OSTER project's Twitter
Translations of tweets from @fuwacina. For an archive of other Vocaloid-related Twitters I no longer keep up with, go here.
If giving kindness satisfies that person, and also satsifies me as a result, that's the ultimate win-win. So even if I'm living for myself, I want to form relationships with that structure and enrich my life...
[Continuing from "When I think about kindness":] To get into this more, in my case, it might not be the act of being kind to someone itself, but the person being happy I was kind to them that satisfies me... Maybe that's also why I sometimes want to make people laugh with jokes... The other person being satisfied feels like a recognition of my own existence.
Though wait, shouldn't I be using realizations like this for lyrics? What am I saying them here for? It's like a huge oil spill over here...
I think interacting with others can let you understand those structures for the first time, and figure out what you want to do. Though I'm sure it depends on the person...
Virtues and models can quietly strangle people who don't fit into those values. That's why you need the self-confidence to go "Shaddup! Who cares!" and reject them, and that takes someone else recognizing your values, so it's a relief when people do.
It's okay to live for yourself, and it's your life, so I think it's the most natural to live that way, in fact. Since there's an atmosphere of "having someone more important to you than yourself" being a virtue, it can make you think that it's wrong to think of yourself first.
When I think about kindness, I worry about whether kindness with the motive of feeling satisfied yourself is really kindness, but then I think that if kindness were strictly categorized like that, it would remove all kindness from the world, so I always stop thinking about it there.
I love people who work hard toward their dreams. I'm sure it's probably because affirming their way of life is also affirming my own way of life. I want to always do my best, and I want to dream.
My pasta is very delicious. :spaghetti:
Today I used the kitchen at my friend's house to make us food, and had super cute matching earrings made for me, which filled up my youthfulness gauge a ton, so I'm sure I can make another youthful song!! Life!! :smiling: :smiling: :smiling: :smiling: :smiling:
It got me thinking it might not be a bad idea to make a basic chord-reading video or something to make it so more people can enjoy these.
It's fun seeing people who are like "This video's easy to understand!" and others who are like "Don't have a clue!" and others who are like "Don't get it, but it's fun to watch!"
Don't they not seem to sell falsies much lately??? They might be in vogue, but it's worrying... Should I just go to Don Quixote...?
Lately, thick falsies have stopped fitting me, which I guess must be age... No, no, no, thinking that just makes you older, so stop it!! Dumbass!!
[Retweeting flat five lecture] I made a video yesterday! Look, look, look!
Tomorrow, I'm cutting my hair and going to see a friend! (memorandum)
I only just passed 30,000 followers recently, and now I've already passed 35,000! Thanks for watching a ton! :folded hands: If you're fond of my lecture videos, definitely listen to my music too! :heart:
OSTER-san's CD Vol. 2
[Photo of a seemingly home-printed form, imitating the one from Valentine's:
"Question 8: Have you ever felt a tightening pain in your chest when hearing a half-diminished in a tragic ballad?"]
I can go "Alright, let's use some dims!" and use a lot of them consciously and intentionally, but what happens a ton is I'll want to make a lurking melody in the chords with like a half-tone progression or something and in the middle of it go "Ah, that was a dim!", does anyone understand this???
I feel like there's probably some cool special move you can do with dims like the aug pre-landing, though. :thinking face:
Really sorry for saying feel-based things all the time, but seriously, any more about the rules of when to use them would be really hard...
"How stylishly you can design instability" is the epitome of the music called Shibuya-kei. That's why I like stability-breaking chords.
I'm adding in more and more text, so pause if you want to read it carefully, sorry...
I made a flat five and diminished lecture for people who don't really get music theory, by a people who doesn't really get music theory.
Previous videos here. #OSTERExplains #Dominowns
Watch with English captions here! (Original Twitter video)
I don't really get music theory, but I like the chords called flat fives, so this video is me doing my best to explain them. (Watch at a distance in a well-lit room)
First off, what feels good when listening to music? C (stable) → F (tense) → G (tense) → C (stable)... The existence of tension makes the transfer to stability feel pleasant!!
To liken it to a story, it's interesting to have incidents and then see how they land at a conclusion. Sorta...
C (Intro: Last night,) → F (Event: When I bit into a hamburger,) → G (Event: Meat juices came flooding out,) → C (End: And it was delicious)
"I don't wanna tell commonplace stories you can predict like that!!" Have you never had such a worry? That's why originality in making interesting incidents (how you add tension) and reaching interesting conclusions (how you stabilize) leads to uniqueness in your music!!
C (Intro: Last night,) → F (Event: When I bit into a hamburger,) → Bb9 (Unexpected Event: Oil came gushing out,) → AbM9 (Unexpected End: And I moved to Dubai)
Once again, let's talk about best buds (perfect fifths). C and G: The interval between these notes is guaranteed to be stable. Shifting things upward (sharp) to purposefully add instability is an aug. (C E G# = Caug) Shifting things downward (flat) to purposefully add instability is a flat five (b5). (C E Gb = C(b5))
To name a song that makes good use of this strange, fantasy-like sound... ♪ Saria's Song (The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time) (The one that instantly came to mind. There's also the start of Holst's "Jupiter," say...?)
(barrage of flat-fives) As usual, even just doing the "voom, voom" parallel movement is a simple method that produces tricky sounds. (Destructive...) I realized they even show up in blues-y songs like this!!!! (Gb(b5)/Ab) (The key changed...)
Now, here enters a relative of Mr. b5! (I guess relative is the word...)
C E Gb... If you take the third note E down a half-tone, it's a diminished. (C Eb Gb = Cdim) It seems some prefer to use a dim that includes the seventh note (A)... (C Eb Gb A = Cdim7 ≈ Cdim) (Why is A the seventh note? Go ask your mom or dad...) SUSPENSE!!
By the way, like augs, the notes in dims are at equal intervals (distance 3). They're called something like... cyclic chords? (♪ When you use a Boo in Mario Kart 64) This unsettling sound can be very handy for producing original tension.
C (Intro: Last night,) → F (Event: When I bit into a hamburger,) → G (Event: Meat juices came flooding out,) → C (End: And it was delicious) If we take that story from the start, and instead of G, we make just the right hand a dim chord...
C (Intro: Last night,) → F (Event: When I bit into a hamburger,) → Fdim/G (Sorta Surprising Event: It was cheese! Guess that works?!) → C (End: And it was delicious) It got kind of a tragic, dramatic sound!
Finally, with knowledge of dims, let's progress some chords based on this story... (Ebdim: Casually-addable incident) (Dm7b5/G: Try this one next time) (C#dim: An incident appears!!) (Gm7/Bb (?): So emotional I became emo...) (???: What's goin' on with the chords here??? Ab6/Bb (?) Feels like a 6 for a second) (Bbdim/A: You again, huh?)
If my concept of augs' instability is floatiness, I guess my concept of dims' instability is uneasiness? (Dbsus4: The briefest sus4) Tara-ta-ta-talalala... ♫ (CM9: Sorry if I got any chords wrong as usual...)
Watch with English captions here! (Original Twitter video)
I don't really get music theory, but I like the chords called flat fives, so this video is me doing my best to explain them. (Watch at a distance in a well-lit room)
First off, what feels good when listening to music? C (stable) → F (tense) → G (tense) → C (stable)... The existence of tension makes the transfer to stability feel pleasant!!
To liken it to a story, it's interesting to have incidents and then see how they land at a conclusion. Sorta...
C (Intro: Last night,) → F (Event: When I bit into a hamburger,) → G (Event: Meat juices came flooding out,) → C (End: And it was delicious)
"I don't wanna tell commonplace stories you can predict like that!!" Have you never had such a worry? That's why originality in making interesting incidents (how you add tension) and reaching interesting conclusions (how you stabilize) leads to uniqueness in your music!!
C (Intro: Last night,) → F (Event: When I bit into a hamburger,) → Bb9 (Unexpected Event: Oil came gushing out,) → AbM9 (Unexpected End: And I moved to Dubai)
Once again, let's talk about best buds (perfect fifths). Do and so: The interval between these notes is guaranteed to be stable. Shifting things upward (sharp) to purposefully add instability is an aug. (Do mi so# = Caug) Shifting things downward (flat) to purposefully add instability is a flat five (b5). (Do mi so♭ = C(b5))
To name a song that makes good use of this strange, fantasy-like sound... ♪ Saria's Song (The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time) (The one that instantly came to mind. There's also the start of Holst's "Jupiter," say...?)
(barrage of flat-fives) As usual, even just doing the "voom, voom" parallel movement is a simple method that produces tricky sounds. (Destructive...) I realized they even show up in blues-y songs like this!!!! (Gb(b5)/Ab) (The key changed...)
Now, here enters a relative of Mr. b5! (I guess relative is the word...)
Do mi so♭... If you take the third note mi down a half-tone, it's a diminished. (Do mi♭ so♭ = Cdim) It seems some prefer to use a dim that includes the seventh note (la)... (Do mi♭ so♭ la = Cdim7 ≈ Cdim) (Why is la the seventh note? Go ask your mom or dad...) SUSPENSE!!
By the way, like augs, the notes in dims are at equal intervals (distance 3). They're called something like... cyclic chords? (♪ When you use a Boo in Mario Kart 64) This unsettling sound can be very handy for producing original tension.
C (Intro: Last night,) → F (Event: When I bit into a hamburger,) → G (Event: Meat juices came flooding out,) → C (End: And it was delicious) If we take that story from the start, and instead of G, we make just the right hand a dim chord...
C (Intro: Last night,) → F (Event: When I bit into a hamburger,) → Fdim/G (Sorta Surprising Event: It was cheese! Guess that works?!) → C (End: And it was delicious) It got kind of a tragic, dramatic sound!
Finally, with knowledge of dims, let's progress some chords based on this story... (Ebdim: Casually-addable incident) (Dm7b5/G: Try this one next time) (C#dim: An incident appears!!) (Gm7/Bb (?): So emotional I became emo...) (???: What's goin' on with the chords here??? Ab6/Bb (?) Feels like a 6 for a second) (Bbdim/A: You again, huh?)
If my concept of augs' instability is floatiness, I guess my concept of dims' instability is uneasiness? (Dbsus4: The briefest sus4) Tara-ta-ta-talalala... ♫ (CM9: Sorry if I got any chords wrong as usual...)
9 already... I want to upload the video by 11... Is it impossible...?
Always poor and slovenly, so wearing the same style foreeeeever until it's threadbare, but wanting new stuff, but not knowing what to buy... There's probably a lot of women like that. There's one right here.
I'll do my best to upload a flat fives lecture video today.
Huh? In that case, just make a song like that? Are you a genius or what...
But what I am allowed is making Rin-chan and Miku-chan sing. That's what I've been given. I have to do my best with it.
At least when I'm reborn, I want to be Miku-chan, and hug Rin-chan, and catch the smell of shampoo from her hair, and whisper "that smells nice" into her ear, and for Rin-chan to smile sheepishly but happily, but that day will never come. Get to work.
If I had the chance to become Miku-chan or Rin-chan for a day, I'd want to be Rin-chan, but I'd also desire to be Miku-chan and hug Rin-chan, so I'd be at a total loss, but I'll never get that chance in my whole life.
It's not "I am Rin-chan." Rin-chan is me.
I don't like this big-bodied Rin-chan.
[Retweeting the OSTER is Rin Theory] I am Rin-chan.
Yeah, you're gonna be a whale, all right!!
I've got like 3 times the shoulder width of Rin-chan.
[Screenshot of a lyrics page for Whale Rider, then again with dramatic lines pointing out the credits: "Lyrics: OSTER project, Composition: OSTER project, Vocals: OSTER project"]
OSTER project is Rin-chan Theory
Maybe that's just the way my basic sense of tempo is... When I try to comfort someone, it ends up sounding like seduction. Messed up. I'm so messed up, man.
When I try to write a lyric like "Trust your friends, and let's overcome it together," I reeeeeally agonize over it, but if it's a lyric like "Become mine tonight, señorita," I could think of endless variations with different word usage. I'm so messed up.
Give This Relation A Name
PERFECT FIFTH (best buds)
[Re: the Fuwacina tweet:] I didn't think this tweet would get so many likes, but I'm kinda happy. Call me Fuwacina-san. :smiling:
Gonna use that late-night energy to start on lyrics work.
I finished the music part of a flat five lecture in the blink of an eye, just about two hours... You can really bang it out when it's something you like.
I was thinking of using your cafe-latte-tier Fanbox support to buy a cafe latte from 7/11, but the machine was under maintenance...
king GNU's Not Unix
When I'm calling a friend and start making up some weird song on the spot, they suspect me, going "Did you really make all those songs???"
I also wanna do slash chords.
Lecture videos I'm currently thinking of making:
- Suspenseful diminisheds
- Half-diminished, leader of the tragic crew
- Light and darkness in one! Is it friend or foe? The Sharp Ninth!
- What is "OSTER style," ultimately?
- Using a blues scale to smoke fresh frog meat with sakura chips
Ageha27paramina: "Isn't your Toro Puzzle name Fuwacina?"
[Screenshot of trying to enter "Fuwacina" in Toro Puzzle name entry. Screenshot of error message "You can't enter that word." Meme of cat holding a wired phone going "Why"]
Though of course, my longest-time fans call me by my real name. (audience laughs warmly)
I really like how much of a long-time-fan sense I get from people who still call me Fuwacina. Recent followers might not know, but it's short for Fuwafuwa Cinnamon. I'm still Fuwacina in credits as a video creator. Out of an impure motive to make it feel like there's more names in the credits.
I think nothing in life is useless, and hardship means bearing with it until you can find meaning in what can be thought of as useless. At the very least, that's the rule I have in my life. You're not suffering to the end, you're suffering through.
If people who live their lives the same way attract each other, if I do my best to be wonderful, then the harder I try, the more wonderful the people I'll meet in the future will be. That's an amazing thing.
And I'm also happy if it's not just me, but the other person feels a similar satisfaction.
The longer you live for and the more things you try, the more events happen in the process and the more feelings you get, and sometimes you're able to form an understanding with someone because you've had those experiences. Those moments make me happy, as validation for trying my best all this time.
That's seriously how much of a music theory know-nothing I am, so please be kind.
20 years after starting to make music, I've finally properly learned which one's the tonic, which one's the subdominant, and which one's the dominant. I mean, I think I learned it. Feels like I might've learned it.
I'm absolutely unsuited for teaching people how to make music. My unsuitability starts right around the point where I think "the more active the bass is, the better."
People who get music theory are cool, but I don't get what they're saying at all, but they're cool... Maybe it's kinda like how I can't make out any of the lyrics when I listen to western music, but it still sounds cool...
And I am not an apartment wife.
[Jun: "For clearing Level 609, OSTER, you're seriously an apartment wife!"]
These compliments are getting so crude, I'm not even sure if they're compliments.
[Photo of a form: "Question 8: Have you ever felt a tightening pain in your chest when waking up or going up stairs?"]
I'm an adolescent, so of course I have.
It makes me super happy that since I'm OSTER-san, I'm the only person in the world who can make the murmur twins OSTER remix... (?)
With the creation of this remix, my 2020 is already over...
The sequence of words "yu_tokiwa.djw & OSTER project" has intense "old guy getting in the way of yuri" energy... But this is reality... It's real...
To provide a simple explanation of what "murmur twins OSTER Remix" is to me, it's like when the climactic scene of the last episode of a two-cour anime plays the first cour's opening theme. It's basically like that.
If I hadn't encountered murmur twins, I definitely wouldn't be making the sort of songs I do now, and I might never have met wac-san and Tokiwa-san... It was a turning point in my life.
[Mega Announcement] On the #beatmania #IIDX 20th anniversary tribute album!!!
Unbelievably!!!
Amazingly!!!!
I was allowed to provide a remix of "murmur twins"!!! :crying: :crying: :crying: :crying: :prayer hands: :prayer hands:
It's a song that's extremely important to me far beyond rhythm games, but in my very life! And a remix I put my whole soul into! Please listen to it!!!!!
It's Valentine's, yet I'm being examined all day at the hospital.
The MRI made a noise that sounds like a Massive synth.
If I don't shave off some of my life to make art, I lose my reason for living and can't live anymore... That's gotta be a bug, right?
And yet if it were forbidden to write lyrics with unfounded knowledge, I'd need to be bitten by a wolf in the forest at night, and jump in front of a train in front of my boyfriend, and have a forbidden tryst with a furry fox lady then do a double suicide... I'd never have enough lives for it all...
I underestimated painful injections back when I made Love Ward... There exist injections in this world that are hard indeed to bear... I shouldn't have written such a lyric acting like a know-it-all on painful injections...
I'll even put up with painful injections / Mascara runs down my complexion
Hate 'em... Hate injections...
As last, it's Valentine's! :hearts face: And of course, the thing to do on this special day is... :heart:
:hospital: Hospital Visit :hospital:
["CONGRATULATIONS! Cleared Puzzle Level 600!"]
Progress.
Bloom Into You is actually a super good title, really, just read this here. (handing you the full volume set)
Bloom... Into You... (trailer voiceover)
RT @nakataniii There's a fair number of people who've told me they saw the title [of Bloom Into You, literally "Soon, I Become You"] and thought it was possession-based horror.
Time will pass and you'll get older no matter what you do, so it's a waste not to give your all for yourself, surely.
There'll always be people who make fun of those who are trying their best yet not succeeding, but any time and energy you'd spend on worrying about them should go toward continuing to try your best. Once you start using your limited time to better yourself instead of mock others, you steadily distance yourself from those people.
You're beautiful.
People who can produce beautiful things are beautiful.
[Jun: "Got it, hop. I'll completely forget about "the money I borrowed the other day," bun."]
It's fine as long as you're quick to say it.
Playing around and daring to teach her things I want to make her forget, so I can then have her forget them.
[Jun: "Got it, hop. I'll completely forget about "what I did while drunk," bun."]
How to live.
Said something cool, so I'm gonna soak in the bath.
And I've come to learn that asking yourself what you think and how you want to live, then expressing that with words, is actually a pretty difficult thing despite also being considered ordinary. There are surprisingly many sides of you that you don't notice, and that's why it's important to involve yourself with others. You can't see your own back.
Of course there have been a ton of times it's been hard having chosen this profession, but having a friend tell me "Fuwacina, you express your feelings and beliefs so clearly and accurately with words, I can feel really comfortable being with you" made me super happy, and go like "Making lyrics for so long had meaning!!!!"
Fast-talking Domino otaku.
And just look at these selection functions. In addition to filtering just the highest or the lowest note in chords, you can also filter based on velocity or gate value. Furthermore, the batch edit function lets you not only do plus or minus to velocity and the like, but apply formulas with things like multiplication and percentages.
First off, just look at some of these config options. You can adjust the hitbox of where putting your mouse cursor over a note will change into gate adjustment. It's such an amazing feature. And I mean, I've never seen the word "hitbox" in a settings menu before. Is this a fighting game...?
Nobody knows the amazingness of Domino... Domino's incredible, it's freeware, and yet it's worlds more flexible as a sequencer than what's included with DAWs, and high-fidelity, and absurdly customizable... For mouse users, Domino is the strongest! Put Domino in Cubase, please...
Since you're doing it all with a mouse, who're you calling "Piano Girl"? From today forth, you are Rat Woman.
Here's the piano that was horribly tedious in Piano Girl.
I wonder what a ranking of "songs that made me feel like I would go nuts making them" would look like... The full-orchestra Demon Fire and Violet Rose would definitely be up there... And Piano Girl and Piano Forte also made me feel nuts... Songs with a bouncy rhythm like Piano Girl are especially tedious.
I'm nostalgic for my instrumental album...
[OSTER project] Album "Recursive Call" [Crossfade]
A trio-format instrumental song is one that allows for no cheats, so putting together six minutes of it was serious torture...
This is the song in the first half.
[OSTER project] Violet Rose [Music Video]
When you upload a video to Twitter, the start of the video becomes the thumbnail, so you need to be aware of that when making the video. (admonishing) [The previous video starts by fading in from black, so...]
Every time I make a live-style song with mouse, I think "I'll never do something this tedious again," then after a little bit, I'll be filled with energy and want to make one again...
I'm working day in, day out to make live-sounding jazz and even orchestra with mouse input. #RTAndMakeMeFamous
https://www.youtube.com/c/OSTERproject47
On the other hand, when it comes to my body, my chronic disease worsened and I stayed in bed... Why...
Going to the park on a holiday is really nice. When you get a glimpse of how people spend their spare time, it gives me warm feelings about how there are as many routines, lifestyles, and thoughts as there are people.
People who can't help but put down others are probably antsy from a lack of self-confidence, so if it comes to that, take another look at yourself first. Re-evaluating your life is important.
Even going viral with 60,000 likes on Toro Puzzle, I didn't gain any followers, but when my chord explanation video went viral, I gained 5000 followers... Indeed, people want beneficial information... And despite that thought, I've mainly been sending out worthless info. I went out late last night to buy umekobucha from the drug store.
I'm great for slowly coming to do things I was too afraid to do before...
In life, you can do anything anytime, and it's always you who sets your own limits. And so I got my ears pierced after turning 30.
The hardest part of the music-making process is starting to make music.
OSTER knew not of music theory. But she was more attuned to augs than the average person.
[Retweeting her 2020 goals list: "Video with my own art, Pixiv Fanbox, live Whale Rider, Friendship sequel, Rin album, OSTER-san's CD Vol. 3, fix ailing body"] Still only accomplished one of these...
I know I didn't understand one bit when people told me "this sound functions like so...", so I'd like to dedicate myself to explanations that are more casually like "Y'should use this at times like this! Not like I got any clue!" (define "explanations")
If it's just individual chords, you can Google those, so I think it'd be good to make videos with a unique understanding of the chords' personality, and practical examples of simple ways to use them by feel.
From now on, I plan to archive my don't-know-theory theory lectures here. Thanks in advance.
OSTER Explains #OSTERExplains
[VOCALOID] Whale Rider [Kagamine Rin] [NicoNico]
Listen to this song.
The early Lesbian Song Maker gets the worm.
Every time I see a commercial that's like "thanks to this air cleaner, I don't smell my cat's litter box anymore!", I'm thinking "You still don't know the true terror of cat poop..."
I'm happy when people listen to my songs, so I'll link my YouTube channel... :folded hands: :folded hands: :folded hands:
https://www.youtube.com/c/OSTERproject47
P-p-p-p-p-please be g-g-g-g-gentle...
Suddenly gained about 4000 followers and I'm super flustered.
I've uploaded part 2 to YouTube too! Thanks in advance!
Casually Explaining Augments (augs) With Minimal Music Theory Part Two #2
Making a song is simple, but making a good song is horribly difficult.
Of all my recent songs, this has gotta be the one with the most tension-manipulating techniques packed into it - augs, slash chords, half-diminisheds, sharp ninths...
OSTER project - Passenger Seat Road Movie feat. Kagamine Rin [NicoNico]
Rather than an influencer with busted capabilities, it's healthier to just go viral every so often. (WHO report)
[Retweeting aug lecture part two:] I've received 10,000 likes! :folded hands:
I'm pretty sure the "kinda don't get why" part of "Kinda don't get why, but it sounds good!" is explained by the rules of composing theory. I'm gonna keep on creating still not really gettin' why, gahaha.
To introduce myself to recent followers: I raise Toro and company. [Retweeting "When you're thirsty, apparently it's effective to gargle dry highballs, mya."]
To introduce myself to recent followers: I draw pictures. [Retweeting the Miku-Rin "feeling cards" picture]
To introduce myself to recent followers: I make food. [Retweeting photos of some superb fried eggs]
To introduce myself to recent followers: I make videos. [Retweeting a WIP of the "kissing fish" video]
masya_7S3S: "What soundfonts do you use?"
Piano: keyscape
Bass: MODO BASS
Drums: drum tree
I think my music's chordwork is a selling point, so I'm glad to share it with people who care about the nitty-gritty like this...
For nearly ten years I've been worrying "if I'm going to make music, would it be better to have a MIDI keyboard...?" and not actually buying one, but I make a lot of music.
The second one has a wrong chord, so I'll put it up after fixing that... I can't just say I actually lack a MIDI keyboard to check the chords with...
I uploaded the impactful aug explanation video to YouTube. Thanks in advance.
Casually Explaining Augments (augs) With Minimal Music Theory #1
[Retweeting kissing fish:] Lesbian Song
[Screenshot of kissing fish comment: "Lesbian Song??"]
I laughed at this foreign comment on YouTube.
Yes Lesbian Song
There's a slash aug in the second measure of the chorus.
[OSTER project] Labradorite feat. Yu Tokiwa [Music Video]
One of my songs is featured in this explainer video about Blackadder Chords.
The Blackadder Chord || Ongaku Concept
Even now, I'm sure careful inspection probably uncovers a ton of incorrect notes from a theory perspective, but I've come to feel like "Shaduuup! Who caaares!! It's my world, my rules!!" and be good with it. In the end, beauty is in the ears of the beholder... Believe your ears...
Also, while I've always been someone who managed despite not studying theory, it's taken like 20 years for me to establish a bunch of what I'm capable of now, so those who want to mature faster might find it faster to study theory... haha... Though I've had a lot of songs that came to be what they are due to going by feel.
When I first learned augs, my desire to use them got ahead of me, becoming Too Much and appearing in awkward places, but I feel like recently I've finally learned how to work them in naturally. Learning new techniques makes you want to use them, but ideally, what you want to represent should take priority, and then you want to have a lot of options for what techniques to use toward that purpose.
I like Mitsukiyo-san's songs that feel like they'd play in the background of a video about using proper manners during a movie screening...
RT @mitsukiyo_5 I made a jazz song for 2 pianos. BPM 250
But I do get the feeling dims and half-dims get used a lot for bringing out tragic and subtle moods... Listening to them on their own, it feels like Tuesday Suspense Theatre, but when they're thrown into the mix, it feels like a conflict scene in a shoujo manga. (extremely feel-based)
In terms of pure musical rules, I know enough of the very basics to make such a video, but due to my utter lack of knowledge in composing theory, I have no clue about what to use how to make things sound beautiful... It's just like "well anyway, I did it like this, and it worked well, don't get why though"...
I see a lot of demand to make a dim lecture, but I personally have zero grasp on the rules of when to use dims... Using dims by feel...
I messed up one of the chords while hastily throwing the video together, so I'll fix it when I upload to YouTube... :woman bowing:
[Retweeting a reply to the video about immediately wanting to use the "pre-landing Blackadder-ization" trick:] An amazing technique you can use right away with one simple trick! No harm in knowing it...
The subject matter's more complex than last time, but I absolutely wanted to touch on the symmetry (?) of augs... Such interesting chords augs are.
I truly don't know music theory, so I dunno why doing this makes it sound nice, but it's sort of like tricks you learn. Pre-landing!
Music is fun! Music is fun, huh?!
I've realized that the majority of the step-too-far augs I use may fit this pre-landing formula...
A second aug lecture for people who don't really get music theory, by a people who doesn't really get music theory. #Dominowns #AugsAreAugsome #OSTERLectures
Watch with English captions here! (Original Twitter video)
I don't really get music theory, but I like the chords called augs (augments), so this video is me doing my best to explain them. 2
C, E, G... What determines the nuances of chords is the intervals between notes! (AKA how far apart they are.)
C... +4 is E! The distance between C and E is 4. E... +3 is G! The distance between E and G is 3.
C (C E G), E (E G# B), G (G B D), A (A C# E), C (C E G)! As long as the C E G trio maintain this distance, they'll sound about the same no matter what worlds (key signatures) they travel to, but the notes that make them up change each time.
Incidentally... Even you swap the octaves of the notes making up a chord, it sounds roughly the same. (People call this inversion.) (examples show two instances of a chord, but with the second one swapping one or more of the notes to different octaves) Apparently what order you stack the notes in is called the voicing...
With all of that in mind, if we examine the structure of augs... C... +4 is E! The distance between C and E is 4. E... +4 is G#! The distance between E and G# is also 4. G#... +4 is C! Going up 4 half-tones from G# comes back to C!
When augs are inverted, wherever you start counting from, the distance between notes is always 4! In other words, Caug, Eaug, and G#aug are all constructed with the same notes! (They're just swapping with each other - Caug (C E G#), Eaug (E G# C), G#aug (G# C E), Caug (C E G#))
By the way, when we looked at step-too-far augs last time (Caug/D), it seems there are various ways to explain the slash note (this note, the "/D")... But personally, I'm in the... (counting up from C: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9!) Ahhh! The ninth nooote!! camp.
Well, anyway, the point is that since they're just swapping to the top like this, you can write them in a variety of ways. (All the same note makeup: Caug/D, Eaug/D, G#aug/D, Caug/D...) And while these chords may have a complex sound, they're super easy to use!
Even in isolation, they have a fancy sound, so you can create tricky effects just by moving them in parallel like missiles. (Or if not "fancy," like, they make a mysterious and thrilling approach...) (barrage of chords) It sounds super complex, but it's all just going voom, voom moving Blackadder Chords around... Simple, right?
When I want to add some flair to the flow of the song, my go-to is the bassline pre-landing formula. (The heck is that...)
In this section, focus on the bassline. The bass starts at C... and lands at F. (Bass: C... F...) This time, let's try having it arrive at a half-tone-up F# before it reaches F. (Bass: C... F# (the pre-landing!!!), F...)
Even just doing that is kinda interesting! But let's try stacking a Blackadder Chord onto that pre-landing F# to make it fancy. (C, Csus4, C, Eaug/F# (pre-landing aug), FM7... etc., pointing out other pre-landing augs in red as it goes)
Since it's so easy to do, it can get repetitive if you overdo it. But it's a relatively simple way to make fancy stuff, so may ye try it out! (Not really sure why, but this part (D/E, Ddim/E (?)) seems extra fancy...)
Feels so OSTER-like to add flavor with syncopation... (Dm7-5/G - love this one) (pre-landing aug: Baug/C#)
Watch with English captions here! (Original Twitter video)
I don't really get music theory, but I like the chords called augs (augments), so this video is me doing my best to explain them. 2
Do, mi, so... What determines the nuances of chords is the intervals between notes! (AKA how far apart they are.)
Do... +4 is mi! The distance between do and mi is 4. Mi... +3 is so! The distance between mi and so is 3.
C (do mi so), E (mi so# ti), G (so ti re), A (la do# mi), C (do mi so)! As long as the Do Mi So trio maintain this distance, they'll sound about the same no matter what worlds (key signatures) they travel to, but the notes that make them up change each time.
Incidentally... Even you swap the octaves of the notes making up a chord, it sounds roughly the same. (People call this inversion.) (examples show two instances of a chord, but with the second one swapping one or more of the notes to different octaves) Apparently what order you stack the notes in is called the voicing...
With all of that in mind, if we examine the structure of augs... Do... +4 is mi! The distance between do and mi is 4. Mi... +4 is so#! The distance between mi and so# is also 4. So#... +4 is do! Going up 4 half-tones from so# comes back to do!
When augs are inverted, wherever you start counting from, the distance between notes is always 4! In other words, Caug, Eaug, and G#aug are all constructed with the same notes! (They're just swapping with each other - Caug (do mi so#), Eaug (mi so# do), G#aug (so# do mi), Caug (do mi so#))
By the way, when we looked at step-too-far augs last time (Caug/D), it seems there are various ways to explain the slash note (this note, the "/D")... But personally, I'm in the... (counting up from do: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9!) Ahhh! The ninth nooote!! camp.
Well, anyway, the point is that since they're just swapping to the top like this, you can write them in a variety of ways. (All the same note makeup: Caug/D, Eaug/D, G#aug/D, Caug/D...) And while these chords may have a complex sound, they're super easy to use!
Even in isolation, they have a fancy sound, so you can create tricky effects just by moving them in parallel like missiles. (Or if not "fancy," like, they make a mysterious and thrilling approach...) (barrage of chords) It sounds super complex, but it's all just going voom, voom moving Blackadder Chords around... Simple, right?
When I want to add some flair to the flow of the song, my go-to is the bassline pre-landing formula. (The heck is that...)
In this section, focus on the bassline. The bass starts at do... and lands at fa. (Bass: Do... fa...) This time, let's try having it arrive at a half-tone-up fa# before it reaches fa. (Bass: Do... fa# (the pre-landing!!!), fa...)
Even just doing that is kinda interesting! But let's try stacking a Blackadder Chord onto that pre-landing fa# to make it fancy. (C, Csus4, C, Eaug/F# (pre-landing aug), FM7... etc., pointing out other pre-landing augs in red as it goes)
Since it's so easy to do, it can get repetitive if you overdo it. But it's a relatively simple way to make fancy stuff, so may ye try it out! (Not really sure why, but this part (D/E, Ddim/E (?)) seems extra fancy...)
Feels so OSTER-like to add flavor with syncopation... (Dm7-5/G - love this one) (pre-landing aug: Baug/C#)
I'm a multimedia creator, so I make meals too.
Going with a video further explaining augs.
What the heck should I explain next...? A supplement on augs? Or flat fives?
I don't understand theory, but I like theoretically-complex songs. (broken logic)
50,000 likes is amazing... I'm happy everyone likes augs... Listen to my songs...
Theory is like an assist function to help you reach a wonderful sound, so I think it's better to think of it as "handy to know." As long as you understand the way there by feeling, I feel like it's not a necessary thing. (team "let's casually start composing")
To someone fuzzy on theory, the existence of double sharps and double flats is super incomprehensible to me, but does it really have to be like that?!
They're not for actual publication or anything, just materials I bring along to have it performed, so I figure it's probably more important that it be easy for a musician to read and play than harmonically correct, but still.
As far as what troubles me due to not getting music theory, I guess there's how when I'm writing sheet music, I worry over whether I should write C# or Db... But I do kind of get the notion that they're written different for different functions.
The Diminished Seventh sounds like a cool title for a popular manga.
I always have doubts, and every time I look it up I end up forgetting, so I'm eternally doubting myself, but if the 7 in C7 is B-flat, why is the 7 in Cdim7 A?! Dammit!! I don't know nothin' about music!!!
The chords known as augments, theoretically speaking, are like the equilateral triangles of chords. Not like I know theory.
Regarding augs, I could make endless reference to Tanaka-san's songs, but this song of Maaya Sakamoto-san's is wild. First time I ever heard a song ending on an aug...
I think of augments, flat fives, and sharp ninths at the Three Sacred Treasures of sound.
For those who liked my aug video, please listen to this song too.
OSTER project - Passenger Seat Road Movie feat. Kagamine Rin [NicoNico]
Long ago, I was taught beginner music theory for early-grade-school kids (like augments and majors and diminishes), but I was dumb and could never learn it as much as I tried.
If I may introduce myself to my new followers: I'm perverse.
That Time I Went Viral And Gained 2000 Followers In One Day (light novel)
[Screenshot of Twitter bio with 30,002 followers] 30,000!!! Thank you very much! :tada: :tada: :tada:
In the shadow of 6000 likes, Jun's off-the-wall Miracle Paint is earning 600 likes...
Kinda got a ton more followers... Welcome and please stick around...
This is kind of super getting a super big reaction, so that's super.
I have a CD out that's loaded with augs, so please... :folded hands: OSTER-san's CD Vol. 2 by OSTER project
Dominant: (Huh... Was there just some distance put between us...??)
↑ The truth behind the odd feeling of augs (?)
I seriously haven't properly studied theory at all, so I'm really sorry if I said something incorrect. Don't take it too seriously, just look at it like "Here's some things you can do! Fun, right? Try using it in your songs!", okay? :folded hands:
When you get into augs, you'll endlessly put them in for passing notes, and your songs will get more and more complex and dense.
When the best-buds relationship is altered in a positive direction, it's an aug, and when it's negatively altered, it's a diminish or a flat five. Both can be used to add tension and uneasiness to a song, I think, but heck if I know. (heck if i know)
I thought I'd sum things up, but even I have no idea why to choose augs, or the rules behind them... We're all using augs by feel.
I made an aug lecture for people who don't really get music theory, by a people who doesn't really get music theory. #Dominowns #AugsAreAugsome
Watch with English captions here! (Original Twitter video)
I don't really get music theory, but I like the chords called augs (augments), so this video is me doing my best to explain them. (Pause if it's too fast)
"C"... When this plays, the truth is... "G"... is also playing alongside it. You're probably like "the hell are you saying?", but apparently they're called "overtones."
C, D, E, F, G... C and G are five notes apart, so... people call their relationship a PERFECT FIFTH (best buds).
When you move in parallel, maintaining the interval between C and G, it sounds like this. (People call these power chords.)
Many of the chords people use add some other note to this perfect fifth. (C, E, G - C and G form the perfect fifth, E is in the middle. C + E in the middle + G, G + B in the middle + D.)
However, with augs... (C, E, G# (?!)) You take a step away from being "best buds" to form a dangerous and unstable relationship... No going back to the way things were. So like, how do you use this strange sound?
The most easily-understood example: A "passing note" approach, such as when building up to the chorus. Say you have this pattern... (section pointing out the "top" notes of G and A)
You can connect the top notes G and A using the note that's between them, G#. (C (C E G) with top note G → Caug (C E G#) with passing note G# → F (F A C) with top note A) With this alone, you can add a unique sense of floatiness and make the song sound fancy!! (* Personal opinion)
This use of augs for passing notes feels a bit by-the-book... For instance, there's also songs like this. (Within each chord is a note in a "lurking melody" that follows the pattern. C (lurking G) → Caug (G#) → F (A), Dm7 (C) → Aaug (C#) → Dm9 (D). The Aaug wasn't that kind of approach aug...)
A way of using augs that takes it another step (AKA going a step too far): Normal Caug. But raise the bass down here one note, and... Caug/D! Has kind of a risky sound. (People call this a Blackadder Chord.)
Let's shove this in place of the earlier example aug and say goodbye with an aug festival...
Going overboard like this can be interesting in itself... Before you know it, you'll surely be addicted to augs too.
Watch with English captions here! (Original Twitter video)
I don't really get music theory, but I like the chords called augs (augments), so this video is me doing my best to explain them. (Pause if it's too fast)
"Do"... When this plays, the truth is... "so"... is also playing alongside it. You're probably like "the hell are you saying?", but apparently they're called "overtones."
Do, re, mi, fa, so... Do and so are five notes apart, so... people call their relationship a PERFECT FIFTH (best buds).
When you move in parallel, maintaining the interval between "do" and "so," it sounds like this. (People call these power chords.)
Many of the chords people use add some other note to this perfect fifth. (Do, mi, so - do and so form the perfect fifth, mi is in the middle. Do + mi in the middle + so, so + ti in the middle + re.)
However, with augs... (Do, mi, so# (?!)) You take a step away from being "best buds" to form a dangerous and unstable relationship... No going back to the way things were. So like, how do you use this strange sound?
The most easily-understood example: A "passing note" approach, such as when building up to the chorus. Say you have this pattern... (section pointing out the "top" notes of "so" and "la")
You can connect the top notes so and la using the note that's between them, so#. (C (do mi so) with top note "so" → Caug (do mi so#) with passing note "so#" → F (fa la do) with top note "la") With this alone, you can add a unique sense of floatiness and make the song sound fancy!! (* Personal opinion)
This use of augs for passing notes feels a bit by-the-book... For instance, there's also songs like this. (Within each chord is a note in a "lurking melody" that follows the pattern. C (lurking so) → Caug (so#) → F (la), Dm7 (do) → Aaug (do#) → Dm9 (re). The Aaug wasn't that kind of approach aug...)
A way of using augs that takes it another step (AKA going a step too far): Normal Caug. But raise the bass down here one note, and... Caug/D! Has kind of a risky sound. (People call this a Blackadder Chord.)
Let's shove this in place of the earlier example aug and say goodbye with an aug festival...
Going overboard like this can be interesting in itself... Before you know it, you'll surely be addicted to augs too.
[Jun: "♪ Miracle Paint... ♪ When rabbits are lonely, they get nude, hop!"]
That's not how the song goes.
[Ricky: "Professor OSTER, does tequila count as a snack?"]
Chaos in the classroom.
[Jun: "I heard that if you play Tapioca New Year for Nargacuga babies, they grow up faster!"]
Where'd you get your info?
[Announcement] I wrote a song called Sunset Brass for the arcade game Nostalgia Op. 3! :folded hands: It's a fusion-like (??) song brimming with the exhiliration of driving along a shore at sunset!! Please unlock it and play it! :piano:
[Jun: "Just how much tequila do you need for a tequlia bath, hop...?"]
Party animals terrify me.
[Toro: "Hold hands with Toro and sleep with him at a hotel, meow! ♥"]
That's what people who aren't gonna stop at sleeping with you always say.
[Continuing last night's Lemon parody:] Until the bill is paid, I can't return
If I went to the My Hero Academia world, I'd want a quirk that let me produce beef fillet rossini from my hands.
Even the foie gras from that day, even the fillet from it,
I loved every part of it, alongside truffles
Inseparable from my heart, the scent of balsamic vinegar
I'll never forget the foie gras I ate that day.
I'm also who I am now from chasing after various others. Maybe next it'll be my turn to get chased after. I'll definitely get away from you. (It isn't that kind of game.)
My genes are constantly being inherited...
RT @PianoYurara Since I started listening to OSTER project's songs, the chords and melodies I use have changed completely. I one-sidedly think of her as the teacher who created my current sound.
I got up to a lot of uncharacteristic antics back in high school, like biking to a friend's house carrying this synth on my back... How nostalgic.
I only have MP3s and MIDIs of my old songs, and at the time I didn't mix them at all and just recorded them straight from the synth. But I do still have the hardware, so I guess it'd be possible to hook it up and fix the mixing to get the highest quality out of the synth I was using back then...??
I used to get up to some mischievous stuff. (musically speaking)
This is the sort of song I made in high school.
[Past Song Reposting] Cosmic Orchestra | OSTER project | pixivFANBOX
Lesbian Brothel Anthology is good stuff.
Today I went to a stone sauna and lost my panties.
Now remember, it's fun because we have that kind of friendship, but hearing that from someone else would be just plain harrassment...
The saying "good fences make good neighbors" means that if you aren't thinking of each other, it's hard to keep up a relationship. Being able to cheerfully joke with one another is proof that you understand what territory you can't step into. Which is exactly why being told by a super good friend "you're so flat lol" and getting mad can be enjoyable and comfortable.
I often think how you can't rest on your laurels after earning someone's favor. I don't like the term "rotten relationship" [i.e. "inseparable, like it or not"]; if friends have things they can give each other, you should value those things. Don't let 'em rot. Ya gotta keep 'em fresh.
Going on about this stuff always makes people say I'm into "radiant yuri."
Determining you're going to be with someone isn't the goal; how you live your lives together after that, and what you can provide each other, are first steps in discovering the meaning of being together. To keep that determination glittering always, you have to properly confront that.
It's embarrassing how blatantly the "kissing fish" couple was influenced by Bloom Into You, but I wish blessings on a couple who overcame many difficulties together and blossomed feelings of specialness toward each other, and hope they'll continue to search for the meaning of them being together...
It's sort of my ideal yuri - I want them to share not just their joys, but their pain and sadness too.
Ahhhhhhhh, I really do love this song...
OSTER project - kissing fish feat. Hatsune Miku & Megurine Luka [NicoNico]
I've used up all my playful bites, so I must go on a quest in search of new eros. Life is a long journey... You can't cling to playful bites forever...
I think I'll probably boast about coming up with the line "told with a playful bite, an "I love you" that can't be voiced" for the rest of my life, and would like it engraved on my tombstone... I want it put in history textbooks as a classic deathbed poem...
"Playful bite" has both a cuteness and a sexiness, and that balance makes it feel like the ultimate finishing move to me. But I've already used it twice, so it'll be hard to use in the future... Held hands and kisses are commonplace, so they're easy to use, but playful bites have a strong identity. A secret technique to reveal at just the right moment.
Both Selfish Sweet and Rabbit Fur use the term "playful bite." You got a fetish there...?
Going home in cold winter weather while listening to Selfish Sweet is the best... The creator of this song is undoubtedly a genius...
It's incredible how realistic Bloom Into You is about how girls are when they gather together. Like the scene on the LaLaport Toyosu terrace where they share opinions on movies... I'm just trying to convince all humanity to simulwatch it...
We talked about yuri manga while drinking, so I spoke passionately about Bloom Into You, anyway watch Bloom Into You.
(Naturally, I went on a pilgrimage to Shinagawa.)
Yuu-chan likes flapjack octopuses, yet her T-shirt is a jellyfish.
I wanna brag to everyone about my Bloom Into You T-shirt.
I got dead drunk two days in a row...
I'm a Bloom Into You otaku, so I bought a T-shirt like Yuu-chan's.
Once, I bought matching earrings with a friend and went out in high spirits, and next thing I knew, I'd lost one of them, which was super sad... Later, that friend also lost one of them, so we were matching again. (define "matching")
I put on some earrings my good friend's mother made me and went out in high spirits, but when I got home and took them off, I realized I'd lost the backing somewhere, and now I'm down in the dumps... From high spirits to down in the dumps...
During the Bloom Into You binge at my stayover the other day, at the scene where Yuu-chan's being kissed by Touko-chan and thinking "Her eyebrows... are so long...", my friend looked at me after I'd gotten out of the bath and said "Your eyebrows... are so gone...", and I got super mad. (it was super fun)
[Toro: "When you're down, touching butts will cheer you up, meow."]
That's true.
My new song is wholesome.
Mozart made a song saying to lick him in the ass, so making a song about girls feeling like they're gonna turn into whales should be nothing to bat an eye at.
I'm going to an incredibly fancy place today, so I must make myself fancy as well.
It's the weekend, and the weather's nice, so I went on a day trip to the hospital.
At this age, I know that nothing's futile in life, and for all things a day will come when it has meaning, but I unavoidably have difficulty dealing with my anxiety until that day comes, so I just have to clear my mind and keep at it. That's how daily life is.
Opened my notes and found an inexplicable one.
["Doom Unto Gator" (Yagate Wani ga Shinu)]
You have to stick with what you find beautiful and shout it out. If you meet people along the way who approve or look at the same sights as you, it'll make you really happy, and give you so much courage you'll feel like you've been living just to reach that moment.
Life is a constant journey to find people who find beauty in the same beliefs, ways of life, and art as you.
I stayed a few days with a friend who's good at cooking, and I'm coming home with pimples on my nose...
I'm super scared of airplanes and can never get used to taking them, but the moment we landed, I Don't Want to Miss a Thing started playing, making it into an emotional return... I want to recommend it to all people who aren't good with planes.
I'm lodging with a yuri-loving friend for a yuri-fantasizing training camp, so I'm up at 2 AM thinking about how Rin-chan in Friendship could become happy...
[Jun: "Let's turn out the lights. Is fruit hunting something you can do in a futon too, I wonder?"]
I'm thinking I should play dumb.
[Jun: "Let's turn out the lights, still only 11:35, huh? It's only been 9 hours since I was doing something I can't really say earlier, but I'm feeling like I wanna do something I can't really say again..."]
I'm thinking I should play dumb.
(Furthermore, this is the fourth viewing)
What do you do late in the night at a girls-only sleepover? That's obvious... (Bloom Into You watch party until morning) [Photo of watching Bloom Into You.]