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Great Expectations

screen capture showing Bobby McFerrin in a black t-shirt against a black background gesturing during his presentationBobby McFerrin at the World Science Festival

That is one of my guaranteed happy-making videos: EmpressCallipygos links to a very cool short vid of Bobby McFerrin demonstrating the Power of the Pentatonic Scale in storybored's post on The Secret Code of Melody, and now we're happy, too!

06/03/24
by taz

"Phrygian? I don't even know Ian!"

Screen capture of a title page showing the text Phrygian at the top, a background of musical notes, and in the foreground an anime character wielding a sword and an angry Pikachu

Sure, you probably know there are major and minor scales. But unless you're really into music theory you might not realize those scales come in a whole variety of flavors called "modes"... Goofy, threatening, mysterious, devastating, relaxing: Zargon X posted 8-Bit Music Theory's analysis videos that use game music to illustrate modes.

09/11/23
by taz

Noted on Mefi

MiXED TAPEMiXED TAPE by englishsnow (cc by)

The first all-digital MeFi Music Mixtape Swap signups are open until April 14, so if you're into it, share the love! If you're in need of some inspiration, you might check out some of the more than 50,000 78rpm record sides available from the Boston Public Library now on the Internet Archive. But if that seems a smidge overwhelming, maybe just queue up the one song that apparently nearly every other human on the planet has listened to? That's a lot. Too much? How about just that one special part of that one song that you love so much, but, like, it just keeps going?

04/04/19
by taz

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