Why pop music is obsessed with this one note

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  • @quinlanhogan7543
    @quinlanhogan7543 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3888

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

    • @apollobyprod
      @apollobyprod 3 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

    • @stephydae
      @stephydae 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      LOL 😂 good one..

    • @Spaced1sco
      @Spaced1sco 3 ปีที่แล้ว +89

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

    • @jobanbrar92
      @jobanbrar92 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      😂😂😂😂

    • @gammergames3322
      @gammergames3322 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      @@Spaced1sco weekend: I'm listening

  • @ianhebert91
    @ianhebert91 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5147

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

  • @fedegwagwa
    @fedegwagwa 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3657

    I got perfect pitch for the D note after this video

    • @tl1882
      @tl1882 3 ปีที่แล้ว +171

      i already did from megalovania

    • @hridinsbiju9023
      @hridinsbiju9023 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      True

    • @fabricioaf89
      @fabricioaf89 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @chrrive
      @chrrive 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      same:)

    • @ph4n7om36
      @ph4n7om36 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ick

  • @sreesanthsasidharan3841
    @sreesanthsasidharan3841 3 ปีที่แล้ว +556

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

  • @BarafuAlbino
    @BarafuAlbino 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1671

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

    • @bobdole7127
      @bobdole7127 4 ปีที่แล้ว +36

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

    • @beatsxlucas8021
      @beatsxlucas8021 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

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

    • @emberleona6671
      @emberleona6671 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      No wonder I hate pop music nowadays email me if you wanna hear a song idea emberleona2020@gmail.com

    • @brankol.4563
      @brankol.4563 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

    • @beatsxlucas8021
      @beatsxlucas8021 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @sanes4402
    @sanes4402 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4655

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

    • @statomic
      @statomic 3 ปีที่แล้ว +76

      This is funny cuz all of them ahahhahahahaha

    • @BBAACKE
      @BBAACKE 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Lolol

    • @randommemeclone1021
      @randommemeclone1021 3 ปีที่แล้ว +107

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

    • @dragringer1480
      @dragringer1480 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Blinding lights?

    • @craftze_ro5734
      @craftze_ro5734 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@dragringer1480 no

  • @Malinda
    @Malinda 4 ปีที่แล้ว +19783

    Alternate title: Andrew Huang Exposes The Weekend

    • @cdigames
      @cdigames 4 ปีที่แล้ว +551

      Hell, on the album Starboy, The Weekend calls out other people for 'stealing' his trick, but acknowledges that it's super simple and easy to get along with.

    • @exiliate17
      @exiliate17 4 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      Hi malinda 😄

    • @kamaalthewanza
      @kamaalthewanza 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@cdigames 😂😂

    • @kamaalthewanza
      @kamaalthewanza 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      🤣🤣🤣

    • @janbonne
      @janbonne 4 ปีที่แล้ว +23

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

  • @Goddot
    @Goddot 3 ปีที่แล้ว +585

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

    • @JoE_Songs
      @JoE_Songs 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

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

    • @snowjix
      @snowjix ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

    • @multisplace3783
      @multisplace3783 ปีที่แล้ว +9

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

    • @quifesco3635
      @quifesco3635 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      he's saying pop music before this time was better and more varying whereas nowadays popular stuff is a lot of the same thing. hes somewhat right, i mean you used to see key changes or experimentation with indian instruments in Beatles songs. Also, jazz was pop music. basically the guy is saying modern popular music is oversaturated.

  • @munksterrr7845
    @munksterrr7845 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2251

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

    • @JimmiCottam
      @JimmiCottam 3 ปีที่แล้ว +177

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

    • @ZakMeow
      @ZakMeow 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      @@JimmiCottam Clever! I Lol'd

    • @seanfromtheyukon
      @seanfromtheyukon 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

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

    • @pieflower6419
      @pieflower6419 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I'd go

    • @Gamer-uf1kl
      @Gamer-uf1kl 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      (D)rink

  • @DafterHindi
    @DafterHindi 4 ปีที่แล้ว +715

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

    • @bradley5800
      @bradley5800 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

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

    • @EliRickard
      @EliRickard 4 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      f4de TH-cam detects key changes regardless

    • @bradley5800
      @bradley5800 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@EliRickard frick

    • @quariusmusic
      @quariusmusic 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      But I see no copyright claims by their respective labels

    • @quariusmusic
      @quariusmusic 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

  • @anbudamodaran4162
    @anbudamodaran4162 4 ปีที่แล้ว +623

    Alternate title: Confusing the copyright claim system

    • @DFPercush
      @DFPercush 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

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

    • @iplaysdrums
      @iplaysdrums 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

    • @agentofchaos2901
      @agentofchaos2901 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@DFPercush i can i will

    • @DFPercush
      @DFPercush 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@agentofchaos2901 ... but you didn't

    • @G60syncro
      @G60syncro 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

  • @pak009
    @pak009 3 ปีที่แล้ว +669

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

    • @_Iscream
      @_Iscream 3 ปีที่แล้ว +80

      You’d die, even if it was beer.

    • @servvo
      @servvo 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      aka chug

    • @prismarinestars7471
      @prismarinestars7471 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      death

    • @hanakosan4404
      @hanakosan4404 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

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

    • @sajeewanrai
      @sajeewanrai 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

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

  • @scrofol1634
    @scrofol1634 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1615

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

    • @dmtinyhut
      @dmtinyhut 4 ปีที่แล้ว +78

      megalovania starts

    •  4 ปีที่แล้ว +88

      It's not always a D in the original songs. Huang has transposed all the songs to C major in this video, including pitch adjustment of the original clips that he uses.

    • @rserg3789
      @rserg3789 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Same bruh 😆

    • @TXLogic
      @TXLogic 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

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

    • @gitsurfer27
      @gitsurfer27 4 ปีที่แล้ว +34

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

  • @swordierre9341
    @swordierre9341 3 ปีที่แล้ว +689

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

    • @DrRadio155
      @DrRadio155 3 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      You still have chance! :D

    • @pieflower6419
      @pieflower6419 3 ปีที่แล้ว +50

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

    • @Metamerist625
      @Metamerist625 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

    • @dancershan
      @dancershan 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I still have not outgrown that ...

  • @TantuBeats
    @TantuBeats 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5594

    aaaand there goes the monetization of this video

    • @kabehhhh
      @kabehhhh 4 ปีที่แล้ว +109

      umg having a party right now

    • @kaimundo
      @kaimundo 4 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      ik was depressief en toen deed ik niet zo lief

    • @charlieroush3402
      @charlieroush3402 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Definitely

    • @kingofdoodoo1877
      @kingofdoodoo1877 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      No cuz the songs are on c major

    • @TantuBeats
      @TantuBeats 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@kingofdoodoo1877 look at the bottom of the description

  • @anti64
    @anti64 2 ปีที่แล้ว +27

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

  • @TechBoxNorth
    @TechBoxNorth 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6205

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

    • @KuroHebi
      @KuroHebi 4 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      I don't get it.

    • @samszotkowski
      @samszotkowski 4 ปีที่แล้ว +213

      @@KuroHebi one note

    • @KuroHebi
      @KuroHebi 4 ปีที่แล้ว +131

      @@samszotkowski I get it, now.

    • @NvincibleIronMan
      @NvincibleIronMan 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      🤣🤣🤣🤣🤓👍👍

    • @KuroHebi
      @KuroHebi 4 ปีที่แล้ว +79

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

  • @xmortimorxmortimorx
    @xmortimorxmortimorx 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1461

    a few people in the comments missing the point. he's not saying its the D note. he's saying its the supertonic in the given scale. he clearly explained that he was going to transpose all his examples to the same scale for comparison. he transposed them to the C scale and the supertonic in the C scale is the D note. if he would of transposed them to the D scale then it would of been an E note that he was playing since in the scale of D the supertonic is the E note. and so on and so on for every other scale.
    Edit: (this is just to help those who might be new to music theory and might be a little lost.)

    • @coolpoolb
      @coolpoolb 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      actually- it is you missing the point! the songs are NOT all transposed to the key of c. so the continuous orange (or d) note represents different degrees of the scale in each of the songs. in essence- the songs 'sound' like they are in the same key because of the continuous d (or orange) note, but in fact they are in different keys, and therefore not an illustration of the supertonic; it's no more than an aural illusion.

    • @xmortimorxmortimorx
      @xmortimorxmortimorx 4 ปีที่แล้ว +54

      0:35 there you go genius!

    • @coolpoolb
      @coolpoolb 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      ​@@xmortimorxmortimorx haha dude. USE YOUR EARS! get out a keyboard, guitar- don't take his word for it OR mine. anyone with a decent pair of ears can hear that the tracks are modulating into different (relative) keys and do NOT stay in the same key as he claims. (and thanks for calling me a genius :-P )

    • @James-im2ip
      @James-im2ip 4 ปีที่แล้ว +47

      @@coolpoolb he doesn't transpose the song, but he does transpose what he's playing. the song and what he's playing aren't always in the same key.

    • @christowers7307
      @christowers7307 4 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      @@coolpoolb I think you need this
      th-cam.com/video/Jk6jVl1fAn0/w-d-xo.html

  • @truecuckoo
    @truecuckoo 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1910

    Andrew Huang, also known as the Supertonic Slayer 🗡

    • @-_-shakezula
      @-_-shakezula 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      cuckoo!

    • @gregvsmj
      @gregvsmj 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Can’t here a D for one week now..

    • @saedt
      @saedt 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      TING TING TING TING TING TING

    • @ceemoon8556
      @ceemoon8556 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

    • @woodenhoe
      @woodenhoe 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

  • @Cry_ct
    @Cry_ct 3 ปีที่แล้ว +193

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

    • @alteredanimesh
      @alteredanimesh 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      now this one is a masterpiece

    • @huldanoren951
      @huldanoren951 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

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

    • @libremercadoencrisiseconom2118
      @libremercadoencrisiseconom2118 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

    • @Wazzen563
      @Wazzen563 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@libremercadoencrisiseconom2118 ok, one guy

  • @edugui99999
    @edugui99999 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1802

    Me: plays D key
    TH-cam: copyright
    Me: Bankrupt

  • @DavidPuckArtist
    @DavidPuckArtist 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3602

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

    • @CaveyMoth
      @CaveyMoth 3 ปีที่แล้ว +163

      I knew that modern pop music was monotonous and repetitive. But I didn't know there was so much reliance on one single note. Yikes!

    • @TheBrickLot
      @TheBrickLot 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@CaveyMoth ikr. crazy

    • @bmxkamikazee
      @bmxkamikazee 3 ปีที่แล้ว +80

      @@CaveyMoth it's not quite that simple. one could make the same argument for the tonic (first scale degree) for all of classical music. one could make the same argument for the dominant in a lot of eras. andrew is playing all these songs in c, but the supertonic is only d in c major, which further makes it seem simpler than it is. if anything the use of the supertonic as a note to bass melodies on actually adds to the complexity of music as a whole because it wasn't always so common to do this. another method explored.

    • @eo4295
      @eo4295 3 ปีที่แล้ว +46

      @@bmxkamikazee I’m pretty sure classical music doesn’t repeat the same 4 chords over and over and over again throughout the whole piece lol

    • @jpabcede5016
      @jpabcede5016 3 ปีที่แล้ว +34

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

  • @BrothersandCoFilms
    @BrothersandCoFilms 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1214

    The Weekends been pretty quiet since this dropped.

    • @jasperlawson6315
      @jasperlawson6315 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

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

    • @lukeconnellan9008
      @lukeconnellan9008 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@jasperlawson6315 you said it

    • @theundeadbowman9824
      @theundeadbowman9824 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Press F to pay respects (and not D)

    • @benjclarke3010
      @benjclarke3010 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      He's looking for a new note.

    • @vsnnyc721
      @vsnnyc721 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      The Weeknd*

  • @TarousDT
    @TarousDT 3 ปีที่แล้ว +104

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

  • @musiqaman
    @musiqaman 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1701

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

    • @NateSassoonMusic
      @NateSassoonMusic 4 ปีที่แล้ว +55

      so close yet so far

    • @DeanLawrence_ftw
      @DeanLawrence_ftw 4 ปีที่แล้ว +109

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

    • @musiqaman
      @musiqaman 4 ปีที่แล้ว +190

      Can I just connect an extra C?

    • @crawbug8932
      @crawbug8932 4 ปีที่แล้ว +23

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

    • @musiqaman
      @musiqaman 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

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

  • @karol_k
    @karol_k 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1176

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

    • @matejmihelec3439
      @matejmihelec3439 4 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      RE RE RE RE RE RE RE RE RE RE

    • @bennybooboobear3940
      @bennybooboobear3940 4 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      Wrong. He transposed them to c major. The note that’s played over and over is the SUPERTONIC, the second note in the scale, rather than D.

    • @spyrix4750
      @spyrix4750 4 ปีที่แล้ว +91

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

    • @muffinszss
      @muffinszss 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@spyrix4750 LMAO

    • @tonyroman6991
      @tonyroman6991 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      There is one impostor among us

  • @pcfllms
    @pcfllms 4 ปีที่แล้ว +846

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

    • @DisturbedVette
      @DisturbedVette 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Can you still now?

    • @elimg.3684
      @elimg.3684 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

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

    • @drphdmd7064
      @drphdmd7064 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

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

    • @stephenmitchell3191
      @stephenmitchell3191 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      give it 10 minutes

    • @aedile2819
      @aedile2819 4 ปีที่แล้ว +51

      your mom can identify this D

  • @AURESHION
    @AURESHION 3 ปีที่แล้ว +38

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

    • @mosley3485
      @mosley3485 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @stegokitty
    @stegokitty 3 ปีที่แล้ว +303

    This is horrifying. Now I've got that note stuck in my head -- like when you hear a car alarm going on and on and on, and then it finally gets shut off, but your brain keeps hearing it "in the distance". I hope I'm not up all night with D playing on a loop.

    • @catpoke9557
      @catpoke9557 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      ...Yeah, to make matters worse I'm getting (and playing) my first instrument tomorrow. Now I'm just going to have one note in my mind the whole time. Wonderful

    • @matthewdemasi1363
      @matthewdemasi1363 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      When you said "car alarm" it triggered this musical memory: th-cam.com/video/xV7nHX2RLjQ/w-d-xo.html

    • @kirill3032
      @kirill3032 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Can't stop thinking about D huh?

    • @jennmichelle2
      @jennmichelle2 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Exactly!!!

  • @MrReedMiester
    @MrReedMiester 4 ปีที่แล้ว +331

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

    • @BradsGonnaPlay
      @BradsGonnaPlay 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

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

    • @harshvardhandewangan3997
      @harshvardhandewangan3997 4 ปีที่แล้ว

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

    • @jeanpillet-conery2479
      @jeanpillet-conery2479 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      BradsGonnaPlay no that’s not how it works. The difficulty is to make interesting melodies that are simple and easy to grasp. You need balance in your song, between repetition and variation. Your melodies need small melodic fragments that are recycled through the song without feeling too repetitive. You also need 1-2 hooks, a new aspect/idea + a perfect use phonetics. It is hard to create a pop hit today, especially with the number of bad music there is out there

    • @stevenwatson9678
      @stevenwatson9678 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @BadLipReading
    @BadLipReading 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1101

    Well done

    • @dyray732
      @dyray732 4 ปีที่แล้ว +46

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

    • @just-a-me1168
      @just-a-me1168 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

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

    • @elinaylor6861
      @elinaylor6861 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      We live in a world

    • @BrandonYates
      @BrandonYates 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

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

    • @IdoBerg
      @IdoBerg 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

  • @Kieran_Davey
    @Kieran_Davey 3 ปีที่แล้ว +437

    Record Label: "So, what makes you think you can break into the pop industry?"
    Me: "This little melody is in C-Major." *presses the D key*
    Record Label: "Well, that's not really special. Everyone does tha-"
    Me: *presses it again*
    Record Label: "Here's a pen. Sign here."

    • @litterbox019
      @litterbox019 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

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

    • @marshed0mallow
      @marshed0mallow ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@litterbox019 Ab G F D F G

    • @clipPRmusic
      @clipPRmusic ปีที่แล้ว

      @@marshed0mallow sans?

    • @Smuckeroni
      @Smuckeroni 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@clipPRmusicsans!

  • @szeth14
    @szeth14 4 ปีที่แล้ว +392

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

    • @rwrunning1813
      @rwrunning1813 4 ปีที่แล้ว +27

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

    • @haslo_
      @haslo_ 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@rwrunning1813 Not possible, is it?

    • @chriszanf
      @chriszanf 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

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

    • @zipperozicvideodump
      @zipperozicvideodump 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      this will single-handedly ruin everything

    • @LukezyM
      @LukezyM 4 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @elishscott
    @elishscott 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2116

    The Weeknd's name should be "D Weeknd"

    • @radorigami
      @radorigami 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Oh my gosh
      You’re right

    • @prometheus6474
      @prometheus6474 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      except it's the supertonic

    • @notsogreatsword1607
      @notsogreatsword1607 3 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      Except its only D for the video. Music doesn't work like that. The supertonic refers to a specific distance from the root note. It's about intervalic relationships not specific notes. This concept is not complicated once you understand the underlying principle. You're misleading people by saying it has anything to do with the D note.

    • @elishscott
      @elishscott 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

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

    • @dolphinberserk
      @dolphinberserk 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

  • @gost7821
    @gost7821 3 ปีที่แล้ว +656

    I appreciate how you explain why the note is popular (and acknowledge that it’s over-used) without taking the easy route of then going “so it’s always lazy to use it and artists/producers who use it are untalented” like some people in these comments

    • @ShirubaGin
      @ShirubaGin 3 ปีที่แล้ว +96

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

    • @tsg_frank5829
      @tsg_frank5829 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Somebody gets it

    • @1Tako1
      @1Tako1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +29

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

    • @holidaycomplex
      @holidaycomplex 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      there are only seven notes in a scale so yea. also people saying that this is why pop all sounds the same are forgetting that tamber and arrangement can play a bigger role than harmonic composition. it's HOW you express those notes rather than the notes themselves. the reason why pop all sounds the same isn't really because of the super-tonic, although it does have a role to play.

    • @nycolleamendez5608
      @nycolleamendez5608 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Those comments make me feel tire
      Is like in mu country people feeling superior just because they hear rock not regueton (i personally don't hear regueton but people get to fixated that people who hear this genre are losers at everything, really toxic)
      I know those are opinion
      But is just that a opinion
      Most of those comments ooze superiority complex

  • @beaverronald4046
    @beaverronald4046 3 ปีที่แล้ว +42

    The note D just makes megalovania play in my head

  • @MuffinTunes
    @MuffinTunes 4 ปีที่แล้ว +516

    As an American Music History instructor, this is absolutely something that will help me highlight were we currently are at the end of the semester. Please know I'll be using this video to present to my courses for educational purposes as non of the elective students understand music theory, you explained this VERY well. 5/5 Muffintastic starts, just subscribed for more!

    • @Jayhjl
      @Jayhjl 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@arcadepiano nobody asked

    • @DFPercush
      @DFPercush 4 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      @@arcadepiano That's gotta be the most toxic thing I've read all day, good job. Personal slights, ideological rejection, lack of positive alternative, demeaning metaphors... It actually invokes a sense of perverse admiration at the sheer concentration of vitriol, like a work of art that you despise but can't look away from.

    • @seabassthegamer6644
      @seabassthegamer6644 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@arcadepiano Well, if your list of EVERY CHORD IN THE HISTORY OF EVER is so great, why don't you try using it to teach us _pitiful ignorants?_

    • @gabrielcabello9227
      @gabrielcabello9227 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Inventor Maybe you wouldn’t sound as much of a loser if you actually shared your “amazing” knowledge in a positive manner instead of using that knowledge to be a pretentious prick.

    • @seabassthegamer6644
      @seabassthegamer6644 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@arcadepiano You know what? I'll give you some benefit of the doubt. And some advice on how to get some traction going, hopefully both in attention and in money.
      Start by offering some small slivers of your knowledge. I noticed that you have a video showing your favorite chord, and some details about that chord in the description. I would suggest making a short video along the lines of "This is my favorite chord." (chord plays) "This chord can do (thing) when paired with (some other chords), like in (example piece)" (relavant part of example piece plays) "It does this because (some list of reasons)."
      And so on, with more things the chord can do and more examples of those things. Do this with a few other chords (not the entire list, though, obviously).
      Additionally, put some music out into the world. People will know you know what you're doing if you show that you can make good music. To reiterate, don't put your whole portfolio out there for free, but do show some of your works. Maybe put your music on a site like bandcamp, where listeners can donate money or (if you're charging money) pay extra if they really like your music.
      Doing these things will show people that you know what you're talking about, which makes them more likely to pay for special teaching services or further music tracks.
      Most importantly, drop the pretentious attitude. No matter how legitimately good you are, nobody will want to listen to what you have to say if you constantly insult them.

  • @DJBassBoomBottom
    @DJBassBoomBottom 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1101

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

    • @ldhdjzjjaklzjdbd6610
      @ldhdjzjjaklzjdbd6610 3 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      @@activitine62 I disagree, I don’t think they are failing, some of them are, and some of it is good, it’s just a different style

    • @artschiloyan9101
      @artschiloyan9101 3 ปีที่แล้ว +25

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

    • @rickf6375
      @rickf6375 3 ปีที่แล้ว +55

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

    • @陳懷生-y7w
      @陳懷生-y7w 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

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

    • @ADeeSHUPA
      @ADeeSHUPA 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@陳懷生-y7w 古翼庭

  • @fluffartistt
    @fluffartistt 4 ปีที่แล้ว +442

    "Let me show you a few songs to see how big the supertonic has become."
    *gets ad with a song where the main note is LITERALLY D*

    • @notchieuwu
      @notchieuwu 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      laughs in adblocker

    • @rtxf
      @rtxf 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

    • @Nightmoore
      @Nightmoore 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@rtxf Yeah, he said he transposed them all. But it totally doesn't matter. You can pick ANY key, and all the notes in the new scale are the exact same distance from each other. You can take any song in a major key and transpose it to 12 different major keys, and it's going to sound the same. It may be way harder to sing if it's outside the power range for the vocalist, but for all practical purposes, it's exactly the same.

    • @rtxf
      @rtxf 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Nightmoore missed him say they were transposed, but I know how theory works :) thanks for explaining it for the next guy to read this tho.

    • @noa_1104
      @noa_1104 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Robbert Then it should not come as a surprise they’d all sound perfectly natural, right? You can’t even tell...well, unless you have perfect pitch, that is?

  • @Taobyby
    @Taobyby 3 ปีที่แล้ว +75

    Bach to Pachelbel "You have too much D"
    Weekend: "Hold my beer"

  • @rumble_bird
    @rumble_bird 3 ปีที่แล้ว +239

    Once I tried to pick melodies by ear and realised that i was playing mostly one note when hearing the lyrics, now I know why.

    • @SeekerGoldstone
      @SeekerGoldstone 3 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      I'm an amateur musician and I take requests. 9 times out of 10, when someone asks if I can play a current song from the radio, the answer is "Technically yes, but you don't want me to."

    • @LL-tr5et
      @LL-tr5et 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      lol same. it's upsetting :p

    • @LL-tr5et
      @LL-tr5et 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

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

    • @catpoke9557
      @catpoke9557 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

  • @RadenWA
    @RadenWA 4 ปีที่แล้ว +847

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

    • @woodenhoe
      @woodenhoe 4 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      so it's *gnivlove*

    • @themessenger8334
      @themessenger8334 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      So, devolving then.

    • @enrott8560
      @enrott8560 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

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

    • @SAM-yq2lm
      @SAM-yq2lm 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      🤩🤩😂🤩😂😂😂🤩😂😂🤩😂🤩😂🤩🤩🤩 Nailed it

    • @gillianomotoso328
      @gillianomotoso328 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

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

  • @b1na276
    @b1na276 3 ปีที่แล้ว +452

    never underestimate the power of re

  • @JavierB1988
    @JavierB1988 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

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

  • @andrasfogarasi5014
    @andrasfogarasi5014 3 ปีที่แล้ว +613

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

    • @genewitch
      @genewitch 3 ปีที่แล้ว +56

      if i can find the midi files for any of these i'll extract just the supertonics and run it through a CW (Morse code) decoder. could be a grey code, too, i guess.

    • @augstsh
      @augstsh 3 ปีที่แล้ว +49

      they like d

    • @an_annoying_cat
      @an_annoying_cat 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      it stands for deez nuts

    • @genewitch
      @genewitch 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@an_annoying_cat no. Yeah. We get it.

    • @lifelover69
      @lifelover69 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      the message is "DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD"

  • @mackflynt6094
    @mackflynt6094 4 ปีที่แล้ว +277

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

    • @Cyphule
      @Cyphule 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

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

    • @colour_bloo
      @colour_bloo 4 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      I live for sidechain. It makes everything just automatically sound better. Have a monotone subbass? Sidechain. Not enough room for your lead? Sidechain. Wife left you... well, then you probably have other issues to deal with, at least you can cheer yourself up by putting dat sidechain on your mix 😎

    • @xafraskrazos630
      @xafraskrazos630 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Nobody's talking about OTT ? :o

    • @portemanteau3802
      @portemanteau3802 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Bad bass playing? SIDECHAIN!

    • @samprock
      @samprock 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      LOL we all guilty of it :)

  • @archermcclain6587
    @archermcclain6587 3 ปีที่แล้ว +867

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

    • @KingJellyfishII
      @KingJellyfishII 3 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      Yep the melody is almost always super boring, of course my opinion but I like a melody that you can play and it sounds good even on its own.

    • @ComposerAdamWhite
      @ComposerAdamWhite 3 ปีที่แล้ว +24

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

    • @FLH3official
      @FLH3official 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      or "How pop kills music"

    • @brickalmonds
      @brickalmonds 3 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      its more that pop music is terrified of any musical tension

    • @fernwehn5925
      @fernwehn5925 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

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

  • @sarveshram
    @sarveshram 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

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

  • @tadhg9558
    @tadhg9558 4 ปีที่แล้ว +64

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

    • @slayerficated
      @slayerficated 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      I bet his editor is getting payyd.

  • @scarybarry1323
    @scarybarry1323 3 ปีที่แล้ว +322

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

  • @petergaley314
    @petergaley314 4 ปีที่แล้ว +134

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

    • @ChaosRayZero
      @ChaosRayZero 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

    • @CaptainJohn
      @CaptainJohn 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@ChaosRayZero
      Same!

    • @jonathangardner6688
      @jonathangardner6688 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ChaosRayZero same lol

    • @eli.muskett8645
      @eli.muskett8645 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I like your profile picture✌️

  • @ОлександрПодоляк-р5г
    @ОлександрПодоляк-р5г 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    At this point TH-cam has taught me that modern pop music have the four chords, the supertonic, the millenium hoot, bunch of trendy beats and sound effects and the tendency to have less melody. Now i wonder how does it manage to produse new different stuff at all! Also it would be interesting to compare those typical fitures with ones from privious decades.

  • @DestrolioOnline
    @DestrolioOnline 4 ปีที่แล้ว +139

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

    • @accieT
      @accieT 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      DestrolioOnline because it is. its a threat to your eardrums

  • @DarkDrai
    @DarkDrai 3 ปีที่แล้ว +82

    You ever have that feeling where you're close to understanding a fundamental truth about music that will revolutionize your future songs, only to realize the mainstream industry has been using it this whole time, and now you have to avoid using it or sound like pop trash?

  • @masondchong
    @masondchong 4 ปีที่แล้ว +100

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

  • @arvid2644
    @arvid2644 3 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    Me *hitting the supertonic on the piano in the music lessons*: im a musical genius now

  • @JerryAnimations
    @JerryAnimations 3 ปีที่แล้ว +72

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

  • @Danneleet
    @Danneleet 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2009

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

    • @simmydimmy
      @simmydimmy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +195

      ikr it all just sounds the same

    • @jaytrain3692
      @jaytrain3692 3 ปีที่แล้ว +114

      i cant, i listen to an incredible amount of music (not trying to sound like a douche) and i cant stand pop or modern reggae.

    • @RisingSol
      @RisingSol 3 ปีที่แล้ว +109

      Dude I hate pop radio music with a burning passion

    • @penguinaka8383
      @penguinaka8383 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      I’m the 69th like

    • @shmvon
      @shmvon 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Are those two people referring to the same people?

  • @joninarebekka2966
    @joninarebekka2966 3 ปีที่แล้ว +813

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

    • @nightski380
      @nightski380 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      I already have a perfect pitch sense for every note 🤩

    • @bailey1410
      @bailey1410 3 ปีที่แล้ว +160

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

    • @nightski380
      @nightski380 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      @@bailey1410 Yup. I can confirm

    • @altherebot5593
      @altherebot5593 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Nice 👍

    • @rodbacon2629
      @rodbacon2629 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

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

  • @martingibbs8972
    @martingibbs8972 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    You’ve absolutely nailed it. I listen to pop music radio and wonder why I get bored within a minute. It’s the supersonic! I didn’t realise until you showed it with so many examples!

  • @Gichanasa
    @Gichanasa 3 ปีที่แล้ว +89

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

  • @pradeepvincentmusic
    @pradeepvincentmusic 4 ปีที่แล้ว +216

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

  • @gpoop23
    @gpoop23 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    I recently started working on an album consisting of instrumental covers of pop songs and it's really helped me realize how simple a lot of my favourite melodies are when you strip away all the lyrics and production. It was actually sometimes pretty disappointing to realize that this hook that always gets stuck in my head really only consists of like three notes.

    • @henrikpetersson3463
      @henrikpetersson3463 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

  • @AlexPies1
    @AlexPies1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +120

    0:20 why is everyone talking about the D key and nobody's talking about Andrew playing Pink Fluffy Unicorns Dancing on Rainbows not once but TWICE

    • @landonvincent7974
      @landonvincent7974 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      it's because he was demonstrating how a song can be transposed to a different key and still be the same song... He did it on purpose

    • @Andriale
      @Andriale 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Landon Vincent it was a joke i believe

    • @feather6502
      @feather6502 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I was looking for someone to mention this lol

    • @nobody-sv9xo
      @nobody-sv9xo 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I mean he made the song...

    • @lockyourdoors5886
      @lockyourdoors5886 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @rrrāmusic963
    @rrrāmusic963 4 ปีที่แล้ว +58

    I love how he just gets straight to the point

    • @themessenger8334
      @themessenger8334 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

    • @rrrāmusic963
      @rrrāmusic963 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@themessenger8334 yeah exactly

  • @xxSk8ing4christxx
    @xxSk8ing4christxx 4 ปีที่แล้ว +117

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

    • @AjSmit1
      @AjSmit1 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      . ∙ . | . ∙ . | . ∙ . | . ∙ . |

  • @MikaelMikaelMikael
    @MikaelMikaelMikael ปีที่แล้ว +12

    That Katy Perry song at least uses the 7th and the 4th note once each, and what a breath of fresh air it was to hear them after first listening to the barrage of the super tonic sprinkled with the same few pentatonic notes.

  • @aetheralmeowstic2392
    @aetheralmeowstic2392 4 ปีที่แล้ว +181

    One pop artist is eventually going to sue another over the supertonic. It's inevitable, given the current standing of lawsuits within the music industry.

    • @jorgechavez7211
      @jorgechavez7211 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I've been afraid of making music cause I think I'm gonna make something I don't know about but already exists and get sued 💀

    • @NoThrottle
      @NoThrottle 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@jorgechavez7211 I do fear doing the same, but at the same time, there really is no defined copyright/music law in my country. I just make sure to not have my songs too /generic/ and always use royalty-free stuff when sampling. I also upload a video of the project file playing just in case people say /I sampled/ their song.

    • @oh-ox9sj
      @oh-ox9sj 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      sued over the D

    • @oh-ox9sj
      @oh-ox9sj 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

    • @DerekHise
      @DerekHise 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@jorgechavez7211 Legal Eagle did a good breakdown of the legalities of shard song components: th-cam.com/video/zgsL5yW3bao/w-d-xo.html

  • @TheWheatless
    @TheWheatless 4 ปีที่แล้ว +36

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

  • @mrnelsonius5631
    @mrnelsonius5631 4 ปีที่แล้ว +74

    I’ve been calling this “The Weekend Note” when writing the last couple years haha. Which isn’t really a diss, in my mind that’s the first time I heard hammering that 2nd over and over in multiple songs by an artist and now it’s everywhere. Was influential I guess 🤷‍♂️. Trends seem to last way longer in popular music than they used to also. So everyone, enjoy 20 more years of supertonics and trap hats!! (the louder the more popular) 😂

    • @kapilk1644
      @kapilk1644 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I think it's because of how influential rap music has become, people staying on the same note is sort of a melodic take on rap in a lot of casees

  • @eviternis
    @eviternis 3 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    D
    there, now im a master composer

  • @buchogmars7769
    @buchogmars7769 3 ปีที่แล้ว +360

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

    • @Megasaphire
      @Megasaphire 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Hahaha.... SKELETON

    • @Nai_101
      @Nai_101 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I don't get it

    • @javym1431
      @javym1431 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      D is used a lot in undertale music such as megalovania

    • @Nai_101
      @Nai_101 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@javym1431 ah, i see

    • @Nerine98
      @Nerine98 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

  • @joshbreekveldt3741
    @joshbreekveldt3741 4 ปีที่แล้ว +318

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

    • @scottnguyen9382
      @scottnguyen9382 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      "Andrew hits the D"

    • @WillyJunior
      @WillyJunior 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

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

    • @SreenikethanI
      @SreenikethanI 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Billy _we need to keep it PG_

    • @jpbostonian
      @jpbostonian 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      *PH Intro Plays*

  • @setmason1510
    @setmason1510 3 ปีที่แล้ว +170

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

    • @benwright3367
      @benwright3367 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

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

    • @tykobray4132
      @tykobray4132 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

    • @taylrthegreat
      @taylrthegreat 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Whoop post Malone got this one lol

  • @cdifreakguy
    @cdifreakguy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +86

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

    • @tsg_frank5829
      @tsg_frank5829 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

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

    • @cdifreakguy
      @cdifreakguy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@tsg_frank5829 What I’m saying is it’s not a half-step or tritone away from any note in any chord, therefore using it in the melody over any chord wouldn’t be incredibly dissonant. There is no note that sounds completely consonant over every chord but the second, fifth . . . and come to think of it, the sixth all avoid the harshest dissonances.

    • @tj-co9go
      @tj-co9go 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

    • @xyzyzx1253
      @xyzyzx1253 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

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

    • @xythantiopps
      @xythantiopps 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

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

  • @alexvoll1873
    @alexvoll1873 4 ปีที่แล้ว +114

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

    • @rwrunning1813
      @rwrunning1813 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

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

    • @AxxLAfriku
      @AxxLAfriku 4 ปีที่แล้ว

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

    • @GlitchComputer
      @GlitchComputer 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      right!!!?

  • @GarethThomasTunes
    @GarethThomasTunes 4 ปีที่แล้ว +139

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

    • @juhanainen
      @juhanainen 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Malkovich, Malkovich, Malkovich. Malkovich!! Malkovich?

    • @SynthApprentice
      @SynthApprentice 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      ... Malkovich?

    • @EpixManz
      @EpixManz 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Nathan V MALKOVICH!!!

    • @DJSockmonkeyMusic
      @DJSockmonkeyMusic 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@EpixManz malkovich MALKOVICH malkovich *MALkovich*

  • @jomesias
    @jomesias 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Never knew the major 2nd was the sound I was hearing!! Super interesting the root and 5th is single handedly resposible for rock and metal!! And now pop Major 2nd

  • @Sc4r4byte
    @Sc4r4byte 4 ปีที่แล้ว +578

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

    • @tjnotico
      @tjnotico 4 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      not really accurate

    • @dariocaporuscio8701
      @dariocaporuscio8701 4 ปีที่แล้ว +40

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

    • @steweeez
      @steweeez 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Sc4r4byte let’s be obsessed with da B ..

    • @rasputozen
      @rasputozen 4 ปีที่แล้ว

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

    • @Fabi-es1xy
      @Fabi-es1xy 4 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @shamardaniel4819
    @shamardaniel4819 4 ปีที่แล้ว +326

    The Weeknd: People love my unique melodies and I’m rolling in fresh ideas!
    Andrew Huang: I’m about to ruin this mans whole career.

    • @ncjake8916
      @ncjake8916 4 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      I actually kinda got the opposite reaction. Watch again and see how much The Weeknd moves off that supertonic anchor compared to a lot of the other examples. Yes it's always where his melodies are anchored around, but there's a much more fluid and consistent motion than in a lot of the other pop songs.

    • @mixolydian9102
      @mixolydian9102 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      😂🤣😂🤣😂😆💯

    • @shamardaniel4819
      @shamardaniel4819 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      NCJake True. His songs are extremely catchy and manages to keep plenty of interest. His rhythmic and tonal patterns have worked for years now. But I couldn’t help to meme the guy.😂

    • @TheZooropaBaby
      @TheZooropaBaby 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I mean....people have used pentatonic scale over and that’s 5 notes.....Weeknd using 3 or 4 notes isn’t really that much different

    • @albertoromeo8522
      @albertoromeo8522 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      (But I’m not a rapper)

  • @jesuisfudgeman874
    @jesuisfudgeman874 4 ปีที่แล้ว +735

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

    • @cubeofcheese5574
      @cubeofcheese5574 4 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      Well Andrew shifted everything to be in the same key

    • @pingozingo
      @pingozingo 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

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

    • @smooshfanultra
      @smooshfanultra 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Blinding lights is in F minor.

    • @noamgem4756
      @noamgem4756 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      i hug everyone who listens to this beat th-cam.com/video/953seo4SAL0/w-d-xo.html

    • @31pas0
      @31pas0 4 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @petter2849
    @petter2849 ปีที่แล้ว +7

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

  • @gmspec
    @gmspec 4 ปีที่แล้ว +35

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

  • @marcc375
    @marcc375 3 ปีที่แล้ว +196

    They all should sue each other for copyright infringement.

    • @ChaosRayZero
      @ChaosRayZero 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

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

  • @Sparrow_Bloodhunter
    @Sparrow_Bloodhunter 3 ปีที่แล้ว +44

    instruments: *have multiple notes*
    pop artists: supertonic go ding.

  • @alecrechtiene558
    @alecrechtiene558 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I also believe it has kind of an unresolved sound, but not to the point that we are begging to go back to tonic. Pop music in the past few decades has been very driven and propels forward. In conclusion, I feel the supertonic gives the since that we are driving forward or gliding just above the ground.
    Edit: supertonic, not supersonic. Typo😆

  • @jaimeeoww
    @jaimeeoww 4 ปีที่แล้ว +154

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

    • @rodrigoodonsalcedocisneros4419
      @rodrigoodonsalcedocisneros4419 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

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

    • @9kanima
      @9kanima 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

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

    • @sharadsemilo
      @sharadsemilo 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@9kanima can you please elaborate?

    • @9kanima
      @9kanima 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

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

    • @Moosemoose1
      @Moosemoose1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

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

  • @JustinY.
    @JustinY. 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2382

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

    • @Mumkeylord
      @Mumkeylord 4 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      hello there

    • @stickyglue1234
      @stickyglue1234 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

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

    • @fluffartistt
      @fluffartistt 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

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

    • @Rafa-mv4nn
      @Rafa-mv4nn 4 ปีที่แล้ว +27

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

    • @rohinagrawal9727
      @rohinagrawal9727 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      lol

  • @domainofscience
    @domainofscience 4 ปีที่แล้ว +537

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

    • @shub00_
      @shub00_ 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

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

    • @gabrielcabello9227
      @gabrielcabello9227 4 ปีที่แล้ว +31

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

    • @ellebhee5045
      @ellebhee5045 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@gabrielcabello9227 was gonna say Kerry King lol

    • @matiasarteaga4548
      @matiasarteaga4548 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

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

    • @ganko2240
      @ganko2240 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

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

  • @zeroblackstar
    @zeroblackstar 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Watching this video has improved my pitch recognition for D by about 4000%

  • @RiffsAndBeards
    @RiffsAndBeards 4 ปีที่แล้ว +692

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

    • @Rain593
      @Rain593 4 ปีที่แล้ว +159

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

    • @LychkovIA
      @LychkovIA 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

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

    • @2raddude
      @2raddude 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

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

    • @btat16
      @btat16 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      @@Rain593 Subtonic: *cries in the corner*

    • @ashoka9306
      @ashoka9306 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

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

  • @fen4554
    @fen4554 3 ปีที่แล้ว +82

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

    • @disgustof-riley8338
      @disgustof-riley8338 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Arial

    • @mellowords
      @mellowords 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

    • @bien.mp4
      @bien.mp4 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      which one is it

    • @mellowords
      @mellowords 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@bien.mp4 'grand piano 1'

  • @Kaffeebaum
    @Kaffeebaum 4 ปีที่แล้ว +85

    Oh God is this one of those "Four Chord Songs" things that I will never stop hearing now?

    • @singflower
      @singflower 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      That's what I was thinking. Hearing all those songs like that gave me flashbacks from that Axis of Awesome video

    • @penguindrum264
      @penguindrum264 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@singflower the Axis of Awesome is becoming a lot less trendy now.

    • @singflower
      @singflower 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Makoa The Ancient Yes, it's true that many songs use only 3 or 4 chords, and it's not really surprising if you think about it. There are seven chords in a scale, so using 3 or 4 is a good compromise between too boring and too messy.
      But what is usually meant by "four chord song" is a song using the I-V-vi-IV progression, which is used quite a lot in pop music. Of course other genres have common progressions as well, like the II-V-I in jazz.

    • @singflower
      @singflower 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@penguindrum264 I don't know much about them, I just remembered watching that video a few years ago.

    • @justinjagt7633
      @justinjagt7633 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@singflower *Just if you play in the scale though, and 7s 9s 11s 13s, theres way more to make it interesting

  • @David-sw3on
    @David-sw3on 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Without sounding pretentious, For approx of 45 years, the "d" was my most chosen always over every other note progression when writing songs ...Love the sound & the diversity! Thanks for bringing this to light.. Great Vid👍😉🇨🇦

  • @TachyBunker
    @TachyBunker 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

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

  • @DJCosmicLatte
    @DJCosmicLatte 4 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    Just gotta say, I really love the "Theory Thursday" splash lol

  • @HappyFingaz
    @HappyFingaz 4 ปีที่แล้ว +308

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

    • @jersute
      @jersute 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

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

    • @arborealsquid2380
      @arborealsquid2380 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Agreed, that would be awesome.

    • @steffenherold754
      @steffenherold754 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

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

    • @Ferrichrome
      @Ferrichrome 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I'd love to see the video as well haha

    • @Motekk67
      @Motekk67 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Jon Sine made a video on this recently

  • @ashissiiick9682
    @ashissiiick9682 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @ethanedgington3561
    @ethanedgington3561 3 ปีที่แล้ว +944

    All those “D” notes...
    and he never transitioned into Megalovania
    *cries in a bad time*

    • @ChaosRayZero
      @ChaosRayZero 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      Or any ocarina songs from Legend of Zelda for that matter.
      In Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask, the A button plays a D note with the "Song of Storms" probably being the most famous tune in the games to start with that button. (Yes, I know it's the tonic in that case, not the supertonic, _but it's still a D note.)_

    • @dogman15
      @dogman15 3 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      Except in Megalovania, "D" is the tonic, and it's used really well.

    • @coalescence3835
      @coalescence3835 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Plus, literally any Hans Zimmer soundtrack is in "D"

    • @coalescence3835
      @coalescence3835 3 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      @@charlesdoesmore5488 We got ourselves a salty boi, bois.

    • @PiePlayzBASS
      @PiePlayzBASS 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      *b a d p a i n*

  • @randommemeclone1021
    @randommemeclone1021 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1653

    So in other words, everyone wants the D
    note

    • @querkzy7346
      @querkzy7346 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      lol

    • @jynx1620
      @jynx1620 3 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      You had in the first half not gonna lie

    • @AmIWhatIAm
      @AmIWhatIAm 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      Your comment suits your pfp

    • @johnmoller293
      @johnmoller293 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Given that the the scale is in C major/A minor

    • @gabrielfigueroa8131
      @gabrielfigueroa8131 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@johnmoller293 I don't think the relative minor is relevant regarding the second scale degree. If we're talking about the supertonic and d natural, the song could only be in C Major, right?