My first guitar teacher was the first person I met who was a dangerously badass looking dude and an intellectual. As well as being an amazing musician. During my first lesson he said to me, "Minor doesn't have to sound sad, the tritone doesn't have to sound evil, and pop music doesn't have to be liked." That had a major impact on me later in my life when I understood what he meant! Also Adam, best video yet!
I guess one could look at that statement in two ways: One - my teacher was referring to me as a listener. I don't have to follow my friends and like the pop music they listen to. Two - Pop Music could also mean a style of music. Music that aims to be liked by many. Usually keeping a simple form, expectations, fashionable, and so on.
I failed badly at learning music theory because there was no context to the course material. It was like trying to learn a foreign language, without ever being told what the words you are learning actually mean. Your channel changes all that.
@@ReviewPimpUSA Not at all necessary. I've personally found that my learning experience rewards exploration with an instrument a lot when learning theory, and demystifying the process by daring to break out of the usual academic style of learning can yield good results. Not to mention that there's an abundance of material covering nearly any relevant topic. Channels like Adam's, Rick Beato, Sideways and 8-bit Music Theory have excellent resources, both well produced and explained.
Because it's red? Dude, you are falling for a meme. (Red is just the root chakra color related to existential basis so we associate it with animalistic drives beyond higher brain functions and the highly indoctrinated and thus fear-driven mind thus associates it with the Devil.)
I have to admit, when I saw the title, I thought: 'Oh god, here we go again - another repetition of this tired anecdote '. But then I thought 'Adam wouldn't phone it in like that'... and you didn't.
So....."The Devil in the music...." is more like the common phrase today "the devil in the details" since in the way back days, saying "This tri tone thing is a hell of a thing to work with when composing music!" would not have been said or written since "hell" was not a word to be lightly used in "polite" society or around children. This was a wonderful video and i thank you for making it and sharing!
@@nialljasper2481 does it really matter if it's a well thought, well researched, well done video, with the main intent of teaching something interesting?
@@THEPELADOMASTER It's just cool, because many youtube artists would stretch it to 10 minutes, but he doesn't give a fuck about that. And the video is of course very well made :D
As a lecturer in music theory and professional musician, what a delight to hear someone who actually knows what they're talking about. This is sadly a rare event on the internet, where music is concerned.
@@georgeantonioandrei8570 to prove whether Tritone is evil would be entering into the supernatural and it’s not scientific evidence if that’s what you’re looking for. But if you’re a religious person then yea, certain sounds do evoke spirits
^^^@Rusminin .. Caprice No 24 by Paganini is the tribute you maybe looking for, it's Possibly the Greatest Piece of Violin Music Ever and Was More than likely Put together By None Other than "Satan the Devil For Nickola Paganini" Ha!!! :P] .v (Nmcfmamf) ..
Hi Adam, you are a music theorist with an interest in cognitive science and I am a cognitive (neuro)scientist with an interest in music theory - I've been watching everything you publish and I'd like to take this chance to say a huge thanks! I've been meaning to write to you for a while to suggest a tritone video and I like the direction you took it but I thought you would find the scientific literature interesting also. In the late '60s Roger Shepard developed "Shepard tones" composed of ten octave-related harmonics constrained by a Gaussian amplitude envelope (loudest sounds in the middle of the scale). These create a series of cool illusions that might be a great video in their own right such as eternally ascending sounds used by Godspeed you Black Emperor, Pink Floyd and others. It turns out, thanks in the late '80s to Diana Deutsch's research at UCSD that when you play a pair of these back to back which are built on scale degrees a tritone apart people either hear an upward pitch motion or a downward but not both. This is called the tritone paradox and has to do with the brain's process of binding of co-occurring sounds into single sources. I.e. because the sounds all hit us at the same time we perceive there to be only one instrument and we assume all available sounds are a part of the same overtone series (this is in itself a pretty cool branch of acoustic neuroscience). Here is Deutsch's website with some examples: philomel.com/mp3/musical_illusions/Tritone_paradox.mp3 Deutsch continued to expriment and found that each individual hears some tritone-related shepard tone pairs as ascending and some as descending and this is consistent, differs between individuals, is correlated with region, etc. lots of cool stuff. Here's where I come in. In 2011 I was preparing to conduct an EEG neuroscience thesis for my degree at Reed College in Oregon. I had been looking into the literature on bistable images (like the necker cube, a wire-frame cube which can be seen as having either of two faces as the front) and wondered whether there was such a thing as a bistable sound. I found the tritone paradox and with a little modification I was able to adapt it for EEG. The neuroscience research on bistable images is extensive but to my knowledge this was the first attempt on the auditory system. We found exactly what we were hoping for, signals which were analogous to the visual signals with slightly different scalp distributions, and we proved that the tritone paradox is a true bisatable sound along the way. Why is this relevent to your devil theme? Well to do the experiment I put 20 of my friends into a dark, low-ceiling, faraday cage of a room and played each of them the tritone paradox 300+ times while they stared for hours at a white + sign on a black computer screen. Not fun. The work was later expanded, refined and published in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. You can check it out here; graydavidson.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Davidson-Pitts-EEG-Neuroscience-Bistable.pdf Thanks for taking the time to read this and feel free to contact me if you're ever in need of some deeper neuroscience type research!
2:00 repeated over and over on the internet 3:14 hexachords C F G 4:12 semantic shift Dante Liszt Used in police sirens 6:25 satie sought to achieve boredom in music 7:25 Tartini, the devil, and the blues 8:35 blue note = lesser septimal tritone
Yeah, the song "Black Sabbath" from the album Black Sabbath by the band Black Sabbath is a great track. I also like the song "Motorhead" from the album Motorhead by the band Motorhead.
@@SorooshMhs Didn't know about this one. Guess it's a metal thing. Makes sense tho... if you find a good phrase, you might was well get as much mileage or of it as possible.
Frank Zappa loved to use tritones in humorous ways. And he was real good at it as well. Especially in his later synclavier pieces - many songs on Civilization Phase 3 for example. Or sometimes his used to twist things up in little happy ways with tritones, like in his piece The Girl In The Magnesium Dress. No evilness for miles!
People need to remember the tritone is what makes the Lydian mode what it is, too. And if they're not convinced, they've never listened to much Zappa or Vai.
Should listen to Tyler the creators bastard song, legit in his first line he says "this is what the devil plays before he goes to sleep" while a tritone is playing
@Bryon Allen Evil begets evil. We should not have even bombed them, But we should have bombed them with Bibles. So many Bibles that they had no choice hardly but read it.
Who do you Think The Devil works for You? you Gonna Point yo finger at The Devil tooooo woman? That shit Don't really work... Every Guardian in Heaven or Hell Knows Who Caused Yo Fate. it was Never any Devil it was always us... by our choice. so what now.. Put yo crime on Jesus... right not That shit don't work Either... you Pick up yo cross n Runnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn The Innocent Have no Crimes to Pay for... There ain't no Innocent Human Beings. Better find yo Mind quick Pick up yo Cross woman. You are a Guardian.. is That not still True. own it. Fix it... just can't Blame others. WE Defend our Children not Crucify Them for our salvation... our last Measure is Given for Them to Live and find Their Path Home. Do yo Job Guardian find yo path n run Hierophant.
Don’t take the brown note... The brown note that is circulating around us isn't too good. It is suggested that you stay away from that. Of course it's your own trip. So be my guest, but please be advised that there is a warning on that one, ok?"
Textbook 10min lecture; filled with cold hard facts, a few anecdotes and multimedia examples. Lots to learn here people! (I have an MA in Renaissance vocal polyphony, and I learned some stuff today)
Wow what a great job you’ve done explaining “The Devils Third”. I learned of this years ago in reference to Black Sabbath but I could never find anything more on the topic and believed like many others that it had been banned in medieval times. Thanks for clearing up so much of the history, how it’s applied in music (besides just Black Sabbath references) and giving examples in a multitude of music genres and historical applications. Well done!
Gian Berselli Dude, I look back at my earlier reply and I don't even know what I wanted to say... sorry I came across like such a smartass, I think what I meant to say is that as opposed to the locrian mode the lydian mode sounds mysterious and dreamy because even if it has a tritone it also has a perfect fifth, which makes it a lot more stable.
@@gayboi8049 just place one finger on a certain fret on a string and place the other finger on the string above and a fret ahead, and strum those two strings(in standard 4th interval tunings)
Dude. TH-cam officially can read my thoughts. I was doing interval training and notice how ridiculously dark and mysterious the Tri tone was, then this video was in my recommended.
Interesting you got a article about that to recommend. In general most Ministries stole from the poor and give nothing back from the millions that they steal
I live two blocks away from a railroad and it's surprising how many trains use the tritone as its horn. Everytime I start to feel a little unconfortable at home... I realise that a tritone is coming... :P
My favourite use of the tritone interval is in the opening to One-Winged Angel; or Sephiroth's Theme. So the tritone might not summon the devil IRL but it does in the Final Fantasy universe.
Fun fact, the tritone interval used at the beginning of One-Winged Angel was inspired by the opening of Purple Haze by Hendrix, according to the composer Nobuo Uematsu himself.
That might be exactly his point. Just as people associate the tritone with the devil and evil, people associate dark, gloomy red with the devil and evil. But neither of them are inherently "evil". They have both just acquired that meaning through years of cutural association and linking of "evil" to them. Maybe he also subtly implied advocating for a broader perception of the colour red ^^
This has to go onto an "advice animal"-style image with Adam's head in the middle =D (or the evil advice mallard or something; not sure, I'm not meme-ing hard enogh :P)
This was super interesting- I saw a comment of the “devils chord” via the behind the lyrics section on the song ‘ghost town’. You explained perfectly what that was!
@@AceEarthTwo35 Ezekiel 28:13 LOG INREGISTER Christian Chat Was satan the angel of music? Thread starterSpiritualized Start dateJul 20, 2014 1 of 2 Next Last Jul 20, 2014 #1 S Spiritualized Member I heard something about satan being the angel of music in heaven before his fall and being cast out. Can't seem to find any scripture in the Bible that supports this. Some reference in Ezekiel but it is not clear to me. I also read elsewhere in a online discussion about this that no where in the Bible does it say that satan was the angel of music but rather mention of this is fiction and from John Milton's Paradise Lost. I realize that there are no Christian musical instruments only the person playing the instrument that can make music Christian (serving to glorify God and build up the body of Christ). Music is indeed very powerful, and in the wrong hands can have dangerous influences over people. What does the Bible say about satan being the angel of music and about good/bad music in general? Jul 20, 2014 #2 Geri7 Well-Known Member Spiritualized said: I heard something about satan being the angel of music in heaven before his fall and being cast out. Can't seem to find any scripture in the Bible that supports this. Some reference in Ezekiel but it is not clear to me. I also read elsewhere in a online discussion about this that no where in the Bible does it say that satan was the angel of music but rather mention of this is fiction and from John Milton's Paradise Lost. I realize that there are no Christian musical instruments only the person playing the instrument that can make music Christian (serving to glorify God and build up the body of Christ). Music is indeed very powerful, and in the wrong hands can have dangerous influences over people. What does the Bible say about satan being the angel of music and about good/bad music in general? Click to expand... Ezekiel 28:13 Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created. Tabrets are some type of musical instrument. Satan also had pipes inside him and before he sinned when he spoke he actually sang the words. Here is another reference of Tabrets used to make music I Samuel 18:6 - "And it came to pass as they came, when David was returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, that the women came out of all cities and Israel, singing and dancing, to meet kind Saul, with tabrets, with joy, and with instruments of music.
1:49 "The tritone, that's the devil's NOTE" god i'm not even that deep into music theory but hearing an interval get called a note is making me feel shit
I seriously hope he was just simplifying it for the interviewer because calling it a note makes me cringe. Although his basslines tend to use the b5 of the scale a lot so maybe he just meant the note a tritone above the root
This was really good and well researched! As a guitarist I always heard the tritone was “banned” in Medieval times too. Damn, they lied to me - fake news! Thanks for your excellent presentation of the topic, I learned a lot! Never realized the “blue note” in the blues scale (which is the basis of blues / rock / pop guitar) creates a 7:5 tritone - the guitar geek in me finds that fascinating. That explains the dissonant, but not too dissonant, unresolved quality of the blue note.
It’s about creating a frequency with an instrument to open mental and spiritual changes which can allow negative and positive effects. Sound is powerful and seeing is believing.
Hi Adam - great video as usual. Have you heard of the Tritone Paradox? It's an auditory illusion where 2 Shepard tones, separated by a tritone, are played one after the other. Some people hear the 1st as being higher in pitch than the 2nd, some people will hear the 2nd being higher than the 1st.
Very thorough explanation and (brief) examination of the subject. The amount of information given on the topic was impressive and appreciated. As were the all of the additional bits of historical facts surrounding this mysterious item called the Tritone. So thank you.
He showed a picture saying demagogue used to mean popular leader and now means tyrant which is funny because tyrant underwent a similar shift. It used to just mean king, and became associated with people like Oedipus and a lot of Darius I who gave it a bad name.
Well, I just had to like to like your video because week you really do know what you're talking about... It's hard to find someone who knows what they're talking about on TH-cam... Good work
In indian culture they consider the tritone a sweet and charming note. For example is a really strong note in raga yaman, the first raga the student learn.
That's true because the prati madhyama to shadja relation is a just major second (9/8) and a just major third (5/4), which gives a total of 45/32 - a harmonic ratio easily and joyfully deciphered by our brain. BTW Perotin's (or Machaut's) tritone should have been pyphagorean, much more dissonant (even the pyphagorean major third with the ratio of 81/64 was actually more dissonant than the Indian augmented fourth, that's why the third was not very widely used before Dufay). The tuning system is crucial indeed, and the tritone is one of the victims most hurt by the twelve-tone equal temperament.
I got to the page about tritones in "Your Brain On Music" (Levitin) and searched it here for supplementary material. Was really happy to see you'd covered this. The use of the tritone in blues never would've occurred to me, thank you for including that. You are the music theory hero we all need but don't deserve. Please never stop making these! 🧠💥
I actually like the sound of the tritone quite a lot, especially when it's used creatively. Glad to hear I'm not some Satan-worshipping demon-summoning hellchild because of it.
I rather like it in avatar the last Airbender anytime azula makes an appearance. It always gives you a kind of unnerving vibe like something's not right
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Next you'll be telling us Paganini was buried in hallowed ground. Party-pooper! Hey while we're on outrageous stories from the crypt of classical music, is it a myth that Chopin only shaved the side of his face that would be seen in a recital? Dude must have looked really rad walking around with half a beard!
Mance Broome II only jazz passages built on tritones are evil. Play the interval Db-F-G. A tritone chord which sounds utterly wicked. But, rearrange the tones as G-Db-F. Same notes but an entirely different character, even if not yet reassuring. The latter sequence can easily be seen within the context of an Eb maj 9 chord.
So said hardcore racist segregationists. That’s really where the who,e “devil in music” thing arose in America, “Devil” means “Black,” as in, “Oh, no, our white kids are listening to black music, we’re doomed!”
So I just found you accidentally. You are an extremely intelligent informative and entertaining person. I learn things that I never knew existed. Thank you
The thing about tritones in Renaissance counterpoint is not it was banned for being "evil", indeed, but because in the diatonic modal system it shouldn't be supposed to exist. There is no such thing as augmented intervals on the period, and the tritone is an augmented interval that >was part of the modes
Alternatively - and independently of any actual history - if you build scales by 'stacking fifths' (embedded within a twelve note system), you reach the Lydian mode of the diatonic (FCGDAEB - rearranged to FGABCDE, or CDEFGAB if you want the Ionian, 'major' mode) which includes an FB tritone. This is via the two preceding pentatonic (FCGDA - reordered to FGACD) and hexatonic (FCGDAE - reordered as FGACDE), neither of which contain tritones between any pairs of their notes (all their modes are consequently tritone-free). It is only when you introduce (or jam) a seventh note into a scaled octave that the scale becomes too 'crowded' to avoid introducing a tritone. But, as I say, this is just maths and nothing to do with actual history :)
Even without embedding it in a twelve note system - this this works in any tuning of stacked fifths, as long as there are more than six notes. The fifth-chain F-C-G-D-A-E-B is well defined with fifth sizes anywhere between 4\7 and 3\5 octave (roughly 686c and 720c). The augmented fourth gets bigger (and the diminished fifth smaller) as your fifths get bigger, so at 4\7, A4=P4, d5=P5 and at 3\5, A4=P5, P4=d5, and in between that, you have P4
Adam, I saw the whole video and I would like to say: Olivier Messiaen was a composer who used all the time tritones and he used the tritone...to praise God!. I also think about Igor Stravinsky. Or even Mahavishnu Orchestra. Also it depends on context. I remember one musical exercise 16 years ago my private musical teacher taught me: a musical dictation. She played D minor natural scale notes and in some point she played a tritone. At that time it sounded weird to me. But years later, for example, in an octatonic scale, a lydian scale, etc, tritones sound great!
Hey let's talk about how Old Town Road by Lil Nas X used tritones. what dat mean.. why did this of all things get so many like 2021 edit: oh. edit 2: listen, Christians in the replies i don't care lmao
People give the Devil too much credit . Tension and resolution is like storm then sunshine, it tells a story .... God Bless in Christ Name Be save be smart
@@vaughnmiller3896 .... For me to ignore your comment would be foolish . I will say this , our faith and existence is more than evil as in we are above it already , however I do recognized how delicate and Influential we are . So faith says there's is nothing to worry about , wisdom say we must still be vigilant and God says he will protect us through it all . My answer to you is Faith Balance and God . Thankyou for your feedback perspective is precious to me because its real . Love and Respect Peace and God Bless ... Christ ☝
Also "Devil" means "Slanderer". I wonder if the original meaning of "diobolus en musica" is lost on us, since western culture if the last 500 years or so immediately associates "Devil" with a red, spear-tailed satyr, and also "the devil in music" to mean "THE Devil". Does capitalization of proper nouns not matter in Latin? If it does, then "diobolus" could merely have the meaning of "annoying to implement and wild-sounding".
@@ks23770 The word, "devil" goes back to a word that means "slanderer." The Hebrew word, "satan" means "accuser." The Hebrew phrase, "Have Satan" means, "THE Accuser."
Hey Adam! Love your work, man. 'Been watching and commenting for quite some time now... Hope this will manage to get to Q&A! How about the Greek origin of the word? "dia" is the prefix for "mean" and "diabulus" is the word for "arithmetic mean". I don't remember if this is from Plato or Archimedes, but I think the latter. The tritone is the arithmetic mean, perfect, of an octave. Thus, "diabulus" in music. I know this was much before tonality and even tempered tuning, but could be linked to the origin of the tritone. Any comments on this? Sorry if I'm not very clear, English is not my native language, I wish I could explain this better! Keep up the good work! Bass!
Bruno Guimaraes Bertoni Sorry but your etymology is completely wrong. διά is a prefix that means through and βάλλω means throw. The verb διαβάλλω means slander and διάβολος is the noun form.
I use the tritone A LOT in the lydian mode. In my music, I usually start in the lydian mode and end in the lydian mode. It's very common actually and sounds pretty emotional and chill. I believe that the tritone used in the context of a lydian mode doesn't sound so dissonant, it sounds really special, but definitely not agressive or devilish. Demonstration: C minor 11, Db minor 11, Eb minor 11, F minor 11, G minor 11, Ab maj 11# (building all these chords using thirds and ascending fast). This Ab maj 11# sounds really relaxing. Btw.. I'm not proving a point, I'm just answering the final question he does in the video: "What would you do with the tritone?", that I interpreted as "What do you do with the tritone", because in my case I actually use it.
this progression is very sweet!! thank you! Following the same line, you can add an A minor 11 after the Ab maj #11, but if different timing of course and then a D7,9,#11 (with this voicing). It sounds so deep and passionate! Try that. Ah, and this D dominant with #11 can lead you to any place in this earth.
the missing third in this chord makes it so interesting, because the ear will fill it with a major third (at least my ear), but there's no F# in A minor 11 or in Ab major #11. I know that it's common for the ear to fill in with missing notes, but it's not such a functional harmony. There's no function from C minor 11 until A minor 11 and then this D suddenly is a dominant, suddenly functional (?). This chord with the major third has two tritone and hence more possibilities. But the #11 feels stronger anyway. I have found a beautiful place after this chord. Keeping the voicing of the #11 there, go to Db maj 7, now you can either be in Db ionian ou Db lydian, both are pretty chill.
@@Stabacs I don't really think that's why you just have to think faster and in my language it's hard to follow them to when they're talking so fast but idk 😂
Very interesting Adam, though I'm completely untrained in music theory this was great and thanks for breaking it down into language that one of my lacking abilities can understand. New sub here.
My first guitar teacher was the first person I met who was a dangerously badass looking dude and an intellectual. As well as being an amazing musician. During my first lesson he said to me, "Minor doesn't have to sound sad, the tritone doesn't have to sound evil, and pop music doesn't have to be liked." That had a major impact on me later in my life when I understood what he meant!
Also Adam, best video yet!
I guess one could look at that statement in two ways:
One - my teacher was referring to me as a listener. I don't have to follow my friends and like the pop music they listen to.
Two - Pop Music could also mean a style of music. Music that aims to be liked by many. Usually keeping a simple form, expectations, fashionable, and so on.
I think your teacher said that names dont dictate quality.
Slood ъ That's a good way of looking at it as well.
lucky you
I failed badly at learning music theory because there was no context to the course material. It was like trying to learn a foreign language, without ever being told what the words you are learning actually mean. Your channel changes all that.
I still don't understand any of it properly and I've been trying to learn it for decades.
You gotta go to music school for that, university that have music courses and stuff like that
@@ReviewPimpUSA Not at all necessary. I've personally found that my learning experience rewards exploration with an instrument a lot when learning theory, and demystifying the process by daring to break out of the usual academic style of learning can yield good results.
Not to mention that there's an abundance of material covering nearly any relevant topic. Channels like Adam's, Rick Beato, Sideways and 8-bit Music Theory have excellent resources, both well produced and explained.
Nice analogy! I agree.
So I guess you could say it was coarse material?
"The tritone was not banned in the Middle Ages." My life is a lie
Conversely, knowing that frees you from your bonds to truth. Go forth and feel free to lie.
I was just about to write those exact words... I glance at the comments, and boom! The words were already there.
I don't get how you were here 2 days ago, if this started to exist about an hour ago, everything is a lie
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Posted 2 days ago?! It was posted today! WTH The tritone has spawned this comment!
What if the Tri-tone legend was actually just a mideval meme and we took it seriously...
@Jeff Hanneman don't worry when I thought of it my brain hurtedededed as well.
Some old school trolling 🤣🤣🤣
Damn
what if spanish inqusition was just a me and we took it seriously...
@@berkaysuer5257 That's not very stoic of you
His background colour is more creepy than the music
LOL
I love it!
Really red.
@@sonnyjohnson934 red does represent the color of evil, crazy and fire.
Because it's red? Dude, you are falling for a meme.
(Red is just the root chakra color related to existential basis so we associate it with animalistic drives beyond higher brain functions and the highly indoctrinated and thus fear-driven mind thus associates it with the Devil.)
I have to admit, when I saw the title, I thought: 'Oh god, here we go again - another repetition of this tired anecdote '. But then I thought 'Adam wouldn't phone it in like that'... and you didn't.
Tantacrul He kinda did. The tritone interval itself is kind of bland, but if you go to it indirectly like in a I-II progression
Please dont use the Lord's name in vein. God loves you
@@saronaperformer ok boomer
@@saronaperformer Please don't use the Lord's name in VEIN... much better if you snort it or roll it in a joint!
@@saronaperformer Sorry, I've never been into fiction like that.
Instruction unclear, accidentally summoned a demon
(*demonic voice*)WHO DARES DISTURB MY REST? SPEAK SWIFT, FOR I HAVE A WAR TO PREPARE!(*demonic voice*)
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@@jessepinkeye2339 fuuuuuuuuuuUUUUUUUUCK
Don’t worry that’s what you’re supposed to do
Well, I got my dick stuck in a toaster, I think he should be more clear in his videos
So....."The Devil in the music...." is more like the common phrase today "the devil in the details" since in the way back days, saying "This tri tone thing is a hell of a thing to work with when composing music!" would not have been said or written since "hell" was not a word to be lightly used in "polite" society or around children.
This was a wonderful video and i thank you for making it and sharing!
More like this please! I very much enjoy these deep dives into specific concepts.
Not to detract from the value of the lesson, but, I like the lighting in this video a lot.
ugh i cant believe you complimented his choice of lighting! now my education all the way from kindergarten is GONE
I think the lighting was intentional. Red 'glowish' light fit the theme well.
Jasper Eads It's called the Devil's lightning.
Diabolus in lumine
The spooky thing is he didn't even set up lighting. IT JUST HAPPENED!!
Props for making a 9min 59sec video without stretching it to 10min
In fact, it's 9:58
@@jakebasmati Yeah, you're right, i'm so sorry for this HUGE mistake :D
I’d’ve done it
@@nialljasper2481 does it really matter if it's a well thought, well researched, well done video, with the main intent of teaching something interesting?
@@THEPELADOMASTER It's just cool, because many youtube artists would stretch it to 10 minutes, but he doesn't give a fuck about that.
And the video is of course very well made :D
Tritone:
☑️Dissonant
☑️Unstable
☑️Small
☑️May summon the devil if provoked
☑️Unpleasant
☑️Left out
"You know, I'm something of a tritone myself."
underrated
Go and practice 40 hours a day!!!
@@nurikkulanbaev3628 Ling Ling
You're a conspiracy theory carrying many cursed ☑ behind you
Perfect candidate to give your life to Jesus. Amen.
My dm had a devil character called Tritone, who possessed and lived as a bard.
And just now i got the reference
That's a FANTASTIC character concept. Did he go around challenging people to fiddle contests?
@@fuzzydunlop7928 nah because Johnny is the best there's ever been
What is dm
Cactus Chair A dm is a “dungeon master” in dungeons and dragons, in case you were still wondering
@@proudhufflepuff8739 thanks, I was actually
As a lecturer in music theory and professional musician, what a delight to hear someone who actually knows what they're talking about. This is sadly a rare event on the internet, where music is concerned.
So you don't think tritone has to be evil, right? I'm also a youngh musician, but I'm confused.
Welcome to the age of disinformation.
Gosh!
We nerds are definitely out here lol we just don’t share our knowledge except in certain communities like this channel where we know it’s appreciated
@@georgeantonioandrei8570 to prove whether Tritone is evil would be entering into the supernatural and it’s not scientific evidence if that’s what you’re looking for. But if you’re a religious person then yea, certain sounds do evoke spirits
This is not the greatest violin sonata in the world, no. This is just a tribute...
Hahaha nice
.
...couldn't remember the greatest violin sonata in the world, this is a tribute...
YESSS
^^^@Rusminin .. Caprice No 24 by Paganini is the tribute you maybe looking for, it's Possibly the Greatest Piece of Violin Music Ever and Was More than likely Put together By None Other than "Satan the Devil For Nickola Paganini" Ha!!! :P] .v (Nmcfmamf) ..
Aren't Link and Zelda always looking for the tritone
Wild breath
Yes he played it with the ocarina of slime..
Thx. I hate it.
Tri-force
Excuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuse me.
Hi Adam, you are a music theorist with an interest in cognitive science and I am a cognitive (neuro)scientist with an interest in music theory - I've been watching everything you publish and I'd like to take this chance to say a huge thanks! I've been meaning to write to you for a while to suggest a tritone video and I like the direction you took it but I thought you would find the scientific literature interesting also. In the late '60s Roger Shepard developed "Shepard tones" composed of ten octave-related harmonics constrained by a Gaussian amplitude envelope (loudest sounds in the middle of the scale). These create a series of cool illusions that might be a great video in their own right such as eternally ascending sounds used by Godspeed you Black Emperor, Pink Floyd and others. It turns out, thanks in the late '80s to Diana Deutsch's research at UCSD that when you play a pair of these back to back which are built on scale degrees a tritone apart people either hear an upward pitch motion or a downward but not both. This is called the tritone paradox and has to do with the brain's process of binding of co-occurring sounds into single sources. I.e. because the sounds all hit us at the same time we perceive there to be only one instrument and we assume all available sounds are a part of the same overtone series (this is in itself a pretty cool branch of acoustic neuroscience).
Here is Deutsch's website with some examples: philomel.com/mp3/musical_illusions/Tritone_paradox.mp3
Deutsch continued to expriment and found that each individual hears some tritone-related shepard tone pairs as ascending and some as descending and this is consistent, differs between individuals, is correlated with region, etc. lots of cool stuff. Here's where I come in. In 2011 I was preparing to conduct an EEG neuroscience thesis for my degree at Reed College in Oregon. I had been looking into the literature on bistable images (like the necker cube, a wire-frame cube which can be seen as having either of two faces as the front) and wondered whether there was such a thing as a bistable sound. I found the tritone paradox and with a little modification I was able to adapt it for EEG. The neuroscience research on bistable images is extensive but to my knowledge this was the first attempt on the auditory system. We found exactly what we were hoping for, signals which were analogous to the visual signals with slightly different scalp distributions, and we proved that the tritone paradox is a true bisatable sound along the way.
Why is this relevent to your devil theme? Well to do the experiment I put 20 of my friends into a dark, low-ceiling, faraday cage of a room and played each of them the tritone paradox 300+ times while they stared for hours at a white + sign on a black computer screen. Not fun.
The work was later expanded, refined and published in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. You can check it out here;
graydavidson.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Davidson-Pitts-EEG-Neuroscience-Bistable.pdf
Thanks for taking the time to read this and feel free to contact me if you're ever in need of some deeper neuroscience type research!
What he said
Absolutely
Did anyone actually read this
@@blackveiltrash8412 nah lmao
I found this very interesting! I wonder if Adam read this...
"its used on police sirens because of its..."
yup definitely evil
I second this message.
🤔 ... 🤔
Lol right
All tritones are bastards
The "Pig" Note.
2:00 repeated over and over on the internet
3:14 hexachords C F G
4:12 semantic shift
Dante Liszt
Used in police sirens
6:25 satie sought to achieve boredom in music
7:25 Tartini, the devil, and the blues
8:35 blue note = lesser septimal tritone
When a tritone is played, it is hard to tell if it goes up or down due to the scale. That's actually what makes it "evil", it can confuse.
Just like video games
Very true. Makes sense
Praise Yeshua
Nice pfp ;)
No
Yeah, the song "Black Sabbath" from the album Black Sabbath by the band Black Sabbath is a great track.
I also like the song "Motorhead" from the album Motorhead by the band Motorhead.
What about Iron Maiden by Iron Maiden from the album Iron Maiden
Noobs, Angel Witch by Angel Witch in the album Angel Witch in 19AW, also know as nineteen and angel witch
or the song Papanegro from the Album Papanegro from the band Papanegro
@@SorooshMhs Didn't know about this one. Guess it's a metal thing. Makes sense tho... if you find a good phrase, you might was well get as much mileage or of it as possible.
@@Heaview Never heard of this one either. Clearly, I have much to learn.
Frank Zappa loved to use tritones in humorous ways. And he was real good at it as well. Especially in his later synclavier pieces - many songs on Civilization Phase 3 for example. Or sometimes his used to twist things up in little happy ways with tritones, like in his piece The Girl In The Magnesium Dress. No evilness for miles!
Zappa was good at everything in music.
Zappa was clearly The Devil himself.
People need to remember the tritone is what makes the Lydian mode what it is, too. And if they're not convinced, they've never listened to much Zappa or Vai.
@@EnlightenedSavage Except writing a decent melody and open ended jamming.
"tritones are disonant and unstable"
Me too music me too..
@im' lafonz yes
I came looking for plain and straight examples of the tritone throughout history...and Adam you delivered, mate! Thank you and good work.
Should listen to Tyler the creators bastard song, legit in his first line he says "this is what the devil plays before he goes to sleep" while a tritone is playing
love how the first metal song was pretty much nothing but the tritone played in the most sinister way possible.
vsauce, devil here
@Rory O'Donnell Vaginal juices
@Rory O'Donnell it's a TH-cam channel.
Your pretty leah
@Jay Bee why pathetic
She is very pretty. You jealous 😈 I'm talking about Leah. Leah I'm from West Oakland California. Where you from?
*What the hell is going on? Why have I been summoned?*
Yoo
Satan sup
Hai fam
Out demon ➕➕➕
Scottish Banana Clan Ight
I don't even know how I ever ended up here but this channel is just.. wow..
I'm just going to enrol in University get a masters degree in music so I can understand what the hell you're going on about I'll be back in 3 years
"6 months ago"
Sorry for bothering you, but...
How's it going so far?
Or read a good book on music theory and understand in a week.
Your choice ofc.
notrondayt9
Something tells me you were just kidding about that Masters Degree. 🤔
@@forestdenizen6497 what's a good book then?
What the hell indeed.
guns can't stop the devil but the word of the lord can put him on the run
For man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
@Bryon Allen Evil begets evil. We should not have even bombed them, But we should have bombed them with Bibles. So many Bibles that they had no choice hardly but read it.
Who do you Think The Devil works for
You?
you Gonna Point yo finger at The Devil tooooo woman?
That shit Don't really work...
Every Guardian in Heaven or Hell Knows Who Caused Yo Fate.
it was Never any Devil
it was always us... by our choice.
so what now.. Put yo crime on Jesus... right not
That shit don't work Either...
you Pick up yo cross n Runnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn
The Innocent Have no Crimes to Pay for...
There ain't no Innocent Human Beings.
Better find yo Mind quick
Pick up yo Cross woman.
You are a Guardian..
is That not still True.
own it.
Fix it... just can't Blame others.
WE Defend our Children
not Crucify Them for our salvation...
our last Measure is Given for Them to Live and find Their Path Home.
Do yo Job
Guardian
find yo path n run
Hierophant.
you Got That Word do ya...
use it wisely... yo Demon is you.
@@johnnysparks44 We are all evil, but once you begin to learn of the Lord Jesus Christ and recieve his words. That begins to change.
yeah, but what about the brown note?
It's just a shit stain
It's bullshit.
Don’t take the brown note... The brown note that is circulating around us isn't too good. It is suggested that you stay away from that. Of course it's your own trip. So be my guest, but please be advised that there is a warning on that one, ok?"
Or brown M&Ms
@Dr. Krieger You mean a riff or an actual rifle? Sounds interesting either way
The only sound that can truly be deemed evil can be heard in the dark hours of night when I have returned from a battle with some Taco Bel burritos
Lmao
Textbook 10min lecture; filled with cold hard facts, a few anecdotes and multimedia examples. Lots to learn here people! (I have an MA in Renaissance vocal polyphony, and I learned some stuff today)
I have no idea what this guy is saying...but I found it so interesting I watched the whole thing! Great job!
Same here!!!
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Wow what a great job you’ve done explaining “The Devils Third”. I learned of this years ago in reference to Black Sabbath but I could never find anything more on the topic and believed like many others that it had been banned in medieval times. Thanks for clearing up so much of the history, how it’s applied in music (besides just Black Sabbath references) and giving examples in a multitude of music genres and historical applications. Well done!
Like the song black sabbath
This is by far the best treatment of the subject anywhere on the InterWebs! Thank you for the research.
"What will you do with the tritone?"
yah, imma make a song so dissonant that the tritone will actually be resolving
Yes pleasee😂
Lmto
Aa-Dam-Nee-Ly For-got-da-introoo-OO. Cool vid by the way. Keep it up!!
The intro is for BASS lessons
You mean I've only watched bass lessons videos only? There's more Adame Neely??? HOLY S**T
Ignacio Chaparro Woke
Very interesting. You are very knowledgeable! 😀
You’re great at explaining things and really enjoyed watching!
The Lydian mode! It adds sooo much beauty and mystery to the music!
Gian Berselli The lydian mode doesn't have a flat fifth, it has a sharp fourth.
+vidiac2012
sigh
It does... if it had a flat fifth it'd be a different scale.
Gian Berselli Dude, I look back at my earlier reply and I don't even know what I wanted to say... sorry I came across like such a smartass, I think what I meant to say is that as opposed to the locrian mode the lydian mode sounds mysterious and dreamy because even if it has a tritone it also has a perfect fifth, which makes it a lot more stable.
Awww, see the internet can be a nice place!
No offense taken buddy
Apparently gothic music used quite alot of it. Its just hard to sing.
metal also used alot of it which is fitting
@@estwrios3983 how so?
@@gayboi8049 what do you mean by how so?
@@gayboi8049 just place one finger on a certain fret on a string and place the other finger on the string above and a fret ahead, and strum those two strings(in standard 4th interval tunings)
Music Vsauce
Msauce.
redapplefour - M'sauce
Bsauce or ♭sauce
And the award for the most original comment goes to...
♭ sus
Dude. TH-cam officially can read my thoughts. I was doing interval training and notice how ridiculously dark and mysterious the Tri tone was, then this video was in my recommended.
Tritones are used all throughout gospel music. Especially the traditional gospel music
That's why I felt bad at church , when hearing it
I find that hilarious
Interesting you got a article about that to recommend. In general most Ministries stole from the poor and give nothing back from the millions that they steal
@@neophobicnyctophile8264 uh ok.
Think the luci used to play in heaven
I live two blocks away from a railroad and it's surprising how many trains use the tritone as its horn. Everytime I start to feel a little unconfortable at home... I realise that a tritone is coming... :P
My favourite use of the tritone interval is in the opening to One-Winged Angel; or Sephiroth's Theme. So the tritone might not summon the devil IRL but it does in the Final Fantasy universe.
that song is sooo sinister i love it
Fun fact, the tritone interval used at the beginning of One-Winged Angel was inspired by the opening of Purple Haze by Hendrix, according to the composer Nobuo Uematsu himself.
BoganComposer silvagunners version is dope tho.
I Dont know anything what you are saying but hearing your explanations i feel that i need to learn music really deeply
I was recommended this as soon as it had 666k views, it's like a sign, I _had_ to click it.
"especially crunchy"
I've never heard a better way to describe something (':
advocates for a broader perception of the tritone, has a devilish red background😂😇
HAHAHA I noticed that too. The red light was a nice touch! :D
The devil's greatest trick of all was to convince us that the tritone wasn't banned in the middle ages
That might be exactly his point. Just as people associate the tritone with the devil and evil, people associate dark, gloomy red with the devil and evil. But neither of them are inherently "evil". They have both just acquired that meaning through years of cutural association and linking of "evil" to them.
Maybe he also subtly implied advocating for a broader perception of the colour red ^^
This has to go onto an "advice animal"-style image with Adam's head in the middle =D (or the evil advice mallard or something; not sure, I'm not meme-ing hard enogh :P)
Niroda Smit: _"advocates for a broader perception of the tritone ...."_
They are merely the devil's advocates. Nothing to see here. Move along.
This was super interesting- I saw a comment of the “devils chord” via the behind the lyrics section on the song ‘ghost town’. You explained perfectly what that was!
Satan was the Minister of music in Heaven before he fell.
arron bingham exactly
Coolest thing I've read today!
@@Solarpowered_jesslol well that's awesome to know
where we can read that in the bible?
@@AceEarthTwo35 Ezekiel 28:13
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I heard something about satan being the angel of music in heaven before his fall and being cast out. Can't seem to find any scripture in the Bible that supports this. Some reference in Ezekiel but it is not clear to me. I also read elsewhere in a online discussion about this that no where in the Bible does it say that satan was the angel of music but rather mention of this is fiction and from John Milton's Paradise Lost.
I realize that there are no Christian musical instruments only the person playing the instrument that can make music Christian (serving to glorify God and build up the body of Christ). Music is indeed very powerful, and in the wrong hands can have dangerous influences over people.
What does the Bible say about satan being the angel of music and about good/bad music in general?
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I heard something about satan being the angel of music in heaven before his fall and being cast out. Can't seem to find any scripture in the Bible that supports this. Some reference in Ezekiel but it is not clear to me. I also read elsewhere in a online discussion about this that no where in the Bible does it say that satan was the angel of music but rather mention of this is fiction and from John Milton's Paradise Lost.
I realize that there are no Christian musical instruments only the person playing the instrument that can make music Christian (serving to glorify God and build up the body of Christ). Music is indeed very powerful, and in the wrong hands can have dangerous influences over people.
What does the Bible say about satan being the angel of music and about good/bad music in general?
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Ezekiel 28:13
Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created.
Tabrets are some type of musical instrument. Satan also had pipes inside him and before he sinned when he spoke he actually sang the words.
Here is another reference of Tabrets used to make music
I Samuel 18:6 - "And it came to pass as they came, when David was returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, that the women came out of all cities and Israel, singing and dancing, to meet kind Saul, with tabrets, with joy, and with instruments of music.
1:49 "The tritone, that's the devil's NOTE"
god i'm not even that deep into music theory but hearing an interval get called a note is making me feel shit
100%. I was also doing the head-miles, over this interpretation of a note!
I seriously hope he was just simplifying it for the interviewer because calling it a note makes me cringe. Although his basslines tend to use the b5 of the scale a lot so maybe he just meant the note a tritone above the root
This was really good and well researched! As a guitarist I always heard the tritone was “banned” in Medieval times too. Damn, they lied to me - fake news! Thanks for your excellent presentation of the topic, I learned a lot! Never realized the “blue note” in the blues scale (which is the basis of blues / rock / pop guitar) creates a 7:5 tritone - the guitar geek in me finds that fascinating. That explains the dissonant, but not too dissonant, unresolved quality of the blue note.
Every one of your videos impresses me. You've got some serious theoretical mastery. I absolutely love watching them!
It’s about creating a frequency with an instrument to open mental and spiritual changes which can allow negative and positive effects. Sound is powerful and seeing is believing.
Andrew Maynard believing is seeing 😉
@@timberecek9477 yep, Psalms 27:13 😎
Exactly! There is power in frequencies, be careful of the frequencies u choose to vibe with.
Frequency Indeed I Agree, Amplitude giving more intent n power on top....like a cherry on deserts
Andrew Maynard facts
Dat cat! 0:55 - 1:01
probably the demon itself
RayClust that's the long spoken tritonal cat ancient masons referred to
Hi Adam - great video as usual.
Have you heard of the Tritone Paradox? It's an auditory illusion where 2 Shepard tones, separated by a tritone, are played one after the other. Some people hear the 1st as being higher in pitch than the 2nd, some people will hear the 2nd being higher than the 1st.
Very thorough explanation and (brief) examination of the subject. The amount of information given on the topic was impressive and appreciated. As were the all of the additional bits of historical facts surrounding this mysterious item called the Tritone.
So thank you.
Fun fact: Azula's chime sound in ATLA is a tritone
So is the theme to WandaVision.
whats a chime-
omg I never noticed!
He showed a picture saying demagogue used to mean popular leader and now means tyrant which is funny because tyrant underwent a similar shift. It used to just mean king, and became associated with people like Oedipus and a lot of Darius I who gave it a bad name.
I love how you dive into cultural history besides being a formidable music theory channel! Chapeau.
Well, I just had to like to like your video because week you really do know what you're talking about... It's hard to find someone who knows what they're talking about on TH-cam... Good work
I don't even know what "tritone" or "hexachord" is. I know very little about music and these terms are all new to me.
In indian culture they consider the tritone a sweet and charming note. For example is a really strong note in raga yaman, the first raga the student learn.
That's true because the prati madhyama to shadja relation is a just major second (9/8) and a just major third (5/4), which gives a total of 45/32 - a harmonic ratio easily and joyfully deciphered by our brain. BTW Perotin's (or Machaut's) tritone should have been pyphagorean, much more dissonant (even the pyphagorean major third with the ratio of 81/64 was actually more dissonant than the Indian augmented fourth, that's why the third was not very widely used before Dufay). The tuning system is crucial indeed, and the tritone is one of the victims most hurt by the twelve-tone equal temperament.
The devil got outplayed by a guy named Johny when he went down to Georgia looking for a soul to steal !!
I seen Johnny's golden fiddle
And then again by a guy named Sully, when he went up to Boston, looking for some balls to break.
Granny does your dog bite? No child no
Henry Taff wait who’s Johnny and how did he outplay the devil
How
I got to the page about tritones in "Your Brain On Music" (Levitin) and searched it here for supplementary material. Was really happy to see you'd covered this.
The use of the tritone in blues never would've occurred to me, thank you for including that. You are the music theory hero we all need but don't deserve. Please never stop making these! 🧠💥
I actually like the sound of the tritone quite a lot, especially when it's used creatively.
Glad to hear I'm not some Satan-worshipping demon-summoning hellchild because of it.
I rather like it in avatar the last Airbender anytime azula makes an appearance. It always gives you a kind of unnerving vibe like something's not right
@Anthony Prevost yessss, it’s like some very good director details....
to some people you would be just because of saying that JKASDHFLASDH
It's because satan beautifies bad acts
@@ksilofo haha
I thought she was about to tell us how she IS a Satanist. That felt like the very logical next step.
There is a gap.
Heavenly Father we thank you.
We come humbly before you Father.
Heavenly Father you are everything and our righteousness is like dirty rags as the scriptures say.
Heavenly Father we glorify your name in spirit Spirit and in Truth. Heavenly Father we need you today. Father come into us afresh today. Father I pray, light in us a fire of your grace, a grace that burns away all sin from our lives. BURN every part of us that is not of you because we CANNOT live without YOU Father. Come into our lives Father. Oh we need you Father. Come in Father light us afresh Father. We work for you today and forever today I decree and declare Father. Jesus I confess you walked in the flesh say it with me. I PRAISE YOU JESUS. YOU ARE KING OF KINGS LORD OF LORDS JESUS AMEN. We Just need you Jesus. We just need you Father. Twe just need you Holy Ghost. We just need your word. We just need your FIRE. amen... Praise and glory and honour be to you now and forever amen. Jesus YOU are master in our lives amen. Welcome to church. The BODY of Christ is church. Not a concrete building and amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Jesus, reveal to us yourself honestly. We work for you amen. Gap sealed. By the blood of Jesus. Now, GIVE YOUR LIFE TO JESUS. Amen. Your life no longer belongs to you, it belongs to Jesus. Jesus is now master in your life amen. There will be persecution as promised in the Bible. But it will be worth it. You will enheret eternal life. Amen amen amen. God bless you. You reading this message. Amen.
Next you'll be telling us Paganini was buried in hallowed ground. Party-pooper! Hey while we're on outrageous stories from the crypt of classical music, is it a myth that Chopin only shaved the side of his face that would be seen in a recital? Dude must have looked really rad walking around with half a beard!
That must definitely be a myth.
@@MatthieuStepec Well John Lennon really did play a show with a toilet seat around his head so who knows.
So actually, Jazz is the devil’s music.
Mance Broome II only jazz passages built on tritones are evil.
Play the interval Db-F-G. A tritone chord which sounds utterly wicked. But, rearrange the tones as G-Db-F. Same notes but an entirely different character, even if not yet reassuring. The latter sequence can easily be seen within the context of an Eb maj 9 chord.
So said hardcore racist segregationists. That’s really where the who,e “devil in music” thing arose in America, “Devil” means “Black,” as in, “Oh, no, our white kids are listening to black music, we’re doomed!”
Pop*
True
All this information is wrong in this comment it not jazz it blues wrong genre
So I just found you accidentally. You are an extremely intelligent informative and entertaining person. I learn things that I never knew existed. Thank you
The thing about tritones in Renaissance counterpoint is not it was banned for being "evil", indeed, but because in the diatonic modal system it shouldn't be supposed to exist. There is no such thing as augmented intervals on the period, and the tritone is an augmented interval that >was part of the modes
very interesting and informative!
Thomaz da Silva ..... well researched...and said
Alternatively - and independently of any actual history - if you build scales by 'stacking fifths' (embedded within a twelve note system), you reach the Lydian mode of the diatonic (FCGDAEB - rearranged to FGABCDE, or CDEFGAB if you want the Ionian, 'major' mode) which includes an FB tritone. This is via the two preceding pentatonic (FCGDA - reordered to FGACD) and hexatonic (FCGDAE - reordered as FGACDE), neither of which contain tritones between any pairs of their notes (all their modes are consequently tritone-free). It is only when you introduce (or jam) a seventh note into a scaled octave that the scale becomes too 'crowded' to avoid introducing a tritone. But, as I say, this is just maths and nothing to do with actual history :)
Even without embedding it in a twelve note system - this this works in any tuning of stacked fifths, as long as there are more than six notes. The fifth-chain F-C-G-D-A-E-B is well defined with fifth sizes anywhere between 4\7 and 3\5 octave (roughly 686c and 720c).
The augmented fourth gets bigger (and the diminished fifth smaller) as your fifths get bigger, so at 4\7, A4=P4, d5=P5 and at 3\5, A4=P5, P4=d5, and in between that, you have P4
Yup. Just goes to show - the devil turns up after any hex.
God I've been waiting for this video
A tritone can sound beautiful if played in lydian mode
Totally agreed. Also cosmic and yearning. A M7#11 voiced quartally (with a fifth a tritone away in the bass) is a stunningly beautiful chord ...
or mixolydian
@@Snardbafulator ur gay
honestly, this still hold up as a good video, but i looove youre new style (as in the new video on the same subject)
My favorite use of a tritone is using it as a sharp 11 on a Major 7th chord treated as a 4 chord in the key
Pedro Luna I love this chord too, it really has that beautiful bright "lydian" sound.
Like in 'Smoke Gets In Your Eyes'! Love that tune.
Adam neely the content cop of music
i know right
He's the Vsauce of music
Adam, I saw the whole video and I would like to say: Olivier Messiaen was a composer who used all the time tritones and he used the tritone...to praise God!. I also think about Igor Stravinsky. Or even Mahavishnu Orchestra. Also it depends on context. I remember one musical exercise 16 years ago my private musical teacher taught me: a musical dictation. She played D minor natural scale notes and in some point she played a tritone. At that time it sounded weird to me. But years later, for example, in an octatonic scale, a lydian scale, etc, tritones sound great!
by far the most intriguing video ive come across in a long time woww
The tritone is a #4 in Lydian, but a b5 in Locrian. I think the b2 sounds more dissonant than the tritone.
So the Devil lied to me about the tritone? 👿
Damn... I want my soul back! 😤
If you can't trust the Devil, who can you trust?
GOD! He's the only one who will never betray you! 😇
Ahhhhh I'm just fucking with you. 😂
Hey let's talk about how Old Town Road by Lil Nas X used tritones. what dat mean..
why did this of all things get so many like
2021 edit: oh.
edit 2: listen, Christians in the replies
i don't care lmao
Troy Scar Wait, what?
@@OrgaG1742 the banjo in the beginning of the song are tritones apparently
Troy Scar Oh, really. That’s neat!
Yeeeah Im gonna take my horse through Satan's road
@@diode_wow I'm gonna, diiiieee till I can't no more
Nice video man, it is a great tribute to the awesomest interval!
People give the Devil too much credit .
Tension and resolution is like storm then sunshine, it tells a story .... God Bless in Christ Name Be save be smart
😊❤
Felix M is just facts dumb ass the devil was the music player in heaven
Don't underestimate him, you'll find yourself getting caught up.
@@vaughnmiller3896 .... For me to ignore your comment would be foolish . I will say this , our faith and existence is more than evil as in we are above it already , however I do recognized how delicate and Influential we are . So faith says there's is nothing to worry about , wisdom say we must still be vigilant and God says he will protect us through it all .
My answer to you is Faith Balance and God . Thankyou for your feedback perspective is precious to me because its real . Love and Respect Peace and God Bless ... Christ ☝
Felix M wise 💕
The intro of Converge "The Saddest Day"...
78deathface yes its beautiful
CRINGEY MEMER that DOES sound like the devil made it;)
It is one of the most useful and ancient intervals.
I have no idea about music, but these videos are just so entertaining.
Also "Devil" means "Slanderer". I wonder if the original meaning of "diobolus en musica" is lost on us, since western culture if the last 500 years or so immediately associates "Devil" with a red, spear-tailed satyr, and also "the devil in music" to mean "THE Devil". Does capitalization of proper nouns not matter in Latin? If it does, then "diobolus" could merely have the meaning of "annoying to implement and wild-sounding".
Devil means accuser.
@@ks23770Closely related to slanderer so
@@ks23770 The word, "devil" goes back to a word that means "slanderer."
The Hebrew word, "satan" means "accuser." The Hebrew phrase, "Have Satan" means, "THE Accuser."
You scoffers will me satan and all his hordes. Laugh it up. Jesus is Lord.
John Richardson u ok man
Just remembered the sound of that movie "Eyes wide shut" on some satanic rituals. It sound exactly like the tritone... Coincidence?
It's too real
Hey Adam! Love your work, man. 'Been watching and commenting for quite some time now... Hope this will manage to get to Q&A!
How about the Greek origin of the word? "dia" is the prefix for "mean" and "diabulus" is the word for "arithmetic mean". I don't remember if this is from Plato or Archimedes, but I think the latter. The tritone is the arithmetic mean, perfect, of an octave. Thus, "diabulus" in music. I know this was much before tonality and even tempered tuning, but could be linked to the origin of the tritone. Any comments on this?
Sorry if I'm not very clear, English is not my native language, I wish I could explain this better!
Keep up the good work!
Bass!
I like this question. It is amazing to me how radically word meanings change over time.
Bruno Guimaraes Bertoni Sorry but your etymology is completely wrong. διά is a prefix that means through and βάλλω means throw. The verb διαβάλλω means slander and διάβολος is the noun form.
I love the science of music. Thank you for uploading this!!
This is why this guy is good
He knows what he’s talking about
He don’t just get in front of a camera
But we also gets in front of the camera
William Sanford lol
I use the tritone A LOT in the lydian mode. In my music, I usually start in the lydian mode and end in the lydian mode. It's very common actually and sounds pretty emotional and chill. I believe that the tritone used in the context of a lydian mode doesn't sound so dissonant, it sounds really special, but definitely not agressive or devilish. Demonstration: C minor 11, Db minor 11, Eb minor 11, F minor 11, G minor 11, Ab maj 11# (building all these chords using thirds and ascending fast). This Ab maj 11# sounds really relaxing. Btw.. I'm not proving a point, I'm just answering the final question he does in the video: "What would you do with the tritone?", that I interpreted as "What do you do with the tritone", because in my case I actually use it.
Indeed!! It's so beautiful in Lydian, a very etheric sound.
this progression is very sweet!! thank you! Following the same line, you can add an A minor 11 after the Ab maj #11, but if different timing of course and then a D7,9,#11 (with this voicing). It sounds so deep and passionate! Try that. Ah, and this D dominant with #11 can lead you to any place in this earth.
hey David!! Wooaa!!! what a beautiful chord OMG!! I will try to find a beautiful place after this chord. wait a sec!!
the missing third in this chord makes it so interesting, because the ear will fill it with a major third (at least my ear), but there's no F# in A minor 11 or in Ab major #11. I know that it's common for the ear to fill in with missing notes, but it's not such a functional harmony. There's no function from C minor 11 until A minor 11 and then this D suddenly is a dominant, suddenly functional (?). This chord with the major third has two tritone and hence more possibilities. But the #11 feels stronger anyway. I have found a beautiful place after this chord. Keeping the voicing of the #11 there, go to Db maj 7, now you can either be in Db ionian ou Db lydian, both are pretty chill.
btw, those too chords you add are so Bossa Nova.
Wow you have done your homework on this! 5⭐
5 upside down stars.
@@speculesgorgoth4055 unfortunately my phone doesn't have enough character/emoji selection to choose the proper rotational alignment for you 👏👏
Well crafted video, I clicked here to learn more than needed about tritones, mission accomplished.. Just like your video on the Girl from Ipanema.
Rebuke evil every where it's easy to do from withen ones own mind and heart.And worry not!Tame your mind
WhAt?! I'll have what your having
If you want to tame your mind get off your video games weed and Coca-Cola. Stop being part of the Unseen Holocaust of the meat industry.
I realy do love your vids.But as a german dude,I have to watch them at 75% speed to even understand a word.
Ok, maybe not this one.But sometimes you are really speeding up.
Hey fellow german bass player. You will get used to his speed of talking. Just keep on listening and reading english stuff. :)
@@Stabacs I don't really think that's why you just have to think faster and in my language it's hard to follow them to when they're talking so fast but idk 😂
German, watching at 125% 🤷♂️😁
You can do it.
Minor chords a tritone apart are like the definition of evil. Major chords a tritone apart are like the glorious mysteries of space.
Very interesting Adam, though I'm completely untrained in music theory this was great and thanks for breaking it down into language that one of my lacking abilities can understand. New sub here.