@@StahlmetallerM To be fair, most musicologists and music theorists refrain from H and B nowadays, because it's really confusing when you talk a lot with non-german folk and you publish and speak a lot in english anyways. Funnily enough it tends to get mixed up, while speaking german, so that all notes follow the german naming convention of putting -es on every flat note and -is on every sharp note and than there is b-flat. A fellow student of mine actually pulled the move of calling b-flat b-flat, b h, and b-sharp his only a few sentences apart. German note naming is a clusterfuck beyond compare. (I am one of the few advocates of calling b b and than follow the german naming convention from there with bes for b-flat and bis for b-sharp.)
@@zipherdias420 Highly recommend connecting your brain and ear more, most people that say that (I was one of them) use it as an excuse to not and end up less diverse players as a result
American Pepsi would ruin it, now if Japanese Pepsi does it would be perfect because weird commercials is the norm in Japan (also they made the character).
This fills me with nothing but absolute joy. It absolutely came at the best time possible for me, personally. Seriously, thanks so much for making these videos. Edit: I don't wish to alarm anyone but a few weeks ago my friend ordered me a custom made Pepsi Man suit and it arrived today right after I started this video.
Hearing the individual notes of a _saxophone solo_ being analyzed is like.. hearing a song analyzed by which mouth shapes the singer made. it's crazy, i've never thought consciously about it, a sax solo just.. kind of *is*
help, I think part of that note progression is used in a song from a Final Fantasy game or something (my hunch is that it's from 9,) but I can't remember which song it is.
This video really takes me back to High School Jazz Band. One of our "Tests," during this unit was actually about soloing. The push and pull nature of a Jazz solo was exactly how our band director described it to us. He told us to think of our solos like we thought of a good story. It should have depth, rising and falling action, complexity and questions, a strong through line, and an overall message it is trying to convey. To this day, it was one of the funnest units we had in that class. This video is honestly putting words and music theory analysis to the things we were all trying/learning to do by feel, trial, and error and it makes me super nostalgic.
Okay sure that note choice is great but can we talk about that TONE Those growls, those slides, the dynamics and articulation!! That sax player could solo with just the root and the fifth and still sound slicker than anything I could ever do.
Dude... I like messing around with music in my free time, but your understanding of musical theory is blowing my mind. Your breakdown of this made me want to do more learning on theory. I've tried before and never found the topic very approachable. In fact it has almost always been over my head and made me feel... uninterested and ignorant on the topic. Made me feel like I should to go to Juilliard before my uncultured caveman brain could even try to understand the lofty topic. I didn't know this game even existed and you've used it as a fantastic learning tool. You clearly love music and have a ton of knowledge on it. I'm so impressed. Great video!
I'm a trumpet player that was able to solo with my ear, and I wasn't able to understand much about music theory. This video helped me understand diatomic. I think I just need to learn one thing at a time and slowly add to my vocabulary of jazz items instead of learning them all at once
Okay, I had no idea this theme was this awesome. I really should listen to the whole OST while I'm at it. Also, as a fellow trumpet player, your wife's got some amazing skill. I really thought it was Miles Davis until I read the description.
12:22 every time I listened to that final blast resolve into the Pepsi man yell I got a mix between a smile and a stank face and looked away as if I felt some kind of guilty pleasure from enjoying the Pepsi Man theme THAT much
You're probably not going to read this, but I just wanted to say it makes me really happy to see you so jokey, I feel like you're being 'yourself' and I just really love how someone I love to learn from feels comfortable that way. So thank you for the content but mostly, thank you for being you!
I got out my sax to try and learn the solo, and on learning it realized that the intro of the solo is in the altissimo register! These are super high notes not even built on the saxophone, that take so much work and skill to hit right, let alone shred on! This makes it so much more impressive to me.
I was just watching a bunch of your videos, and I was inspired to start transcribing something, I still haven't decided what. But then you uploaded. Time to procrastinate
Yo, you know you're killing it when you get a copyright strike. Congrats to the wife, but boo to the strike. That's a a hecking waste (but glad to still hear it anyways, even if pictched up).
i had to listen to 'so what' for my music appreciation class and i'm proud to say i recognised miles' solo INSTANTLY, just from watching this video. forgot the name of the song but as soon as i heard it i nearly screamed 'WAIT THAT'S _THE_ SOLO'
This is wild! I've only ever heard this song in the context of speedrun marathons where the game audio is generally pretty low, so I had no idea there was so much insane shredding going on beneath the PEPSIMAAAANs. Thanks for all your videos, man. This stuff is super interesting. A request - can you explain why the song Light Plane from Pilotwings 64 is such a bop? The Smash Ultimate arrangement in particular is really good. It has this cool, crusing, ocean vibe to it, and I would really love to know what makes it tick. Cheers! Thank you again for this channel.
I do not know anything about music but this was a blast to watch, I love how you draw on the sheet music when explaining and have a bar that scrubs along as you played the music! Just subscribed for more!
"There's something about a great solo that feels almost conversational. It's almost like the notes disappear and and the ideas speak straight into your brain. Kind of how you never think of both the individual words or letters that someone uses when telling you something, they all just blend together into the idea they are communicating". That was a great definition.
I wonder if this is the way the creators were thinking when they made this song. I make music but I never think like this. I just go with what sounds good.
I imagine that they definitely have the sound in their heads, but I don’t believe they think about what’s going on note for note. They probably are also just playing what they think sounds good, however since they have experience and knowledge they employ different concepts that I think if we all keep learning and playing we’ll be able to use ourselves.
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Finally, a serious topic.
About Dang Time
Indeed
Dang straight, brudda!
Thank you, I needed a laugh today.
Said with all the irony in the world.
When that tier list came up my brain was like “there’s an S note now???”
For a while in the German musical tradition, there was an H note. They used B to refer to the note we call Bb, and they called B natural "H"
@@giggityguy "For a while" - we still call B H and Bb B. Also Eb in German is called Es, wich sounds just like the letter S.
Uhh yea the meta is all F# rn
@@StahlmetallerM Surely it would have previously been called ß
@@StahlmetallerM To be fair, most musicologists and music theorists refrain from H and B nowadays, because it's really confusing when you talk a lot with non-german folk and you publish and speak a lot in english anyways.
Funnily enough it tends to get mixed up, while speaking german, so that all notes follow the german naming convention of putting -es on every flat note and -is on every sharp note and than there is b-flat. A fellow student of mine actually pulled the move of calling b-flat b-flat, b h, and b-sharp his only a few sentences apart.
German note naming is a clusterfuck beyond compare.
(I am one of the few advocates of calling b b and than follow the german naming convention from there with bes for b-flat and bis for b-sharp.)
Even as a 0 music knowledge child, I knew that the tunes SLAPPED. And now, as a 0 music knowledge adult, I've been proven right!
"PEPSIMAAAAAAAN" has big "MORTAL KOMBAAAAAAAAAT" energy.
What I understand from the video: "bla, bla, bla, PEPSIMAAAAAN, bla bla, bla, EPIC SAX SOLO..."
@@thecommenter578 Me too, even tho I actually play the sax, I'm a "I don't know, I just feel it" type of guy.
@@zipherdias420 Highly recommend connecting your brain and ear more, most people that say that (I was one of them) use it as an excuse to not and end up less diverse players as a result
@@GuacJohnson I don't care about all that, I just want to play happy birthday every once and a wile.
Pepsiman... EVER HEARD OF IT??
Oh wow, wild to see GameChops here
Remix?
Yes
@@pepsimann2038 Gee golly, it's really you!
Bepisguy
Pepsiman: The hero that saves people from coke. You don't see Superman fighting drugs.
Actually
ua-cam.com/video/hDRMeeuP3F0/v-deo.html
@@mcdcurtis Ok. Just cigarettes. But you don't see him fighting against coke.
Fighting a drug with another... Basically same drug
@@crackedemerald4930 wait is pepsicane real!?
Finally someone validated my unironic enjoyment of this song
same! gosh, I used to watch my friends play this in 7th grade on the projector, and the song is such a banger.
Great break down! :)
Thanks, man! I love your work!
@@8bitMusicTheory Thank you! I guess you are curious about who played as well. Or do you know that already?
@@JensLarsen I'm not 8-bit, but I would love to know more details about how this song came about.
Whey! It's Jens! :D
@@LeviClay Haha! It said something about shredding saxophone so... But what are you doing here?
Can't wait for Pepsiman to be a classic jazz standard of our time
tell this to 8bit Big Band and hope they cover it!!!
Just like persona 5
But good
"I see your stank face. You can't hide it from me!"
I have never felt more exposed in a video in my life
Literally as it hit that note I made that exact stank face. Caught red handed
I was shocked he knew and timed it so well
I have never been so called out, I feel you so much
Ah yes, everyone wants Pepsiman to be their Valentine, just listen to that sexy theme
Ah yes
Haha😂
dude, hes RIPPED, OF COARSE THEY WHOULD!
Ofc!
😎
I can't believe Pepsi hasn't used the character's meme status to revive him as a mascot.
its good that they didnt, nothing kills memes faster than brands
American Pepsi would ruin it, now if Japanese Pepsi does it would be perfect because weird commercials is the norm in Japan (also they made the character).
I'm ready for the Pepsi Cinematic Universe.
Pepsi is too busy ending racism
@@crystalalumina based pepsi 😁
You heard it here folks, 8-bit is a "coke guy"
Disgusting, unsubscribed
most jazz musicians are "coke guys"
Traitor!
@@Gorpfield HEYOOO
Nice
2:43 oh you sneaky little music man
8-bit delivers 14 minutes of well-explained analysis of jazz music theory:
"Wow that's really neat"
8-bit sneaks in a reference to The Lick:
*WHEEZE*
5:54
*_ALL RIGHT, DROP THE LICK AND PUT YOUR HANDS IN THE AIR!_* 🎷
@@1yoshi426 yess, it reminded me of the time Adam Neely said that to stand out in a jam session you should play the lick but changing one note hahah
@@1yoshi426 IT'S FUCKING EVERYWHERE!!!!
I love that your wife's recording still got copyright struck, that's how you know you did well
ok but 8-bit yelling "PEPSI MAAAAANNNNN" makes this an s- i mean Eb-tier video
In dutch, this is even funnier, since "Eb" is pronounced as "S"
@@whebon7266 german as well
I think I need 8-bit singing “PEPSIMAAAAAAAAAAN” as my ringtone.
12:52 is so beautiful
This fills me with nothing but absolute joy. It absolutely came at the best time possible for me, personally. Seriously, thanks so much for making these videos.
Edit: I don't wish to alarm anyone but a few weeks ago my friend ordered me a custom made Pepsi Man suit and it arrived today right after I started this video.
Sorry but I'm a little alarmed. What would you even do with a Pepsiman suit and, more importantly, why don't I have a Pepsiman suit yet?
PEPSI MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!
now i understand your avatar
@@petemagnuson7357 my friend bought me this suit so I can, and I quote, "buy him a Pepsi" while wearing it, just "for the meme."
@@Redhollow Bruh I’m jealous
I would never have guessed Pepsiman and 8-bit music theory would be on the same youtube video
Hearing the individual notes of a _saxophone solo_ being analyzed is like.. hearing a song analyzed by which mouth shapes the singer made. it's crazy, i've never thought consciously about it, a sax solo just.. kind of *is*
Did anyone else’s inner voice fill in the last two notes of “the lick” at 6:37 after the A Dorian scale explanation?
Absolutely
I also hear a lick at 5:54
I can’t I hear that now.
help, I think part of that note progression is used in a song from a Final Fantasy game or something (my hunch is that it's from 9,) but I can't remember which song it is.
2:41
Look closely.
Man, all the solos on the Pepsiman theme are top tier, wish you could have covered the organ solo too, that's fire.
my girlfriend loves bullying me with this song. this video is epic
I love your pfp
WE love your pfp
2:40 "This is a good solo he says. What is it?" *starts reading and playing in my head* "I've been had."
I’m glad we’re finally talking about mainstream video games
The sax solo legit slaps tho
I love the fact that music education on the internet is about Pepsi man
Finally, This is literally the song of my childhood. First game I ever played on ps1. Best song.
You're the one who uploaded the pepsiman song! :D
@@akselklandrasmussen1747 yes!!! i still follow every pepsi man videos to this day
ITS YOUUU
Never have I wanted to fluently read sheet music more than when 8-Bit put his tier list of every note on screen
“How jazzy could they really make the Pepsi Man Theme Song?”
“Oh, dayum.”
"the slightly less acclaimed" just hit perfectly
The pepsiman song didnt have to go that hard. But it did. Thanks based pepsiman
The prequel to The 7 Levels of Creating a Dynamic Jazz Solo.
Hey there. We must be subscribed to all the same channels; I keep seeing you everywhere! (:
This video really takes me back to High School Jazz Band. One of our "Tests," during this unit was actually about soloing. The push and pull nature of a Jazz solo was exactly how our band director described it to us. He told us to think of our solos like we thought of a good story. It should have depth, rising and falling action, complexity and questions, a strong through line, and an overall message it is trying to convey. To this day, it was one of the funnest units we had in that class. This video is honestly putting words and music theory analysis to the things we were all trying/learning to do by feel, trial, and error and it makes me super nostalgic.
8-bit music theory: In depth explanation about a Gmaj7 cord
Me: Hehe funny face 6:50
Okay sure that note choice is great but can we talk about that TONE
Those growls, those slides, the dynamics and articulation!! That sax player could solo with just the root and the fifth and still sound slicker than anything I could ever do.
The video at 1:00 : PLEASE LEARN ANOTHER LICK
Me : haha, A B C D B G A go brr
Dude... I like messing around with music in my free time, but your understanding of musical theory is blowing my mind. Your breakdown of this made me want to do more learning on theory. I've tried before and never found the topic very approachable. In fact it has almost always been over my head and made me feel... uninterested and ignorant on the topic. Made me feel like I should to go to Juilliard before my uncultured caveman brain could even try to understand the lofty topic. I didn't know this game even existed and you've used it as a fantastic learning tool. You clearly love music and have a ton of knowledge on it. I'm so impressed. Great video!
the way you called out my stank face immediately was seriously not okay
It's no wonder Jonny Atma's cover of this is just a bunch of guests doing solos.
PEPSIMAAAAAAANNNNNN!!!!!
I'm a trumpet player that was able to solo with my ear, and I wasn't able to understand much about music theory. This video helped me understand diatomic. I think I just need to learn one thing at a time and slowly add to my vocabulary of jazz items instead of learning them all at once
0:34 did he just-
*_PEPSI POG_*
Okay, I had no idea this theme was this awesome. I really should listen to the whole OST while I'm at it.
Also, as a fellow trumpet player, your wife's got some amazing skill. I really thought it was Miles Davis until I read the description.
12:22 every time I listened to that final blast resolve into the Pepsi man yell I got a mix between a smile and a stank face and looked away as if I felt some kind of guilty pleasure from enjoying the Pepsi Man theme THAT much
Love how this objectively silly tune was obviously made by a bunch of incredibly skilled people. I can imagine them having so much fun with it
Dude... you called my stank face so precisely I was actually worried you might be watching me
I thought I was the only one cursed with the knowledge of how much this song slaps.
¿"Cursed"?
You're probably not going to read this, but I just wanted to say it makes me really happy to see you so jokey, I feel like you're being 'yourself' and I just really love how someone I love to learn from feels comfortable that way. So thank you for the content but mostly, thank you for being you!
This is... somewhat unexpected but certainly not unwelcome.
A surprise, to be sure... but a welcome one.
I like that this was posted on valentine's day.
I never thought I would hear a jazz analysis breakdown of PEPSIMAN
...
This is amazing
I got out my sax to try and learn the solo, and on learning it realized that the intro of the solo is in the altissimo register! These are super high notes not even built on the saxophone, that take so much work and skill to hit right, let alone shred on! This makes it so much more impressive to me.
Wonderful video! Makes we wish I would've kept up playing music from grade school.
You've got a new subscriber!
man music theory nerds are terrifying in the best way possible. this is probably one of the best videos i've ever watched
PEPSI MAAAAAANNNN 🔥👌 absolute heat, I dunno how you found this but I'm glad you did and brought it to the world's attention lol
I was just watching a bunch of your videos, and I was inspired to start transcribing something, I still haven't decided what. But then you uploaded. Time to procrastinate
2:44 Adam Nelly, Are you watching this? XD
Great video, as always my friend!
I've been watching your videos recently, and it's pretty interesting hearing about music theory and the such. Good Work!
I was literally just thinking about how awesome this tune is, this has truly made my day
Brilliant! Enjoyed every second of this :)
I was about to complain that you never scream "PEPSIMAAAAAN" in the video. Then you did. And it was amazing.
You are so right for putting Eb in S tier
That end run man. Damn that's epic.
Yo, you know you're killing it when you get a copyright strike. Congrats to the wife, but boo to the strike. That's a a hecking waste (but glad to still hear it anyways, even if pictched up).
this is the type of content I watch youtube for! random breakdown topics are always cool, thanks man!
I have no idea what the hell this man is talking about, but he's talking like he knows what he's doing so I agree
5:55 the lick but harmonic minor
Oh crap, can't believe that slipped past me
My favourite.
5:56
The licc, but with a tiny bit of spice
i had to listen to 'so what' for my music appreciation class and i'm proud to say i recognised miles' solo INSTANTLY, just from watching this video. forgot the name of the song but as soon as i heard it i nearly screamed 'WAIT THAT'S _THE_ SOLO'
How did I learn so much from a video about Pepsiman.
I came for the shredding but I stayed for the Theory!! This is the first video I've seen of yours but it's time to binge!
A B A Utiful video my man. Excellent work and I can't wait to binge through your channel
everytime 8-bit uploads, it seriously makes my whole week
This game is an incredible artifact of the 90s.
a fuking year in music class, almost enterly collected in a pepsiman video. Thanks
Pretty much, who needs college music education when you got this guy
That bVII/i sound is so classic! I always think about it in the context of an extended arpeggio, but I’ll have to play around with it more
Thank you, I love you, I can't express how much I adore this analysis
This is wild! I've only ever heard this song in the context of speedrun marathons where the game audio is generally pretty low, so I had no idea there was so much insane shredding going on beneath the PEPSIMAAAANs. Thanks for all your videos, man. This stuff is super interesting.
A request - can you explain why the song Light Plane from Pilotwings 64 is such a bop? The Smash Ultimate arrangement in particular is really good. It has this cool, crusing, ocean vibe to it, and I would really love to know what makes it tick.
Cheers! Thank you again for this channel.
This was such a fun video from a source I would never have looked at! Great work!
I've been struggling with this exact concept lately. Thank you so much for the insights!
PEPSI MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN
This was one of the funniest videos I've watched in a long time.
Every minute of this video is excellent. Top-tier content. Thank you.
I'm glad I know what went into that Miles Davis demo after that killin' sab_irene stream, major props to your partner 8-bit :)
Pepsiman is a f***ing scp I’m wheezing so hard
I do not know anything about music but this was a blast to watch, I love how you draw on the sheet music when explaining and have a bar that scrubs along as you played the music! Just subscribed for more!
When I think of Valentine’s Day, I think of pepsiman. Thanks 8-Bit, you’re the only man who could deliver 💙
"There's something about a great solo that feels almost conversational. It's almost like the notes disappear and and the ideas speak straight into your brain. Kind of how you never think of both the individual words or letters that someone uses when telling you something, they all just blend together into the idea they are communicating".
That was a great definition.
I have absolutely no idea what the hell you're talking about but I love it
WOOOOOW I got blooooown back by the solo it's actually amazing
I am so happy when I see pink in my youtube feed
I would never have expected that piece to be so amazing! Fantastic analysis and sharing.
Dude... you just made me overly happy right now! I love this theme so much!!!
"Pepsi for TV-Game"
I'm so glad I'm subscribed to this channel
HAhhah crazy solos!! man love this kind of solo analysis, specially on a one chord vamp:) good job my friend!
never thought id see a pepsiman video from a music theory youtuber of all people
This came just in time for me trying to get back into Jazz improvisation.
I wonder if this is the way the creators were thinking when they made this song.
I make music but I never think like this. I just go with what sounds good.
I imagine that they definitely have the sound in their heads, but I don’t believe they think about what’s going on note for note. They probably are also just playing what they think sounds good, however since they have experience and knowledge they employ different concepts that I think if we all keep learning and playing we’ll be able to use ourselves.
Summoning Salt intro! That’s what your next video should be about! The emotions it invokes are intense!
i was hoping for an 8bit video in my notifications, never expected it to be this though