@@StahlmetallerM To be fair, most musicologists and music theorists refrain from H and B nowadays, because it's really confusing when you talk a lot with non-german folk and you publish and speak a lot in english anyways. Funnily enough it tends to get mixed up, while speaking german, so that all notes follow the german naming convention of putting -es on every flat note and -is on every sharp note and than there is b-flat. A fellow student of mine actually pulled the move of calling b-flat b-flat, b h, and b-sharp his only a few sentences apart. German note naming is a clusterfuck beyond compare. (I am one of the few advocates of calling b b and than follow the german naming convention from there with bes for b-flat and bis for b-sharp.)
@@zipherdias420 Highly recommend connecting your brain and ear more, most people that say that (I was one of them) use it as an excuse to not and end up less diverse players as a result
help, I think part of that note progression is used in a song from a Final Fantasy game or something (my hunch is that it's from 9,) but I can't remember which song it is.
Hearing the individual notes of a _saxophone solo_ being analyzed is like.. hearing a song analyzed by which mouth shapes the singer made. it's crazy, i've never thought consciously about it, a sax solo just.. kind of *is*
This fills me with nothing but absolute joy. It absolutely came at the best time possible for me, personally. Seriously, thanks so much for making these videos. Edit: I don't wish to alarm anyone but a few weeks ago my friend ordered me a custom made Pepsi Man suit and it arrived today right after I started this video.
Okay sure that note choice is great but can we talk about that TONE Those growls, those slides, the dynamics and articulation!! That sax player could solo with just the root and the fifth and still sound slicker than anything I could ever do.
Dude... I like messing around with music in my free time, but your understanding of musical theory is blowing my mind. Your breakdown of this made me want to do more learning on theory. I've tried before and never found the topic very approachable. In fact it has almost always been over my head and made me feel... uninterested and ignorant on the topic. Made me feel like I should to go to Juilliard before my uncultured caveman brain could even try to understand the lofty topic. I didn't know this game even existed and you've used it as a fantastic learning tool. You clearly love music and have a ton of knowledge on it. I'm so impressed. Great video!
12:22 every time I listened to that final blast resolve into the Pepsi man yell I got a mix between a smile and a stank face and looked away as if I felt some kind of guilty pleasure from enjoying the Pepsi Man theme THAT much
I'm a trumpet player that was able to solo with my ear, and I wasn't able to understand much about music theory. This video helped me understand diatomic. I think I just need to learn one thing at a time and slowly add to my vocabulary of jazz items instead of learning them all at once
I wonder if this is the way the creators were thinking when they made this song. I make music but I never think like this. I just go with what sounds good.
I imagine that they definitely have the sound in their heads, but I don’t believe they think about what’s going on note for note. They probably are also just playing what they think sounds good, however since they have experience and knowledge they employ different concepts that I think if we all keep learning and playing we’ll be able to use ourselves.
Okay, I had no idea this theme was this awesome. I really should listen to the whole OST while I'm at it. Also, as a fellow trumpet player, your wife's got some amazing skill. I really thought it was Miles Davis until I read the description.
i had to listen to 'so what' for my music appreciation class and i'm proud to say i recognised miles' solo INSTANTLY, just from watching this video. forgot the name of the song but as soon as i heard it i nearly screamed 'WAIT THAT'S _THE_ SOLO'
I got out my sax to try and learn the solo, and on learning it realized that the intro of the solo is in the altissimo register! These are super high notes not even built on the saxophone, that take so much work and skill to hit right, let alone shred on! This makes it so much more impressive to me.
Man i haven't read sheet music in 10 years (im 18) i used to be a Tenor Horn player. That thing was huge for my 8 yr old self but i was decent at it and loved it so much despite the fact that the horn would always hit me in the head. Thanks for the nostalgia!
That little lick at @9:20 is a Freddie Hubbard trick and I love it! Maybe not created by him, but surely put to good use! I love him as a counterpoint to Davis, as they were contemporaries, and maybe even rivals depending on who you ask. Hubbard made some sick albums with the Davis Quartet gang (Herbie, Carter, Williams) in the form of Red Clay, and VSOP (kindof). Highly recommended. Probably 2 of my favorite albums of the era!
I'm so glad 7 years old me was obsessed with that soundtrack so 28 years old me could really enjoy this breakdown.. you might say it's quite the resolution
You're probably not going to read this, but I just wanted to say it makes me really happy to see you so jokey, I feel like you're being 'yourself' and I just really love how someone I love to learn from feels comfortable that way. So thank you for the content but mostly, thank you for being you!
Yo, you know you're killing it when you get a copyright strike. Congrats to the wife, but boo to the strike. That's a a hecking waste (but glad to still hear it anyways, even if pictched up).
I was just watching a bunch of your videos, and I was inspired to start transcribing something, I still haven't decided what. But then you uploaded. Time to procrastinate
This is wild! I've only ever heard this song in the context of speedrun marathons where the game audio is generally pretty low, so I had no idea there was so much insane shredding going on beneath the PEPSIMAAAANs. Thanks for all your videos, man. This stuff is super interesting. A request - can you explain why the song Light Plane from Pilotwings 64 is such a bop? The Smash Ultimate arrangement in particular is really good. It has this cool, crusing, ocean vibe to it, and I would really love to know what makes it tick. Cheers! Thank you again for this channel.
I think I just learned more about Jazz in the first 7 minutes of this video than I did throughout all of my a levels and gcses I'm not entirely sure what that says, but there you go
Finally, a serious topic.
About Dang Time
Indeed
Dang straight, brudda!
Thank you, I needed a laugh today.
Said with all the irony in the world.
When that tier list came up my brain was like “there’s an S note now???”
For a while in the German musical tradition, there was an H note. They used B to refer to the note we call Bb, and they called B natural "H"
@@giggityguy "For a while" - we still call B H and Bb B. Also Eb in German is called Es, wich sounds just like the letter S.
Uhh yea the meta is all F# rn
@@StahlmetallerM Surely it would have previously been called ß
@@StahlmetallerM To be fair, most musicologists and music theorists refrain from H and B nowadays, because it's really confusing when you talk a lot with non-german folk and you publish and speak a lot in english anyways.
Funnily enough it tends to get mixed up, while speaking german, so that all notes follow the german naming convention of putting -es on every flat note and -is on every sharp note and than there is b-flat. A fellow student of mine actually pulled the move of calling b-flat b-flat, b h, and b-sharp his only a few sentences apart.
German note naming is a clusterfuck beyond compare.
(I am one of the few advocates of calling b b and than follow the german naming convention from there with bes for b-flat and bis for b-sharp.)
Pepsiman: The hero that saves people from coke. You don't see Superman fighting drugs.
Actually
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@@mcdcurtis Ok. Just cigarettes. But you don't see him fighting against coke.
Fighting a drug with another... Basically same drug
@@crackedemerald4930 wait is pepsicane real!?
Even as a 0 music knowledge child, I knew that the tunes SLAPPED. And now, as a 0 music knowledge adult, I've been proven right!
"PEPSIMAAAAAAAN" has big "MORTAL KOMBAAAAAAAAAT" energy.
What I understand from the video: "bla, bla, bla, PEPSIMAAAAAN, bla bla, bla, EPIC SAX SOLO..."
@@thecommenter578 Me too, even tho I actually play the sax, I'm a "I don't know, I just feel it" type of guy.
@@zipherdias420 Highly recommend connecting your brain and ear more, most people that say that (I was one of them) use it as an excuse to not and end up less diverse players as a result
@@GuacJohnson I don't care about all that, I just want to play happy birthday every once and a wile.
Finally someone validated my unironic enjoyment of this song
same! gosh, I used to watch my friends play this in 7th grade on the projector, and the song is such a banger.
Great break down! :)
Thanks, man! I love your work!
@@8bitMusicTheory Thank you! I guess you are curious about who played as well. Or do you know that already?
@@JensLarsen I'm not 8-bit, but I would love to know more details about how this song came about.
Whey! It's Jens! :D
@@LeviClay Haha! It said something about shredding saxophone so... But what are you doing here?
Ah yes, everyone wants Pepsiman to be their Valentine, just listen to that sexy theme
Ah yes
Haha😂
dude, hes RIPPED, OF COARSE THEY WHOULD!
Ofc!
😎
"I see your stank face. You can't hide it from me!"
I have never felt more exposed in a video in my life
Literally as it hit that note I made that exact stank face. Caught red handed
I was shocked he knew and timed it so well
I have never been so called out, I feel you so much
You heard it here folks, 8-bit is a "coke guy"
Disgusting, unsubscribed
most jazz musicians are "coke guys"
Traitor!
@@Gorpfield HEYOOO
Nice
2:43 oh you sneaky little music man
8-bit delivers 14 minutes of well-explained analysis of jazz music theory:
"Wow that's really neat"
8-bit sneaks in a reference to The Lick:
*WHEEZE*
5:54
*_ALL RIGHT, DROP THE LICK AND PUT YOUR HANDS IN THE AIR!_* 🎷
@@1yoshi426 yess, it reminded me of the time Adam Neely said that to stand out in a jam session you should play the lick but changing one note hahah
@@1yoshi426 IT'S FUCKING EVERYWHERE!!!!
Did anyone else’s inner voice fill in the last two notes of “the lick” at 6:37 after the A Dorian scale explanation?
Absolutely
I also hear a lick at 5:54
I can’t I hear that now.
help, I think part of that note progression is used in a song from a Final Fantasy game or something (my hunch is that it's from 9,) but I can't remember which song it is.
2:41
Look closely.
0:34 did he just-
*_PEPSI POG_*
I would never have guessed Pepsiman and 8-bit music theory would be on the same youtube video
Hearing the individual notes of a _saxophone solo_ being analyzed is like.. hearing a song analyzed by which mouth shapes the singer made. it's crazy, i've never thought consciously about it, a sax solo just.. kind of *is*
ok but 8-bit yelling "PEPSI MAAAAANNNNN" makes this an s- i mean Eb-tier video
In dutch, this is even funnier, since "Eb" is pronounced as "S"
@@whebon7266 german as well
Pepsiman... EVER HEARD OF IT??
Oh wow, wild to see GameChops here
Remix?
Yes
@@pepsimann2038 Gee golly, it's really you!
Bepisguy
This fills me with nothing but absolute joy. It absolutely came at the best time possible for me, personally. Seriously, thanks so much for making these videos.
Edit: I don't wish to alarm anyone but a few weeks ago my friend ordered me a custom made Pepsi Man suit and it arrived today right after I started this video.
Sorry but I'm a little alarmed. What would you even do with a Pepsiman suit and, more importantly, why don't I have a Pepsiman suit yet?
PEPSI MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!
now i understand your avatar
@@petemagnuson7357 my friend bought me this suit so I can, and I quote, "buy him a Pepsi" while wearing it, just "for the meme."
@@Redhollow Bruh I’m jealous
I love that your wife's recording still got copyright struck, that's how you know you did well
2:40 "This is a good solo he says. What is it?" *starts reading and playing in my head* "I've been had."
my girlfriend loves bullying me with this song. this video is epic
I love your pfp
WE love your pfp
I’m glad we’re finally talking about mainstream video games
The sax solo legit slaps tho
Man, all the solos on the Pepsiman theme are top tier, wish you could have covered the organ solo too, that's fire.
Finally, This is literally the song of my childhood. First game I ever played on ps1. Best song.
You're the one who uploaded the pepsiman song! :D
@@akselklandrasmussen1747 yes!!! i still follow every pepsi man videos to this day
ITS YOUUU
I love the fact that music education on the internet is about Pepsi man
"the slightly less acclaimed" just hit perfectly
PEPSIMAAAAAAANNNNNN!!!!!
“How jazzy could they really make the Pepsi Man Theme Song?”
“Oh, dayum.”
Never have I wanted to fluently read sheet music more than when 8-Bit put his tier list of every note on screen
The pepsiman song didnt have to go that hard. But it did. Thanks based pepsiman
The prequel to The 7 Levels of Creating a Dynamic Jazz Solo.
Hey there. We must be subscribed to all the same channels; I keep seeing you everywhere! (:
8-bit music theory: In depth explanation about a Gmaj7 cord
Me: Hehe funny face 6:50
Okay sure that note choice is great but can we talk about that TONE
Those growls, those slides, the dynamics and articulation!! That sax player could solo with just the root and the fifth and still sound slicker than anything I could ever do.
I thought I was the only one cursed with the knowledge of how much this song slaps.
¿"Cursed"?
This is... somewhat unexpected but certainly not unwelcome.
A surprise, to be sure... but a welcome one.
Love how this objectively silly tune was obviously made by a bunch of incredibly skilled people. I can imagine them having so much fun with it
It's no wonder Jonny Atma's cover of this is just a bunch of guests doing solos.
Pepsiman is a f***ing scp I’m wheezing so hard
5:55 the lick but harmonic minor
Oh crap, can't believe that slipped past me
My favourite.
5:54 the lick god damn it
yoo
Not really, it should be a G to be a proper lock
ALMOST the licc. Still annoyed me. XD
the way you called out my stank face immediately was seriously not okay
Dude... I like messing around with music in my free time, but your understanding of musical theory is blowing my mind. Your breakdown of this made me want to do more learning on theory. I've tried before and never found the topic very approachable. In fact it has almost always been over my head and made me feel... uninterested and ignorant on the topic. Made me feel like I should to go to Juilliard before my uncultured caveman brain could even try to understand the lofty topic. I didn't know this game even existed and you've used it as a fantastic learning tool. You clearly love music and have a ton of knowledge on it. I'm so impressed. Great video!
The video at 1:00 : PLEASE LEARN ANOTHER LICK
Me : haha, A B C D B G A go brr
12:22 every time I listened to that final blast resolve into the Pepsi man yell I got a mix between a smile and a stank face and looked away as if I felt some kind of guilty pleasure from enjoying the Pepsi Man theme THAT much
I'm a trumpet player that was able to solo with my ear, and I wasn't able to understand much about music theory. This video helped me understand diatomic. I think I just need to learn one thing at a time and slowly add to my vocabulary of jazz items instead of learning them all at once
"Pepsi for TV-Game"
I wonder if this is the way the creators were thinking when they made this song.
I make music but I never think like this. I just go with what sounds good.
I imagine that they definitely have the sound in their heads, but I don’t believe they think about what’s going on note for note. They probably are also just playing what they think sounds good, however since they have experience and knowledge they employ different concepts that I think if we all keep learning and playing we’ll be able to use ourselves.
I like that this was posted on valentine's day.
Dude... you called my stank face so precisely I was actually worried you might be watching me
I have no idea what the hell this man is talking about, but he's talking like he knows what he's doing so I agree
This game is an incredible artifact of the 90s.
I am so happy when I see pink in my youtube feed
How did I learn so much from a video about Pepsiman.
The sax player has left the entire universe and became a multiversal god
a fuking year in music class, almost enterly collected in a pepsiman video. Thanks
Pretty much, who needs college music education when you got this guy
I never thought I would hear a jazz analysis breakdown of PEPSIMAN
...
This is amazing
Someone has to spread this to the world
"Please learn another lick"
And i took that personally
WOOOOOW I got blooooown back by the solo it's actually amazing
*subtly praises the lick with "now we're talkin'", few people notice*
Damn you 8bit
Okay, I had no idea this theme was this awesome. I really should listen to the whole OST while I'm at it.
Also, as a fellow trumpet player, your wife's got some amazing skill. I really thought it was Miles Davis until I read the description.
This video is good in the way that it stops me from finishing because halfway through, I went, "Okay that's enough I need to listen to the theme now"
That end run man. Damn that's epic.
Larry-boy has a pretty killer solo in his theme song too.
man music theory nerds are terrifying in the best way possible. this is probably one of the best videos i've ever watched
You are so right for putting Eb in S tier
i had to listen to 'so what' for my music appreciation class and i'm proud to say i recognised miles' solo INSTANTLY, just from watching this video. forgot the name of the song but as soon as i heard it i nearly screamed 'WAIT THAT'S _THE_ SOLO'
Ive never heard about pepsiman but the more I see game footage and the more I want to play it... Their ad campaign must be working
5:56
The licc, but with a tiny bit of spice
The commercial war was absolutely crazy.
The tier list for individual notes sent me into conniptions. That was the funniest thing to just include offhand in the video.
FINALLY. dear god this song was long overdue for some recognition
When I think of Valentine’s Day, I think of pepsiman. Thanks 8-Bit, you’re the only man who could deliver 💙
I got out my sax to try and learn the solo, and on learning it realized that the intro of the solo is in the altissimo register! These are super high notes not even built on the saxophone, that take so much work and skill to hit right, let alone shred on! This makes it so much more impressive to me.
5:54 that's sooo close to being the lick
I came here to say this, but I knew in my heart it had already been said
I was literally just thinking about how awesome this tune is, this has truly made my day
Wonderful video! Makes we wish I would've kept up playing music from grade school.
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Brilliant! Enjoyed every second of this :)
Man i haven't read sheet music in 10 years (im 18) i used to be a Tenor Horn player. That thing was huge for my 8 yr old self but i was decent at it and loved it so much despite the fact that the horn would always hit me in the head. Thanks for the nostalgia!
never thought id see a pepsiman video from a music theory youtuber of all people
I thought this was going to be some kind of meme. Nope, a serious analysis of the solos in Pepsi Man. 10/10
Summoning Salt intro! That’s what your next video should be about! The emotions it invokes are intense!
I legitimately learned more from this one video than I did in an entire semester of jazz music theory
That little lick at @9:20 is a Freddie Hubbard trick and I love it! Maybe not created by him, but surely put to good use!
I love him as a counterpoint to Davis, as they were contemporaries, and maybe even rivals depending on who you ask. Hubbard made some sick albums with the Davis Quartet gang (Herbie, Carter, Williams) in the form of Red Clay, and VSOP (kindof). Highly recommended. Probably 2 of my favorite albums of the era!
Thank you, I love you, I can't express how much I adore this analysis
I have absolutely no idea what the hell you're talking about but I love it
I'm so glad 7 years old me was obsessed with that soundtrack so 28 years old me could really enjoy this breakdown.. you might say it's quite the resolution
9:37 are you telling me snarky puppy/michael league were partially inspired for lingus from *pepsiman*
Great catch. Omg
You're probably not going to read this, but I just wanted to say it makes me really happy to see you so jokey, I feel like you're being 'yourself' and I just really love how someone I love to learn from feels comfortable that way. So thank you for the content but mostly, thank you for being you!
Never really got the hang of music theory but analyzing Pepsi mans awesome music speaks to me spiritually
PEPSI MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN
everytime 8-bit uploads, it seriously makes my whole week
A B A Utiful video my man. Excellent work and I can't wait to binge through your channel
i was hoping for an 8bit video in my notifications, never expected it to be this though
Yo, you know you're killing it when you get a copyright strike. Congrats to the wife, but boo to the strike. That's a a hecking waste (but glad to still hear it anyways, even if pictched up).
I was just watching a bunch of your videos, and I was inspired to start transcribing something, I still haven't decided what. But then you uploaded. Time to procrastinate
This was one of the funniest videos I've watched in a long time.
0:09 and what a noble duty it is.
This is wild! I've only ever heard this song in the context of speedrun marathons where the game audio is generally pretty low, so I had no idea there was so much insane shredding going on beneath the PEPSIMAAAANs. Thanks for all your videos, man. This stuff is super interesting.
A request - can you explain why the song Light Plane from Pilotwings 64 is such a bop? The Smash Ultimate arrangement in particular is really good. It has this cool, crusing, ocean vibe to it, and I would really love to know what makes it tick.
Cheers! Thank you again for this channel.
I think I just learned more about Jazz in the first 7 minutes of this video than I did throughout all of my a levels and gcses
I'm not entirely sure what that says, but there you go
omg what just happened? I think my left half just turned blue from watching this.