What Is a Tritone? Music Theory Lessons Explained

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[@USHARDY]

I've never seen anyone so happy to talk about a tritone.

[@orangejuiceman]

That's Robert Estrin for you.

[@67marlins81]

OffLeatherWings You got that right!

[@AndyMangele]

LOL - that was the very first thing I noticed!

[@Amanda-lo5cf]

Same

[@aceshoot18onlinexplorer74]

Maybe there something magical with that tone

[@gozub3643]

thanks. It helped me a lot to explain my friends why heacy metal rock sounds so "evil"

[@gibsonflyingv2820]

You could have just told them because they use power chords palm muting technique and minor scales, the minor scales in metal solos and what form the chord progressions is why metal sounds 'evil'

[@ZyroPapuchon18]

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[@AbhiBass96]

This guy looks like Mark Hamill : Music version

[@lionpharaoh8690]

lol pause the video at 1:25

[@drack1997]

im dead

[@GoneAfterMidnight]

And speaks like Seinfeld: music version

[@joeykaram4457]

I know. He sounds like him too.

[@ZyroPapuchon18]

JESUS CHRIST died for you on a cross for our sins. 3 days after his death he resurrected and is The LIVING GOD. Repent from your sins and accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior in a prayer and also ask for the HOLY SPIRIT to come into you in that same prayer as well and have FAITH in CHRIST. You could come to Jesus Christ as you are, but once you accept Him, you have to become new, change, and be born again, and turn away from all wicked ways. Jesus Christ is the Way, the Truth, and the Life. God Bless You. JESUS CHRIST IS COMING BACK SOON.

[@nathangaspar4989]

The Tritone is also what makes heavy metal possible

[@julienpontus3225]

You don't seem to know Black Sabbath

[@gibsonflyingv2820]

Not at all, heavy metal used minor scales, minor scales have only 1 tritone, the sinister sound of the minor scales is what makes it sound that way.

[@gibsonflyingv2820]

They use tritones, so what? they also use scales that dont have tritones for riffs and solos, whats your point?

[@teamatfort444]

Orange Fender they are regarded as the pioneers of heavy metal. The first song on their first album starts with a tri tones. That’s the birth of heavy metal

[@devilman444a]

more like tritone is what makes "black metal" possible lol

[@jasonkong6968]

I come here to try to understand Daniel Thrasher's Sketch.

[@emilyfanhat5540]

Samee lol

[@cu3864]

Same

[@fiegorongalez6548]

Pretty much yeah.

[@Ta-58]

Emily Fanhat me too

[@whatami3092]

Same here

[@thereswaterhere]

This guy is delightful!

[@bloodrune329]

I absolutely love this guys enthusiasm it makes me so excited to learn about a tritone

[@gen-x_dude]

I want this guy to be my best friend, we would start out every day like, "music is my life... there is nothing better than music" then sometime before mid day, he would be all like, "hey Mike, hook me up with some of those spicy hot wings brotha" and then like 3 hours later, we would be side by side on the piano bench with tears in our eyes singing Anne Murray songs. "I love you man" "no.... I love YOU man" "lets go to a strip club" "alright I thought you would never ask... but let me just get some more of those hot wings (literally all 144 keys of his piano stained yellowish orange and a little sticky) "alright you ready bro? I´m driving"

[@jameseverett9037]

?? This is what you got from this video. M'mK. This has to be good for something. I'm not sure what, but something.

[@katierundle9469]

lmfao are u ok

[@thatguyig5528]

i want whatever you're on dude

[@Scripture-Man]

I've been aware of this all my life but had no idea it was called a "tritone" until now. Your videos are excellent and I love your spirit :)

[@johnrm9]

I believe that it's called a Tritone because it is 3 whole steps.

[@marcmagras]

You're right!

[@ThisIsMaiAccount]

look at all the metalheads in the comments lmao

[@colemarie9262]

My thought on seeing the name of the very first commenter was that this comment section will be rife with metalheads lol

[@antonkovalenko364]

Blame Slayer.

[@702Belmont]

I didnt know I was going to learn about tritones by Walmart Luke today but I learned a lot thank you

[@edrock26]

Excellent video and explanation! Thank you for posting.

[@NadinePigida]

Wow, I like your enthusiasm!!! It really helped me! Great video :)

[@jaybins]

Luke Skywalker? Is that you?

[@spacecaptain87]

Thanks. I watched a few videos on this and this one made sense to me. You are like a campy Luke Skywalker music teacher. I love it.

[@reptilesfishandmore]

I play every instrument by ear but suck at ear training with intervals. This helped cuz I'm practicing ear training with intervals at home and never really learned about tritones 😅

[@earthstick]

Resolving the tritone is like the third act in a story arc. Does that make most western music a comedy?

[@angiem1124]

Great explanation, thanks Robert!

[@getsmarter5412]

I finally figured out the tritone. I'ts 3 "whole"tones in a row. This took me 40 years to figure out. I've always been aware of this interval and it's name, but didn't know why it was called a tritone. I finally found some english guy to point out that in the U.S., we call it half steps and whole steps.. In Europe, thay call the same thing half tones and whole tones. So in essence, the tritone is 3 whole steps in a row. That easy. Your welcome.

[@Elanau]

It wasn't really forbidden.. just rarely used.. Don't know why so many "experts" say that..

[@god6384]

@@jameseverett9037 I think it's cool disparaging an archaïc system that is the cause of thousands of people's deaths

[@wildnites558]

Because in every scale (every diatonic scale) there is only 1 sequence of 3 notes that is separated by 3 half-steps (semi-tones). Hence, the term 'tritone' -- 3 notes, each one separated by a semitone. And this 3-note sequence (tritone) only occurs once in every scale --- which is what makes it so interesting. I.E. in the key of C major, the notes from F to B is the only tritone sequence possible. Let's see why... The F note to the G note (separated by a half-step) is the first tone, G note to A note (separated by a half-step) is tone #2, and finally, the A note to the B note (separated by a half-step) is the third tone. If we were to try to continue and go from B to C (in the scale of C), nope, can't do it--- there is no semi-tone between -- thus no tritone sequence possible.

[@std882]

Thx for the explanation. Love the way you talk. It sounds so simple...and happy...to play a tritone. ;-)

[@johnnysurfs]

Best explanation ever

[@twentythreenineteen1283]

He sold me my piano!!

[@Alpha_beef]

Really? That’s pretty awesome

[@amans228]

Do you still have it?

[@twentythreenineteen1283]

@@amans228 I do!

[@e1111236]

Excellent tutoring. I totally understood it. 😇

[@ajsim]

A video on Fermat's Last Theorem led me here

[@morallybankrupt1461]

I remember hearing these tons in the movie eyes wide shut and thinking how awkward it sounded. It definitely makes sense now.

[@evansgate]

it's as though my fun uncle was suddenly adept at music and started a channel on youtube teaching others. in other words, thanks for the lesson!

[@iamkubic]

I liked this video only because of how happy he is

[@jmtz9957]

Inconceivable!

[@abigailoconnor6587]

Please can you do a video on motifs, how they are used and suspensions also

[@babismousikos]

Very useful !!! Thank you !!! Can you please show the run u did at the beginning but in slow motion ? And may be more similar runs ?! Thans again :)

[@lionpharaoh8690]

lol pause the video at 1:25

[@galarbage]

I love doing that... good one lol

[@dunnkruger8825]

Nice, RE!

[@timrogers7693]

Excellent! Thanks!

[@seedpartwormlimbs]

thanks for this very helpful!

[@eddiewixson9680]

I played alto sax in an orchestra for 8 years, always knew the idea but not the actual name of the tritone, until today! Jeez 🤣

[@jarodvmusic]

So when resolving C to F# by going inward half steps is there a reason why you called it C# to E# instead of just C# to F?

[@ishooze]

because c# to e# is a major third, and c# to f is an imperfect fourth :)

[@people287]

Very informative!

[@tellitstraight]

Great video 🔥

[@hopesonmakokha5217]

Very informative

[@intronaut8582]

Thank you.

[@PiscesSenpai]

I love this man xD

[@heywhatsthat5212]

1:43 "c# and E#" wtf

[@udbhavseth799]

Government Shutdown e#=f

[@JustinGillenMusic]

rip

[@katjoe1974]

E# and F are enharmonic- they sound the same but are not the same thing. For example, the key of F# is F# G# A# B C# D# E# F#. You would not spell it with an F natural at the seventh- the scale would have an F# and anF natural but no E note at all.

[@NotLegato]

okay that was so interesting, and i learned it much more easily than by reading. thanks! ....wait, does that mean i can resolve a G7 chord to F#Maj? what. is this some bizarre tritone modulation or what now.

[@haunter2304]

The word "theory" is misspelled in the title but great video

[@LivingPianosVideos]

+haunter230 Thanks for letting us know

[@darksparkle6087]

Why isn't there any video on this site with just the damn tritone without long explanations??

[@masonharris9166]

The tritone was not banned by the church. This is vomman myth. They would use it occationaly in old hymms.

[@gen-x_dude]

I believe the "myth" is true... if you turn the page bacjk 500 years, you will find that it was illegal to move a hymnal from monestary to monestary (where I believe the rumor originally began) and of course, they couldnt have secular people runnig the streets mking songs/sounds only prmitted within the halls of it sacred places... so maybe they put a genberal ban on it? of course I was not there, but I know at least one very famous composer memorized a concert piece that he heard as a young boy... went home and composedi it to paper, and there was a bit of drama over that

[@aagevaksdal]

@@gen-x_dude Show us any plausible historical source for your claim.

[@maxkogan3785]

This man just summoned the armies of Hell with how many times he did that.

[@mr.kalim_B]

Flat the 5th?

[@arturovargas4369]

Sabbath

[@calwallace2007]

If Luke Skywalker took up piano instead of Jedihood

[@albakara3621]

1:41 (E#) or (A#) ? Or just me who not heard clearly

[@LivingPianosVideos]

You heard correctly! In this context, E-sharp is the correct spelling.

[@maxhemenway]

Like in shock horror a?

[@LivingPianosVideos]

Exactly - along with diminished 7th chords which are 2 tritones intertwined (all minor 3rds)

[@dand2760]

You lost me after tri tone is half an octave. Just kidding I actually learned a little bit of theory.

[@MrBryan-hr1rp]

This dude looks like Luke Skywalker amd Frank Welker in one person

[@Strings-jg2to]

So why is it called a tri-tone?

[@sohanbhattacharyya8451]

Peter pettigrew

[@PlayerFiveVids]

E sharp... Ok.

[@kmk8284]

Medieval Priest watching this Video: No!!! You have summoned Satan in one video!!

[@sohanbhattacharyya8451]

Daniel Thrasher

[@xtraflo]

So were kids sneaking in notes in the dark ages on their home made guitars ya think ???

[@naynayw]

Awesome video but e#? Haha not sure about that

[@saino-d]

imagine the medieval church lisyend to heavy metal

[@poseplast]

Did you know that satan was the minister of music in heaven before he fell?

[@ringzy]

Lmao

[@uraharamitchell7250]

My head hurts...

[@lethal1ty38]

Did he just say e sharp?

[@sohanbhattacharyya8451]

Yeah..... AKA F natural

[@xothanpuiakhiangte8951]

E#???

[@FredyMartinezTrumpet]

Same thing as an F

[@Gizmo7917]

Who else is here cause of WandaVision?

[@lizzybach4254]

Anyone here because of Adam Neely?

[@jameseverett9037]

This is why clowns were used so much in the early 1900s. Formal education was on the rise, and we needed ways to keep kids attention.

[@Trev0r98]

"E sharp" --- rofl..........it's called "F".

[@Hardstylinq]

[@kikosquiner1046]

Xo tour life

[@damienx0x]

He said "F B" instead of F flat. Such ignorance.

[@vaclavmuller]

not classical but interesting: G-B-D-F => F#-A#-C#-F#

[@oyellalobwo6246]

to much information

[@IAmTHEGoD0fHELLFIRE]

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