sound. The trees live through the exhalation of our breath, so it gives it life. It’s sound, reminiscent of the sound the wind made when it blew through its branches When you take an animal and use it’s skin to make a drum you are reviving the echo of its heart beat. The heart pounds with a steady rhythm and drumming brings out the animal spirit in the drum.
I was watching the other day this guy explaining how to train 'your ear' by feeling the scale, not hearing the pitch or anything, just feeling. And the way he was teaching sounded like something straight out of a Zen monastery. The more I learn, the more intrigued I get. the video is called: Essential Ear Training from the channel... Max Konyi. Haven't finished, yet. But it's worth the watching.
@@Ram0nAlanyeah, at a certain point of music scales get so crazy that its not even worth thinking about the actual notes, basically just know your base note, and think "do, re, mi.."
I gotta say that a lotta the jazz I've heard is feverish Bacchanal chaos to my ears. It's the sound of a bashful fettered insanity passed off as refined taste. Bluaahh
Yes, music is alchemy - as is all arts. Artists and creative people are Mystics - they are the mediators of the in-between... they help bridge the gap between the things we know for certain and the things we know nothing about. All creative peoples tap into a vital divine essence of sorts, that underlines all things that exists in the universe... because it is one of creation. The constant involution and evolution of bringing infinite potentiality into finite actuality. I am learning music theory now - i have struggled with some of the concepts but i feel i will get it eventually. Usually when making some piece of art, whether a painting or collage, i feel like i am going into a trance - just the antenna that receives the measages. Its not me creating anything, i am just allowing space for that energy to flow through me. The muse is real though she often escapes me.
Outstanding statement. Years ago people kept telling me I was a psychopomp like the ferryman over the river Styx my purpose in the lives around me has been to help people bridge these two realms of known and unknown. I guess I have a knack for dissipating fear and enhancing a sense of adventure into novelty. The thing I often point out is that it's knowing when to rest that makes a journey optimal. Music is the perfect example. The Notes are just noise until you put the rests in between them. The music is actually found in knowing when to be silent. Once you have that concept the rest is tempo or flow. Rest is why meditation is so helpful. 😊
@@MissMugenI'm sure you know what that "point" is, which is why it isn't in your comment. This guy is such a typical pretentious 19 year old video essayist.
This is just my take, but I think he's saying it's strange that the moon is not represented by a circle symbol, but rather a crescent moon symbol. He says that generally, cycles are represented by circles. I think he did this to point out that exceptions can be made(i.e. As is the case with the moon symbol) but you could call this a reach. He never comes back to the moon symbol and never says anything along the lines of "it's strange because..." so it made the question seem isolated and unanswered.
tldr: music is crazy witchcraft which we’ve loosely based theory on but this theory isn’t even entirely perfect. the message is that your feeling should guide the music making process more than the theory
@@wout123100of course. You can make music however with whatever knowledge you decide to utilize. Music theory is just a toolbox that is far easier for people to understand than to keep everything abstract. You do not have to be confined to it however it is a great language for collaboration between others.
It's pretty damn literal though. A melody that doesn't leave it's home note isn't a melody. It also beautifully encapsulates what is interesting to me about music and life in general- we're most interested and excited when faced with change, when we step out of our comfort zone, when we "leave home".
half of this video was just me experimenting with visuals :P it's really fun! I don't think many of my video ideas call for such involved visuals though
As a musician who went to the conservatory, I can attest to that! Music theory IS basically a set of rules that is fun to learn, but after years and years of experience you go back to the beginning and realize that you were better off because when you knew nothing you were more creative, it was FUN it was a joy. I think after you learned the theory, you applied it, you have to realize that is better to unlearn everything you knew and play with your heart, not your head.
Take theory as guidelines, not as rules. They certainly help you when you are disoriented -> how can you come back home if you don't know where you are?
“The circle of 5ths is really a spiral” - blew my mind and made me smile. I’ve known about some of equal temperament’s short comings but had never thought about it in regard to the circle of 5ths. So dope. Thanks!!
On the odd occassion, I will come about a video just like this one. Something on a topic everyone knows about because of how fundamental it is but knows not of it's depth. Math, writing, physics, economics. Something. And every so often, that video on said topic, will explain it, to whatever depth the creator likes but in an astonishingly unique way. So mystic and detatched from comventional teaching that I am left in the silence of my own quivered breaths to wonder what profound production I have stumbled upon. Sometimes I don't even understand it all to appreciate it to the full extent someone well versed in the field could. Though, just hearing your analogies and seeing those visuals. I feel like something clicked. I didn't just learn something. Because learning just means you absorbed and understood it. Nothing about your experience of thought and how you process it has changed. No, this was an entire frameshift of thought. Completely reorienting the way I think about the topic. In this case, completely reimagining how I think about chords and cadences. My language of appreciation is writing. Sometimes I feel a shortcoming, an impotence, the failure to convey my admiration by any succinct form of gratitude. So consider the tone and length of this comment and let it be known I absolutely admired this video. Because "Amazing" doesn't begin to describe how I feel.
I just want you to know that this has incredible replay value. I've looped it hundreds of times because it aligns perfectly with my other hyper-fixations. Every time I revisit it and loop it another hundred times, I discover new meanings, not just in this video but also in my other interests. I want to say that whatever magic you tapped into for this video, I love it. I love you. Thank you for helping me make the necessary connections to complete my magnum opus.
For real, if you're interested in music + geometry I have to recommend researching about golden ratio applied in songs, there's a video out there that I always revisit
This is a FANTASTIC video. When you show the spiral, it sounds a whole lot like Boards of Canada, who famously use mathematical witchy thingamajigness in their music.
@@YellowJelly13 Hermann von Helmholtz derived a physical theory of dissonance which can still be applied to various non-western instruments and contexts. It can explain why certain sounds and intervals are perceived as consonant or dissonant, but of course, it cannot tell you when to use which of those properties. This is the only music theory I would never question. Everything besides that is a mix of psychology and art.
The ethos of any sound is mostly informed by cultural significance. Although we do feel stuff from music, the feeling certain sounds evoque is not universal
Music "theory" is the result of studying common patterns that commonly happen in music - particularly western music. That western music has settled on the very workable approximation we call tempered tuning, skews the way we think about music - slightly. And the way it sounds doesn't bother most people. Close enough. As to the idea of witchcraft or magic, those are the words we use for things we don't understand that seem mysterious. Theory is just common practice. The plain and unfortunate fact is that a lot of folks who want to "break free" from theory and explore new vistas is, frankly, that they don't really understand how it works or know how to use it. Rules are easy to break when you really don't understand why they're there. But, in reality, music theory is not a set of rules. It's just a way of explaining what's going on. It's not a form of tyranny anymore than a tape measure is.
Pythagoras means Heart of the Serpent, he was born in Sidon, a fishing Port in Phoenicia. His mother recieved a message from the Oracle of Delphi that he would become a great Leader and Teacher. Sidon means Kingdom of the Fish, and the Essenes, who wrote the Dead Sea scrolls, worshipped Pythagoras. The Sarcophagus of Eschmun III found in Sidon names him as the Widow's Scion, aka Hiram Abiff, the Founder of Freemasonry, of which Tyre was the premier Capital (at least equal to Thebes). In 911BC Rameses II married the Queen of Sidon, home of Jezebel (Daughter or consort of Baal, basically "Queen") founding Neo Assyrian Babylon, an alliance between Egypt and Hiram, father of Jezebel and King of Assyria, and Egypt, forming the Phoenician colonies and building the first Temple of Melqart to commemorate the alliance. The Si in Sidon is the basis of the Latin Exe, or X, and is the basis of the Cross, or Chi Rho that Constantine painted on his shields. Also known as the Cross of Tyre, or Cross of Baal, being Ra-El, or Ba'El. Oddly enough irrational numbers can also be mapped using Euler's number, producing a Templar Cross in the process: a map of where Eclipses are most likely to occur. This cross can also be seen around the neck of Nimrod in Assyria, and is consistent with the Union Jack, and Solstice Calendar found in the Vatican Shiva Lingam. Shiva is the Hebrew word for 7, their culture also found its way to Japan (via the Phillipines) ultimately becoming Shintoism. It was the Phoenicians who gave their name to the Pole Star, which they used to Navigate the Oceans using the Zodiac, thats what the Antikythera mechanism was for, and with it they wrote the Byblos Baal, what we now call the Bible. The first form of the Bible was written in 325BC and called the Vaticanus Greacus, or Son of the Sacred Serpent, a reference to Sirius, the basis of the Sothic Calendar, which uses a Hexidecimal or base 60 system found in all the Megalithic sites around the world. In the second century AD astronomer Valentinus Vettori transcribed it into a Lunar chart of 13 houses, what we now call the Zodiac. Horoscope means Star Watcher, and the Phoenician word for Saturn, or El, was Israel or El, (Fruit) of Isis and Ra. Alternatively El is the Father of Ra the Sun and Consort of Isis the Earth, aka El is the Moon. El is the primary God of the Phoenicians, representing the offspring of Egypt, and his consort Astarte or Ishtar represents the Assyrian half of the alliance. It may be possible to trace lineages and alliances through the naming of gods, which can be traced all the way to Ireland and the Vikings, and to Indonesia and the Americas, even as far away as New Zealand and Australia. It denotes Sirius as Son of Orion and Pleaides, which sits at 33 degrees of the Zodiac. The basis of the Sothic (dir Seth) Calendar of the Egyptians. The New Moon in this position marks Rosh Hashanah, the Egyptian, Celtic, Phoenician, and Assyrian New Year, the first New Moon of September, which is called September because it's the 7th House of the Zodiac, when the Sun is in Ophiuchus. The Phoenix, Benben, or Bennu is the Egyptian word for Heron, a Feathered 'Serpent'. It baptised itself in frankincense and myrrh at BaalBek, and then alights atop the Pyramid, upon the Holy Grail, or Altar of Ra every 630 years to take three days off the calendar during the course of the first New Moon of Nisan, which means "Prince". The Capstone of Pyramids is even called the Benben or Bennu. The Phoenix is found in all religions, which are all Astrological Allegory for the Moon travelling through the Constellations, as a soul migrating from body to body, this is the basis of Joseph Campbell's Monomyth, or the Hero's Journey. The various planets no doubt play their own roles as portents, omens, and aspects, this astrology is the science of the Bronze age, and lasted all the way up to the 20th Century. Reincarnation was an early teaching of the Christian Church, and likely relates to the lineage of Kings (The Pan is Dead, long live Pan!) Phoenicians represent the interim step between Egypt and Greece, their artisans and culture exceeding that of the Greeks, who literally adopted the Phoenician Alphabet, which we still use to this day, sounding out words phonetically. Phoenician is aliiterated in Venetian, and Vikings, being Kings of the Sea. The Bennu is the Egyptian Phoenix, to Phoenicians the Hoyle, no different to the traditions of the Etruscans, who saw birds as sacred, just as the Celts. Hebrew and Iber as in Iberia have the same root meaning over, as in overseas, as in those who travel "over the sea." A colony called Iberia also appears on the Eastern shores of the Black Sea, where the same Dolmens and Megalithic culture originating in Ireland and Brittany appeared circa 4500BC. _Phoenician_ means Scions of the Phoenix, the first Bible: Vaticanus Greacus Son of the Sacred Serpent (Prince). Then there's the Essenes, Sons of Light, the Tuatha De Danaan, Sons of Light, Annunaki, Sons of Light, Arthur Pendragon means Arthur Son of the Dragon; Chertoff is Russian for "Son of the Devil" and Dracula also means Son of the Dragon, Masons have been known at times to call themselves the "Brotherhood of the Great White Serpent". The Ziggurat of Anu also denotes her as a great white Serpent, while New Grange and the Bru na Boinne in Ireland (4000BC) coated buildings with white quartz to denote the Moon. The Moon itself travels outside the Solar Elliptic by 5 degrees, which means it passes through specific constellations in a serpentine fashion that is always changing, but repeats every 19 years, the time it took to train a Druid or Magi, Magi meaning "Teacher" the Phoenix is also associated with this sacred number 19. The name "Pharoah" means "Great House" or "House of Light" and Cairo used to be called Babel. Pharaoh's themselves wore a hooded crown representing feathers, just as Native American Chiefs, ie the Feathered Serpent, they were also called the Commander in Chief. Aztecs also had Serpent Kings, (Canaan means Serpent Kings, and Sidon was a Son of Canaan, and Great Grandson of Noah) who were called to lead with cunning and guile, being the very virtue by which they claim the title in the first place; but to be seen in public as just and diplomatic. "As wise as Serpents, but gentle as Doves" the old Egyptian flag of an Eagle attacking a Snake is also reflected in the Modern Mexican flag, denoting the Constellations of Serpentis (13th sign of the Zodiac) and Aquila. The dimensions and 12 mathematical constants of the Great Pyramid are also expressed in New Grange, and Stonehenge, as well as in Watson Brake, (2500BC) and Teotihuacan, which correlates to the Phoenician/ Sumerian Hexidecimal system, which is what our modern systems of time are based on. In fact it unlocks a kind of fractal pattern that is reflected throughout creation. Officially no one knows who invented astrology, the zodiac, navigation by the stars, and time keeping. But whoever built the pyramids, and pioneered the 24hr clock in Egypt 5000 years ago also knew the exact dimensions of the Earth, as well as the speed of light. These calculations can all be made using these Megalithic sites as surveyors use a theodolite. Specifically Teotihuacan, which sits 180 degrees opposite Cairo, and has the exact same footprint. The ideal positions to determine the speed of light using the transit of Venus, by which one can accurately determine Longitude for navigation. Capt Cook did the same thing in 1774 when he 'discovered' Easter Island. The only culture that fits the bill was wiped out "not one stone upon the other" by the Romans in 146BC. Tyre, the capital of Phoenicia (israel) sat just offshore from Uru Salaam: City of the New Moon, or City of Peace. The root of the name Jerusalem, and was also seized by Rome in 70AD after a 13 year seige. The gap between is 216 years. Greek Dionysians built the Temple of Solomon (now called the Temple of Melqart) representing the Solar Lunar Metonic Calendar on which this system is based, they also carried mirrors, a practice associated with both the Magi and the Druids as well as Greek and Egyptian scholars, these Mirrors are Astrological charts called "Cycladian Frying Pans" and record the cycles of the planets. The first Temple of Melqart (the Phoenician form of Horus, or Hercules, or Pan, or Thor) representing the 13th Constellation of Ophiuchus or the Serpent Bearer (hence Orphic Serpent worship) had pillars of Emerald and Gold, representing Isis and Osiris. The Jerusalem Temple only took payment in "Shekels of Tyre" a currency minted during the Jewish rebellion against Rome. "Give that which is Ceasar's unto Ceasar" When Alexander sacked Tyre in 332BC they moved to Carthage meaning "New City" or New Jerusalem, where they built a second temple with Pillars of Bronze. Nebuchadnezzar also seiged Tyre for 13 years, taking the City captive in 573BC: the same time as the biblical account of the Jews. And again in 70AD after a three and a half year seige, also consistent with biblical accounts. Palaset was the name of a tribe of the Sea Peoples, Pallas Set denotes the New Moon of Ammun Ra rising in Gemini, the Pallas Constellation of the Twins that stand before Orion. This occurs due West of the Temple of Solomon in Tyre between the Western Gates of Gibraltar, Gabriel's Altar, and is the basis of the name Pallastein, or Pallas Stone. As in the Philosopher's Stone or Holy Grail, Altar of Ammun Rah, the Rising Sun. The Cross of Tyre or Ba'El ❌ represents the Lunar maximums and minimums and correlates with the Cross Quarter days of the Solstice Calendar. Align the Cross ❌ Chi Rho Christian ✝️ and Star 🔯 to the zodiac and you have a Compass and a timepiece that can be used to Circumnavigate the globe. It's Astrological Allegory for a Metonic Eclipse Zodiac Calendar using Accusations in a Mirror 🪞
One Megalithic hour is 240 minutes, or 14,400 seconds (1/4) There are 6 Megalithic hours to the day, each made up of 6 minutes, each of which is 6 seconds long. If the Megalithic hour was divided into 60 minutes, each would be 1,440 of our seconds, times 100 is 144,000. One Megalithic second is 400 of our modern seconds, divided by 60 (to get minutes) is 6.6666666.... 360 ÷ 6.66 is 54 54 x 2 is 108 108 x 2 is 216 To effect this the hands on a clock count out 10 (units of 6) x 10 (units of 6) × 4 (=400 units of 6). Therefore the relationship of the Megalithic second to our current form is mathematically proportional to the ratio between the Sun and Moon. A Megalithic second is 6.66 minutes (400 seconds). A Megalithic Minute is 40 minutes, or 2,400 seconds. 6 x 6 x 6 x 400 = 86,400, the number of seconds in a day. This would mean a clock with 216 seconds would go around 40 times in a day (2160 x 400). This means 1 Megalithic second is 6.66 of our modern minutes, meaning their metric system is based on the Full Moon, of which 360 fit into to the night sky, and 720 will encircle the globe, divided by half gives us the 360 degree circle, and the basis for our present hexadecimal system of time. Which is why 1 degree of Arc on the Moon = 100 Megalithic Yards (2700ft). This means the Beast, the hidden hand of the Masonic fraternity, is the Moon; and Time. The white limestone covering of the Pyramids denotes the Pale Moon in Megalithic Ireland, like at New Grange, where Enoch describes a Crystal Palace illuminated by the Full Moon every 19 years. 6 x 6 x 6 is 216, there are 2160 years in an astrological age, and the Moon is 2160 miles in diameter, the solar metonic calendar using 60 6 day weeks produces 1 extra day every 216 years. There are also 216 Megalithic seconds in a day, and 216 letters in the name of the Hebrew God, Just as Solomon has 36 or 72 scrolls, and Muhammed speaks of 72 sects. Enoch also buries 36,525 scrolls, the number of days in a year, times 100. Oh by the way, this shows that our current measure of time is based on the principle of 1/6, the basis of an Egyptian Royal Cubit, but first they built the first ring at Stonehenge, which is 100 metres (330 ft) wide, with an area of 2160 square feet, a Cube's interior angles also add up to... 2160! This produces a Calendar of 60 6 day weeks plus five. Every 4th year a 366th day makes exactly 61 weeks. This means every 216 years this calendar produces 1 extra day, so after 648 years 3 days must be removed. This is when the Phoenix arrived, and stepped onto the Alter of Ra or Holy Grail, completing the Metonic cycle and bringing the Calendar back into sync with the first New Moon of the Spring equinox. The Capstone of the Pyramid is even called the Benben Stone, the Egyptian Phoenix is called the Bennu. It likely relates to Deneb, in Ophiuchus, the 13th Starsign of the Zodiac. The base of the Pyramid is exactly 13 Acres, as is Teotihuacan, because they share the exact same base dimensions. Such a location would be ideal for calculating the speed of light using the transit of Venus. Incidentally the Great Pyramid's Latitudinal coordinates are the speed of light. 1440 ÷ 108 = 13.333333 11 and 3 are the most sacred Celtic numbers of royalty, and also happen to be the proportions of the Earth to the Moon, and the Great Pyramid. The starsigns also precess 1 degree every 72 years 72 x 3 is 216 2160 ÷ 648 is 3.3333333 The Aztec Calendar also begins with a double transit of Venus, in 3116BC. This whole code can be encoded into a single Pythagorean Triangle of Dimensions 666 by 630, by 216, this is the Key of Solomon, 33 is the inverse of 66. 100 is the "perfect number" because it represents 10 6 unit metrics times 10 6 unit metrics, a unit being 6.66 ie 60 x 60 (3600) the number of Arcdegree seconds in a second, or a one second unit on a clock the size of Earth This means seconds represent 10ths of the Moon; 216, or 6 x 6 x 6 (100 ÷ 6 ÷ 6 = 2.7): Euler's number, and the number of feet to a Megalithic Yard, 3/11 is .27 and the number of days in a sidereal month is also 27. 11/3 is 3.66, the number of days in a Canicular leap year, the character of Thoth, Cuchulainn, and Kukulkan, the Dog Star, and star by which the Sothic (Seth) Calendar is determined. Thoth was the Son of Seth, who is portrayed as a Serpent. 3 x 11 is 33, the years in a Great Solar Return. As the Sun and Moon inhabit their respective houses of the Zodiac they animate the character within, playing out the dramas and battles we know as myths, for example the Moon traveling through each of the Zodiac houses each month, for a grand total of... 144 (12 x 12) Metatron/Enoch/Echnaton/Arkenaten's Cube is 13 circles in a Star of David: 13 x 360 is 4680 4680 ÷ 216 is 21.666..
stumbled upon this video at just the right time... I've been missing the magic of music and have felt frustrated by the need to shove compositions into a box of harsh parameters instead of just feeling it out thanks for providing a visual breakdown to inspire and encourage :)
i've been playing guitar for more than 20 years now and always struggled to tie myself to theories and theorists. this is the most beautiful explanation i''ve heard so far. i've always felt music (and art in general) to be some kind of magic. thank you for proving i'm not alone. music unites us
I'm a composer and my wife is a Hellenistic astrologer. I was trying to describe Pythagoras' musica universalis to her the other day, and I can't wait to show this to her. I'm not a music teacher, so trying to describe my music theory ideas in relation to esoteric traditions is hard - this is such a beautiful, concise visual representation of that. You could literally map this circle onto a astrological chart - I knew 12-tone had a numerological similarity with other 12 symbolism, but for some reason never thought of an astro chart. Watching you represent chords like aspects was wild - A square and opposition being associated with a tritone is SO fitting!! And resolutions correlating to benefic aspects. It makes me wonder - you could potentially derive a chord progression or a melody from an astrological chart like say, Jung might derive insight from Tarot (you don't necessarily have to view it "spiritually"). And there are not just birth charts - you can cast charts for literally any moment in time or space. This could be a really fun brainstorming tool! When you sit down at your DAW, you could plug the time you sat down to create into a chart calculator, view the aspects - and use that to inspire your melodic or harmonic ideas. You could even generate/inspire your progression by simply pushing the time forward and watching the aspects shift! Thank you for making this.
As a music producer/musician myself, it is true that music theory can be classified as witchcraft. It's a nice visual analogy and it's true that if we go past F# whether forward or backward, we would always end up at C. Not only that, with chord progression and change-ups, it is tied within THIS particular analogy too.
We are waking up… hear me out No way you posted this 12 days ago, it’s your most viewed video, and I just got a random feeling to look up music theory again as I often do, and found exactly what I was hoping for this time… we are on the right path guys, and thank you to you for helping us get there✊🏾
Y'know, this reminds me a bit of a short that Disney made in '59 called Donald in Mathmagic Land. It actually acknowledged the more mythical side of the Pythagoreans (at least vaguely) and connected music as well.
Please check out microtonal or xenharmonic music! There we leave the safety of 12 tone equal temperament to investigate other equal temperaments, other unequal temperaments, and extended just intonation. Mostly we use something called the Regular Temperament Paradigm, which ensures that all (tempered) intervals that in theory should be the same in size, are also in practice tuned the same size. The exception is well temperaments and what might be called chaotic scales. Examples of regular temperaments are the forms of just intonation (JI) called 2-limit JI (pretty boring, just a bunch of octaves), 3-limit JI (also called Pythagorean tuning spiral of fifths, but prevalent in Chinese music also), 5-limit JI (related to classical Indian music, and to classocal European justly tuned scales), 7-limit JI (related to ancient Greek music, and to American barbershop, when justly tuned), and 11-limit and 13-limit JI (used in classical Arabic, Persian and perhaps Turkish music). Other examples are the equal temperaments (ET) such as 5ET (similar to Indonesian Slendro), 7ET (similar to traditional Angolan/Ugandan music), 12ET (used in modern European and American music), 19ET (used in some classical European music and some modern music), 22ET (used in some modern xenharmonic music), 24ET (used in modern Arabic music), 31ET (used in semi-modern European meantone temperament music, as well as some modern xenharmonic music), 41ET (used in some modern music, similar to the JI Genesis scale of Harry Partch), 53ET (a much more accurate alternative to 12ET in approximating Pythagorean 3-limit JI tuning, also used in modern Turkish music) etc. Yet another examples are Meantone temperament as such (used much in renaissance European music), Minthmic temperament (used in some Persian music), Compton temperament (used for a 12 tone circle of fifths, combined with other tones independent from this circle), Diaschismic temperament (used in some Indian music i think), Magic temperament (used in some nice modern music), Orwell temperament (used in some haunting modern music) etcetera. Heck, there are even temperaments actually called "astrology", "telepathy", "necromancy", "witchcraft" etc, although these are probably more fancy names (variants of Magic temperament) than anything actually related to those magical practices.
I'm already fairly familiar with various divisions of the octave (big fan of 19 EDO!), though I admit that I the definition of "n-limit JI" only clicked after reading this comment. I guess I hadn't put the concept together with pythagoras til now :P
@@GSTChannelVEVO Don’t worry about n-limit, it’s not the sole approach, though it’s often useful in calculations (you can use finite-dimensional lattices; but if you take _all_ primes then the dimension is infinite).
@@05degrees If we take all the primes, then there is little other choice than using patent vals (because better vals might be infinitely complex), we will also always have inconsistent closest mappings, and also we will get arbitrarily large commas (compared to their degree of epimoricity) tempered to unison. This is not an optimal situation at all. Usually we don't need anything more than the 23-limit, and most of the time the 13-limit is good enough indeed! If we really want to use 23-limit then 94ET/94EDO might be a good place to start. But for 13-limit, 87ET is pretty good (and it is a Minthmic temperament in the patent val, useful for Turkish music), and if this is not accurate enough, then 270ET is almost perfect in the 13-limit, especially when considering how many tiny 13-limit epimoric/superparticular commas it tempers out, and how many large such commas it tempers just a small amount, close enough to the just intoned size.
@@GSTChannelVEVO Btw, 665ET (or 665EDO if you like) is a really good Pythagorean equal temperament, really splendid in the 3-limit, and pretty good in higher prime limits as well! It is the perfect equal temperament for Pythagorean tuning nerds (like some Christian fundies, but also some more occult-friendly types) who wish to deduce all other intervals from the perfect 2/1 octave and the perfect 3/2 fifth, these basic Divine intervals. To me it is inconceivable that any Earthly human will ever (through coming billions of years, on any Solar system planet, of whatever matter density: Physical, Etheric, Emotional, Mental, Causal, Buddhic, or Atmic) need or perceive greater accuracy of the Pythagorean spiral than this closed Pythagorean circle provides. 665ET also support the excellent 7-limit (Septimal) Enneadeca temperament, the 11-limit Brahmagupta temperament, and the 13-limit Nicola temperament. Look up the xenwiki for definitions and properties of these and other temperaments. My personal favorite equal temperament however is 270ET, preferrably in TOP tuning (slightly tempered octaves, rather than exactly pure 2/1 octave, in order to make certain other just intervals slightly more pure, and to hopefully avoid phase locking of electronic instruments). It is perhaps the "best" 13-limit equal temperament possible, in terms of accuracy, complexity and quality-and-quantity of 13-limit commas tempered out (especially the superparticular = epimoric ones, including all the twelve ones smaller-or-equal than 1001/1000, not 729/728 though, but 676/675 indeed, and no ones bigger-or-equal to 625/624). It supports Hemiennealimmal, Vishnu, Quartismic, Greenland, Eagle, Avicenna, Decitonic and other extreme accuracy micro-temperaments. Plus, its smallest step size is very close to double the Average Just Noticeable Difference (in harmony) of humans, which means that any interval we are interested in (for harmony) will be closer to one interval of 270ET than the JND. For melody though, the average JND is much larger, which means that we may use adaptive just intonation tempering in melodic progressions inside 270ET, gradually drifting in our desired direction by using step sizes one or even two (arguably three perhaps but probably not) steps wider or narrower than the optimal 270ET step size for that particular JI interval. This gives the composer and musician (or witch/warlock/wizard/sorceress/diviner/seeress/prophet etc you name it) considerable freedom in using both many essentially micro-tempered chords (mostly patent vals) and essentially tempered melodic progressions (definitely not only patent vals), where for melody we may even use Meantone, Superpyth, Octacot, Magic, Orwell, Miracle and similar lower-accuracy temperaments in 270ET, turning this master temperament into a system for well-temperament tuned scales. As always, check the xenwiki for temperament definitions, descriptions and properties.
Yo, I recently encountered what I think were witches while on psychedelics (3grams of shrooms) and their music was incredible. I asked them how to make this kind of music and they showed me a circle with different moon phases on the outside and a five in the middle. The next day I searched google and found out about the circle of fifths. I’ve never heard about the circle of fifths. I’ve made music before but I’m self taught. I learned on a QWERTY keyboard growing up. I’m a little jealous you posted this first but I’m glad it’s all true. Also, the way we describe chords as “happy” or “sad” they describe as ingredients for a spell. I was hypnotized by their music. I literally just bought an Akai mini today to get started on my spiritual music practice. Now I’m following you.
@@zonkz6947 three grams of a strain called Hillbilly. I tell me people it sends me straight to the spirit world. Unlike penis envy which is more of a “learning lesson” trip. I’m planning on creating UA-cam videos discussing it but I’ve been hesitant as I grew up Catholic and I’m worried about the hate I might receive.
Great video. You pretty much confirmed my hypothesis that music theory is mythical. When I learned about the circle of fifths I got information overload. It certainly is witchcraft.
You can basically write songs in GNU Octave or Lisp... That's what I figured out I think. You can use matrices and vectors to think about bouncing light around inside these discs.
So interested to see the thought "The circle of fifths is a spiral not a circle" in the tuning sense but how I was taught it was in regards to scales. When you start at C at the top and go right by adding #'s or left and add flats, it always "Converges" at the bottom with Db/C#, Gb/F#, and Cb/B, with these 3 pair of scales that are enharmonic to each other. (same pitch, different name), but these are two different lines one spiraling inward forever and one spiraling outward forever. We just "stitch" up these lines because we don't care about double b and double # land, just the 15 major scales. this video has the best visualization of what I meant at 0:45 ua-cam.com/video/jCDMkmVMA2I/v-deo.htmlsi=uRuQQMNcISAE6K5B&t=45
I had actually not seen this before! but it makes sense. it's kind of like an alternative explanation of "stacking fourths will give flat notes, stacking fifths will give sharp notes". neat.
George Russell found that by starting on F instead of C, everything made much more sense. More outside overtones are added from F onwards with Lydian being the most well resolved.
I really enjoyed this explanation of the circle of fifths. I wish that my high school AP music theory class relied more on an understanding of the principles behind music than a trained ear. I was expected to be able to answer my melodic dictation tests with near perfect accuracy within three months of starting, which was worth about half of my grade. The humiliation I suffered in that class as a beginner to theory, when really there was an unspoken expectation to already have years of experience was immense. The combined stress of that class and the other things I had going on in my life killed my interest in music, even though I was making great progress. It just wasn't enough to impress a little sheet of paper. I ended up dropping the class after a semester with a failing grade. That being said, I hope that at some point, I may be able to revive my interest in becoming a musician, because I had a lot of fun when I was really trying.
AP Music Theory is about a very narrow part of music. It's about music that most people would call classical, like fugues, and sonatas. You don't need theory and you certainly don't need AP Music Theory. Most of the theory you need you can learn through just playing music.
@@BryanLu0 There's a basic error at the foundation of Western music theory. Only Fields Medal math professor Alain Connes has figured this out. I also noticed it when I was 16 - taking adult music theory class. YOu can see Connes' talk "Music of Shapes" on youtube for details.
When i was in keyboard class doing a pass off for jingle bells, the teacher said i played it in a hip hop cadence. It was still jingle bells tho. He was mentioning the timing of it. His feedback was right but it really felt stripped down creatively.
@@chesapeakebaythrifters625 the thing is a good song is determined by the first several notes and from there it writes itself, it simply wont go anywhere it's not supposed to go.
At the end of the day if the circle of 5ths help you visualize music better and help you create the music you want to more efficiently, then I'd say it's worth learning. When I had no idea about music theory, I would just mash my keys on a piano trying to find something nice. When I started learning the notations and way chords work, it didn't make me realise why a particular chord sounded good or bad to me (subjective) but it helped me realise how to replicate that sound whenever I wanted to.
I once had a techer/nun that explains music to me and friends by explaining how piano works and that it's octave and so and so... 😅 She plays Piano so well and energetic-
There’s a tonal center. It’s just like color. How color can evoke emotion. So does the tonal center. And there are many modes that are severely underutilized. They’re similar to color schemes. Light. Sounds. Emotions. Everything we perceive and do. They’re Vibrations. They’re all linked together. It’s all a wave. We move from dissonance to major harmony to augmentation to minor harmony. Just how our days are confusing difficult or tragic comedic. But just as we discover that things are linked and we believe we have found perfection and truth, everything is always in flux and shifting. Which is a perplexing thing as something true at one point becomes untrue later. Everything is linked and has its time to emerge. The laws of physics and other laws like gravity things we hold so near and dear. It’s likely that they’re changing albeit ever so slowly that we don’t perceive. But it’s very likely that these rules that we have. They’re not set in static. They’re dynamic and ever shifting. It’s very possible that matter is just light that has been frozen. And sound may be the liquid state. And who knows there may be states of matter that are simply out of our perceptions. Dimensions that exist that we cannot perceive. It’s quite a humbling thought experiment to realize there are things we simply are incapable of measuring. Thank you for reading my rambling. Life itself is a wave and we can discover truth within it by riding it. It’s what makes music beautiful is we find the current truth and express it to others. It’s unique in that it blends and molds time.
We moved from Just Intonation with the comma to Equal Temperment, which removes the spiral, and makes it a circle. Bach made "The Well Tempered Clavier" to demonstrate how changing keys doesn't require a slight retune, as violin players do.
It really wasn't Just Intonation with the comma, it was Pythagorean Tuning which gives us the comma. The comma comes from trying an idea that didn't really work; however, getting it to work subsequently over centuries gave us ET, or back in Bach's time, "Well Tempered" :)
@@FlanaFugue I want to point out that pianos aren't tuned exactly to equal temperament. They use stretched octave tuning because the overtones of the keys follow the ratios of the harmonic series, albeit slightly sharpened due to the mechanical rigidity of the strings. Tuning purely to 12 TET would make higher octave keys out of tune with the harmonics of lower octave keys. Everything is a compromise. You can't escape the harmonic series. Although, I suppose you could use electronically generated soundwaves that either have no harmonics or overtones that are lacking entirely in harmonic content 😄
@@jakevoorhees1687 Yes I've heard about that from piano tuners - I was under the impression that the deliberate 'off'ness of the very lower and very higher keys on the piano was more due to the mechanics/imperfections of the human ear than anything else... whatever the reason, piano tuning is definitely a complicated affair. Still, I'm quite sure that the octaves around middle C are pretty much straight equal-temperament (you can tell).
And like Witchcraft, this isn't the only way to conjure music, to stay in the line with the terminology of witchcraft. An European Witch (which is the one that you have shown) will summon demons different than a Witch from Africa or Asia, although European Witchcraft is the most wide spread, due to... reasons. Witches and Mages from different regions might have benefits if they combine their power together.
I know I like when music shifts keys. I can only imagine what it would sound like if the key changed to an entirely different scale - say, one with 5 notes instead of 12!
This whole time I’ve been making music for over 6 or 7 years and I never noticed what music theory was because I was taught if I learn it I’ll never be able to escape it but this helped me learn it and escape it in a matter of 4 minutes. Thank you I appreciate you sharing this knowledge.
Music theory is mathematical deviations of 6 and 12, which is also the same for a pentagram. Music theory had to be the foundation or no piano's and any other key instrument would function. DAW and anything requiring midi would also not function without that regid 12 note rule.
ngl I want more of this. I occasionally browse music theory channels but never know what they're talking about, I just enjoy how deep the discussion gets and how much thought seems to go into the music I like. But this made a lot of sense to me.
I shed a tear at the end. You were good, you manipulated the visuals well to convey your point. You also did it musically, and explained it eloquently. My favorite part was at end, it was the cherry on top. This deserves at least a 10/10 video. Simple, effective, and beautiful. One of the best videos I've ever seen.
The shepherds curve leaves and comes back at the same time . Math musicians can use microtones to time travel . Multi timbral performances can fold space , and black midi can summon music critics .
But linear algebra _is_ kinda a geometric thing. Lines, planes, k-dimensional planes; linear transformations are quite geometric. You can work with the usual euclidean space via linear algebra, and it’s usually cleaner than via synthetic Hilbert-style axioms (you’ll need to think about changes to them for other dimensions). Other simple geometries like spherical and hyperbolic spaces (spherical is just plain spheres, they can be submerged in a euclidean world with no problem, so people usually place more importance on hyperbolic spaces which can’t; though again you can have a euclidean space inside the latter (horospheres are those); and spheres too, obviously). Projective geometry is very much cleanly manipulated by means of linear algebra (and it’s an invaluable instrument in looking at other simple-ish (Cayley-Klein) geometries like hyperbolic). When you do matrices and coordinates, the forest can be lost among trees but there is much beauty and sense in linear algebra.
I mean, it's whatever, that's your preference. I believe shapes are as much of an abstraction as numbers are, and the above reply pretty much explained a lot about the connections between the shapes and the numbers.
As a programmer I see it as programming on endocrine system. Play a sad progression and it makes listeners have “sad” mixture of hormones released. After coming to this I choose to focus on major pentatonic instead of it’s “cooler” sibling. I want people to get happy hormones, not be intimidated by how cool I seem noodling from one chord tone to another on minor pentatonic. Realise the responsibility, fellow wizard :) 🧙♂️
The two pentatonics you mentioned have the exact same tonal polarity. More generally though, happiness, joy and otonality are different and very nuanced. Your judgment here is very hasty.
@@official-obama there is no way a minor fourth to first does not make you feel "sad". I feel like that's the most genuine sad sensation, most similar to real sadness there is to feel
As a biologist, please dont my dude xD Hormones are slow acting molecules, and they are not responisble for our emotions, that are way faster. Sure, they infuance them, but in a longer time period. Music does not affect hormons it affect brain. psst u know, the true neural network. you migh confused hormones with neurotransmiterrs, but the are just sygnal, and the network is still more important
This is SO interesting! I just wish you had PLAYED those chords as you described them, like the tritone and the square that is TWO tritones. Wondering how that sounds.
a square would be a diminished chord. if you want a quick listen, there's a short little demonstration video titled "DIMINISHED and HALF DIMINISHED CHORDS" (found from a quick search!)
Or Ionian and Locrian. Or, even better, Lydian and Locrian, being the brightest and the darkest modes. It can even give 13 notes in systems with more than 12 notes per octave because F# would usually then differ from Gb.
There are 3 circles of the scale: steps(direct neighboring notes), thirds, and fifths. No movement between any two notes in the scale exists outside of these circles. As a consequence no chord movement between two chords exists outside of these either. F major- a minor to c major is a third, e to c is a third, c to d is step etc G minor - c minor to d minor is step, g minor to c minor is fifth. So any chord movement i can conceive of within the scale can be reduced to asking myself which of the three circles to use, and whether to go up or down. Which is 6 options, which makes sense, since on any chord there are at all times 6 other chords within the scale you are not currently playing.
I seriously LOVE this analogy - when I talk about music theory with friends I can tell they get intimidated sometimes, like I have some kind of secret scientific knowledge I'm holding over them, but that's so not the case! Music theory isn't scientific or mathematical, it's humans attempting to explain something ethereal and out of our own comprehension. It's mythology, stories we tell to try and understand the strange phenomena we hear around us - or it's witchcraft, rules we create as we attempt to recreate those things ourselves! I know I went on a rant here but I'm just excited, this video just really sparked that feeling that made me fall in love with music theory in the first place
It IS scientific, though, because that’s precisely what science is: “attempting to explain something out of our own comprehension.” That’s not to say that our systematizing is arbitrary, though. I think the magic of music theory is that it is uncovering phenomenal-mathematical relationships which DO exist, and then applying those in our own creative efforts.
You seem to have misunderstood. It's common, modern academia has done a heinous disservice to both science and math. But Math IS the fundamental language of creation and it's internal processes. Music is the auditory expression of that language.
I don't think it's out of our comprehension. I think it's the product of centuries of musical tradition: starting in simple tunes, then primitive "harmonizing" to polyphony, etc... And you end up with an imperfect system. I don't think it's outside our comprehension, since we know the cycle doesn't close naturally and why, we know how sound works, we know how frequencies work... we simply have aimed all this time to organize the sounds and play instruments,etc, but that organization is hard. And even in the middle ages they knew how imperfect it was to attempt certain things, hence for centuries some keys were not played because they couldn't tune the organs in order to be audible.
@helenacorreia7613 Barry Harris videos helped me tremendously. He talks about music theory from classical music and bebop jazz perspective, in a way that was lost after the spread of modal jazz music theory. The 2 whole town scales are the nother and father, they have 4 kids the diminished chords. Each diminished chord when you change one note gets you a dominant 7th chord.anyway check out his videos? Changed my life. It's math, it's science, it's vibration, energy, frequency, waves, it's magic, its life really
If I get one more person trying to "Well actually" me in the replies I'm deleting this comment, I swear to god - y'all it's literally not that deep, I'm a musician studying music theory and pursuing a degree in biology, I KNOW science isn't an inaccessible field of study, I know mathematics is the fundamental language on which the universe is built, etc etc. I was trying to be poetic, to express an emotion this video made me feel, I didn't realize it would attract this many people who felt the need to "correct" my emotions.
FINALLY Someone said it. my view of music has been some sort of witchcraft for the longest time. we can draw a circle of fifths on the ground with chalk, sit in the middle, make connections from note to note and summon demons (aka tritones, diminished chords, etc) OR angels. another thing we can do is to use modern theory and synths and... or be an old-school ancient wizard who uses the old magic (e.g. baroque theory & orchestration). or fuse the 2. or invent something new! key is that only we understand it and no one else does, which is why to us it's a bit... science-esque and to them it's "HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE". that's magic. oh also, I'm squishy & completely useless in every other field, just like a wizard.
Sir ... Demons are not "aka" chords. You don't have to unite the righteous creation and resonant frequencies of our world with unclean spirits. Why would you give them that power over you? No demon EVER created anything....they only counterfeit and dominate. It's astounding to me...if you really feel and or live in the spirit world at all - how can you not see the depth of hate they have for life & us? For real question. Thanks
@@ma2perdueDemons are being used as a metaphor for dissonance, which commonly evokes negative feelings, such as sadness, stress, anger, and panic. Not too much unlike what demons supposedly do
3:28 Nah, most UA-camrs who make content about music theory all have the same idea -- that it's not a set of "hard rules", and is instead some esoteric, mystical thing. Really, it IS a set of 'rules' no matter how you square it. Just a matter of how much attention you want to let your imagination give the rules when making music.
i don’t know much about music theory, ive tried learning it more in depth, but this video totally changed my perspective on it. really well made! as someone who didn’t even know the concepts u explained, it still made sense to me.
So, if I add a video to 4 or more of my playlists, that means it's fully life-changing. 18. My mind is blown. Subscribed, and am thinking about ringing the bell.
you are a very talented storyteller, and your visuals really helped me understand music theory in a way I didn't consider before! Great work, cant wait to see more!
"There's this weird, shockingly prevalent notion that music theory is a hard-bound set of rules that you must follow to make your music sound good and boring." The reason it's weird is because literally every musician I've ever talked to, from beginners to experts, says it's not true. This is just outsiders hearing a thing called "music theory" exists and making a million assumptions about what that means.
I can't say I've had the same experience. I've seen several beginners hold this perspective, and even seasoned veterans of niche experimental electronic music. mostly though, I want anyone that's scared of the complexity of music theory to know that it's a vocabulary, not a prescription.
Like with math, it's really useful to know about whole numbers even though the world is filled with irrational numbers. Music theory is extremely useful, but music is best when it's FELT - by the player and audience.
Math is behind everything. It’s felt because it’s execution was excellent. Like in programming for example there’s often multiple ways of writing code to make things work but only when it’s done in a certain way people will say it’s polished. A lot of musicians can play a certain piece but only a few can execute it with excellence. Then we say it’s like magic! So that kind of magic is just excellent execution by people who probably dedicated their life to a niche.
Hmm... No, within classical musicians when you are learning especially there is a strong emphasis on following the rules of counterpoint and standard harmony. Yes you then learn to deviate from that and study other composers, but the way we go about music is still not the freer. You can note that when tying other music systems (Indian for example), or when you do Early Music you realize where everything came from.
You won't need this buried comment, but your illustrations and narration were on point. I grasped opposite colors because of their circular nature, and will now explore music in this same way. Thank you for this. My perspective has been altered. Work well done.
I’m a musician that is unable to read music, also a student of alchemy. I play by ear and math I feel the geometry 🧮 I have been saying it for years.That music is math and geometry…. I would tell people their is geometry in music yet without being able to show the formula on paper know one would consider what I was saying!!!! Thank you thank you 🙏🏽 music is the ultimate form of alchemy… it is the philosophers stone…. Transmuting all energy into something as pure as music !!! Fabulous ❤❤❤❤
I'm a drum player in an afric-diaspora religion in Brazil. Our drums are made with wood, riveted with iron/steel, and covered with animal leather. We are reviving the vegetal, animal and mineral spirits of these elements each time our naked hands strike those drums. The reverberation of ground and air caused by their pouding flexes the material fabric of the world and allows for the passage of spirits from the other realm unto this. Our hearts beat in compass with the drums, our voices sing the appropriate songs to call forth spirits of deceased ancestors of our communities. Music binds these small elements together in the corret rythm for the spell to work properly, music is the glue that makes supernatural things actually happen, that makes complex magic emerge from the combination of simple acts. Music is , actually, magic, and kinda the whole world knows that for tens of thousands of years. Glad you discovered it too.
I guess are all witches and wizards, who manipulate energy everyday. Casting spells when we speak, technology is all just made from a bunch of sigils. We can impart our energy into objects, and make others feel a high vibration, or lower vibration based on the intention we have
In 12 TET you can't be off by 23.46 cents. A fifth isn't defined by 3/2hz, it's defined by 8/12 steps where each step is 100 cents. There is no direct mapping from hz to cents, as the translation between the two is logarithmic. With cents, you must have an "anchor frequency" which acts as 0 cents, and due to logarithmic math the 0.278% comes out in the wash, because each step is exponentially larger than the step before it.
3/2 hz doesn't make any sense. Ratios are dimensionless and are not expressed with units. Cents are an arbitrary value. It sounds like you are taking 12 TET as gospel. Even if you tuned a physical instrument such as a piano to exactly 12 TET it would sound out of tune, because the harmonics (overtones) of the notes follow the ratios of the harmonic series and are generally slightly sharp because of the rigidity of the strings causing limitations on how they vibrate. Pianos use stretched octave tuning to match bring the higher notes into tune with the overtone ratios of the lower notes. The video touches on the fact that there are many interrelationships in music and different overlapping patterns that can be formed with many different systems. In my opinion all of the approaches overlap and can't really be separated from each other. 12 TET is one single system.
I don't know anything about witchcraft and only a tiny bit about music theory but the connections you made were so interesting! I'm also thinking of the connection to Spiral Dynamics.
There are no rules. You are absolutely wrong. Theory is in no way about rules. Did you even watch. Is about functionality. You don’t use the circle of fifths to write music you use it to understand it.
this number scales up massively. a whole bunch of recognizable artists will tell you they don't have any "real theory knowledge". in reality, these artists have actually just built their own theory of music and just don't interface with it using that terminology. they have, as this video puts it, reinvented several wheels
Technically anything could be considered witchcraft since everything is energy. Just different ways of working with energy. The second you think letters and numbers dont have magic you are ignorant. Same as words and music.
@@DaysenSouth-z5p Religious practice involving magic and affinity with nature, usually within a pagan tradition. This is the original definition. The use of energy is natural we do that automatically so how could that can be considered witchcraft? If that is the case then everyone's committing witchcraft all the time.
Stop making up things. You're a music addict and you're trying to justify it to yourself. Music has become chained to your daily life and its impossible for you to get rid of it cause you will feel empty otherwise. Try not listening to music for a month and see for yourself. You will not be able to.
You might even say the real music theory was the friends we made along the way
Friendship is Magic
What I lost all my friends during music journey wtf
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Ha!!!
I don’t get it
Awesome, non-euclidian horrors in my warm-up scales!
That's because you haven't learned to just feel it.
Be not afraid.
@@nanamacapagal8342 is that what you say about A Minor. "Just feel it"😂
@@Colemanbentz888 😂
Horror is the beauty
This video is oddly terrifying
Talking is witchcraft. Every word is a spell.
And don't forget the "Curse Words" where folks won't say Curse but say "Cuss words"
I guess that just shows how fake witchcraft is. 😂 Oh no, more words. Perhaps I've accidentally overcooked some poor souls ramen dinner by accident. 🤡
@@piratelechuck1911 words come with intentions and that’s where all the magic happens. Words are announcements of your desires. Speak good things for yourself and others.
I like the way you think
yea, every language is designed to manipulate something. programming, art, language, law- all these media are ways to control things we normally can’t. like energy, emotion, thought, & behavior of others. we can make magic real within these media. it is through this magic that we are capable of creation.
Yesssss yes yes yes heck yeah. My relationship to music (as a composer/musician/songwriter) has really shifted (in an entirely positive way) ever since I started thinking of music theory as a magic practice rather than a means to an end. Music is some of the most wizardy shit we do and we act like it's not crazy wizard shit! We take this weird naturally occurring process -- air vibrating, the overtone series, the weird ways pitches interact at different frequency ratios -- and we feel emotions based on it... so we decide to manipulate it to our whims and use it to make other people feel emotions! That's wild and super weird!! and we take it for granted! The way that tuning doesn't line up perfectly (even though it feels like it should) and the fact that it has frustrated and perplexed theorists for literally thousands of years, is so beautiful to me. Like despite us making music for as long as we've done literally anything it seems, it still feels like it's hiding secrets that we might not ever understand. But humans will keep tinkering away at it curiously for several more thousands of years to seek knowledge and understand ourselves better and damn that's cool huh??
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Ayo that’s why I make music too. It’s the most natural beautiful strange puzzle
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@@coreyroberts47 Yes! Nowdays whenever I'm working on a song the first bits are easy and then it becomes a lil puzzle - which chord should come next in the progression? what if I'm currently at one chord and I somehow need to end up back at a specific completely different chord... what chords do I pick to get me there? or what if I have this melody and it starts to break out of the bounds of the key I'm in... what chords should I harmonize it with? Once I'm in those new chords, what other scales and notes can I throw in there that feel right? it's like every option becomes a bunch of branching paths like a little map of the multiverse. and the more tools and techniques you acquire in your arsenel, the more paths open up to take from point a to point b satisfyingly. I spend a lot of my composing process just tinkering around like I'm in a lab mixing potions - the alchemy imagery is very apt
As a Born Deaf person it is rather fascinating to witness how a mass group of people can be hypnotised by one song. For a large group, even thousands and thousands to all feel the same emotion and move and think in the same way if they let the music grab hold of their mind. From a church to a rock concert to meditation classes. I imagine time is not linear for these people too as you demonstrated how point A and point B and so on, can connect via ‘shapes’ with frequency.
Thank you for this video. It really helped me visualise what you called ‘witch craft’ 🌀🤟🏼🌀
I must admit that the first five words of this comment surprised me. this is fundamentally a video for musicians. I did not expect the audience would reach so far. :P
happy to see my funny novel illustrations offered some insight
What you stated is the reason I keep the sound off on my phone while watching videos
@@flySUPERNOVAfly you don’t take your hearing for granted 🥹
@@JesikahJean i truly appreciate your insight. I never thought of it like that.
I have heard art decorates a physical space, and music decorates space of time. So what your saying makes sense of that.
3:05 this is the scariest thing I've ever heard in my life the implications of this in reality are incredibly unnerving
DARPA are using frequencies to abuse and mind control the population, that is pretty scary but mainstream vids prefer to talk about music cos it is safer
Relax.
It is not that scary 🙏😭
@sharp9150 because you don't understand the implications of this
@ explain then, doc.
I can’t remember where I heard this but it resonated with me:
when you take a tree and craft a wood wind instrument from it, when you blow into it you are bringing the spirit of that tree back to life in the form of sound. The trees live through the exhalation of our breath, so it gives it life. It’s sound, reminiscent of the sound the wind made when it blew through its branches
When you take an animal and use it’s skin to make a drum you are reviving the echo of its heart beat. The heart pounds with a steady rhythm and drumming brings out the animal spirit in the drum.
🙏
That ain't life. You're blowing through a tree corpse.
You should probably study botany a little bit. Trees don’t need our “breathing” to survive 😅
Very deep
@@ActionGamerAaron Dead trees create the life of the forest.
Jazz is another name for Tao as far as I'm concerned
I was watching the other day this guy explaining how to train 'your ear' by feeling the scale, not hearing the pitch or anything, just feeling. And the way he was teaching sounded like something straight out of a Zen monastery. The more I learn, the more intrigued I get.
the video is called: Essential Ear Training from the channel... Max Konyi. Haven't finished, yet. But it's worth the watching.
@@Ram0nAlan Will have to check that out!
@@Ram0nAlanyeah, at a certain point of music scales get so crazy that its not even worth thinking about the actual notes, basically just know your base note, and think "do, re, mi.."
I gotta say that a lotta the jazz I've heard is feverish Bacchanal chaos to my ears. It's the sound of a bashful fettered insanity passed off as refined taste. Bluaahh
And ambient music.
Yes, music is alchemy - as is all arts. Artists and creative people are Mystics - they are the mediators of the in-between... they help bridge the gap between the things we know for certain and the things we know nothing about. All creative peoples tap into a vital divine essence of sorts, that underlines all things that exists in the universe... because it is one of creation. The constant involution and evolution of bringing infinite potentiality into finite actuality. I am learning music theory now - i have struggled with some of the concepts but i feel i will get it eventually. Usually when making some piece of art, whether a painting or collage, i feel like i am going into a trance - just the antenna that receives the measages. Its not me creating anything, i am just allowing space for that energy to flow through me. The muse is real though she often escapes me.
This is one of the most relatable, accurate comments I’ve ever read. 🙌🏾
Outstanding statement. Years ago people kept telling me I was a psychopomp like the ferryman over the river Styx my purpose in the lives around me has been to help people bridge these two realms of known and unknown. I guess I have a knack for dissipating fear and enhancing a sense of adventure into novelty.
The thing I often point out is that it's knowing when to rest that makes a journey optimal. Music is the perfect example. The Notes are just noise until you put the rests in between them. The music is actually found in knowing when to be silent. Once you have that concept the rest is tempo or flow.
Rest is why meditation is so helpful. 😊
🦊👑🙏
@@markperron851 Yes exactly - the most important note is the one you don't play.
When I’m writing lyrics or freestyling it’s like I’m in a trance or a puppet on a string but it’s peace idk but relatable
No, it isnt strange that the moon is represented with a moon symbol 0:03
*whoosh* goes the point you missed
wait wdym wooosh, do i just not get it either
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@@MissMugenI'm sure you know what that "point" is, which is why it isn't in your comment. This guy is such a typical pretentious 19 year old video essayist.
This is just my take, but I think he's saying it's strange that the moon is not represented by a circle symbol, but rather a crescent moon symbol. He says that generally, cycles are represented by circles. I think he did this to point out that exceptions can be made(i.e. As is the case with the moon symbol) but you could call this a reach. He never comes back to the moon symbol and never says anything along the lines of "it's strange because..." so it made the question seem isolated and unanswered.
Unfortunately, I didn't understand any of this
me too
i still dont understand
tldr: music is crazy witchcraft which we’ve loosely based theory on but this theory isn’t even entirely perfect. the message is that your feeling should guide the music making process more than the theory
Neither did I. Let's keep it short, simple, and to the point.
+1😂😂😂
“A melody that doesn’t leave home is just a tone.”
Words of wisdom
lol just plain rubbish, its a wordgame. amasing how the gullibles fall for nonsens always. nada theory is needed to make music.
@@wout123100of course. You can make music however with whatever knowledge you decide to utilize. Music theory is just a toolbox that is far easier for people to understand than to keep everything abstract. You do not have to be confined to it however it is a great language for collaboration between others.
Bless up
But when you get the chance to travel to the inner stars, it's a tone that will bring you back home it's usually C or back to Do do do do
It's pretty damn literal though. A melody that doesn't leave it's home note isn't a melody. It also beautifully encapsulates what is interesting to me about music and life in general- we're most interested and excited when faced with change, when we step out of our comfort zone, when we "leave home".
You know the video is good when it starts to sound like a Silent Hill chase theme
Silent Hill 3 main theme is just 🔥🔥🔥
Oh no
I’m being chased by a circle of fifths
And it has a knife
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Well, at least it has a hand and not four feet.😖
Looking forward to the SH2 remake!!!
@@hou.tex. They ruined one of the characters looks though 💀
Oh, I love this. Great visuals and flow while expressing meaningful information. It'd be cool to see more like this.
half of this video was just me experimenting with visuals :P
it's really fun! I don't think many of my video ideas call for such involved visuals though
@@GSTChannelVEVO more please. On the video topic.
@@GSTChannelVEVO What device or app did you use for these great visuals? Really amazing
@@laurentius75 100% made in tooll3!
@@GSTChannelVEVO Cool, thanks for that! Will check it out...
As a musician who went to the conservatory, I can attest to that! Music theory IS basically a set of rules that is fun to learn, but after years and years of experience you go back to the beginning and realize that you were better off because when you knew nothing you were more creative, it was FUN it was a joy.
I think after you learned the theory, you applied it, you have to realize that is better to unlearn everything you knew and play with your heart, not your head.
Take theory as guidelines, not as rules.
They certainly help you when you are disoriented -> how can you come back home if you don't know where you are?
“The circle of 5ths is really a spiral” - blew my mind and made me smile. I’ve known about some of equal temperament’s short comings but had never thought about it in regard to the circle of 5ths. So dope. Thanks!!
and that makes 0 sense
@@gracefulhealer935It makes complete sense
@@gracefulhealer935 It makes complete sense. You don't get it that's OK.
As a humble Bohunk with precisely zero knowledge of music theory, all this did was reinforce my respect for musicians. Shine on you creative wizards.
Favorite comment ever ❤
It's honestly not that difficult or complicated.
Videos like this make it seem mystical. But it's simple.
It is simple. It's also bottomless which is the beauty of it.
I bet he can’t explain lesbian dance theory !
It's okay, most musicians have no idea about this stuff either :)
"Write your own spells"
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Ive never seen this emoji before how did u get it?
@@megmcfoo7680 It's UA-cam's emojis. You can find it by opening yt from the browser, but I'm not sure if it appears on mobile.
Spell-ing. English language.
On the odd occassion, I will come about a video just like this one. Something on a topic everyone knows about because of how fundamental it is but knows not of it's depth. Math, writing, physics, economics. Something.
And every so often, that video on said topic, will explain it, to whatever depth the creator likes but in an astonishingly unique way. So mystic and detatched from comventional teaching that I am left in the silence of my own quivered breaths to wonder what profound production I have stumbled upon.
Sometimes I don't even understand it all to appreciate it to the full extent someone well versed in the field could. Though, just hearing your analogies and seeing those visuals. I feel like something clicked. I didn't just learn something. Because learning just means you absorbed and understood it. Nothing about your experience of thought and how you process it has changed. No, this was an entire frameshift of thought. Completely reorienting the way I think about the topic. In this case, completely reimagining how I think about chords and cadences.
My language of appreciation is writing. Sometimes I feel a shortcoming, an impotence, the failure to convey my admiration by any succinct form of gratitude. So consider the tone and length of this comment and let it be known I absolutely admired this video.
Because "Amazing" doesn't begin to describe how I feel.
yes, you have a gorgeous way of writing your thoughts down, I'm taking notes.
I just want you to know that this has incredible replay value. I've looped it hundreds of times because it aligns perfectly with my other hyper-fixations. Every time I revisit it and loop it another hundred times, I discover new meanings, not just in this video but also in my other interests. I want to say that whatever magic you tapped into for this video, I love it. I love you. Thank you for helping me make the necessary connections to complete my magnum opus.
For real, if you're interested in music + geometry I have to recommend researching about golden ratio applied in songs, there's a video out there that I always revisit
This is a FANTASTIC video. When you show the spiral, it sounds a whole lot like Boards of Canada, who famously use mathematical witchy thingamajigness in their music.
I love how music theory is more of a study of the human mind than anything else
Except that's completely wrong. Music theory doesn't tell you what sounds good, or happy, or right, it just describes the notes being played.
@@YellowJelly13 Hermann von Helmholtz derived a physical theory of dissonance which can still be applied to various non-western instruments and contexts. It can explain why certain sounds and intervals are perceived as consonant or dissonant, but of course, it cannot tell you when to use which of those properties. This is the only music theory I would never question. Everything besides that is a mix of psychology and art.
As is everything, my friend :)
to me it’s the study of the universal mind
The ethos of any sound is mostly informed by cultural significance. Although we do feel stuff from music, the feeling certain sounds evoque is not universal
Music "theory" is the result of studying common patterns that commonly happen in music - particularly western music. That western music has settled on the very workable approximation we call tempered tuning, skews the way we think about music - slightly. And the way it sounds doesn't bother most people. Close enough. As to the idea of witchcraft or magic, those are the words we use for things we don't understand that seem mysterious. Theory is just common practice. The plain and unfortunate fact is that a lot of folks who want to "break free" from theory and explore new vistas is, frankly, that they don't really understand how it works or know how to use it. Rules are easy to break when you really don't understand why they're there. But, in reality, music theory is not a set of rules. It's just a way of explaining what's going on. It's not a form of tyranny anymore than a tape measure is.
Pythagoras means Heart of the Serpent, he was born in Sidon, a fishing Port in Phoenicia. His mother recieved a message from the Oracle of Delphi that he would become a great Leader and Teacher. Sidon means Kingdom of the Fish, and the Essenes, who wrote the Dead Sea scrolls, worshipped Pythagoras. The Sarcophagus of Eschmun III found in Sidon names him as the Widow's Scion, aka Hiram Abiff, the Founder of Freemasonry, of which Tyre was the premier Capital (at least equal to Thebes).
In 911BC Rameses II married the Queen of Sidon, home of Jezebel (Daughter or consort of Baal, basically "Queen") founding Neo Assyrian Babylon, an alliance between Egypt and Hiram, father of Jezebel and King of Assyria, and Egypt, forming the Phoenician colonies and building the first Temple of Melqart to commemorate the alliance.
The Si in Sidon is the basis of the Latin Exe, or X, and is the basis of the Cross, or Chi Rho that Constantine painted on his shields. Also known as the Cross of Tyre, or Cross of Baal, being Ra-El, or Ba'El. Oddly enough irrational numbers can also be mapped using Euler's number, producing a Templar Cross in the process: a map of where Eclipses are most likely to occur. This cross can also be seen around the neck of Nimrod in Assyria, and is consistent with the Union Jack, and Solstice Calendar found in the Vatican Shiva Lingam.
Shiva is the Hebrew word for 7, their culture also found its way to Japan (via the Phillipines) ultimately becoming Shintoism.
It was the Phoenicians who gave their name to the Pole Star, which they used to Navigate the Oceans using the Zodiac, thats what the Antikythera mechanism was for, and with it they wrote the Byblos Baal, what we now call the Bible. The first form of the Bible was written in 325BC and called the Vaticanus Greacus, or Son of the Sacred Serpent, a reference to Sirius, the basis of the Sothic Calendar, which uses a Hexidecimal or base 60 system found in all the Megalithic sites around the world.
In the second century AD astronomer Valentinus Vettori transcribed it into a Lunar chart of 13 houses, what we now call the Zodiac. Horoscope means Star Watcher, and the Phoenician word for Saturn, or El, was Israel or El, (Fruit) of Isis and Ra. Alternatively El is the Father of Ra the Sun and Consort of Isis the Earth, aka El is the Moon.
El is the primary God of the Phoenicians, representing the offspring of Egypt, and his consort Astarte or Ishtar represents the Assyrian half of the alliance. It may be possible to trace lineages and alliances through the naming of gods, which can be traced all the way to Ireland and the Vikings, and to Indonesia and the Americas, even as far away as New Zealand and Australia.
It denotes Sirius as Son of Orion and Pleaides, which sits at 33 degrees of the Zodiac. The basis of the Sothic (dir Seth) Calendar of the Egyptians. The New Moon in this position marks Rosh Hashanah, the Egyptian, Celtic, Phoenician, and Assyrian New Year, the first New Moon of September, which is called September because it's the 7th House of the Zodiac, when the Sun is in Ophiuchus.
The Phoenix, Benben, or Bennu is the Egyptian word for Heron, a Feathered 'Serpent'. It baptised itself in frankincense and myrrh at BaalBek, and then alights atop the Pyramid, upon the Holy Grail, or Altar of Ra every 630 years to take three days off the calendar during the course of the first New Moon of Nisan, which means "Prince". The Capstone of Pyramids is even called the Benben or Bennu.
The Phoenix is found in all religions, which are all Astrological Allegory for the Moon travelling through the Constellations, as a soul migrating from body to body, this is the basis of Joseph Campbell's Monomyth, or the Hero's Journey. The various planets no doubt play their own roles as portents, omens, and aspects, this astrology is the science of the Bronze age, and lasted all the way up to the 20th Century. Reincarnation was an early teaching of the Christian Church, and likely relates to the lineage of Kings (The Pan is Dead, long live Pan!)
Phoenicians represent the interim step between Egypt and Greece, their artisans and culture exceeding that of the Greeks, who literally adopted the Phoenician Alphabet, which we still use to this day, sounding out words phonetically. Phoenician is aliiterated in Venetian, and Vikings, being Kings of the Sea.
The Bennu is the Egyptian Phoenix, to Phoenicians the Hoyle, no different to the traditions of the Etruscans, who saw birds as sacred, just as the Celts. Hebrew and Iber as in Iberia have the same root meaning over, as in overseas, as in those who travel "over the sea." A colony called Iberia also appears on the Eastern shores of the Black Sea, where the same Dolmens and Megalithic culture originating in Ireland and Brittany appeared circa 4500BC.
_Phoenician_ means Scions of the Phoenix, the first Bible: Vaticanus Greacus Son of the Sacred Serpent (Prince). Then there's the Essenes, Sons of Light, the Tuatha De Danaan, Sons of Light, Annunaki, Sons of Light, Arthur Pendragon means Arthur Son of the Dragon; Chertoff is Russian for "Son of the Devil" and Dracula also means Son of the Dragon, Masons have been known at times to call themselves the "Brotherhood of the Great White Serpent". The Ziggurat of Anu also denotes her as a great white Serpent, while New Grange and the Bru na Boinne in Ireland (4000BC) coated buildings with white quartz to denote the Moon. The Moon itself travels outside the Solar Elliptic by 5 degrees, which means it passes through specific constellations in a serpentine fashion that is always changing, but repeats every 19 years, the time it took to train a Druid or Magi, Magi meaning "Teacher" the Phoenix is also associated with this sacred number 19.
The name "Pharoah" means "Great House" or "House of Light" and Cairo used to be called Babel. Pharaoh's themselves wore a hooded crown representing feathers, just as Native American Chiefs, ie the Feathered Serpent, they were also called the Commander in Chief. Aztecs also had Serpent Kings, (Canaan means Serpent Kings, and Sidon was a Son of Canaan, and Great Grandson of Noah) who were called to lead with cunning and guile, being the very virtue by which they claim the title in the first place; but to be seen in public as just and diplomatic.
"As wise as Serpents, but gentle as Doves" the old Egyptian flag of an Eagle attacking a Snake is also reflected in the Modern Mexican flag, denoting the Constellations of Serpentis (13th sign of the Zodiac) and Aquila.
The dimensions and 12 mathematical constants of the Great Pyramid are also expressed in New Grange, and Stonehenge, as well as in Watson Brake, (2500BC) and Teotihuacan, which correlates to the Phoenician/ Sumerian Hexidecimal system, which is what our modern systems of time are based on. In fact it unlocks a kind of fractal pattern that is reflected throughout creation.
Officially no one knows who invented astrology, the zodiac, navigation by the stars, and time keeping. But whoever built the pyramids, and pioneered the 24hr clock in Egypt 5000 years ago also knew the exact dimensions of the Earth, as well as the speed of light. These calculations can all be made using these Megalithic sites as surveyors use a theodolite. Specifically Teotihuacan, which sits 180 degrees opposite Cairo, and has the exact same footprint. The ideal positions to determine the speed of light using the transit of Venus, by which one can accurately determine Longitude for navigation. Capt Cook did the same thing in 1774 when he 'discovered' Easter Island.
The only culture that fits the bill was wiped out "not one stone upon the other" by the Romans in 146BC. Tyre, the capital of Phoenicia (israel) sat just offshore from Uru Salaam: City of the New Moon, or City of Peace. The root of the name Jerusalem, and was also seized by Rome in 70AD after a 13 year seige. The gap between is 216 years.
Greek Dionysians built the Temple of Solomon (now called the Temple of Melqart) representing the Solar Lunar Metonic Calendar on which this system is based, they also carried mirrors, a practice associated with both the Magi and the Druids as well as Greek and Egyptian scholars, these Mirrors are Astrological charts called "Cycladian Frying Pans" and record the cycles of the planets. The first Temple of Melqart (the Phoenician form of Horus, or Hercules, or Pan, or Thor) representing the 13th Constellation of Ophiuchus or the Serpent Bearer (hence Orphic Serpent worship) had pillars of Emerald and Gold, representing Isis and Osiris. The Jerusalem Temple only took payment in "Shekels of Tyre" a currency minted during the Jewish rebellion against Rome. "Give that which is Ceasar's unto Ceasar"
When Alexander sacked Tyre in 332BC they moved to Carthage meaning "New City" or New Jerusalem, where they built a second temple with Pillars of Bronze.
Nebuchadnezzar also seiged Tyre for 13 years, taking the City captive in 573BC: the same time as the biblical account of the Jews. And again in 70AD after a three and a half year seige, also consistent with biblical accounts.
Palaset was the name of a tribe of the Sea Peoples, Pallas Set denotes the New Moon of Ammun Ra rising in Gemini, the Pallas Constellation of the Twins that stand before Orion. This occurs due West of the Temple of Solomon in Tyre between the Western Gates of Gibraltar, Gabriel's Altar, and is the basis of the name Pallastein, or Pallas Stone. As in the Philosopher's Stone or Holy Grail, Altar of Ammun Rah, the Rising Sun.
The Cross of Tyre or Ba'El ❌ represents the Lunar maximums and minimums and correlates with the Cross Quarter days of the Solstice Calendar. Align the Cross ❌ Chi Rho Christian ✝️ and Star 🔯 to the zodiac and you have a Compass and a timepiece that can be used to Circumnavigate the globe.
It's Astrological Allegory for a Metonic Eclipse Zodiac Calendar using Accusations in a Mirror 🪞
One Megalithic hour is 240 minutes, or 14,400 seconds (1/4)
There are 6 Megalithic hours to the day, each made up of 6 minutes, each of which is 6 seconds long. If the Megalithic hour was divided into 60 minutes, each would be 1,440 of our seconds, times 100 is 144,000.
One Megalithic second is 400 of our modern seconds, divided by 60 (to get minutes) is 6.6666666....
360 ÷ 6.66 is 54
54 x 2 is 108
108 x 2 is 216
To effect this the hands on a clock count out 10 (units of 6) x 10 (units of 6) × 4 (=400 units of 6). Therefore the relationship of the Megalithic second to our current form is mathematically proportional to the ratio between the Sun and Moon. A Megalithic second is 6.66 minutes (400 seconds). A Megalithic Minute is 40 minutes, or 2,400 seconds. 6 x 6 x 6 x 400 = 86,400, the number of seconds in a day. This would mean a clock with 216 seconds would go around 40 times in a day (2160 x 400).
This means 1 Megalithic second is 6.66 of our modern minutes, meaning their metric system is based on the Full Moon, of which 360 fit into to the night sky, and 720 will encircle the globe, divided by half gives us the 360 degree circle, and the basis for our present hexadecimal system of time. Which is why 1 degree of Arc on the Moon = 100 Megalithic Yards (2700ft). This means the Beast, the hidden hand of the Masonic fraternity, is the Moon; and Time. The white limestone covering of the Pyramids denotes the Pale Moon in Megalithic Ireland, like at New Grange, where Enoch describes a Crystal Palace illuminated by the Full Moon every 19 years.
6 x 6 x 6 is 216, there are 2160 years in an astrological age, and the Moon is 2160 miles in diameter, the solar metonic calendar using 60 6 day weeks produces 1 extra day every 216 years. There are also 216 Megalithic seconds in a day, and 216 letters in the name of the Hebrew God, Just as Solomon has 36 or 72 scrolls, and Muhammed speaks of 72 sects.
Enoch also buries 36,525 scrolls, the number of days in a year, times 100. Oh by the way, this shows that our current measure of time is based on the principle of 1/6, the basis of an Egyptian Royal Cubit, but first they built the first ring at Stonehenge, which is 100 metres (330 ft) wide, with an area of 2160 square feet, a Cube's interior angles also add up to... 2160!
This produces a Calendar of 60 6 day weeks plus five. Every 4th year a 366th day makes exactly 61 weeks.
This means every 216 years this calendar produces 1 extra day, so after 648 years 3 days must be removed. This is when the Phoenix arrived, and stepped onto the Alter of Ra or Holy Grail, completing the Metonic cycle and bringing the Calendar back into sync with the first New Moon of the Spring equinox. The Capstone of the Pyramid is even called the Benben Stone, the Egyptian Phoenix is called the Bennu. It likely relates to Deneb, in Ophiuchus, the 13th Starsign of the Zodiac. The base of the Pyramid is exactly 13 Acres, as is Teotihuacan, because they share the exact same base dimensions.
Such a location would be ideal for calculating the speed of light using the transit of Venus. Incidentally the Great Pyramid's Latitudinal coordinates are the speed of light.
1440 ÷ 108 = 13.333333
11 and 3 are the most sacred Celtic numbers of royalty, and also happen to be the proportions of the Earth to the Moon, and the Great Pyramid.
The starsigns also precess 1 degree every 72 years
72 x 3 is 216
2160 ÷ 648 is 3.3333333
The Aztec Calendar also begins with a double transit of Venus, in 3116BC.
This whole code can be encoded into a single Pythagorean Triangle of Dimensions 666 by 630, by 216, this is the Key of Solomon, 33 is the inverse of 66.
100 is the "perfect number" because it represents 10 6 unit metrics times 10 6 unit metrics, a unit being 6.66
ie 60 x 60 (3600) the number of Arcdegree seconds in a second, or a one second unit on a clock the size of Earth
This means seconds represent 10ths of the Moon; 216, or 6 x 6 x 6 (100 ÷ 6 ÷ 6 = 2.7): Euler's number, and the number of feet to a Megalithic Yard, 3/11 is .27 and the number of days in a sidereal month is also 27.
11/3 is 3.66, the number of days in a Canicular leap year, the character of Thoth, Cuchulainn, and Kukulkan, the Dog Star, and star by which the Sothic (Seth) Calendar is determined. Thoth was the Son of Seth, who is portrayed as a Serpent. 3 x 11 is 33, the years in a Great Solar Return. As the Sun and Moon inhabit their respective houses of the Zodiac they animate the character within, playing out the dramas and battles we know as myths, for example the Moon traveling through each of the Zodiac houses each month, for a grand total of... 144 (12 x 12)
Metatron/Enoch/Echnaton/Arkenaten's Cube is 13 circles in a Star of David:
13 x 360 is 4680
4680 ÷ 216 is 21.666..
you're stating theory as ultimate reality but the person you're arguing against is stating that theory is only one reality of many
There is such a thing as real witchcraft you realize that right
@@Uncanny_Mountain what a load of fantasy.
Bridging real theory and esotericism with creepy/emotive noises is a vibe and I’m here for it. Earned a sub from me for sure
stumbled upon this video at just the right time... I've been missing the magic of music and have felt frustrated by the need to shove compositions into a box of harsh parameters instead of just feeling it out
thanks for providing a visual breakdown to inspire and encourage :)
i've been playing guitar for more than 20 years now and always struggled to tie myself to theories and theorists. this is the most beautiful explanation i''ve heard so far. i've always felt music (and art in general) to be some kind of magic. thank you for proving i'm not alone. music unites us
every real muscian knows this, its so easy, common sense
Unironically this helped me grasp music theory more easily than school ever did lmao
not true
@@Jay-uv5xg tf you mean not true? They’re talking about their own experience 😭😭😭💀💀💀
@@Jay-uv5xg Bro's a hater fr💀
Theres a reason its called "the uneducation system" in some circles
@@Nibiru_-_Gen_Z_WarlockCompared to?
Insanely high quality knowledge packed in just 4 minute video. Very impressive.
As a witch/mystic and musician/teacher/singer-songwriter, I loved this! Thank you!
John 3:16 "For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son so who shall ever believe in him shall not perish but have everlasting life."
This reminds me of Vi Hart's old "Twelve Tones" video. They head off in different directions, but I love them both!
*YOU'RE A MUSICIAN HARRY!*
Lol
I’M A WHAT!!??
Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Pick
Harry Potter and the Amp of Secrets
Harry Potter and the Bassist of Azkaban
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Harry Potter and the Hornet of fire
Harry Potter and the Order of Metronome
Harry potter and The half-Tone prince
Lolol
I'm a composer and my wife is a Hellenistic astrologer. I was trying to describe Pythagoras' musica universalis to her the other day, and I can't wait to show this to her. I'm not a music teacher, so trying to describe my music theory ideas in relation to esoteric traditions is hard - this is such a beautiful, concise visual representation of that. You could literally map this circle onto a astrological chart - I knew 12-tone had a numerological similarity with other 12 symbolism, but for some reason never thought of an astro chart. Watching you represent chords like aspects was wild - A square and opposition being associated with a tritone is SO fitting!! And resolutions correlating to benefic aspects.
It makes me wonder - you could potentially derive a chord progression or a melody from an astrological chart like say, Jung might derive insight from Tarot (you don't necessarily have to view it "spiritually"). And there are not just birth charts - you can cast charts for literally any moment in time or space. This could be a really fun brainstorming tool! When you sit down at your DAW, you could plug the time you sat down to create into a chart calculator, view the aspects - and use that to inspire your melodic or harmonic ideas. You could even generate/inspire your progression by simply pushing the time forward and watching the aspects shift! Thank you for making this.
I wonder what unique music our birth charts would make? 🤔❤️
That's exactly what I thought and observed, it brought me so much excitment! 😊
This sounds like a great idea!! I don’t think I could do it with just an iphone but it sounds fascinating!
At the end of the day you still have to go work at the gas station though.
jees, astrologers, that totally non factual fantasy. a kind of self hypnosis.
As a music producer/musician myself, it is true that music theory can be classified as witchcraft. It's a nice visual analogy and it's true that if we go past F# whether forward or backward, we would always end up at C. Not only that, with chord progression and change-ups, it is tied within THIS particular analogy too.
We are waking up… hear me out
No way you posted this 12 days ago, it’s your most viewed video, and I just got a random feeling to look up music theory again as I often do, and found exactly what I was hoping for this time… we are on the right path guys, and thank you to you for helping us get there✊🏾
Y'know, this reminds me a bit of a short that Disney made in '59 called Donald in Mathmagic Land. It actually acknowledged the more mythical side of the Pythagoreans (at least vaguely) and connected music as well.
Probably because Walt Disney was a 33rd degree Freemason and they practice witchcraft.
Great toon. Also shows the significance of the Pentacle and the Golden Ratio.
An absolutely amazing lesson is presented in that cartoon.
The magick makers know what they are doing.
Club 33 isn't just a social club.
@@josephjones4331 More inclined to club 93 myself ;)
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I don't know what that means
Please check out microtonal or xenharmonic music! There we leave the safety of 12 tone equal temperament to investigate other equal temperaments, other unequal temperaments, and extended just intonation.
Mostly we use something called the Regular Temperament Paradigm, which ensures that all (tempered) intervals that in theory should be the same in size, are also in practice tuned the same size. The exception is well temperaments and what might be called chaotic scales.
Examples of regular temperaments are the forms of just intonation (JI) called 2-limit JI (pretty boring, just a bunch of octaves), 3-limit JI (also called Pythagorean tuning spiral of fifths, but prevalent in Chinese music also), 5-limit JI (related to classical Indian music, and to classocal European justly tuned scales), 7-limit JI (related to ancient Greek music, and to American barbershop, when justly tuned), and 11-limit and 13-limit JI (used in classical Arabic, Persian and perhaps Turkish music).
Other examples are the equal temperaments (ET) such as 5ET (similar to Indonesian Slendro), 7ET (similar to traditional Angolan/Ugandan music), 12ET (used in modern European and American music), 19ET (used in some classical European music and some modern music), 22ET (used in some modern xenharmonic music), 24ET (used in modern Arabic music), 31ET (used in semi-modern European meantone temperament music, as well as some modern xenharmonic music), 41ET (used in some modern music, similar to the JI Genesis scale of Harry Partch), 53ET (a much more accurate alternative to 12ET in approximating Pythagorean 3-limit JI tuning, also used in modern Turkish music) etc.
Yet another examples are Meantone temperament as such (used much in renaissance European music), Minthmic temperament (used in some Persian music), Compton temperament (used for a 12 tone circle of fifths, combined with other tones independent from this circle), Diaschismic temperament (used in some Indian music i think), Magic temperament (used in some nice modern music), Orwell temperament (used in some haunting modern music) etcetera.
Heck, there are even temperaments actually called "astrology", "telepathy", "necromancy", "witchcraft" etc, although these are probably more fancy names (variants of Magic temperament) than anything actually related to those magical practices.
I don't even know about other cultures, but only in Western Classical music there are dozens of temperaments
I'm already fairly familiar with various divisions of the octave (big fan of 19 EDO!), though I admit that I the definition of "n-limit JI" only clicked after reading this comment. I guess I hadn't put the concept together with pythagoras til now :P
@@GSTChannelVEVO Don’t worry about n-limit, it’s not the sole approach, though it’s often useful in calculations (you can use finite-dimensional lattices; but if you take _all_ primes then the dimension is infinite).
@@05degrees If we take all the primes, then there is little other choice than using patent vals (because better vals might be infinitely complex), we will also always have inconsistent closest mappings, and also we will get arbitrarily large commas (compared to their degree of epimoricity) tempered to unison.
This is not an optimal situation at all.
Usually we don't need anything more than the 23-limit, and most of the time the 13-limit is good enough indeed!
If we really want to use 23-limit then 94ET/94EDO might be a good place to start.
But for 13-limit, 87ET is pretty good (and it is a Minthmic temperament in the patent val, useful for Turkish music), and if this is not accurate enough, then 270ET is almost perfect in the 13-limit, especially when considering how many tiny 13-limit epimoric/superparticular commas it tempers out, and how many large such commas it tempers just a small amount, close enough to the just intoned size.
@@GSTChannelVEVO Btw, 665ET (or 665EDO if you like) is a really good Pythagorean equal temperament, really splendid in the 3-limit, and pretty good in higher prime limits as well! It is the perfect equal temperament for Pythagorean tuning nerds (like some Christian fundies, but also some more occult-friendly types) who wish to deduce all other intervals from the perfect 2/1 octave and the perfect 3/2 fifth, these basic Divine intervals. To me it is inconceivable that any Earthly human will ever (through coming billions of years, on any Solar system planet, of whatever matter density: Physical, Etheric, Emotional, Mental, Causal, Buddhic, or Atmic) need or perceive greater accuracy of the Pythagorean spiral than this closed Pythagorean circle provides. 665ET also support the excellent 7-limit (Septimal) Enneadeca temperament, the 11-limit Brahmagupta temperament, and the 13-limit Nicola temperament. Look up the xenwiki for definitions and properties of these and other temperaments.
My personal favorite equal temperament however is 270ET, preferrably in TOP tuning (slightly tempered octaves, rather than exactly pure 2/1 octave, in order to make certain other just intervals slightly more pure, and to hopefully avoid phase locking of electronic instruments). It is perhaps the "best" 13-limit equal temperament possible, in terms of accuracy, complexity and quality-and-quantity of 13-limit commas tempered out (especially the superparticular = epimoric ones, including all the twelve ones smaller-or-equal than 1001/1000, not 729/728 though, but 676/675 indeed, and no ones bigger-or-equal to 625/624). It supports Hemiennealimmal, Vishnu, Quartismic, Greenland, Eagle, Avicenna, Decitonic and other extreme accuracy micro-temperaments. Plus, its smallest step size is very close to double the Average Just Noticeable Difference (in harmony) of humans, which means that any interval we are interested in (for harmony) will be closer to one interval of 270ET than the JND. For melody though, the average JND is much larger, which means that we may use adaptive just intonation tempering in melodic progressions inside 270ET, gradually drifting in our desired direction by using step sizes one or even two (arguably three perhaps but probably not) steps wider or narrower than the optimal 270ET step size for that particular JI interval.
This gives the composer and musician (or witch/warlock/wizard/sorceress/diviner/seeress/prophet etc you name it) considerable freedom in using both many essentially micro-tempered chords (mostly patent vals) and essentially tempered melodic progressions (definitely not only patent vals), where for melody we may even use Meantone, Superpyth, Octacot, Magic, Orwell, Miracle and similar lower-accuracy temperaments in 270ET, turning this master temperament into a system for well-temperament tuned scales.
As always, check the xenwiki for temperament definitions, descriptions and properties.
Yo, I recently encountered what I think were witches while on psychedelics (3grams of shrooms) and their music was incredible. I asked them how to make this kind of music and they showed me a circle with different moon phases on the outside and a five in the middle. The next day I searched google and found out about the circle of fifths. I’ve never heard about the circle of fifths. I’ve made music before but I’m self taught. I learned on a QWERTY keyboard growing up. I’m a little jealous you posted this first but I’m glad it’s all true. Also, the way we describe chords as “happy” or “sad” they describe as ingredients for a spell. I was hypnotized by their music. I literally just bought an Akai mini today to get started on my spiritual music practice. Now I’m following you.
Lol what do u mean u learned on a “QWERTY” keyboard..? Ur saying not piano keys right?
Also thats wild - never experienced something like that on shrooms! How many grams lol
@@zonkz6947 yeah, I started on Cakewalk and used a typing keyboard and sound fonts that came preinstalled on PC.
@@zonkz6947 three grams of a strain called Hillbilly. I tell me people it sends me straight to the spirit world. Unlike penis envy which is more of a “learning lesson” trip. I’m planning on creating UA-cam videos discussing it but I’ve been hesitant as I grew up Catholic and I’m worried about the hate I might receive.
Yeah, no, stop taking those shrooms man.
Great video. You pretty much confirmed my hypothesis that music theory is mythical. When I learned about the circle of fifths I got information overload.
It certainly is witchcraft.
You can basically write songs in GNU Octave or Lisp... That's what I figured out I think. You can use matrices and vectors to think about bouncing light around inside these discs.
So interested to see the thought "The circle of fifths is a spiral not a circle" in the tuning sense but how I was taught it was in regards to scales. When you start at C at the top and go right by adding #'s or left and add flats, it always "Converges" at the bottom with Db/C#, Gb/F#, and Cb/B, with these 3 pair of scales that are enharmonic to each other. (same pitch, different name), but these are two different lines one spiraling inward forever and one spiraling outward forever. We just "stitch" up these lines because we don't care about double b and double # land, just the 15 major scales.
this video has the best visualization of what I meant at 0:45 ua-cam.com/video/jCDMkmVMA2I/v-deo.htmlsi=uRuQQMNcISAE6K5B&t=45
I had actually not seen this before! but it makes sense. it's kind of like an alternative explanation of "stacking fourths will give flat notes, stacking fifths will give sharp notes". neat.
If it's always converging at the bottom...shouldn't it also converge at the top?...like...how do you even define the bottom or top of a spiral?...
George Russell found that by starting on F instead of C, everything made much more sense. More outside overtones are added from F onwards with Lydian being the most well resolved.
@@whatilearnttoday5295 erhm...huh?... 😂...
@@Billy-t9e Checkout George Russell's Lydian Chromatic Concept of Tonal Organisation.
The music at 1:25 goes SO HARD i love it
Recommendations coming in clutch! The world desperately needs more dialectics between music and mysticism in my book!
I literally said “no way” out loud when you demonstrated the spiral part
What a beautifully animated video, with an expertly-crafted and matching soundscape. Really glad this randomly popped up in my feed.
Not GST Channel making another of my favorite videos on the internet
I really enjoyed this explanation of the circle of fifths. I wish that my high school AP music theory class relied more on an understanding of the principles behind music than a trained ear. I was expected to be able to answer my melodic dictation tests with near perfect accuracy within three months of starting, which was worth about half of my grade. The humiliation I suffered in that class as a beginner to theory, when really there was an unspoken expectation to already have years of experience was immense. The combined stress of that class and the other things I had going on in my life killed my interest in music, even though I was making great progress. It just wasn't enough to impress a little sheet of paper. I ended up dropping the class after a semester with a failing grade. That being said, I hope that at some point, I may be able to revive my interest in becoming a musician, because I had a lot of fun when I was really trying.
Damn
the best musicians played by ear and if blind - their listening skills were probably even better: Like Art Tatum scared off Rachmaninoff.
AP Music Theory is about a very narrow part of music. It's about music that most people would call classical, like fugues, and sonatas. You don't need theory and you certainly don't need AP Music Theory. Most of the theory you need you can learn through just playing music.
@@BryanLu0 There's a basic error at the foundation of Western music theory. Only Fields Medal math professor Alain Connes has figured this out. I also noticed it when I was 16 - taking adult music theory class. YOu can see Connes' talk "Music of Shapes" on youtube for details.
Any time I hear any lecture on how music is supposed to sound all I can think of is the phrase "stop having fun."
When i was in keyboard class doing a pass off for jingle bells, the teacher said i played it in a hip hop cadence. It was still jingle bells tho. He was mentioning the timing of it. His feedback was right but it really felt stripped down creatively.
What do you mean?
Gatekeepers@@reyhan963
You have to learn the rules, so you can understand how and when to break them for it to be meaningful and not “noise”
@@chesapeakebaythrifters625 the thing is a good song is determined by the first several notes and from there it writes itself, it simply wont go anywhere it's not supposed to go.
At the end of the day if the circle of 5ths help you visualize music better and help you create the music you want to more efficiently, then I'd say it's worth learning. When I had no idea about music theory, I would just mash my keys on a piano trying to find something nice. When I started learning the notations and way chords work, it didn't make me realise why a particular chord sounded good or bad to me (subjective) but it helped me realise how to replicate that sound whenever I wanted to.
I once had a techer/nun that explains music to me and friends by explaining how piano works and that it's octave and so and so... 😅 She plays Piano so well and energetic-
There’s a tonal center.
It’s just like color.
How color can evoke emotion. So does the tonal center.
And there are many modes that are severely underutilized. They’re similar to color schemes.
Light. Sounds. Emotions. Everything we perceive and do. They’re Vibrations. They’re all linked together. It’s all a wave. We move from dissonance to major harmony to augmentation to minor harmony. Just how our days are confusing difficult or tragic comedic.
But just as we discover that things are linked and we believe we have found perfection and truth, everything is always in flux and shifting. Which is a perplexing thing as something true at one point becomes untrue later. Everything is linked and has its time to emerge. The laws of physics and other laws like gravity things we hold so near and dear. It’s likely that they’re changing albeit ever so slowly that we don’t perceive. But it’s very likely that these rules that we have. They’re not set in static. They’re dynamic and ever shifting. It’s very possible that matter is just light that has been frozen. And sound may be the liquid state. And who knows there may be states of matter that are simply out of our perceptions. Dimensions that exist that we cannot perceive. It’s quite a humbling thought experiment to realize there are things we simply are incapable of measuring. Thank you for reading my rambling.
Life itself is a wave and we can discover truth within it by riding it. It’s what makes music beautiful is we find the current truth and express it to others. It’s unique in that it blends and molds time.
Dear Harmonic Shift, you MUST see my work with pitch-color and pitch shape association! You will be blown away!
- _The Acoustic Rabbit Hole_
mama says this is also the devil
@@alexh6809 The Lord works in delirious ways.
@@alexh6809 It’s Apollonian actually. Far off from Hades.
We moved from Just Intonation with the comma to Equal Temperment, which removes the spiral, and makes it a circle. Bach made "The Well Tempered Clavier" to demonstrate how changing keys doesn't require a slight retune, as violin players do.
It really wasn't Just Intonation with the comma, it was Pythagorean Tuning which gives us the comma. The comma comes from trying an idea that didn't really work; however, getting it to work subsequently over centuries gave us ET, or back in Bach's time, "Well Tempered" :)
@@FlanaFugue I want to point out that pianos aren't tuned exactly to equal temperament. They use stretched octave tuning because the overtones of the keys follow the ratios of the harmonic series, albeit slightly sharpened due to the mechanical rigidity of the strings. Tuning purely to 12 TET would make higher octave keys out of tune with the harmonics of lower octave keys. Everything is a compromise. You can't escape the harmonic series. Although, I suppose you could use electronically generated soundwaves that either have no harmonics or overtones that are lacking entirely in harmonic content 😄
@@jakevoorhees1687 Yes I've heard about that from piano tuners - I was under the impression that the deliberate 'off'ness of the very lower and very higher keys on the piano was more due to the mechanics/imperfections of the human ear than anything else... whatever the reason, piano tuning is definitely a complicated affair. Still, I'm quite sure that the octaves around middle C are pretty much straight equal-temperament (you can tell).
And like Witchcraft, this isn't the only way to conjure music, to stay in the line with the terminology of witchcraft.
An European Witch (which is the one that you have shown) will summon demons different than a Witch from Africa or Asia, although European Witchcraft is the most wide spread, due to... reasons.
Witches and Mages from different regions might have benefits if they combine their power together.
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And all of it falls on it's face before God.
@@dokidelta1175precisely
@@dokidelta1175 Which god? The one that claims he is the only one or the many other gods?
I know I like when music shifts keys. I can only imagine what it would sound like if the key changed to an entirely different scale - say, one with 5 notes instead of 12!
This whole time I’ve been making music for over 6 or 7 years and I never noticed what music theory was because I was taught if I learn it I’ll never be able to escape it but this helped me learn it and escape it in a matter of 4 minutes. Thank you I appreciate you sharing this knowledge.
Music theory is mathematical deviations of 6 and 12, which is also the same for a pentagram. Music theory had to be the foundation or no piano's and any other key instrument would function. DAW and anything requiring midi would also not function without that regid 12 note rule.
ngl I want more of this. I occasionally browse music theory channels but never know what they're talking about, I just enjoy how deep the discussion gets and how much thought seems to go into the music I like. But this made a lot of sense to me.
Those are John Coltrane's personal notes at 2:09. Found in "The Jazz of Physics" by Stefon Alexander.
Coltrane was inspired by Yusef Lateef who taught David Muesham at Hampshire and then Muesham was one of my music advisors there.
Music theory is not just witchcraft. It's a portal to a new world 🎉
I shed a tear at the end. You were good, you manipulated the visuals well to convey your point. You also did it musically, and explained it eloquently. My favorite part was at end, it was the cherry on top. This deserves at least a 10/10 video. Simple, effective, and beautiful. One of the best videos I've ever seen.
stop crying bro
@@KG88KiteGodMusic inadequate
This is one of the coolest videos you’ve ever made. And you’ve introduced me to a lot of different game soundtracks.
Music is liquid architecture, and architecture is frozen music.
The shepherds curve leaves and comes back at the same time . Math musicians can use microtones to time travel . Multi timbral performances can fold space , and black midi can summon music critics .
Shapes are easier to understand than numbers. We really did trip somewhere along the way and started treating music theory as linear algebra.
But linear algebra _is_ kinda a geometric thing. Lines, planes, k-dimensional planes; linear transformations are quite geometric. You can work with the usual euclidean space via linear algebra, and it’s usually cleaner than via synthetic Hilbert-style axioms (you’ll need to think about changes to them for other dimensions). Other simple geometries like spherical and hyperbolic spaces (spherical is just plain spheres, they can be submerged in a euclidean world with no problem, so people usually place more importance on hyperbolic spaces which can’t; though again you can have a euclidean space inside the latter (horospheres are those); and spheres too, obviously). Projective geometry is very much cleanly manipulated by means of linear algebra (and it’s an invaluable instrument in looking at other simple-ish (Cayley-Klein) geometries like hyperbolic).
When you do matrices and coordinates, the forest can be lost among trees but there is much beauty and sense in linear algebra.
I mean, it's whatever, that's your preference. I believe shapes are as much of an abstraction as numbers are, and the above reply pretty much explained a lot about the connections between the shapes and the numbers.
As a programmer I see it as programming on endocrine system. Play a sad progression and it makes listeners have “sad” mixture of hormones released.
After coming to this I choose to focus on major pentatonic instead of it’s “cooler” sibling. I want people to get happy hormones, not be intimidated by how cool I seem noodling from one chord tone to another on minor pentatonic.
Realise the responsibility, fellow wizard :) 🧙♂️
isn't that because of culture?
The two pentatonics you mentioned have the exact same tonal polarity.
More generally though, happiness, joy and otonality are different and very nuanced. Your judgment here is very hasty.
@@official-obama there is no way a minor fourth to first does not make you feel "sad". I feel like that's the most genuine sad sensation, most similar to real sadness there is to feel
@@Pretinho-yx3nz isn't that just because it's usually associated with sadness?
As a biologist, please dont my dude xD
Hormones are slow acting molecules, and they are not responisble for our emotions, that are way faster. Sure, they infuance them, but in a longer time period. Music does not affect hormons it affect brain. psst u know, the true neural network.
you migh confused hormones with neurotransmiterrs, but the are just sygnal, and the network is still more important
This is SO interesting! I just wish you had PLAYED those chords as you described them, like the tritone and the square that is TWO tritones. Wondering how that sounds.
a square would be a diminished chord. if you want a quick listen, there's a short little demonstration video titled "DIMINISHED and HALF DIMINISHED CHORDS" (found from a quick search!)
The triangle for augmented blew my mind. I never knew why triangles were used in sheet music to notate Aug.
That spiral descent fucked my brain up in the best way possible
This is absolutely one of the more impacting 4 minutes of content in my entire life
Dang I never realized that Lydian and Phrygian encompass all 12 chromatic tones
Or Ionian and Locrian. Or, even better, Lydian and Locrian, being the brightest and the darkest modes. It can even give 13 notes in systems with more than 12 notes per octave because F# would usually then differ from Gb.
There are 3 circles of the scale: steps(direct neighboring notes), thirds, and fifths. No movement between any two notes in the scale exists outside of these circles. As a consequence no chord movement between two chords exists outside of these either.
F major- a minor to c major is a third, e to c is a third, c to d is step etc
G minor - c minor to d minor is step, g minor to c minor is fifth.
So any chord movement i can conceive of within the scale can be reduced to asking myself which of the three circles to use, and whether to go up or down. Which is 6 options, which makes sense, since on any chord there are at all times 6 other chords within the scale you are not currently playing.
Speaking is casting spells and grammar is a grimoire. Alan Moore already explained magic was converted into art as a way to market it to the masses.
I seriously LOVE this analogy - when I talk about music theory with friends I can tell they get intimidated sometimes, like I have some kind of secret scientific knowledge I'm holding over them, but that's so not the case! Music theory isn't scientific or mathematical, it's humans attempting to explain something ethereal and out of our own comprehension. It's mythology, stories we tell to try and understand the strange phenomena we hear around us - or it's witchcraft, rules we create as we attempt to recreate those things ourselves!
I know I went on a rant here but I'm just excited, this video just really sparked that feeling that made me fall in love with music theory in the first place
It IS scientific, though, because that’s precisely what science is: “attempting to explain something out of our own comprehension.” That’s not to say that our systematizing is arbitrary, though. I think the magic of music theory is that it is uncovering phenomenal-mathematical relationships which DO exist, and then applying those in our own creative efforts.
You seem to have misunderstood. It's common, modern academia has done a heinous disservice to both science and math. But Math IS the fundamental language of creation and it's internal processes. Music is the auditory expression of that language.
I don't think it's out of our comprehension. I think it's the product of centuries of musical tradition: starting in simple tunes, then primitive "harmonizing" to polyphony, etc... And you end up with an imperfect system. I don't think it's outside our comprehension, since we know the cycle doesn't close naturally and why, we know how sound works, we know how frequencies work... we simply have aimed all this time to organize the sounds and play instruments,etc, but that organization is hard.
And even in the middle ages they knew how imperfect it was to attempt certain things, hence for centuries some keys were not played because they couldn't tune the organs in order to be audible.
@helenacorreia7613 Barry Harris videos helped me tremendously. He talks about music theory from classical music and bebop jazz perspective, in a way that was lost after the spread of modal jazz music theory. The 2 whole town scales are the nother and father, they have 4 kids the diminished chords. Each diminished chord when you change one note gets you a dominant 7th chord.anyway check out his videos? Changed my life. It's math, it's science, it's vibration, energy, frequency, waves, it's magic, its life really
If I get one more person trying to "Well actually" me in the replies I'm deleting this comment, I swear to god - y'all it's literally not that deep, I'm a musician studying music theory and pursuing a degree in biology, I KNOW science isn't an inaccessible field of study, I know mathematics is the fundamental language on which the universe is built, etc etc. I was trying to be poetic, to express an emotion this video made me feel, I didn't realize it would attract this many people who felt the need to "correct" my emotions.
FINALLY Someone said it.
my view of music has been some sort of witchcraft for the longest time. we can draw a circle of fifths on the ground with chalk, sit in the middle, make connections from note to note and summon demons (aka tritones, diminished chords, etc) OR angels.
another thing we can do is to use modern theory and synths and... or be an old-school ancient wizard who uses the old magic (e.g. baroque theory & orchestration). or fuse the 2. or invent something new!
key is that only we understand it and no one else does, which is why to us it's a bit... science-esque and to them it's "HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE". that's magic.
oh also, I'm squishy & completely useless in every other field, just like a wizard.
Sir ... Demons are not "aka" chords. You don't have to unite the righteous creation and resonant frequencies of our world with unclean spirits.
Why would you give them that power over you?
No demon EVER created anything....they only counterfeit and dominate.
It's astounding to me...if you really feel and or live in the spirit world at all - how can you not see the depth of hate they have for life & us?
For real question. Thanks
@@ma2perdue You don't understand the metaphor.
@@ma2perdueDemons are being used as a metaphor for dissonance, which commonly evokes negative feelings, such as sadness, stress, anger, and panic. Not too much unlike what demons supposedly do
3:28 Nah, most UA-camrs who make content about music theory all have the same idea -- that it's not a set of "hard rules", and is instead some esoteric, mystical thing. Really, it IS a set of 'rules' no matter how you square it. Just a matter of how much attention you want to let your imagination give the rules when making music.
Well put.
i don’t know much about music theory, ive tried learning it more in depth, but this video totally changed my perspective on it.
really well made! as someone who didn’t even know the concepts u explained, it still made sense to me.
So, if I add a video to 4 or more of my playlists, that means it's fully life-changing. 18. My mind is blown. Subscribed, and am thinking about ringing the bell.
So I actually went to school to learn witchcraft? That's tight.
you are a very talented storyteller, and your visuals really helped me understand music theory in a way I didn't consider before! Great work, cant wait to see more!
"There's this weird, shockingly prevalent notion that music theory is a hard-bound set of rules that you must follow to make your music sound good and boring."
The reason it's weird is because literally every musician I've ever talked to, from beginners to experts, says it's not true. This is just outsiders hearing a thing called "music theory" exists and making a million assumptions about what that means.
I can't say I've had the same experience. I've seen several beginners hold this perspective, and even seasoned veterans of niche experimental electronic music.
mostly though, I want anyone that's scared of the complexity of music theory to know that it's a vocabulary, not a prescription.
Like with math, it's really useful to know about whole numbers even though the world is filled with irrational numbers. Music theory is extremely useful, but music is best when it's FELT - by the player and audience.
Math is behind everything. It’s felt because it’s execution was excellent. Like in programming for example there’s often multiple ways of writing code to make things work but only when it’s done in a certain way people will say it’s polished. A lot of musicians can play a certain piece but only a few can execute it with excellence. Then we say it’s like magic! So that kind of magic is just excellent execution by people who probably dedicated their life to a niche.
Hmm... No, within classical musicians when you are learning especially there is a strong emphasis on following the rules of counterpoint and standard harmony. Yes you then learn to deviate from that and study other composers, but the way we go about music is still not the freer. You can note that when tying other music systems (Indian for example), or when you do Early Music you realize where everything came from.
@@mr.mikaeel6264The math doesn't actually say any particular way of playing music is the best. There is some math, but it's not an exact science
You won't need this buried comment, but your illustrations and narration were on point. I grasped opposite colors because of their circular nature, and will now explore music in this same way. Thank you for this. My perspective has been altered. Work well done.
as a drummer this is definitely one of the times that I absolutely did not understand how music theory works.
I’m a musician that is unable to read music, also a student of alchemy. I play by ear and math I feel the geometry 🧮 I have been saying it for years.That music is math and geometry…. I would tell people their is geometry in music yet without being able to show the formula on paper know one would consider what I was saying!!!! Thank you thank you 🙏🏽 music is the ultimate form of alchemy… it is the philosophers stone…. Transmuting all energy into something as pure as music !!! Fabulous ❤❤❤❤
I'm a drum player in an afric-diaspora religion in Brazil. Our drums are made with wood, riveted with iron/steel, and covered with animal leather.
We are reviving the vegetal, animal and mineral spirits of these elements each time our naked hands strike those drums. The reverberation of ground and air caused by their pouding flexes the material fabric of the world and allows for the passage of spirits from the other realm unto this. Our hearts beat in compass with the drums, our voices sing the appropriate songs to call forth spirits of deceased ancestors of our communities. Music binds these small elements together in the corret rythm for the spell to work properly, music is the glue that makes supernatural things actually happen, that makes complex magic emerge from the combination of simple acts.
Music is , actually, magic, and kinda the whole world knows that for tens of thousands of years. Glad you discovered it too.
Musicians are lame and annoying. Most male ones are homosexual
wtf you casting fireball
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this is by far the most beautiful video on music theory... that microtonal sequence blew my head off :)
First video about music theory I’ve seen that shows the notes of a scale shown like the hours of a clock. That alone helped so much
I would have loved to watch this video but the background low vibration made it difficult to listen to.
I understand nothing and I've watched this twice now
It’s like saying math is witchcraft. The math of our existence is frequency. So our existence is witchcraft?
Correct
I guess are all witches and wizards, who manipulate energy everyday. Casting spells when we speak, technology is all just made from a bunch of sigils. We can impart our energy into objects, and make others feel a high vibration, or lower vibration based on the intention we have
Incorrect .. she's right .. music/witchcraft/math are just different ways to interpret reality and witchcraft is illegal before the most high God
The dictionary says what Witchcraft is. Not trying to argue, I just happened to look it up the other day
Everything we know about science and the laws of nature was inspired by occult teachings from ancient Egypt and Sumeria.
The legal frequency of populised music even takes it a level further🤌🏻
In 12 TET you can't be off by 23.46 cents. A fifth isn't defined by 3/2hz, it's defined by 8/12 steps where each step is 100 cents. There is no direct mapping from hz to cents, as the translation between the two is logarithmic. With cents, you must have an "anchor frequency" which acts as 0 cents, and due to logarithmic math the 0.278% comes out in the wash, because each step is exponentially larger than the step before it.
Finally some real info
Hey thanks, it was a great vid and the emphasis was on fun. But this is the comment i needed to further my understanding.
3/2 hz doesn't make any sense. Ratios are dimensionless and are not expressed with units. Cents are an arbitrary value. It sounds like you are taking 12 TET as gospel. Even if you tuned a physical instrument such as a piano to exactly 12 TET it would sound out of tune, because the harmonics (overtones) of the notes follow the ratios of the harmonic series and are generally slightly sharp because of the rigidity of the strings causing limitations on how they vibrate. Pianos use stretched octave tuning to match bring the higher notes into tune with the overtone ratios of the lower notes.
The video touches on the fact that there are many interrelationships in music and different overlapping patterns that can be formed with many different systems. In my opinion all of the approaches overlap and can't really be separated from each other. 12 TET is one single system.
I fell like i walked into the wrong room but its kinda weird and out of nowhere so i just watch
BACKGROUND MUSIC SHOULD RARELY BE AS LOUD OR LOUDER THAN THE NARRATION
Evoking Dmitri Tymoczko's "Geometry of Music" - so based!! We violinists tend towards Pythagorean intonation, as it's more potent 🧚🏻
I don't know anything about witchcraft and only a tiny bit about music theory but the connections you made were so interesting! I'm also
thinking of the connection to Spiral Dynamics.
NPC musicians don't break the rules they enforce them
There are no rules. You are absolutely wrong. Theory is in no way about rules. Did you even watch. Is about functionality. You don’t use the circle of fifths to write music you use it to understand it.
@@WhiteDove73-888 And I think you missed the point of the comment ..
@@WhiteDove73-888 touche
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i love this! i have no real theory knowledge but some of my tracks have over... 10 views!
That is, for sure, a solid quantity of views
this number scales up massively. a whole bunch of recognizable artists will tell you they don't have any "real theory knowledge". in reality, these artists have actually just built their own theory of music and just don't interface with it using that terminology. they have, as this video puts it, reinvented several wheels
I once read a quote attributed to Goethe stating “Music is liquid architecture, and architecture is frozen music”
This is the best visualisation and explanation of music theory i have seen thank you
I'm not sure you understand the definition of the word witchcraft.
Technically anything could be considered witchcraft since everything is energy. Just different ways of working with energy. The second you think letters and numbers dont have magic you are ignorant. Same as words and music.
I know you do not.
@@DaysenSouth-z5p I mean they put it right in our face by calling them CURSE words and for God's sake it's literally called SPELLing.
@@DaysenSouth-z5p Religious practice involving magic and affinity with nature, usually within a pagan tradition. This is the original definition. The use of energy is natural we do that automatically so how could that can be considered witchcraft? If that is the case then everyone's committing witchcraft all the time.
@@MBS22 At least one person gets it. Also another form of witchcraft would be genetic manipulation.
Skillfully played music isn't witchcraft, it is a small reflection of the beauty of God; and it instructs our souls in virtue. (St. Augustine)
Amazing comment. Spot on!
That's great that it works this way for you :)
Stop making up things. You're a music addict and you're trying to justify it to yourself. Music has become chained to your daily life and its impossible for you to get rid of it cause you will feel empty otherwise. Try not listening to music for a month and see for yourself. You will not be able to.
@@waterbottle3860There was music in heaven before we even existed. God even instructed us to play music in the Bible…
@@musikbrezel Relativist answer.