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[palominocorn]

I showed my music nerd spouse some black MIDI and now I've learned more about music theory.

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i am also a fellow black midi enjoyer

[stardust_rifle]

What did you learn?

Re: i am also a fellow black midi enjoyer

[palominocorn]

A. You know how it typically starts with a pretty standard melody and gradually works its way up to "smash the whole piano"? That's so that the listener can learn the melody and follow it throughout the song.

B. The melody will often be on the right (high pitched) side while the left (low pitched) side is dedicated to piano smashing. This is because human ears distinguish high notes better than low notes.

C. Even if you had enough fingers, you would still need superhuman speed to play it on piano. It would be easier on drums or guitar (assuming you had a LOT of hands and fingers plus really custom instruments) because vibrating a pick or hitting a drumstick is faster than smashing a piano key.

D. It's easy to learn chords and string together a few notes that sound good. Using the whole chromatic scale (fancy term for "the whole ass fucking piano") the same way takes a lot of effort.

E. Notes are a Eurocentric social construct. Octaves have a constant definition though: A5 is double the frequency of A4, and this holds with all notes an octave apart. But there's no reason there need to be twelve tones between those frequencies. Different notes that are listed as the same tone in sheet music are called microtones.

Re: i am also a fellow black midi enjoyer

[stardust_rifle]

Okay, that's really fucking cool.

Tell them thanks for the cool facts.

Re: i am also a fellow black midi enjoyer

[palominocorn]

I have passed on that one of my e-friends says thank you.