Consonance + Dissonance - What makes something sound "bad"?

[@dominicesteban3174]

Showing the superimposed waveform for each dissonant interval is pedagogical brilliance! I've learnt so much from this series even though I thought I had the basics down.

[@MusicTheoriesChannel]

Love to hear that!!

[@yeshanperera]

This is the best explanation I had on music theory. It's on point and much more organised. Even the graphics are so pleasing to watch ❤.

[@MusicTheoriesChannel]

I’m so glad you think so! Thank you so much 🤍

[@atamaminami5752]

Great video! This is helping me understand concepts I've heard so many times yet I don't usually hear covered in a way that facilitates my understanding. I've no idea what the difficulty of creating an effect like the one at 1:53 is, but it looked quite pleasant! And I appreciate how you remind the listener now and then that what you are talking about is only the western parts of music theory and that even then it isn't something absolute when it comes to "what sounds right". Hopefully that leaves less people feeling like this is the only "right way" to create music. Music following the norms does usually sound stabler or better to most, but not do many people enjoy different experiences, and none of our brains are the same, but also the unpleasantness can be useful if harnessed with that in mind. Hope life allows you to continue on creating this channel! Have a great day!

[@MusicTheoriesChannel]

I love this comment! Western music theory is definitely not absolute or the "correct" way to understand or create music. It's merely a tool that this part of the world uses to understand it! Thank you so much for watching and commenting.

[@commentfreely5443]

maj 2 sounds good cause it's 5th of 5th

[@bradparker6156]

Subscribed!! A jazz and general music lover here, but also a non-player with very limited theoretical understanding. Also, a scientific type with good understanding of harmonics and wave interaction, so this presentation certainly speaks in a language I fully understand. I have no intention of learning to play an instrument but still find the theoretical aspects quite fascinating. With jazz being predominantly instrumental, in absence of lyrics (from which many seem to derive their listening pleasure) I have always perceived it to be more emotional than many other forms. The content covered here goes some way to explaining why. i.e. dissonance making resolution that much more satisfying. Thank you..

[@MusicTheoriesChannel]

Thank you for watching! I also find jazz to be incredibly emotional.

[@wvcaldwell]

Thanks!

[@MusicTheoriesChannel]

Thank you so much!

[@outdatedmind9871]

Excellent, best video on the topic

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Thank you so much!

[@ashilkn7721]

Awesome! Just what I was looking for. Excellent video😄

[@MusicTheoriesChannel]

So glad! Thanks for watching!

[@__-hz9lp]

This video is great and really helped me in writing my Internal Assessment for maths. Thanks !!!!!

[@StefanosAndritsios]

Very good video !! also the images of frequencies

[@MusicTheoriesChannel]

Thank you!!

[@Annemieization]

Beautifully Explained!!! THANK YOU!!

[@MusicTheoriesChannel]

I'm glad you think so! Thank you!

[@dylansaleh1311]

It's 3 am and you're saving my sorry ass from failing a whole course. Thank you

[@MusicTheoriesChannel]

@@dylansaleh1311 best of luck 🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@dylansaleh1311]

@MusicTheoriesChannel i did well🤗

[@MusicTheoriesChannel]

@ yes 👏🏻 we love to hear it

[@dominicesteban3174]

I would add that the Ives piece at 8'55" is "difficult to listen to" (I agree) not primarily because of his use of dissonances but because it has the rhythmic qualities of the noise heard at any major crosswalk in lower Manhattan (which was seemingly Ives' musical intention given the title). It is of course incontestable that the tonal dissonances reinforce the "rhythmic dissonances", making it essentially shit as a piece of music but excellent as a piece of orchestral cacophony. As you hint at beautifully, we've all experienced how dissonance used properly by master composers (classical or modern) can create the sublime in music. Thanks again for the video - FWIW, you are very good at creating this kind of content.

[@MusicTheoriesChannel]

Yes, I agree! Thank you so much for your kind words!

[@cinematichormone]

Thankyou so Much for such a well arranged Fresh series.

[@MusicTheoriesChannel]

Thank you for watching and commenting!

[@CokePaul]

Please go forward with your videos, it’s very cool & helpful

[@MusicTheoriesChannel]

Working on some more!!

[@joemcshea708]

Best music theory videos on KZbin.

[@MusicTheoriesChannel]

Thank you!!

[@astha_yadav]

Wonderful explanation !!

[@slosheroni]

Nice shout out to Black Sabbath. The first time I heard those opening notes it felt like I just entered the cauldron bubble

[@nquerosaber]

in brazil, we call the perfect 5th and perfect 4th as "quinta justa" and "quarta justa" or just 5th and just 4th, i believe thats because the 5th and the 4ths in the 12 equal temperament maintains the same ratio as in the just intonation, and for some reason they call if perfect in english

[@piggosalternateaccount4917]

Really good!!!

[@mohamedfaouzi2072]

Excellent. Thank you.

[@zolotohorse]

Very informative

[@darkkartist]

Please come back

[@MusicTheoriesChannel]

I have a new video coming very soon!! Thanks for your support

[@handicappuccino8491]

Disney villain songs also you Dissonance as well and people love that

[@MusicTheoriesChannel]

Yes! Definitely!

[@magnusemeritus]

Black Sabbath and The Simpsons! First things that come to mind when I think of a tritone!!

[@MusicTheoriesChannel]

Yes!

[@somerandomfatguy.3384]

dissonance is tension IMO.

[@tabor503]

Like synonyms

[@victorsantos2326]

No, dissonance is more like something eerie

[@jurgendeblonde5003]

Very well explained and nicely illustrated. However, perhaps it should be pointed out that the so called perfect 4th and 5th isn't that perfect due to the Western tempered tuning system that had all the intervals 'corrected' so they could fit into a transposable system. It's true, in a way, that our system is based on Pythagorean findings, however, we had to deviate from his system to get to ours. If we'd actually stuck to Pythagoras' system we'd get perfect fifths and fourths (that have no beatings) that aren't necessarily transposable. If you listen (and watch) a 'perfect' fifth or fourth, you will actually see that there's destructive interference, albeit at a very slow rate.

[@virajnagpure]

At 0:30 where music theory cheat poster is shown, the interval initials is shown wrong for melodic minor. It should be - W H W W W W H

[@MusicTheoriesChannel]

I didn't make the poster, just a graphic I added in but I will definitely have the correct intervals when I cover melodic minor!

[@curly_wyn]

Dissonance only works when used sparingly in some situations. When it’s the main or central thing, it sucks.

[@MusicTheoriesChannel]

It can definitely be unpleasant

[@Krazykatman101]

great video could be more concise though but I appreciate your attention to detail

[@MusicTheoriesChannel]

Cool, thanks for watching. What specifically would you like me to be more concise about?

[@nitinvishwakarma788]

showing it on a keyboard would have helped more...