Why pop music is obsessed with this one note
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I was not prepared to receive that much "D" in 8 minutes.
That's what she said
That’s what she said
you have 69 likes on this comment
Worse on weekends
That's what she said
"Hey catchy tune, what music software did you use?"
"Microsoft OneNote"
I don't get it.
@@KuroHebi one note
@@samszotkowski I get it, now.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤓👍👍
@@NvincibleIronMan that is actually a great joke, for real.
The supertonic is that one kid who hangs out with every group in school.
Me.😂
im that kid lol
i m tht lmaooo
me
Me lmao
I found pop music pretty one-note, I didn't expect to be THIS right
well actually real pop music was never about one note - until 10-12 years ago...
@@JoE_Songs real pop music? What does that even mean?
That must be partly why I prefer older music. They don't hang on one note a bunch in older songs.
he's saying pop music before this time was better and more varying whereas nowadays popular stuff is a lot of the same thing. hes somewhat right, i mean you used to see key changes or experimentation with indian instruments in Beatles songs. Also, jazz was pop music. basically the guy is saying modern popular music is oversaturated.
For sale: Lumi MIDI keyboard, lightly used. D key no longer works
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
LOL 😂 good one..
New Sale!: Lumi keyboard with only D key all others are optional.
😂😂😂😂
@@Spaced1sco weekend: I'm listening
"You know that The Weekend song that goes like D D D D D D D D D C?"
"Which one"
This is funny cuz all of them ahahhahahahaha
Lolol
Do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down?
Blinding lights?
@@dragringer1480 no
Take a shot of any alcoholic drink everytime Katy Perry's "Never Really Over" hits the D note.
You’d die, even if it was beer.
aka chug
death
I came at that part of the video as I read this comment
@@_Iscream You would die even if it's water
Record Label: "So, what makes you think you can break into the pop industry?"
Me: "This little melody is in C-Major." *presses the D key*
Record Label: "Well, that's not really special. Everyone does tha-"
Me: *presses it again*
Record Label: "Here's a pen. Sign here."
_proceeds to press it again but one octave up, and then an A key on the original octave_
@@litterbox019 Ab G F D F G
@@marshed0mallow sans?
@@clipPRmusicsans!
I got perfect pitch for the D note after this video
i already did from megalovania
True
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
same:)
Ick
Alternate title: Andrew Huang Exposes The Weekend
Hell, on the album Starboy, The Weekend calls out other people for 'stealing' his trick, but acknowledges that it's super simple and easy to get along with.
Hi malinda 😄
@@cdigames 😂😂
🤣🤣🤣
I wonder if he was like this back during his shoe gaze days
No wonder so many pop songs fit so well with Megalovania, Megalovania also is played with D
now this one is a masterpiece
@@alteredanimesh It is a proven fact that it is impossible to make Megalovania sound bad
megalovania is an awful melody, it can't be worse
@@libremercadoencrisiseconom2118 ok, one guy
This really shows you how important rhythm is to make your melody unique
aaaand there goes the monetization of this video
umg having a party right now
ik was depressief en toen deed ik niet zo lief
IIIIIITS TAAAAN TUUUU
Definitely
No cuz the songs are on c major
never want to hear a d-note on piano ever again
megalovania starts
It's not always a D in the original songs. Huang has transposed all the songs to C major in this video, including pitch adjustment of the original clips that he uses.
Same bruh 😆
Shirley Márquez Dúlcey I think you’re kind of making Scrofol’s point... :-)
I can still hear it 10 minutes after the video ended...i think its part of me now.
Alt title: "How to write a pop song in 5-10 minutes!"
this explains my constant deja-vu moments at work (pop-radio)
More to do with the fact that pop music is literally engineered to sound familiar, I think.
Me: plays D key
CZcams: copyright
Me: Bankrupt
LMAO underrated joke
lol nice one 😂
bawahaahahaha you won the internet today sir
I got mine for an unpublished video.
Yeeee
That keyboard, not having a high C gives me anxiety.
so close yet so far
I'm fairly sure it's so you can connect multiple lumi keyboards to make a bigger keyboard
Can I just connect an extra C?
@@musiqaman just have a bunch of modular individual black and white keys
Matthew someone get LEGO on the phone right now!!!
Now I just want to hear a song that is not all D's.
Bach to Pachelbel "You have too much D"
Weekend: "Hold my beer"
Theory: 36 second. Andrew hitting the same key: 8 minutes.
...And proving how unoriginal most modern pop music is today for the duration.
Bob Dole yeh for sure. It’s missing authentic emotion and melody writing
No wonder I hate pop music nowadays email me if you wanna hear a song idea emberleona2020@gmail.com
I skipped all the examples asking myself if there's more to come... But no
Ember Leona yo u wanna collab? I make deep house/ pop stuff if u wanna work together :)
Alternate title: Confusing the copyright claim system
lol... I think as long as it's less than 5 seconds it's fine, don't quote me on that.
Yeah, I guess if it's pitch shifted down a fifth the software's going to have a hard time recognizing it.
@@DFPercush i can i will
@@agentofchaos2901 ... but you didn't
@@iplaysdrums If I hammer a bunch of D's on the keyboard for more than 5 seconds, it might get flagged though... right??!?
The note D just makes megalovania play in my head
Now that I think of it, Blinding Lights starts with the supertonic note
This was the most intelligent way to throw shade at the entire pop music industry I’ve ever seen 😂
I knew that modern pop music was monotonous and repetitive. But I didn't know there was so much reliance on one single note. Yikes!
@@CaveyMoth ikr. crazy
@@CaveyMoth it's not quite that simple. one could make the same argument for the tonic (first scale degree) for all of classical music. one could make the same argument for the dominant in a lot of eras. andrew is playing all these songs in c, but the supertonic is only d in c major, which further makes it seem simpler than it is. if anything the use of the supertonic as a note to bass melodies on actually adds to the complexity of music as a whole because it wasn't always so common to do this. another method explored.
@@bmxkamikazee I’m pretty sure classical music doesn’t repeat the same 4 chords over and over and over again throughout the whole piece lol
@@eo4295 I believe you've heard of Pachelbel's "Canon in D" and Ravel's "Bolero".
Now I want a music themed bar with a drink called "supertonic"
Yeah but that drink will only contain two ingredients
Root beer and tonic water
@@JimmiCottam Clever! I Lol'd
And all the songs are transposed to the same key so when you leave the supersonic just resonates in your brain
I'd go
(D)rink
I was blown away to see how the supertonic easily slides in with all the different chord functions.
I recently started working on an album consisting of instrumental covers of pop songs and it's really helped me realize how simple a lot of my favourite melodies are when you strip away all the lyrics and production. It was actually sometimes pretty disappointing to realize that this hook that always gets stuck in my head really only consists of like three notes.
Often it's rhythm and harmonics that makes it special.
The Weeknd's name should be "D Weeknd"
Oh my gosh
You’re right
except it's the supertonic
Except its only D for the video. Music doesn't work like that. The supertonic refers to a specific distance from the root note. It's about intervalic relationships not specific notes. This concept is not complicated once you understand the underlying principle. You're misleading people by saying it has anything to do with the D note.
@@frag4007 exactly, people these days 🤦🏻♂️ can’t seem to take a joke.
Okay then, let's make it "Supertonic Weekend"
There's a song in that.
Bagsed it!
I love how Andrew knew this wasn't gonna be monetized, so he used all the songs he could
I mean a lot of them are in a different key?? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
f4de CZcams detects key changes regardless
@@EliRickard frick
But I see no copyright claims by their respective labels
@@DafterHindi i think its andrew huang thats why..😂... because i have seen other CZcamsrs being very cautious, they don't play the track ,they dont take any risks.
At this point CZcams has taught me that modern pop music have the four chords, the supertonic, the millenium hoot, bunch of trendy beats and sound effects and the tendency to have less melody. Now i wonder how does it manage to produse new different stuff at all! Also it would be interesting to compare those typical fitures with ones from privious decades.
1:05 that filing when you hear “si major” but he plays “do”... and realise he means “C major” :D
Jajaja maldito cifrado americano
Musicians be like:
D D D D D D D D D D D D C D
RE RE RE RE RE RE RE RE RE RE
Wrong. He transposed them to c major. The note that’s played over and over is the SUPERTONIC, the second note in the scale, rather than D.
@@bennybooboobear3940 musicians be like: SUPERTONIC SUPERTONIC SUPERTONIC SUPERTONIC SUPERTONIC SUPERTONIC SUPERTONIC SUPERTONIC SUPERTONIC SUPERTONIC SUPERTONIC SUPERTONIC SUPERTONIC SUPERTONIC TONIC SUPERTONIC
@@spyrix4750 LMAO
There is one impostor among us
When I was little I must've somehow figured this out, because i spammed that D and thought i was a song writing prodigy.
You still have chance! :D
I tried to play pop songs in music and thought I was doing something wrong just spamming D
Yeah well it turns out that every pop musician working from 2015 onwards thinks the same XD
I still have not outgrown that ...
D
there, now im a master composer
comedy
That Katy Perry song at least uses the 7th and the 4th note once each, and what a breath of fresh air it was to hear them after first listening to the barrage of the super tonic sprinkled with the same few pentatonic notes.
a few people in the comments missing the point. he's not saying its the D note. he's saying its the supertonic in the given scale. he clearly explained that he was going to transpose all his examples to the same scale for comparison. he transposed them to the C scale and the supertonic in the C scale is the D note. if he would of transposed them to the D scale then it would of been an E note that he was playing since in the scale of D the supertonic is the E note. and so on and so on for every other scale.
Edit: (this is just to help those who might be new to music theory and might be a little lost.)
actually- it is you missing the point! the songs are NOT all transposed to the key of c. so the continuous orange (or d) note represents different degrees of the scale in each of the songs. in essence- the songs 'sound' like they are in the same key because of the continuous d (or orange) note, but in fact they are in different keys, and therefore not an illustration of the supertonic; it's no more than an aural illusion.
0:35 there you go genius!
@@xmortimorxmortimorx haha dude. USE YOUR EARS! get out a keyboard, guitar- don't take his word for it OR mine. anyone with a decent pair of ears can hear that the tracks are modulating into different (relative) keys and do NOT stay in the same key as he claims. (and thanks for calling me a genius :-P )
@@coolpoolb he doesn't transpose the song, but he does transpose what he's playing. the song and what he's playing aren't always in the same key.
@@coolpoolb I think you need this
czcams.com/video/Jk6jVl1fAn0/video.html
After hearing D repeating over and over, I think I can identify a D flawlessly.
Can you still now?
In relation to another note (of which you know what not it is) maybe, but unless you have absolute pitch, its gonna be tough...
All you really need to learn is one note by ear, and memorize how the intervals move. Then you are set.
give it 10 minutes
your mom can identify this D
You’ve absolutely nailed it. I listen to pop music radio and wonder why I get bored within a minute. It’s the supersonic! I didn’t realise until you showed it with so many examples!
Me *hitting the supertonic on the piano in the music lessons*: im a musical genius now
The Weekends been pretty quiet since this dropped.
Thank God..... If only it could last forever
@@jasperlawson6315 you said it
Press F to pay respects (and not D)
He's looking for a new note.
The Weeknd*
Andrew Huang, also known as the Supertonic Slayer 🗡
cuckoo!
Can’t here a D for one week now..
TING TING TING TING TING TING
They called him... the Supertonic Slayer. (The Only Thing They Fear is You ensues)
Supertonic Slayer
Also Slayer: 0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0
I also believe it has kind of an unresolved sound, but not to the point that we are begging to go back to tonic. Pop music in the past few decades has been very driven and propels forward. In conclusion, I feel the supertonic gives the since that we are driving forward or gliding just above the ground.
Edit: supertonic, not supersonic. Typo😆
Never knew the major 2nd was the sound I was hearing!! Super interesting the root and 5th is single handedly resposible for rock and metal!! And now pop Major 2nd
This is horrifying. Now I've got that note stuck in my head -- like when you hear a car alarm going on and on and on, and then it finally gets shut off, but your brain keeps hearing it "in the distance". I hope I'm not up all night with D playing on a loop.
...Yeah, to make matters worse I'm getting (and playing) my first instrument tomorrow. Now I'm just going to have one note in my mind the whole time. Wonderful
When you said "car alarm" it triggered this musical memory: czcams.com/video/xV7nHX2RLjQ/video.html
Can't stop thinking about D huh?
Exactly!!!
I mean, I wasn't aware of it before, and now I probably can't stop hearing it.
Oh...
Oh no...
This is going to make pop music even harder to listen to...
@@rwrunning1813 Not possible, is it?
I was aware of it (that a lot of pop music was sounding similar) but not why.
this will single-handedly ruin everything
What a big pile of orange shit this was. Meaning the pop music of today’s.
You nailed it Andrew. Pop music will be listened to in a very different way after watching this video.
painful way
0:44 that was soo smooth
Makes sense why my classically trained dad thinks people "talk-sing" in pop songs.
@@activitine62 I disagree, I don’t think they are failing, some of them are, and some of it is good, it’s just a different style
@@activitine62 few artists like Bruno Mars for example are nailing it. Most of them aren't🤣
You don't have to be classically trained to realize they're not singing but talk-singing
ah pop just sounded boring to people who practice classical music.
@@user-ee7sv2xw4w 古翼庭
I feel like I learned an entire "pop music's formula" type of course that gets advertised on CZcams so much, for free.
seriously, this seems like any basic musician could produce “world class hits” using nothing but samples, loops, and 1 note with 4 ornament notes
@@BradsGonnaPlay Looks like classicalness in modern music is required!
BradsGonnaPlay no that’s not how it works. The difficulty is to make interesting melodies that are simple and easy to grasp. You need balance in your song, between repetition and variation. Your melodies need small melodic fragments that are recycled through the song without feeling too repetitive. You also need 1-2 hooks, a new aspect/idea + a perfect use phonetics. It is hard to create a pop hit today, especially with the number of bad music there is out there
@@jeanpillet-conery2479 bro that's called writing a basic song, it sure as hell isn't easy but very underwhelming
Thanks for using LUMI Keys in the vid 🙏🙏🙏
When the official ROLI channel gets ignored :(
Pop artists have to be messing with us at this point
A lot of them just sound good enough singing and have the connections to be the person the pros in the studio are ordered to make sound amazing in post, I suspect. There's so much you can do with quality hardware and software these days that no one has to truly be one the best singers in honed talent or even have a great raw style; to sound great on the radio.
"Let me show you a few songs to see how big the supertonic has become."
*gets ad with a song where the main note is LITERALLY D*
laughs in adblocker
@Salim Sivaad were those transposed? They all sounded pretty natural in c
@@rtxf Yeah, he said he transposed them all. But it totally doesn't matter. You can pick ANY key, and all the notes in the new scale are the exact same distance from each other. You can take any song in a major key and transpose it to 12 different major keys, and it's going to sound the same. It may be way harder to sing if it's outside the power range for the vocalist, but for all practical purposes, it's exactly the same.
@@Nightmoore missed him say they were transposed, but I know how theory works :) thanks for explaining it for the next guy to read this tho.
Robbert Then it should not come as a surprise they’d all sound perfectly natural, right? You can’t even tell...well, unless you have perfect pitch, that is?
And people wonder why alot of people can't stand pop radio music
ikr it all just sounds the same
i cant, i listen to an incredible amount of music (not trying to sound like a douche) and i cant stand pop or modern reggae.
Dude I hate pop radio music with a burning passion
I’m the 69th like
Are those two people referring to the same people?
I really appreciate how your videos just go straight into the meat of it. Very underrated thing that.
Watching this video has improved my pitch recognition for D by about 4000%
Once I tried to pick melodies by ear and realised that i was playing mostly one note when hearing the lyrics, now I know why.
I'm an amateur musician and I take requests. 9 times out of 10, when someone asks if I can play a current song from the radio, the answer is "Technically yes, but you don't want me to."
lol same. it's upsetting :p
i tried to pick roland faunte's song melodies by ear and for such gorgeous tunes they really are simple
@@SeekerGoldstone Yeah it sounds like most of these songs aren't going to sound good when converted to basically any instrument.
I appreciate how you explain why the note is popular (and acknowledge that it’s over-used) without taking the easy route of then going “so it’s always lazy to use it and artists/producers who use it are untalented” like some people in these comments
Yeah. Complaining about pop music using the supertonic a lot is like complaining about blues using the blue note a lot.
Somebody gets it
Yeah, agree. Pop isn't my favorite genre but I wish people wouldn't bash on it so much.
there are only seven notes in a scale so yea. also people saying that this is why pop all sounds the same are forgetting that tamber and arrangement can play a bigger role than harmonic composition. it's HOW you express those notes rather than the notes themselves. the reason why pop all sounds the same isn't really because of the super-tonic, although it does have a role to play.
Those comments make me feel tire
Is like in mu country people feeling superior just because they hear rock not regueton (i personally don't hear regueton but people get to fixated that people who hear this genre are losers at everything, really toxic)
I know those are opinion
But is just that a opinion
Most of those comments ooze superiority complex
I also find the sixth note of a scale to be very popular in pop music since it also doesn't clash with any chord on the scale degree. It serves a very similar purpose to the supertonic since the submediant (the 6th) generally wants to resolve down to the dominant just like the supertonic generally wants to resolve down to the tonic.
Good observation! It explains why I got bored of music last year and thought all the new stuff sounded the same!
Well done
We live in a world where Bad Lip Reading only gets 6 likes in 24 minutes.
@@dyray732 we live in a world where Bad Lip Reading only gets 37 likes in 3 hours.
We live in a world
was just wondering about you guys the other day. you been doing well?
holy shittt
i wish u will comment in 1 of my videos too xD
Turns out pop music’s favorite color is orange-coral.
... And cotton - candy flavoured! Make you sick when you have too much of it.
Pantone Color of the Year 2019 was Living Coral. Coincidence?
@@tradinglifedf5200 wha
might be interesting to see what colour a person with synesthesia sees when listening to the D note!
@@houndermagnum5918 mine is mint green beacuse its fresh to listen.
The super tonic is the Dorian mode. This mode has amazing properties that no other mode in the Major scale has. It's symmetric, repetitive with the min. 3/maj. 3 pattern, and it's probably the most versatile mode ever.
Lydian is considered by some the neighbor, or relative, of dorian (ie; neither have "avoid" notes)
Together, they are the only two modes (keys) of the Major scale that have, as their character (modal) tone, the leading-tone of the parent scale. All other modes have the subdominant of the parent Major scale.
Ionian, phrygian, Mixolydian, aeolian & locrian= scale degree [4]
dorian & Lydian= scale degree [7]
in a Major scale, scale degrees [4] & [7] make up the tritone.
Everybody: actually on-topic
Me: why tf does he look like he is made out of pure fucking silica?
Cause he is duh
never underestimate the power of re
Lolllll
Lmao
😂
You learn indian classical???
the power of D
As an American Music History instructor, this is absolutely something that will help me highlight were we currently are at the end of the semester. Please know I'll be using this video to present to my courses for educational purposes as non of the elective students understand music theory, you explained this VERY well. 5/5 Muffintastic starts, just subscribed for more!
@@arcadepiano nobody asked
@@arcadepiano That's gotta be the most toxic thing I've read all day, good job. Personal slights, ideological rejection, lack of positive alternative, demeaning metaphors... It actually invokes a sense of perverse admiration at the sheer concentration of vitriol, like a work of art that you despise but can't look away from.
@@arcadepiano Well, if your list of EVERY CHORD IN THE HISTORY OF EVER is so great, why don't you try using it to teach us _pitiful ignorants?_
Inventor Maybe you wouldn’t sound as much of a loser if you actually shared your “amazing” knowledge in a positive manner instead of using that knowledge to be a pretentious prick.
@@arcadepiano You know what? I'll give you some benefit of the doubt. And some advice on how to get some traction going, hopefully both in attention and in money.
Start by offering some small slivers of your knowledge. I noticed that you have a video showing your favorite chord, and some details about that chord in the description. I would suggest making a short video along the lines of "This is my favorite chord." (chord plays) "This chord can do (thing) when paired with (some other chords), like in (example piece)" (relavant part of example piece plays) "It does this because (some list of reasons)."
And so on, with more things the chord can do and more examples of those things. Do this with a few other chords (not the entire list, though, obviously).
Additionally, put some music out into the world. People will know you know what you're doing if you show that you can make good music. To reiterate, don't put your whole portfolio out there for free, but do show some of your works. Maybe put your music on a site like bandcamp, where listeners can donate money or (if you're charging money) pay extra if they really like your music.
Doing these things will show people that you know what you're talking about, which makes them more likely to pay for special teaching services or further music tracks.
Most importantly, drop the pretentious attitude. No matter how legitimately good you are, nobody will want to listen to what you have to say if you constantly insult them.
This video is incredible. Andrew, you are doing so much great work!
Best pop music theory input I've had in a long time. Thanks, man!
Pop Music then : Only 3 chords
Pop Music now : _Only one note_
_It's evolving, just backwards_
so it's *gnivlove*
So, devolving then.
pop music back in mozart and bach time... 20, 000 notes.
🤩🤩😂🤩😂😂😂🤩😂😂🤩😂🤩😂🤩🤩🤩 Nailed it
This is actually more complex. The song's progression starts in a suspended minor harmony and finds its way occasionally back home
You ever have that feeling where you're close to understanding a fundamental truth about music that will revolutionize your future songs, only to realize the mainstream industry has been using it this whole time, and now you have to avoid using it or sound like pop trash?
Relatable af bro
Andrew, you the best! I love your content! I need to get better at identifying notes when listening to songs. This definitely helped
I stopped watching Andrew for a hot minute and I come back and he does theory thursdays now?! I've been missing out!!!
“What do you have?!”
A * supertonic *!
“NO!”
Is it sharp or flat?
When you have to pay to unlock more than one note on your autotune plugin
So far the first comment today to make me _actually laugh out loud!_ 😄👍
@@ChaosRayZero
Same!
@@ChaosRayZero same lol
I like your profile picture✌️
you're changing lives with your content man
the great little magic trick of this vid is how all the supertonic's of different song are demoed in the same key. I've been tracking this trend for a good while; spot on analysis!
"Also sidechain compression." That had me dying of laughter idk why
A D D S O M E R E V E R B
I live for sidechain. It makes everything just automatically sound better. Have a monotone subbass? Sidechain. Not enough room for your lead? Sidechain. Wife left you... well, then you probably have other issues to deal with, at least you can cheer yourself up by putting dat sidechain on your mix 😎
Nobody's talking about OTT ? :o
Bad bass playing? SIDECHAIN!
LOL we all guilty of it :)
"i'm gonna play a subdominant melody over a third degree chord".
why does this feel like a threat?
DestrolioOnline because it is. its a threat to your eardrums
@AndrewHuang. This is pure gold. Other topic to explore about emerging pop music is compositionally- how to fit a whole song in 2:00 or less..
Well, that's shed a new light on my approach to writing melodies... when they said keep it simple, I didn't realise they meant THAT simple...! Great video as always thank you Andrew.
I'll never get over the insane amount of editing work that goes into Andrews videos that most people just overlook
I bet his editor is getting payyd.
Alternate title: why pop music is obsessed with being generally monotonous
Yep the melody is almost always super boring, of course my opinion but I like a melody that you can play and it sounds good even on its own.
It makes sense. Everything is going to lowest common denominator. Find the thing that NOBODY finds offensive in any situation, and overuse it.
or "How pop kills music"
its more that pop music is terrified of any musical tension
Vacuous minds feed off vacuous music. Pop is the sonic equivalent of fast food.
Thanks for these vids! Really great stuff.
That's amazing man, thank you so much! I searched for a long a time practical but advanced music theory tutorial and think I finally found it here! You Rock man!
I feel like the ghost writers are trying to send a message or something.
if i can find the midi files for any of these i'll extract just the supertonics and run it through a CW (Morse code) decoder. could be a grey code, too, i guess.
they like d
it stands for deez nuts
@@an_annoying_cat no. Yeah. We get it.
the message is "DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD"
One pop artist is eventually going to sue another over the supertonic. It's inevitable, given the current standing of lawsuits within the music industry.
I've been afraid of making music cause I think I'm gonna make something I don't know about but already exists and get sued 💀
@@jorgechavez7211 I do fear doing the same, but at the same time, there really is no defined copyright/music law in my country. I just make sure to not have my songs too /generic/ and always use royalty-free stuff when sampling. I also upload a video of the project file playing just in case people say /I sampled/ their song.
sued over the D
@@jorgechavez7211 nobody cares as long as u dont make too much money on it
@@jorgechavez7211 Legal Eagle did a good breakdown of the legalities of shard song components: czcams.com/video/zgsL5yW3bao/video.html
0:21
Me: PiNk FlUfFy UnIcOrN dAnCiNg On RaInBoWs(gosh that brings back memories from so long ago-)
and also, that beginning(C A C A G) kinda sounded and reminded me of the song The Sign Of The Times by Harry Styles-
omg I knew I heard it from somewhere
Love your content, Andrew. You're totally music.
I’ve been calling this “The Weekend Note” when writing the last couple years haha. Which isn’t really a diss, in my mind that’s the first time I heard hammering that 2nd over and over in multiple songs by an artist and now it’s everywhere. Was influential I guess 🤷♂️. Trends seem to last way longer in popular music than they used to also. So everyone, enjoy 20 more years of supertonics and trap hats!! (the louder the more popular) 😂
I think it's because of how influential rap music has become, people staying on the same note is sort of a melodic take on rap in a lot of casees
0:20 why is everyone talking about the D key and nobody's talking about Andrew playing Pink Fluffy Unicorns Dancing on Rainbows not once but TWICE
it's because he was demonstrating how a song can be transposed to a different key and still be the same song... He did it on purpose
Landon Vincent it was a joke i believe
I was looking for someone to mention this lol
I mean he made the song...
SO THAT'S WHAT IT WAS CRAP I COULDN'T REMEMBER
love it, keep up the great work this was awesome.
Great video! Really helped me out. Supertonic!
I love how he just gets straight to the point
Made me watch the entire video, despite the clickbaity title, because he went straight in without any bullshit. Good video.
@@themessenger8334 yeah exactly
The Weeknd: People love my unique melodies and I’m rolling in fresh ideas!
Andrew Huang: I’m about to ruin this mans whole career.
I actually kinda got the opposite reaction. Watch again and see how much The Weeknd moves off that supertonic anchor compared to a lot of the other examples. Yes it's always where his melodies are anchored around, but there's a much more fluid and consistent motion than in a lot of the other pop songs.
😂🤣😂🤣😂😆💯
NCJake True. His songs are extremely catchy and manages to keep plenty of interest. His rhythmic and tonal patterns have worked for years now. But I couldn’t help to meme the guy.😂
I mean....people have used pentatonic scale over and that’s 5 notes.....Weeknd using 3 or 4 notes isn’t really that much different
(But I’m not a rapper)
Man this is so true. Those Weeknd tracks were good examples of the subdominant 4th - not the supertonic, a similar melody trick for minor keys.
this video made me realise that get lucky in C major is a bop
I think the lesson is actually just that Get Lucky is a bop.
@@seansalo5117 lesson learnt
i ofically cant unhear this note anymore, or stop looking for it in songs
Pop musicians hate him for revealing this big secret!
It's hardly a secret. It's pretty overt.
Not a secret... it's why all pop songs sound alike. It's actually quite boring, but it is what it is.
@@sacredgeometryhe's not being serious lol it's a meme
Thanks Andrew, now I'm going to hear this everywhere
Andrew! this is one of the best music theory lesssons on the web. thank you!