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You want more? Ok. Here you go. (Also I’m so mad this is the second time I have to write this my phone glitched and I lost everything.)
Let’s analyze the lyrics of the album Green. Starting with “Pop Song 89.”
The lyrics of the second section are: “Hello, I'm sorry, I lost myself. I think I thought you were someone else. Should we talk about the weather? Should we talk about the government?”
First sentence: “I lost myself.” “I don’t know I guess I feel like I lost you or something.” See what I’m saying? Not a lot needed to say.
Second sentence: “I think I thought you were someone else.” Will used El’s name to share his feelings. Mike thought they were El’s feelings. He thought it was El.
Third sentence: “Should we talk about the weather?” In the “super spy” and the “crazy together” scene, they are talking about the shadow monster, which is portrayed in a storm. Weather. Also the whole upside down is kind of portrayed as a storm, so the scene in Hopper’s cabin also counts.
Fourth sentence: “Should we talk about the government?” Hello? Stranger things?? Government?? The government is a huge thing in Stranger things. I can’t remember if/when Mike and Will talked about the government but still.
Also I think is a good idea to mention another line in the song that goes “You know I never knew it could be so strange, strange.” STRANGE. Stranger Things!
Next, a very short one, “Get Up.” It’s literally about trying to get someone to wake up. (Remind you of anything?) Since “wake up” has been said (or sung) to almost every Vecna’d victim, it’s safe to say either Mike or Will will get Vecna’d. Also near the end of “Get Up” there is music that sound like a music box. Robin pointed out and played Nancy’s music box. And she got half-Vecna’d.
All I’m going to say about the next song, “You Are The Everything” is listen to it and read the lyrics. Just think about Mike singing it about Will. It’s just really sweet and sad.
That’s all for now but let me know if you want me to do the rest of the album. I might do it anyway.
Also there’s 11 songs in the album.
Lil update:
I listened to the rest of the albums and I can’t figure out anything else except for that they mention a compass in “Stand” and “Turn you inside out” sounds like it’s from Vecna’s pov. Also “The Wrong Child” could be about El.
I have an official theory that the s5 time skip is going to skip forward 2 years to 1988 and I need that to happen and here’s why:
Will has an REM poster. Will canonically listens to REM. (great taste) What REM album came out in 1988? Green. Now if you don’t know about the green byler color coding I suggest looking it up somewhere else because I don’t have the energy to explain. Not to mention, Green literally has a song in it called “I Remember California.”
I don’t remember who said it but right after volume 1 came out, someone pointed out that REM can stand for Rapid Eye Movement (again look it up it’s hard to explain) which occurs multiple times throughout the series and especially in season 4.
Another interesting thing is that in Life’s Rich Pagent, one of their albums released in 1986, there is a song (a very popular cover) called Superman.
Leaving it at that
Music Theory and Dream Moons
Quick Prospit or Derse Dreamer Test:
Which song do you prefer?
SBURB OST by The Homestuck Fan Musicians
SBURB OST by The Homestuck Fan Musicians
"Lulling Lutescent" = Prospit Dreamer "Lavender Lullaby" = Derse Dreamer
Elaborated hypothesis involving music theory:
Prospit Dreamers generally gravitate toward music with major tonality, which has a lighter, happier, airy feel.
Derse Dreamers generally gravitate toward music with minor tonality, which has a darker, melancholic, heavier feel.
"Lulling Lutescent" is an example of major tonality, while "Lavender Lullaby" is in minor.
Almost all of music theory can be explained by one simple circle, the Circle of Fifths shows the relationship between math and music, between ratios and harmony
leitmotifs never get old to me like holy shit dude there’s this melody that corresponds to this one guy and if you hear the melody it means the guy is there. holy shit. and sometimes it refers to ideas too not just guys. has anyone heard about this
therapist: the semihemidemisemiquaver isn’t real, it can’t hurt you
the semihemidemisemiquaver:
Epik music theory assignment with doodles :3
This is really good, just adding a few notes:
The chord at the end of “brain broke too” is C#min7
“I’ve been drifting” should be F#7
chord at the end of “sometimes I feel like this is not my life” is B+
Start of “A phantom pantomime” is B7
“And I don’t know how to get back” is C#halfdim7/G then F#7 (then back to B)
“I never recovered from the crash” is F#7 all the way through
Second verse “Some days” first two lines is C#m/G# and G#7 (or Ab7)
End of “My memories mock me in the darkness” is Eb
“I can’t tell what’s real or not anymore” is G#m, B/F#, E (one measure), E min
Last line starting from “behind” is G#m, B/F#, E, C#halfdim7 Hope this helps!
haze chords & lyrics
from dave malloy’s three houses
I still play
B
I still play a lot
My heart broke
B+
And then the world broke
G#m E/G#
And then my brain broke too
E B
And I don’t know which one to blame
E B
I just know I’m not the same
C#dim F#
I’ve been drifting
G#m B+ B
Drifting through the haze
G#m B+ B
Drifting through the haze
D#
Sometimes I feel like this is not my life
G#m
But someone else’s life
D# E
A phantom pantomime of my true life
Em/G B/F#
And I don’t know how to get back
Sometimes I try to speak
B+/G
But all my thoughts fold on themselves
G#m
And all my words come out like paper wings
B+/G B/F#
That flutter and disintegrate like ash
E Edim
I never recovered from the crash
B
My heart broke
B+
And then the world broke
G#m E/G#
And then my brain broke too
E B
And I don’t know which one to blame
E B
I just know I’m not the same
C#dim F#
I’ve been drifting
G#m B+ B
Drifting through the haze
G#m B+ B
Drifting through the haze
E D#
Some days I can’t quite remember
E D#
What I did the night before
E Em
My memories mock me in the darkness
E Em
I can’t tell what’s real or not anymore
DOODLE: (2ND OCTAVE)
E F# G A G F# E
B
My heart broke
B+
And then the world broke
G#m E
And then my brain broke too
B
And I don’t know which one to blame
E B
I just know I’m not the same
C#dim F#
I’ve been drifting
G#m B+ B
Drifting through the haze
G#m B+ E
Drifting through the haze
F#7
And I don’t know how to move forward
D# E
How could I leave so much of me behind?
autistic friends! reblog/reply with one (or more) of your special interest(s)! i’ll go first! i love learning about dinosaurs (and plesiosaurs/mosasaurs)
did you know that every piano is slightly out of tune?
modern pianos are tuned according to equal temperament- the octave is divided equally into 12 semitones. this allows for notes to sound roughly 'in tune' regardless of the key, however the ratios between note frequencies are not harmonic meaning that technically they are out of tune.
sources:
How Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony (and Why You Should Care) https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=gQWyHQAACAAJ&redir_esc=y
https://www.britannica.com/art/equal-temperament
about four years ago my music teacher handed me the following piece of music and asked me to sight read it:
this is an excerpt of john cage’s ‘aria’. would you believe that these squiggles on a page actually mean something.
image source: classic fm
bet, you've made a grave mistake
tf2
ultrakill
rhythm games
fighting games
programing
music theory
metal music
writing
art in general
science
MATH
animation
voice acting
so yeah, I'm every autist ever, and this is just my fucking character bio at this rate
People with autism or adhd please tell me your niche interests!!
just in that time right now where i'm so impressed by kenzie and ldn noise 👏
i lack music theory and production to truly understand what's going on but they hit every. single. time.
my favourites (mix of kenzie and ldn noise) i need to listen to more
shinee - view, married to the music, don't call me, our page
red velvet - zoo, mr. e,
f(x) - all mine, danger (pinocchio)
exo - monster, lotto, for life, obsession, sing for you
taeyeon - why, four seasons, spark, to. x
nct 127 - replay,
wayv - only human
superm - jopping, drip, one (monster & infinity)
nct dream - box, hello future, [sorry, heart],
baekhyun - cry for love
nct u - 90s love, alley oop
ioi - fingertips
astro - crazy sexy cool
the boyz - water, honey, shine shine
alexa - revolution
nmixx - love me like this
Studying some jazz theory, I need my piano chops to improve to create better music. When I practice I start with some
-scales, been focusing on natural and harmonic minor, minor and major blues
-Hanon exercises
- ii-V-I’s (right hand four voices, some times three when I’m messing with a tritone voicing I learned.
- Then I usually start having fun and creating there from ideas I’ll generate from my exercises.
jazzology by Robert Rawlins is my current resource of study.
IS THERE A NOTE BETWEEN QUAVER AND A SEMIQUAVER.
"Alto clef is on some serious drugs!"
- A Year 11 Girl, who was very confused over a piano piece, which also had a violin line that had them playing to sound like birds, along with no specific time signature.
It's interesting how 4/4 metre became so ubiquitous that the moment you make something in 3/4 it instantly feels like something ethnic, tribal even.
Something I really want to do is write a song based around a Picture of Dorian Gray. I've already done one based on the book Maurice.
I think I would be the FUNNIEST PERSON EVER putting the song in dorian mode, but I feel like actually no one would care except weird music theory freaks who analyse it.
I would know though.
Isn't the plug in baby riff just the harmonic minor?
videogame soundtracks ruined me, everytime i sing whatever two notes i try so hard to fit it into a pentatonic it's pathetic