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April 13th, 2020
I got stuck on lyrics today and played ball with my cat instead. When you think for hours on end and can only progress one or two lines, it really feels like you're being crushed by your own powerlessness. The hardest part of writing might be keeping confidence in yourself.
That skit where I say "harmoniously oscillate" and Soshina retorts with "It's a uniform circular motion projection!!" (the skit is non-existent)
I'm an adolescent, so when I see kiss scenes after confessions on Terrace House, I think "So this is how men and women, and women and women, and men and men, and all other couples let their feelings overlap..." while I harmoniously oscillate 600 times every second.
I dun' get no complicated talk about theory, so I leave all that beeswax to peeps who know that stuff. :door: :woman: :dash:
The last example song is my original, so I hope you'll listen to it.
[VOCALOID] Friendship [Kagamine Rin]
[Retweeting half-diminished lecture] If even 1 in 1000 people laughs at the "golden sesame sauce," that's fine. Please laugh...
Even my songs that sound super-live aren't live, so I wanna record them live.
I released the cute big band jazz I was making on stream to my supporters in advance! Go listen!
Posted [Advance Release] Cat and Balloons to Pixiv Fanbox!
I hadn't yet encountered Bloom Into You when I made Friendship, but when I listen to it now, I instantly feel like "Sayaka-chan..."
RT @harukawa_msk For those who were taken by Saeki-san in Bloom Into You, and also by OSTER project-san's Friendship, please combine those two for me... And if you were into BanG Dream's Tsukushi Futaba and Nanami Hiromachi, I highly recommend listening to Friendship.
I really like the #9 before going to the last chorus in Passenger Seat Road Movie.
#9s sound like rain when it's sunny, like being unable to stop crying when you're happy.
The first topics to come up for stylish composition are augs and dims, but don't #9s tend to kinda be ignored? I love them a whole lot, and think they have an amazingly emo effect...
I super want to make a sharp ninth lecture, but I wanna do sevenths and tension first...
Betting there's other mistakes too.
Ah, the F#dim in the second Lemon bit was missing the #... :distressed: Even when I check, there's always a mistake... :eyeroll:
I've realized in making music that it's more important to pick up knowledge as a feeling than it is to pick up as a word. If you only know the word but don't know how to use it, it's pointless.
I began consciously using half-diminisheds starting with this song.
[VOCALOID] Decaf Girl [GUMI]
I'll upload this video to YouTube too once I've checked that there aren't any critical mistakes.
And recently, I learned that the thing where the top note goes up by half-tones (like C→Caug→C6→C7) is also apparently called a cliché.
The half-diminished cliché pattern shows up in big band and show music too.
Since everyone's at home, make tragic songs loaded with half-diminisheds...
When I hear a sublime half-diminished, my chest tightens up...
I mean, it's because of the half-diminished there that you're like "Ahh... so the rain hasn't stopped falling...", right?! I can't deal... I'm gonna go lick a lemon...
When people say to me "Lemon's such a good song!", if I went "I know, the way it uses a half-diminished to tie together the repeated phrase at the end of the chorus is so emotional!!", they'd probably look at me like "what's she on about?", so I could never say that, and I'm glad I was finally able to...
I uploaded the chord-reading video I thought I uploaded forever ago.
Roughly Explaining Super Simple Chord-Reading #3.5
I made a video going into the charms of half-diminisheds with ultra-feel-based explanations.
Previous videos here. #OSTERExplains #Dominowns
Watch with English captions here! (Original Twitter video)
I don't really get music theory, but I like half-diminisheds, so this video is me doing my best to explain them.
(♪ Fall in love [- Akiko Kobayashi]) I present to you today the Heartbreak Honcho of the chord world... F#m7(b5)... The half-diminished. (How pitiable...)
Half-diminisheds are sometimes written as ø, so we'll go with that in this video. (i.e. F#ø) JSYK, dim can be written as ○. (Golden sesame sauce...) [Reference to an old commercial parodying the current song]
No time to waste! Let's introduce the nutty notes that make this up! Cø (Previous video is recommended viewing)
C (Protag): "Did I do something again?" + Eb (Sad Girlfriend): "I'm a little sad today..." + Gb (Unstable Best Bud): "Sure enough... I think protag is..." + Bb (Just Kinda Stylish): "Yep, I'm here." That's all!
So they're built pretty similar to the dims featured in the last video! (Top note of Cdim: This is A. Cø: Changes to Bb.)
(♪ I Need To Be In Love [- Carpenters]) In the flat five video, I likened chord progression to stories, with patterns like "Intro → Event → End"... Well, half-diminisheds are like the "and yet..." or "however..." of a story, making you feel a little uncertain about what's next. (personal opinion)
F (Intro: Last night,) → E7 (Event: I ate a hamburger) → Am (End: That alone made me happy) → F#ø (Unsure Conjunction: Or so it should have...) (That's not what the song is about.)
To name a famous song that makes good use of this lingering effect... (♪ Lemon [- Kenshi Yonezu])
When you're repeating a phrase at the end of the chorus, it's standard to divide them like "so it was," but using "so it was, yet..." instead leaves a very emo refrain. (F → Gsus4/E → Em7 → Dm7 → G → F#ø - emo...)
And there are a good number of cases where it can be swapped for a similarly-built dim, so note the subtle nuance... (dims feel tense, øs feel tragic) (personal opinion) (F → Gsus4/E → Em7 → Dm7 → G → F#dim - kinda unsettling)
"Used to evoke tragedy in ballads, huh? I understand completely." ...you may be thinking. But øs can show their worth in upbeat songs too! (♪ Fictional Anime Song) A pattern common in anime songs is for a ø to bring in the second verse, while the bass descends by half-tones. (A technique called a cliché)
C → C/Bb → F → G → F#ø → FM7 → Em7; right hand continues Am (A C E), bass lowers by half-tones (F# → F → E)
To name a song that uses this technique... (♪ Welcome to Japari Park [- Kemono Friends])
Like changing from a blue-skies scene to a sunset scene, ø can evoke sadness among cheerfulness. F#ø → FM7 → Em7 → Eø/A (this is emo too)
And lastly, it's the traditional going hog-wild with tons of øs segment. (Ebø; whoa what awesome)
♪ Friendship (Oops All Half-Diminisheds ver.) (D7/F#; practically a ø...) (Abø→dim; takes tension from #13→13) (Ddim/E; slash-dims are emotional - should I write this as E7(b9)...?) (F#ø; standard anime song second verse cliché)
The sound of a half-diminished puts a shadow over brightness...
Watch with English captions here! (Original Twitter video)
I don't really get music theory, but I like half-diminisheds, so this video is me doing my best to explain them.
(♪ Fall in love [- Akiko Kobayashi]) I present to you today the Heartbreak Honcho of the chord world... F#m7(b5)... The half-diminished. (How pitiable...)
Half-diminisheds are sometimes written as ø, so we'll go with that in this video. (i.e. F#ø) JSYK, dim can be written as ○. (Golden sesame sauce...) [Reference to an old commercial parodying the current song]
No time to waste! Let's introduce the nutty notes that make this up! Cø (Previous video is recommended viewing)
Do (Protag): "Did I do something again?" + Mi♭ (Sad Girlfriend): "I'm a little sad today..." + So♭ (Unstable Best Bud): "Sure enough... I think protag is..." + Ti♭ (Just Kinda Stylish): "Yep, I'm here." That's all!
So they're built pretty similar to the dims featured in the last video! (Top note of Cdim: This is la. Cø: Changes to ti♭.)
(♪ I Need To Be In Love [- Carpenters]) In the flat five video, I likened chord progression to stories, with patterns like "Intro → Event → End"... Well, half-diminisheds are like the "and yet..." or "however..." of a story, making you feel a little uncertain about what's next. (personal opinion)
F (Intro: Last night,) → E7 (Event: I ate a hamburger) → Am (End: That alone made me happy) → F#ø (Unsure Conjunction: Or so it should have...) (That's not what the song is about.)
To name a famous song that makes good use of this lingering effect... (♪ Lemon [- Kenshi Yonezu])
When you're repeating a phrase at the end of the chorus, it's standard to divide them like "so it was," but using "so it was, yet..." instead leaves a very emo refrain. (F → Gsus4/E → Em7 → Dm7 → G → F#ø - emo...)
And there are a good number of cases where it can be swapped for a similarly-built dim, so note the subtle nuance... (dims feel tense, øs feel tragic) (personal opinion) (F → Gsus4/E → Em7 → Dm7 → G → F#dim - kinda unsettling)
"Used to evoke tragedy in ballads, huh? I understand completely." ...you may be thinking. But øs can show their worth in upbeat songs too! (♪ Fictional Anime Song) A pattern common in anime songs is for a ø to bring in the second verse, while the bass descends by half-tones. (A technique called a cliché)
C → C/Bb → F → G → F#ø → FM7 → Em7; right hand continues Am (la do mi), bass lowers by half-tones (fa# → fa → mi)
To name a song that uses this technique... (♪ Welcome to Japari Park [- Kemono Friends])
Like changing from a blue-skies scene to a sunset scene, ø can evoke sadness among cheerfulness. F#ø → FM7 → Em7 → Eø/A (this is emo too)
And lastly, it's the traditional going hog-wild with tons of øs segment. (Ebø; whoa what awesome)
♪ Friendship (Oops All Half-Diminisheds ver.) (D7/F#; practically a ø...) (Abø→dim; takes tension from #13→13) (Ddim/E; slash-dims are emotional - should I write this as E7(b9)...?) (F#ø; standard anime song second verse cliché)
The sound of a half-diminished puts a shadow over brightness...
I want to be a Screw-Up Teacher [Shikujiri Sensei, a TV show about people teaching others how to avoid their own life mistakes] for the Star Wars cast. Luke: "I failed when training my disciple, and handled it in the worst possible way. Turn to the next page... I went missing and retired." Sawabe: "That's the absolute last thing you wanna do!" I'm imagining a scene like that and I super wanna see it.
There are people who've been corrupted by anger, went with the flow, did something without thinking, and could never take it back for the rest of their lives. You know, like Anakin Skywalker.
I'm hard-headed too, and get really particular about the weirdest things, but if that negatively affects my life, it's my own loss. I want to be calm for my own sake more than others'.
The angrier you get, the more you're unable to back out of your initial outburst, the more difficult it is to change your opinions and attitude, and the thicker your head gets. It's important to calm down before that happens. The real uncool thing isn't changing your views, but not being able to change even if you want to.
Humanity should abandon anger and hate and be calm. Let's be nice to people.