Why pop music is obsessed with this one note

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[@quinlanhogan7543]

For sale: Lumi MIDI keyboard, lightly used. D key no longer works

[@apollobyprod]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[@stephydae]

LOL 😂 good one..

[@Spaced1sco]

New Sale!: Lumi keyboard with only D key all others are optional.

[@jobanbrar92]

😂😂😂😂

[@gammergames3322]

@@Spaced1sco weekend: I'm listening

[@Malinda]

Alternate title: Andrew Huang Exposes The Weekend

[@cdigames]

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.

[@exiliate17]

Hi malinda 😄

[@kamaalthewanza]

@@cdigames 😂😂

[@kamaalthewanza]

🤣🤣🤣

[@janbonne]

I wonder if he was like this back during his shoe gaze days

[@TechBoxNorth]

"Hey catchy tune, what music software did you use?" "Microsoft OneNote"

[@KuroHebi]

I don't get it.

[@samszotkowski]

@@KuroHebi one note

[@KuroHebi]

@@samszotkowski I get it, now.

[@NvincibleIronMan]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤓👍👍

[@KuroHebi]

@@NvincibleIronMan that is actually a great joke, for real.

[@sreesanthsasidharan3841]

The supertonic is that one kid who hangs out with every group in school.

[@Fayevalentina541]

Me.😂

[@supersucks]

im that kid lol

[@Jernofenz]

i m tht lmaooo

[@impfromdoom9137]

me

[@thegameowl11]

Me lmao

[@fedegwagwa]

I got perfect pitch for the D note after this video

[@tl1882]

i already did from megalovania

[@hridinsbiju9023]

True

[@fabricioaf89]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@chrrive]

same:)

[@ph4n7om36]

Ick

[@DafterHindi]

I love how Andrew knew this wasn't gonna be monetized, so he used all the songs he could

[@bradley5800]

I mean a lot of them are in a different key?? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@EliRickard]

f4de KZbin detects key changes regardless

[@bradley5800]

@@EliRickard frick

[@quariusmusic]

But I see no copyright claims by their respective labels

[@quariusmusic]

@@DafterHindi i think its andrew huang thats why..😂... because i have seen other KZbinrs being very cautious, they don't play the track ,they dont take any risks.

[@ianhebert91]

I was not prepared to receive that much "D" in 8 minutes.

[@tartar1016]

That's what she said

[@thefallenfighters]

That’s what she said

[@headphonezmusic1727]

you have 69 likes on this comment

[@paballoleballo9101]

Worse on weekends

[@emiliodelbozo3155]

That's what she said

[@Goddot]

I found pop music pretty one-note, I didn't expect to be THIS right

[@JoE_Songs]

well actually real pop music was never about one note - until 10-12 years ago...

[@snowjix]

@@JoE_Songs real pop music? What does that even mean?

[@multisplace3783]

That must be partly why I prefer older music. They don't hang on one note a bunch in older songs.

[@1amosq]

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.

[@BarafuAlbino]

Theory: 36 second. Andrew hitting the same key: 8 minutes.

[@bobdole7127]

...And proving how unoriginal most modern pop music is today for the duration.

[@beatsxlucas8021]

Bob Dole yeh for sure. It’s missing authentic emotion and melody writing

[@emberleona6671]

No wonder I hate pop music nowadays email me if you wanna hear a song idea [e-mail]

[@brankol.4563]

I skipped all the examples asking myself if there's more to come... But no

[@beatsxlucas8021]

Ember Leona yo u wanna collab? I make deep house/ pop stuff if u wanna work together :)

[@sanes4402]

"You know that The Weekend song that goes like D D D D D D D D D C?" "Which one"

[@statomic]

This is funny cuz all of them ahahhahahahaha

[@BBAACKE]

Lolol

[@randommemeclone1021]

Do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down?

[@dragringer1480]

Blinding lights?

[@craftze_ro5734]

@@dragringer1480 no

[@xmortimorxmortimorx]

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.)

[@coolpoolb]

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.

[@xmortimorxmortimorx]

0:35 there you go genius!

[@coolpoolb]

​@@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 )

[@James-im2ip]

@@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.

[@christowers7307]

@@coolpoolb I think you need this kzbin.info/www/bejne/gJyZm4miZst0pJI

[@pak009]

Take a shot of any alcoholic drink everytime Katy Perry's "Never Really Over" hits the D note.

[@_Iscream]

You’d die, even if it was beer.

[@servvo]

aka chug

[@prismarinestars7471]

death

[@hanakosan4404]

I came at that part of the video as I read this comment

[@sajeewanrai]

@@_Iscream You would die even if it's water

[@munksterrr7845]

Now I want a music themed bar with a drink called "supertonic"

[@JimmiCottam]

Yeah but that drink will only contain two ingredients Root beer and tonic water

[@ZakMeow]

@@JimmiCottam Clever! I Lol'd

[@seanfromtheyukon]

And all the songs are transposed to the same key so when you leave the supersonic just resonates in your brain

[@pieflower6419]

I'd go

[@Gamer-uf1kl]

(D)rink

[@scrofol1634]

never want to hear a d-note on piano ever again

[@dmtinyhut]

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.

[@rserg3789]

Same bruh 😆

[@TXLogic]

Shirley Márquez Dúlcey I think you’re kind of making Scrofol’s point... :-)

[@gitsurfer27]

I can still hear it 10 minutes after the video ended...i think its part of me now.

[@TantuBeats]

aaaand there goes the monetization of this video

[@kabehhhh]

umg having a party right now

[@kaimundo]

ik was depressief en toen deed ik niet zo lief

[@charlieroush3402]

Definitely

[@kingofdoodoo1877]

No cuz the songs are on c major

[@TantuBeats]

@@kingofdoodoo1877 look at the bottom of the description

[@anti64]

This really shows you how important rhythm is to make your melody unique

[@swordierre9341]

When I was little I must've somehow figured this out, because i spammed that D and thought i was a song writing prodigy.

[@DrRadio155]

You still have chance! :D

[@pieflower6419]

I tried to play pop songs in music and thought I was doing something wrong just spamming D

[@Metamerist625]

Yeah well it turns out that every pop musician working from 2015 onwards thinks the same XD

[@dancershan]

I still have not outgrown that ...

[@anbudamodaran4162]

Alternate title: Confusing the copyright claim system

[@DFPercush]

lol... I think as long as it's less than 5 seconds it's fine, don't quote me on that.

[@iplaysdrums]

Yeah, I guess if it's pitch shifted down a fifth the software's going to have a hard time recognizing it.

[@agentofchaos2901]

@@DFPercush i can i will

[@DFPercush]

@@agentofchaos2901 ... but you didn't

[@G60syncro]

@@iplaysdrums If I hammer a bunch of D's on the keyboard for more than 5 seconds, it might get flagged though... right??!?

[@MuffinTunes]

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!

[@Jayhjl]

@@arcadepiano nobody asked

[@DFPercush]

@@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.

[@seabassthegamer6644]

@@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?_

[@gabrielcabello9227]

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.

[@seabassthegamer6644]

@@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.

[@Kieran_Davey]

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."

[@litterbox019]

_proceeds to press it again but one octave up, and then an A key on the original octave_

[@marshed0mallow]

@@litterbox019 Ab G F D F G

[@clipPRmusic]

@@marshed0mallow sans?

[@Smuckeroni]

@@clipPRmusicsans!

[@BadLipReading]

Well done

[@dyray732]

We live in a world where Bad Lip Reading only gets 6 likes in 24 minutes.

[@just-a-me1168]

@@dyray732 we live in a world where Bad Lip Reading only gets 37 likes in 3 hours.

[@elinaylor6861]

We live in a world

[@BrandonYates]

was just wondering about you guys the other day. you been doing well?

[@IdoBerg]

holy shittt i wish u will comment in 1 of my videos too xD

[@pcfllms]

After hearing D repeating over and over, I think I can identify a D flawlessly.

[@DisturbedVette]

Can you still now?

[@elimg.3684]

In relation to another note (of which you know what not it is) maybe, but unless you have absolute pitch, its gonna be tough...

[@drphdmd7064]

All you really need to learn is one note by ear, and memorize how the intervals move. Then you are set.

[@stephenmitchell3191]

give it 10 minutes

[@aedile2819]

your mom can identify this D

[@stegokitty]

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.

[@catpoke9557]

...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

[@matthewdemasi1363]

When you said "car alarm" it triggered this musical memory: kzbin.info/www/bejne/roean3uOZ7d_oLM

[@kirill3032]

Can't stop thinking about D huh?

[@jennmichelle2]

Exactly!!!

[@AURESHION]

this explains my constant deja-vu moments at work (pop-radio)

[@mosley3485]

More to do with the fact that pop music is literally engineered to sound familiar, I think.

[@truecuckoo]

Andrew Huang, also known as the Supertonic Slayer 🗡

[@-_-shakezula]

cuckoo!

[@gregvsmj]

Can’t here a D for one week now..

[@saedt]

TING TING TING TING TING TING

[@ceemoon8556]

They called him... the Supertonic Slayer. (The Only Thing They Fear is You ensues)

[@woodenhoe]

Supertonic Slayer Also Slayer: 0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0

[@gost7821]

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

[@ShirubaGin]

Yeah. Complaining about pop music using the supertonic a lot is like complaining about blues using the blue note a lot.

[@tsg_frank]

Somebody gets it

[@1Tako1]

Yeah, agree. Pop isn't my favorite genre but I wish people wouldn't bash on it so much.

[@holidaycomplex]

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.

[@nycolleamendez5608]

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

[@szeth14]

I mean, I wasn't aware of it before, and now I probably can't stop hearing it.

[@rwrunning1813]

Oh... Oh no... This is going to make pop music even harder to listen to...

[@haslo_]

@@rwrunning1813 Not possible, is it?

[@chriszanf]

I was aware of it (that a lot of pop music was sounding similar) but not why.

[@zipperozicvideodump]

this will single-handedly ruin everything

[@LukezyM]

What a big pile of orange shit this was. Meaning the pop music of today’s.

[@Cry_ct]

No wonder so many pop songs fit so well with Megalovania, Megalovania also is played with D

[@alteredanimesh]

now this one is a masterpiece

[@huldanoren951]

@@alteredanimesh It is a proven fact that it is impossible to make Megalovania sound bad

[@libremercadoencrisiseconom2118]

megalovania is an awful melody, it can't be worse

[@Harril8265]

@@libremercadoencrisiseconom2118 ok, one guy

[@Mizu2023]

Megalovania is literally in D minor(one of the minor modes, I don't remember which onr). But that means the D wouldn't be the supertonic

[@MrReedMiester]

I feel like I learned an entire "pop music's formula" type of course that gets advertised on KZbin so much, for free.

[@BradsGonnaPlay]

seriously, this seems like any basic musician could produce “world class hits” using nothing but samples, loops, and 1 note with 4 ornament notes

[@harshvardhandewangan3997]

@@BradsGonnaPlay Looks like classicalness in modern music is required!

[@jeanpillet-conery2479]

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

[@stevenwatson9678]

@@jeanpillet-conery2479 bro that's called writing a basic song, it sure as hell isn't easy but very underwhelming

[@DavidPuckArtist]

This was the most intelligent way to throw shade at the entire pop music industry I’ve ever seen 😂

[@CaveyMoth]

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!

[@TheBrickLot]

@@CaveyMoth ikr. crazy

[@bmxkamikazee]

@@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.

[@eo4295]

@@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

[@jpabcede5016]

@@eo4295 I believe you've heard of Pachelbel's "Canon in D" and Ravel's "Bolero".

[@BrothersandCoFilms]

The Weekends been pretty quiet since this dropped.

[@jasperlawson6315]

Thank God..... If only it could last forever

[@lukeconnellan9008]

@@jasperlawson6315 you said it

[@theundeadbowman9824]

Press F to pay respects (and not D)

[@benjclarke3010]

He's looking for a new note.

[@rudbears]

The Weeknd*

[@brykietosky7328]

Alt title: "How to write a pop song in 5-10 minutes!"

[@rumble_bird]

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.

[@SeekerGoldstone]

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."

[@LL-tr5et]

lol same. it's upsetting :p

[@LL-tr5et]

i tried to pick roland faunte's song melodies by ear and for such gorgeous tunes they really are simple

[@catpoke9557]

@@SeekerGoldstone Yeah it sounds like most of these songs aren't going to sound good when converted to basically any instrument.

[@musiqaman]

That keyboard, not having a high C gives me anxiety.

[@NateSassoonMusic]

so close yet so far

[@DeanLawrence_ftw]

I'm fairly sure it's so you can connect multiple lumi keyboards to make a bigger keyboard

[@musiqaman]

Can I just connect an extra C?

[@crawbug8932]

@@musiqaman just have a bunch of modular individual black and white keys

[@musiqaman]

Matthew someone get LEGO on the phone right now!!!

[@JakofAllTrades57]

Makes sense why my classically trained dad thinks people "talk-sing" in pop songs.

[@ldhdjzjjaklzjdbd6610]

@@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

[@artschiloyan9101]

@@activitine62 few artists like Bruno Mars for example are nailing it. Most of them aren't🤣

[@rickf6375]

You don't have to be classically trained to realize they're not singing but talk-singing

[@陳懷生-y7w]

ah pop just sounded boring to people who practice classical music.

[@ADeeSHUPA]

@@陳懷生-y7w 古翼庭

[@JavierB1988]

I was blown away to see how the supertonic easily slides in with all the different chord functions.

[@tadhg9558]

I'll never get over the insane amount of editing work that goes into Andrews videos that most people just overlook

[@slayerficated]

I bet his editor is getting payyd.

[@fluffartistt]

"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*

[@notchieuwu]

laughs in adblocker

[@rtxf]

@Salim Sivaad were those transposed? They all sounded pretty natural in c

[@Nightmoore]

@@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.

[@rtxf]

@@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.

[@noa_1104]

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?

[@rrrāmusic963]

I love how he just gets straight to the point

[@themessenger8334]

Made me watch the entire video, despite the clickbaity title, because he went straight in without any bullshit. Good video.

[@rrrāmusic963]

@@themessenger8334 yeah exactly

[@TarousDT]

Now I just want to hear a song that is not all D's.

[@pradeepvincentmusic]

KZbin: wait wait wait... there are too many songs to indentify and issue a copyright claim!

[@DarkDrai]

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?

[@galenhoffman8338]

Relatable af bro

[@ryanjackson5437]

Turns out pop music’s favorite color is orange-coral.

[@Johnny_T779]

... And cotton - candy flavoured! Make you sick when you have too much of it.

[@KevinAllOver]

Pantone Color of the Year 2019 was Living Coral. Coincidence?

[@SonOfAFridge_]

@@tradinglifedf5200 wha

[@houndermagnum5918]

might be interesting to see what colour a person with synesthesia sees when listening to the D note!

[@internetexplorerchan2697]

@@houndermagnum5918 mine is mint green beacuse its fresh to listen.

[@martingibbs8972]

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!

[@b1na276]

never underestimate the power of re

[@hiimsarahtt]

Lolllll

[@SAagreedSA]

Lmao

[@julianwarren8059]

😂

[@jakekideewanihayemainmarja832]

You learn indian classical???

[@pianoif]

the power of D

[@elishscott]

The Weeknd's name should be "D Weeknd"

[@radorigami]

Oh my gosh You’re right

[@prometheus6474]

except it's the supertonic

[@notsogreatsword1607]

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.

[@elishscott]

@@frag4007 exactly, people these days 🤦🏻‍♂️ can’t seem to take a joke.

[@dolphinberserk]

Okay then, let's make it "Supertonic Weekend" There's a song in that. Bagsed it!

[@scarybarry1323]

“What do you have?!” A * supertonic *! “NO!”

[@AnimeAsh2002]

Is it sharp or flat?

[@ZEEMACHINEMUSIC]

I’ve been noticing this for fucking YEARS, I feel so validated.

[@Gichanasa]

I guess the supertonic note is the pop music equivalent for the minor third note for blues and rock music. A very nice observation and analysis. Please keep up the great work Andrew!

[@cdifreakguy]

Another note that works similarly is the fifth. Over the first degree: fifth Over the second degree: fourth Over the third degree: third Over the fourth degree: ninth Over the fifth degree: root Over the sixth degree: seventh Over the seventh: sixth Plus, it's in the tonic chord.

[@tsg_frank]

Ok but the ninth, seventh and sixth aren't really as stable as the tonic, third, fourth or fifth

[@cdifreakguy]

@@tsg_frank What I’m saying is it’s not a half-step or tritone away from any note in any chord, therefore using it in the melody over any chord wouldn’t be incredibly dissonant. There is no note that sounds completely consonant over every chord but the second, fifth . . . and come to think of it, the sixth all avoid the harshest dissonances.

[@tj-co9go]

yeah, the fifth thing is a long trope. they used it like during the baroque, classicism, and romantic era classical msuic, but using the fifth note (dominant) especially often during the classicism era in the mid-1700's. Think of Mozart and Haydn.

[@xyzyzx1253]

@@cdifreakguy the major pentatonic scale! It’s a great tool for grouping the most resolved notes and their tonic, Anything that isn’t the major pentatonic will be a dissonance to the tonic. It’s been a fantastic way to get into improvising for me :)

[@xythantiopps]

i think the only real difference with the fifth is that you can't just hammer away at it because it's already resolved whereas the 2nd/9th is asking for release

[@mackflynt6094]

"Also sidechain compression." That had me dying of laughter idk why

[@Cyphule]

A D D S O M E R E V E R B

[@colour_bloo]

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 😎

[@xafraskrazos630]

Nobody's talking about OTT ? :o

[@portemanteau3802]

Bad bass playing? SIDECHAIN!

[@samprock]

LOL we all guilty of it :)

[@gpoop23]

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.

[@henrikpetersson3463]

Often it's rhythm and harmonics that makes it special.

[@andrasfogarasi5014]

I feel like the ghost writers are trying to send a message or something.

[@genewitch]

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.

[@augstsh]

they like d

[@an_annoying_cat]

it stands for deez nuts

[@genewitch]

@@an_annoying_cat no. Yeah. We get it.

[@lifelover69]

the message is "DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD"

[@joninarebekka2966]

I wonder if I'll get a perfect pitch sense for the note D after watching this video

[@nightski380]

I already have a perfect pitch sense for every note 🤩

[@bailey1410]

perfect pitch people never fail to remind u that they have perfect pitch

[@nightski380]

@@bailey1410 Yup. I can confirm

[@altherebot5593]

Nice 👍

[@rodbacon2629]

@@nightski380 I know this is free-beating but i mean... more than half of all people with perfect pitch either 1 : don't ever try to do something with music and 2 : don't even understand anything about music either emotioanlly or theoretically ^^' So i'm not too sure you should be proud of something you're probably not able to use. Also, if you really have perfect pitch, you should be having quite a few problems with your ears (ex : when something is "off pitch" it will tend to annoy people with people perfect pitch.) Lastly, i believe there are quite a few different abilities that are being called perfect pitch, no one ever knows which one they're talking about :')

[@MaemiNoYume]

The same can be said to the 5th degree of the scale, it fits with every chord and even fits with many chords outside of the scale like the bVII, bVI(+7), bIII, bII(#11). The position of these two notes in the circle of fifths really help to show why they are so easy to fit with so many chords. But I think the main reason is because these notes aren't really at rest, like when it's the 9th or 11th or 7th or 13th of the chord, it's not only that it fits, but they don't fit perfectly and that's why it's pleasant, because it's not restful. The pleasure of the expectation from the note resting to the first or third degree, doesn't really matter if it does rest or not, the fact that there is the expectation is what matter. (sorry for any mistake, english isn't my native language)

[@BlindMelonLord]

Maemi No Yume you shouldn’t need to apologize. You did good at writing your comment for English not being your native language. Hell… People who speak English naturally sometimes aren’t that good at writing English. (Myself included, I have my moments).

[@MaemiNoYume]

@@BlindMelonLord I apologized because I felt like I could have written that with less words idk xD

[@crapadopalese]

Awesome observation, was just gonna write the same one, more or less. I agree with you -- I just think that the 5th sounds naive since it's so overdone, and the 2nd sounds fresher. Also I think something that Andrew only said in the passing is that the 1st and 3rd are adjacent to the 2nd, so all those lazy writers who just noodle around 3 notes have an easier time with 2nd than with 5th -- noodling on the 6th and 4th won't sound as good.

[@MaemiNoYume]

@@crapadopalese I agree with you. In my case I use the 5th because my bass notes usually go around the IV degree, so in that context the 5th is interesting and I noodle around using the major pentatonic scale of the 5th (which has the 7th, which is the tritone for the IV, which I really like)

[@julienfromflorida]

amazing & well said! :)💛

[@ОлександрПодоляк-р5г]

At this point KZbin 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.

[@JerryAnimations]

i ofically cant unhear this note anymore, or stop looking for it in songs

[@DestrolioOnline]

"i'm gonna play a subdominant melody over a third degree chord". why does this feel like a threat?

[@accieT]

DestrolioOnline because it is. its a threat to your eardrums

[@masondchong]

Now I’ll only think of that peachy orange color when I hear a supertonic

[@sarveshram]

Now that I think of it, Blinding Lights starts with the supertonic note

[@RadenWA]

Pop Music then : Only 3 chords Pop Music now : _Only one note_ _It's evolving, just backwards_

[@woodenhoe]

so it's *gnivlove*

[@themessenger8334]

So, devolving then.

[@enrott8560]

pop music back in mozart and bach time... 20, 000 notes.

[@SAM-yq2lm]

🤩🤩😂🤩😂😂😂🤩😂😂🤩😂🤩😂🤩🤩🤩 Nailed it

[@gillianomotoso328]

This is actually more complex. The song's progression starts in a suspended minor harmony and finds its way occasionally back home

[@aetheralmeowstic2392]

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.

[@jorgechavez7211]

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 💀

[@NoThrottle]

@@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.

[@oh-ox9sj]

sued over the D

[@oh-ox9sj]

@@jorgechavez7211 nobody cares as long as u dont make too much money on it

[@DerekHise]

@@jorgechavez7211 Legal Eagle did a good breakdown of the legalities of shard song components: kzbin.info/www/bejne/sJjWfWivjJiVl9E

[@mrnelsonius5631]

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) 😂

[@kapilk1644]

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

[@MikaelMikaelMikael]

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.

[@TachyBunker]

I hate and like when I learn a new thing that's happening, and suddenly cannot un-see (hear) it.

[@domainofscience]

Very interesting, this was great! Q: What makes a killer riff, killer?

[@shub00_]

Why this channel has no verified mark even with 600k+

[@gabrielcabello9227]

Slayer: 0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0

[@ellebhee5045]

@@gabrielcabello9227 was gonna say Kerry King lol

[@matiasarteaga4548]

Long answer: the intrinsic relationship the notes have with each other, generating a feeling such of a forward moving motion, while still having a periodic repetition of said pattern of notes that the listener can recognize and look forward to. Also being a good complementary to the drum part and viceversa. (As we’ve seen that changing the drum part of a song generally completely destroys the riff, not always but a lot of times) Short answer: jimmy page

[@ganko2240]

When you don't survive it. Otherwise it's just an innocent riff.

[@archermcclain6587]

Alternate title: why pop music is obsessed with being generally monotonous

[@KingJellyfishII]

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.

[@ComposerAdamWhite]

It makes sense. Everything is going to lowest common denominator. Find the thing that NOBODY finds offensive in any situation, and overuse it.

[@FLH3official]

or "How pop kills music"

[@brickalmonds]

its more that pop music is terrified of any musical tension

[@fernwehn5925]

Vacuous minds feed off vacuous music. Pop is the sonic equivalent of fast food.

[@beaverronald4046]

The note D just makes megalovania play in my head

[@jesuisfudgeman874]

dozens of key signatures, with many different ways to play a song: *exists* The Weeknd: *A, C, D AND E*

[@cubeofcheese5574]

Well Andrew shifted everything to be in the same key

[@pingozingo]

Weeknd took the E from end and put it in his songs

[@smooshfanultra]

Blinding lights is in F minor.

[@noamgem4756]

i hug everyone who listens to this beat kzbin.info/www/bejne/b2aWpJilabh0gpI

[@31pas0]

@@smooshfanultra ...aaaand it was written by Max Martin

[@Danneleet]

And people wonder why alot of people can't stand pop radio music

[@simmydimmy]

ikr it all just sounds the same

[@jaytrain3692]

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.

[@RisingSol]

Dude I hate pop radio music with a burning passion

[@penguinaka8383]

I’m the 69th like

[@shmvon]

Are those two people referring to the same people?

[@joshbreekveldt3741]

Alternative title: "Andrew Huang smashes the D key".

[@scottnguyen9382]

"Andrew hits the D"

[@WillyJunior]

ya blew it. should've just said "smashes the D"

[@SreenikethanI]

@Billy _we need to keep it PG_

[@jpbostonian]

*PH Intro Plays*

[@quentinjohnston5419]

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.

[@RiffsAndBeards]

Never heard the term SUpertonic before. Only Major 2 or 9. Amazing video!

[@Rain593]

Tonic Supertonic Mediant Subdominant Dominant Submediant Leading tone Every note in the scale has a stupid name like this.

[@LychkovIA]

Nice to see you in the comment section, Fluff! Yeah, before Andrew explained what that means I was like... A supertonic?! What's that?!!

[@2raddude]

Riffs, Beards & Gear the other ones have names too! In order from 1-7 it goes: tonic, supertonic, mediant, subdominant, dominant, submediant, and subtonic.

[@btat16]

@@Rain593 Subtonic: *cries in the corner*

[@ashoka9306]

it's part of functional harmony, which tries to describe how the notes and their chords work in relation to one another in a progression.

[@setmason1510]

imagine the record companies fighting over which one will take the money this video makes lol

[@benwright3367]

Except most of these songs are owned by one super corporation.

[@tykobray4132]

you can play any song or movie you want on youtube. you just have to criticize it. there have been entire reposts of movies with a fake cinema seating and a dude down the front that yells out how crap the movie is.

[@taylrthegreat]

Whoop post Malone got this one lol

[@alexvoll1873]

Oh my god he put what I've noticed for a while into a scholarly presentation

[@rwrunning1813]

I love when that happens. 5:44 Oh, yeah. I know what this is going to be. Katy Perry Never Re- YEEEEEEEAAAAAHHHHHHH LET'S GOOOOOOOOO

[@AxxLAfriku]

I STRONGLY DISAGREE! Being as famous as I am on KZbin, I know that it gets hard to read every comment I get. I try my best, but I am just so famous, that I can't do it much longer. Sorry, dear alex

[@GlitchComputer]

right!!!?

[@WeAreROLI]

Thanks for using LUMI Keys in the vid 🙏🙏🙏

[@JAL_EDM]

When the official ROLI channel gets ignored :(

[@AlexPies1]

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

[@landonvincent7974]

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

[@Andriale]

Landon Vincent it was a joke i believe

[@feather6502]

I was looking for someone to mention this lol

[@nobody-sv9xo]

I mean he made the song...

[@lockyourdoors5886]

SO THAT'S WHAT IT WAS CRAP I COULDN'T REMEMBER

[@karol_k]

Musicians be like: D D D D D D D D D D D D C D

[@matejmihelec3439]

RE RE RE RE RE RE RE RE RE RE

[@bennybooboobear3940]

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.

[@spyrix4750]

@@bennybooboobear3940 musicians be like: SUPERTONIC SUPERTONIC SUPERTONIC SUPERTONIC SUPERTONIC SUPERTONIC SUPERTONIC SUPERTONIC SUPERTONIC SUPERTONIC SUPERTONIC SUPERTONIC SUPERTONIC SUPERTONIC TONIC SUPERTONIC

[@muffinszss]

@@spyrix4750 LMAO

[@tonyroman6991]

There is one impostor among us

[@petergaley314]

When you have to pay to unlock more than one note on your autotune plugin

[@ChaosRayZero]

So far the first comment today to make me _actually laugh out loud!_ 😄👍

[@CaptainJohn]

@@ChaosRayZero Same!

[@jonathangardner6688]

@@ChaosRayZero same lol

[@eli.muskett8645]

I like your profile picture✌️

[@thedopeassshow7795]

I really appreciate how your videos just go straight into the meat of it. Very underrated thing that.

[@buchogmars7769]

Andrew: In pop music, D is the most popular note. Undertale fans:

[@Megasaphire]

Hahaha.... SKELETON

[@Nai_101]

I don't get it

[@javym1431]

D is used a lot in undertale music such as megalovania

[@Nai_101]

@@javym1431 ah, i see

[@Nerine98]

@@javym1431 SO THAT'S WHY IT NEVER SOUNDS BAD

[@jaimeeoww]

Quick summary: why are they using this note so much? It fits with anything (basically it's easy mode for melody writing)

[@rodrigoodonsalcedocisneros4419]

Yeah, laziness at its finest. Tells you how highly producers and artists think of their fans' intellect

[@9kanima]

@@rodrigoodonsalcedocisneros4419 No its because using only one note gives listeners the freedom of interpretation. thats why using single notes are so powerful right now.

[@sharadsemilo]

@@9kanima can you please elaborate?

[@9kanima]

@@sharadsemilo lets say you Are listening to a single sine wave. If you do that you will come to realize that There is no motion or emotions so to say which will lead the Listener to Come up with their own Interpretation which are formed by Their own experiences. A single note is a lower Form of emptiness or Chaos where order can Take place, but must not(but will most likely). Thats why its so Popular too. it's easier to Connect to or in Other words it has a higher range of audience vice versa.

[@Moosemoose1]

@@9kanima you can have freedom of interpretation with anything, the use of the supertone is a marketing trick to reach the lowest common denominator to maximize profits. This "music's" not about experimentation or soul, its about making money unfortunately.

[@shamardaniel4819]

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.

[@ncjake8916]

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.

[@mixolydian9102]

😂🤣😂🤣😂😆💯

[@shamardaniel4819]

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.😂

[@TheZooropaBaby]

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

[@albertoromeo8522]

(But I’m not a rapper)

[@petter2849]

You nailed it Andrew. Pop music will be listened to in a very different way after watching this video.

[@libremercadoencrisiseconom2118]

painful way

[@marcc375]

They all should sue each other for copyright infringement.

[@ChaosRayZero]

I love it when the profile pic matches the comment! ^_^

[@xxSk8ing4christxx]

This is literally like that scene from Rick and Morty when Jerry was listen to "Human Music" on "Earth Radio."

[@AjSmit1]

. ∙ . | . ∙ . | . ∙ . | . ∙ . |

[@TheWheatless]

I feel like a door just opened, realizing what “that” sound is

[@jomesias]

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

[@GarethThomasTunes]

Feels like that scene where John Malkovich fell through a portal into his own mind and everything was Malkovich.

[@juhanainen]

Malkovich, Malkovich, Malkovich. Malkovich!! Malkovich?

[@SynthApprentice]

... Malkovich?

[@EpixManz]

Nathan V MALKOVICH!!!

[@ThatSockmonkey]

@@EpixManz malkovich MALKOVICH malkovich *MALkovich*

[@gmspec]

This video is so informative but shows the authenticity all of us music producers can relate to! Big up Andrew for this one ✅

[@HappyFingaz]

hey andrew, you've probably already talked about this, but i'd love if you revisted the "loudness war". i watched a video of a mastering engineer talking about recent changes in the the way that streaming services such as spotify handle loudness of tracks - apparently songs max loudness is now based on the catogory (genre) of which the song is uploaded - which the engineer said completely changes the way that artist should be approaching their mix & master. would love to hear you speak on this topic

[@jersute]

agreed. i've had insipid discussions about which flavor of edm/metal tracks are based solely on compression/loudness and reference levels in dj mixes

[@arborealsquid2380]

Agreed, that would be awesome.

[@steffenherold754]

Interesting, didn't know they had changed this. Do you have a link for this video?

[@Ferrichrome]

I'd love to see the video as well haha

[@Motekk67]

Jon Sine made a video on this recently

[@SzilviaVirag]

Good observation! It explains why I got bored of music last year and thought all the new stuff sounded the same!

[@JustinY.]

It would have been insane if you only spoke with words that contained the letter "D"

[@Mumkeylord]

hello there

[@stickyglue1234]

No way at the time I read this comment it only had 6 likes

[@fluffartistt]

I've saw you so much, you got a music channel theme today?

[@Rafa-mv4nn]

No way it's the legendary Justin Y! Never thought I would see you appear on an Andrew Huang video.

[@rohinagrawal9727]

lol

[@fen4554]

It really drives it home since he's using the Ariel of soundfonts here.

[@disgustof-riley]

Arial

[@mellowords]

😂 well said, the midi piano D was really annoying about halfway in

[@bien.mp4]

which one is it

[@mellowords]

@@bien.mp4 'grand piano 1'

[@Sc4r4byte]

A missed title opportunity: "Why is pop music obsessed with The D?"

[@tjnotico]

not really accurate

[@dariocaporuscio8701]

It's actually a wrong title. It's not D, but the 2nd note of the scale. It's only D if we are in C Major, like in the example he made (transposing every song in C). For example if the song is in G major, that note (the second note of the scale) becomes A

[@steweeez]

Sc4r4byte let’s be obsessed with da B ..

[@rasputozen]

@@dariocaporuscio8701 Aaaaaakchually most of these songs also happen to be in C so it's still a right title :)

[@Fabi-es1xy]

Hanz Zimmer also loves the D, damn they re all the same xD

[@Yaniza]

this is so fascinating!! "fly away (free bird)" does this too!!! I definitely didn't do it on purpose because I never really learned theory. but now I know why it's doing so well lol :D

[@kaipark1649]

this video is brief bits of super educational talking periods interrupted with long sections of exposing popular artists and i love it

[@Tarikrptls]

I think it is because Dorian is the true "zero" mode. Its symmetrical by inversion and by tetrachords and in the center of the modal spectrum and all of that. Great video!!

[@Nightmoore]

Yeah, I've heard people describe Dorian like that - but I just don't see it. It's the second mode built off the 2nd note of a major scale. And it also has a minor 3rd which makes the whole key minor. Ionian has to be the real zero mode. It unlocks everything in the natural 7 modes.

[@Blondesax]

Stephen Harrell Yeah, but it’s the middle mode on the spectrum and that scores a lot of points in my book. Even so, I don’t recall any of these songs using a dorian tonality.

[@n1kolaidisv]

The Weekend: That's a lot of supertonic. But I love it.

[@rickytorres4017]

Just came to say this about the thumbnail: That keyboard is very gay and I want it

[@fabriceducouret5631]

Katy Perry: "Hold my beer"

[@syundown6005]

Is- is that a pun?

[@rudbears]

The Weeknd*

[@ashissiiick9682]

I stopped watching Andrew for a hot minute and I come back and he does theory thursdays now?! I've been missing out!!!