I Literally did and he was called Mr Power, which is one of the best names a jolly, old and hyper man could possibly have. Also, he wasn't bothered if you called him andy (which is his real name), we had dull morning assemblies and he would just camp out in the music rooms to avoid them. But, occasionally he would play music while people entered and left the assembly hall and he would just jam out on a piano or guitar and improvise it as he went along.
I actually did this to the mechanical doorbell in my first house by shaving down one of the metal bars, changing the two-tone descending P5 into an º5, and it was AWESOME! (To be fair, I had recently taken my first ever full-time job teaching music theory and composition at a community college, so thrills had to be cheap and/or easy, but still…)
My dishwasher does something like this. When you turn it on it makes that perfect 5th sound, then if you want it to just start with whatever is inside you can press 'auto', and it makes the second tone from the diminished 5th - So turn on the dishwasher then immediately press auto, and it makes the 'highly effective doorbell' sound! And you are left wondering if you will ever get your dishes back.
I am impressed at the freshness and relevance of Bill's material, in spite of how long ago it came out. Hard to believe it's been 12 years since my teenage self eagerly bought this on DVD.
4th and 5th's are named "perfect" intervals because of the mathematical relationship between the frequencies - they are the most symmetrical of any intervals. This was discovered by Pythagoras in ancient Greece. I have an expensive paper that proves I learned all this useless shit (music degree), lolll
I'm probably not the only 1 who finds facts like that interesting, so it can't be 'useless'; knowledge has a purpose of enrichment, making life, & people, less banal.
I met him in Devon where he comes from. I'm a builder and was working on a house in Blackawton, he sauntered over, we had a chat and off he went. Nice as pie(or pasty), I had no idea who he was. A few days later Jeff Beck did the same thing, I talked to him for ages, no idea who he was. They both knew who I was, a builder, but they took the time.
Play C, G, F# for instant evil..........its root, fifth and the flattened fifth (or augmented fourth as Bill says) in any scale. Was waiting for an old girlfriend in a music shop (she was rooting around for flute music) and when she FINALLY came over to me I played the devil's interval on an acoustic guitar I was holding. She wasn't impressed...........
C, F sharp, F natural - what it now requires is for someone to expand that into a longer melody so it can be set it as a mobile phone ringtone - creep out everyone in the vicinity :D
Interesting point. The C64 version borrowed _directly_ from Chopin (Prelude in C Minor / Op. 28, No. 20). This information is easy enough to find as are the themes which can be compared. But, I see similarities in any case. The C64 theme reminds _me_ of something else... but I can't quite place it. Not sure if Chopin, himself, was drawing from some other tune (or perhaps I am _not quite_ remembering a tune that draws from Chopin as well...).
@netsight haha bill bailey is my 2nd religion of course, with guitar being the 3rd and football being the 4th....and yeah its the scientologists who have the strangest ideas :P
The tritone wasn't actually banned from anything at any point in time. Its name Diabolus in musica is a rather recent invention and has always been tongue-in-cheek.
The "devil's interval" is a pretty normal, often used interval. It's a tritone (or as Bill says a diminished fifth or augmented fourth) and its name "diabolus in musica" is a rather recent invention, a tongue-in-cheek one at that. It was considered an unstable interval and was usually resolved almost immediately in classical music, but it was never banned. Hell, the Lydian mode (which is one of the original Gregorian (church) modes) is even defined by having an augmented fourth instead of a perfect one.
"Step away Obediah! The devil dwells within!" Snort! I am completely in love with Bill Bailey.
Imagine having person like this as your music teacher.
I would be a musical prodigy.
Nobody would fail
The number of Chart topping bands from the UK would have definitely increased lol
Had one pretty darn close :)
I Literally did and he was called Mr Power, which is one of the best names a jolly, old and hyper man could possibly have. Also, he wasn't bothered if you called him andy (which is his real name), we had dull morning assemblies and he would just camp out in the music rooms to avoid them. But, occasionally he would play music while people entered and left the assembly hall and he would just jam out on a piano or guitar and improvise it as he went along.
I actually did this to the mechanical doorbell in my first house by shaving down one of the metal bars, changing the two-tone descending P5 into an º5, and it was AWESOME! (To be fair, I had recently taken my first ever full-time job teaching music theory and composition at a community college, so thrills had to be cheap and/or easy, but still…)
He's such a random mix of clever and ridiculous
Yes, that's what makes him rather unique and at the same time one wants to take him home like a big teddy bear (or a big kid) and cuddle him.....lol!
Clever and ridiculous mix wel for a comedian
Almost 900,000 views on a sketch about a doorbell, that's the genius of Bill Bailey!
This is absolutely Brilliant.
690,000 subs, not bad
* *Bill* iant
@Stormtrooper1488 or quite a low number of new views who check the comments, and this reply, in the space of a month...
I feel like watching every Bill Bailey clip on TH-cam and commenting “Bill Bailey is so underrated, he deserves more recognition” in-fact I might !
My dishwasher does something like this. When you turn it on it makes that perfect 5th sound, then if you want it to just start with whatever is inside you can press 'auto', and it makes the second tone from the diminished 5th - So turn on the dishwasher then immediately press auto, and it makes the 'highly effective doorbell' sound! And you are left wondering if you will ever get your dishes back.
1:42 First time I've heard a heckler use the heathen card.
He shouted out 'Evil!' because Bill has another great, funny song (from his earlier stand-up tour) that is based on evil.
You are wrong.
I am impressed at the freshness and relevance of Bill's material, in spite of how long ago it came out. Hard to believe it's been 12 years since my teenage self eagerly bought this on DVD.
My mum bought this when I was around 10 - 13 years old. And we watched this sooo often because he has such a different approach to comedy
A doorbell to deter unwanted visitors? 😂 I want one.. maybe two? I so want a friend like him 😂
4th and 5th's are named "perfect" intervals because of the mathematical relationship between the frequencies - they are the most symmetrical of any intervals. This was discovered by Pythagoras in ancient Greece. I have an expensive paper that proves I learned all this useless shit (music degree), lolll
I'm probably not the only 1 who finds facts like that interesting, so it can't be 'useless'; knowledge has a purpose of enrichment, making life, & people, less banal.
Except the intervals vary with every key!
@@stephensmith799 Pythagorean commas, anyone?
Mr.Bailey,....be warned. You are quickly becoming my favorite comedian and I AM a musician with a twisted sense of humor.
I am inflamed with sexual lust...
😂👍
is it a this kind of lettchherrous lust th-cam.com/video/m4wzJZdmelA/w-d-xo.html ??
coming from another musician, his "distinction" between diminished and augmented is doubly awesome. :)
Extremely talented! You're a legend bill, keep doing what you're doing! 👍🏼
I learned more about music on this one short clip than I ever did in school.
Going to watch his show tonight at Manchester area, first time seeing him live, long time fan of his comic genius 😁
He has a very unique approach to Humour and music👍
Hilarious... loved this guy as Manny in Black Books! I miss that show!
If I could choose a brother or a dad or a step dad for my children...i would choose someone like this man.
So nice, I liked it twice.
Who da Pope? I da Pope. Who da Pope? I da Pope.
See- this is what a champ he is. He fucked up the interval when demonstrating the devil's doorbell, and fixed it with out anyone noticing.
Totally agree. That would make a great doorbell ring.
Man, I want the pope's doorbell.
I met him in Devon where he comes from. I'm a builder and was working on a house in Blackawton, he sauntered over, we had a chat and off he went. Nice as pie(or pasty), I had no idea who he was. A few days later Jeff Beck did the same thing, I talked to him for ages, no idea who he was. They both knew who I was, a builder, but they took the time.
Gosh, I want that doorbell now!
love this guy in little black book, i wish the show stayed a little more longer. i want to thank you guys for my making me laugh.😊
Just "Black Books", not "Little Black Book". Great series.
I want one of these as my new doorbell ringtone!😂👍
The man is a genius.
Brilliant as always
OK, so the Council of Trent did NOT ban any musical chord, or call it the "devil's chord"... but this is still hilarious.
He seems a great music teacher
And, 40 years later, he still looks exactly the same..
he's a bloody genius !!
Skip to 1:50, 0.25 playback speed...
Lost art of keeping a secret - QOTSA 👍🏻
Now I see why Rachel Riley has a crush on him.
When my hair goes into slap mode, I'm deffo getting a Bill Bailey slap head
music theory in 10 secs with the wonderful Bill Bailey
Brilliant.
Musical GENIUS!!😃😃😃😃
Quite simply, Genius!
Gorgeous
WOW, didn't know that Bill is also Father James Mitchell (The Sinister Minister (Wrestling Manager))!
on a different level
Play C, G, F# for instant evil..........its root, fifth and the flattened fifth (or augmented fourth as Bill says) in any scale. Was waiting for an old girlfriend in a music shop (she was rooting around for flute music) and when she FINALLY came over to me I played the devil's interval on an acoustic guitar I was holding. She wasn't impressed...........
I hope you told her WHY she wasn't impressed - in musical terms......
She did not have a tri tone fascination 🤷
C, F sharp, F natural - what it now requires is for someone to expand that into a longer melody so it can be set it as a mobile phone ringtone - creep out everyone in the vicinity :D
Ermm... 1:51 C, G, F sharp?
The GOAT
Bit of trivia for you. Black Sabbath used the Devils interval on their debut album and song 'Black Sabbath'
Hilarious musical lesson
how come on all of the interweb i cant find bill bailey singing 'creep', i am sure i ve seen it before , it wasnt a dream
Comedy genius. The Gregorian Chant Coronation Street cracked me up
"Who da pope? I'm da pope!" new ringtone, methinks!
I'd love to see Bill Bailey and Clint Mansell do a sci-fi film soundtrack together
Such a clever entertainer
The coronation street bit -hilarious!
1:53 is what the beginning of Nightmare by A7X sounds like lol
Music in Twin Peaks uses a lot of the devils interval
So does the Simpsons theme!
so does most things
The tritone really says that the devil is allways up and down,plus and minus,male and female,ying and yang etc. etc...
2:16 The distinguishing listener will realise that this is basically the theme from "ghosts and goblins" for the c64 ...
Interesting point.
The C64 version borrowed _directly_ from Chopin (Prelude in C Minor / Op. 28, No. 20). This information is easy enough to find as are the themes which can be compared.
But, I see similarities in any case. The C64 theme reminds _me_ of something else... but I can't quite place it. Not sure if Chopin, himself, was drawing from some other tune (or perhaps I am _not quite_ remembering a tune that draws from Chopin as well...).
The pope´s doorbell kicks flippin butt !
Ah, the Council of Trent.
That was a pretty decent council, if I say so myself.
Bill is as always fantastic
I THINK he should be The head Treaige nurse for us in our time of CRISIS LOL:/
Who da pope i da pope. That had me in tears i could not breath.
I want that doorbell
@netsight haha bill bailey is my 2nd religion of course, with guitar being the 3rd and football being the 4th....and yeah its the scientologists who have the strangest ideas :P
I had no idea he was so talented.
He way he just jumps right in at the end haha
2:08 oh lmao thats the start of the team rocket base theme
2:08 my new doorbell
2:17 The Pope's Doorbell
Thanks I really couldn't sit through 3 minutes
FABULOUS SOUND---I COULD LISTEN TO IT FOR AN AGE
This dude's hair is a fire hazard
At 2:16 I was suddenly transported into Final Fantasy IX
Begone Weeb! REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Nice.
bailey. excellent as ever
Who da pope, I da pope. LMFAO
Good old Jon Lord's laughing in Heaven. Or near it.
Good Lord!! Eureka!!
The tritone wasn't actually banned from anything at any point in time. Its name Diabolus in musica is a rather recent invention and has always been tongue-in-cheek.
The Pope's doorbell is impractical, but magestic.
Clever, clever man.
Anyone else notice that "evil" doorbell is the start of the Digimon theme?
Till number 5 is now opening
The master ;)
I want one of those doorbells where can you buy them from?
Great guy and very very funny
Does anyone know what he’s playing at the end when he’s doing the church run down sound?
I already have the most popular visitor-deterring doorbell in the world: no doorbell
i did not know that the pope had a door bell very funny from bill bailey how different doorbells made difference
Didn't Black Sabbath use something along those lines in their song "Black Sabbath"?
Yes that's exactly what they did - G, then a G in the next octave followed by a diminished fifth (sometimes with a hammer-on on guitar)
Kyle J. Whitehead Yup, heavy metal literally started with the "Devil's Chord"
Indeed they did, although at the end of the phrase, it goes to a perfect fifth, but *way* after the fact..
The "devil's interval" is a pretty normal, often used interval. It's a tritone (or as Bill says a diminished fifth or augmented fourth) and its name "diabolus in musica" is a rather recent invention, a tongue-in-cheek one at that. It was considered an unstable interval and was usually resolved almost immediately in classical music, but it was never banned. Hell, the Lydian mode (which is one of the original Gregorian (church) modes) is even defined by having an augmented fourth instead of a perfect one.
Any time I see him, I just picture Rachel Riley stalking him from behind stage.
Why lol
I don't even need Bill - I just spend my entire life picturing Rachel Riley ;)
nice one bill lol ding dong 2019
2:17 brilliant - perfect doorbell for jehovah witnesses next time they try my neck of the woods! :)~
BLACK SABBBATHHHHH!
Anyone know what the actual song that is for the popes doorbell?
Jamie Rees why yes! it's improv by bill bailey ;)
It wasn't a song, it was just an improv in A minor he did...
Sandstorm-Darude
Sounded very Bach-esque to me...
He should have used the diminished fifth here 0:17 Would have been perfect!
Who da pope ? I'm da pope !
At 1:43 someone yells heathen after the tritone
Or it could have been "EVIL"! It's hard to hear....
A funny man witty,intelligent too
What is the name of song ''pope's doorbell''
Prelude And Fugue In D Major, BWV. 532
What is the type of music he starts playing at 2:16?
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