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Translations of tweets from @fuwacina. For an archive of other Vocaloid-related Twitters I no longer keep up with, go here.
Me giving a Bloom Into You presentation on a group call: "Sayaka Saeki is Tokugawa Ieyasu, Yuu Koito is Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Maki-kun is Hisoka."
Thanks for 10000000000 likes.
[Retweeting the Marunouchi video] As an addendum for RTers going "I don't know what's going on": I also don't know what's going on.
I sometime see people who aren't familiar with me be like "Theory-knowers are somethin' else!", but I am! A feeling-rider! We're no different! Let us shake hands! And share our suffering as fellow feeling-riders!
All the chords are written out there in the video, but I'm not conscious of chords at all when I'm making it, and just putting in the sounds I'm imagining in my head, so what I'm actually doing is looking at the finished progression and figuring out the names of everything one by one to make a video of it... Don't know theory.
I occasionally stream composing work to get the feeling that I'm working hard and making music. Please do come watch.
I think I've always had a complex about only faintly feeling like I'm actually making music. And about never properly studying music at a music college or vocational school. So in that case I should study it myself, geez, but I can't sustain any effort to, so I'm just beyond help...
When I bring up how I have no idea what keys to press on a keyboard to make the sound I'm imagining, people look at me like I'm an alien, but to me, people who know that doing such and such will cause this sound are superhumans from another dimension.
Even if chord explanations write the scale, I can't play the sound in my head, so I don't know what it sounds like until I play it, which is just plain inconvenient. But I have no desire to train myself either. Truly lazy. :sloth:
The videos I upload to Twitter are focused on showing my techniques, so they're musically busy. If you like them, I'd be very happy if you listened to my actual songs as well. They're available all sorts of places! :music note:
I think properly studying theory is a shortcut. Being a lazy slacker, I made music following my feelings for 20 years, and matured into a Galapagos pervert... I'll continue to walk my own unique path of perversion.
It's been about 20 years since I started making music, but I want to have at least a little pride in where I'm at now, using a mouse the whole time, only ever self-taught, and keeping the same style. I couldn't think about chords like this from the start, but there's a lot more I can see now compared to before!
You might think the more complex a chord progression is, the better, but the more complex a chord progression is, the better.
In analyzing the chords for this, I've established that I use minor major seventh flat fives.
A minor seventh flat five is a half-diminished, but what's a minor major seventh flat five called? Do you just say it like that? Like it's your regular order at Starbucks?
I like my songs, so I want to hear my songs made by a bunch of different people... (???)
Lately, I've had an interest in going like "Normally there'd be a minor here, right? Guess what, I'll make it a major. Bet this'd usually be a major seventh, but I'll make it a regular seventh," etc., and emo things happening or not happening as a result.
Not knowing theory, it's nice when I can at least find patterns and express them in my own words. Like "the pre-landing aug."
Sometimes I get asked "why did you go with this chord here?", but all I can answer is "it felt emo," sorry...
What sorts of standard progressions, you ask? Uh, try Googling it...
It's fun to do a sort of "custom recipe" for chord progressions... Like "how shall I make the Canon chords my own?"
Incidentally, if you watch this video, you can understand how to read chords in 2 minutes.
Roughly Explaining Super Simple Chord-Reading #3.5
As in this video, it feels like most chord progressions that look complicated are made up of simple standard progressions.
I made a video where Marunouchi Sadistic becomes more and more OSTER-style. #Dominowns
I'll probably agonize over it for life, but I also think it'd be the end if I stopped agonizing over it. If you always think you're the greatest, what are you supposed to aim for? The fact you can't reach greatness means you can strive for greatness.
I often go "I can't even do this? I'm not cut out for music, stop it already...", but maybe I keep going anyway because that's all I've got left.
But when it concerns yourself, you do tend to focus on the areas where you're lacking. I know the feeling of worrying that you're not good at something everyone else is. But if you let that make you give up entirely, you're also giving up the things you're good at and like, which is a huge waste.
I think it's fine to find one thing you're good at and brute force your way with it. You don't need to use complex chords; if you can distinguish yourself with the way you make or arrange sounds, go for it. There's no one answer.
I'm super bad at making sound and mixing, and I also lack the interest to work on those. But thinking of chords and phrases is my strong suit, so I run all the way with that to make the songs I do, and I keep going with the hope that it'll reach people who like that kind of thing.
It's best to believe that there's no such thing as a person who can call everything their strong suit. If you focus on a single weakness and be like "I'm not cut out for this," you'll make your strengths cry...
I'm here... I'm right here...
Twitter's weird.
The timeline's doing a thing, so I'll upload this video some other time.
So is the timeline back now? Or not?
Making a dirty joke while Twitter's being funky and getting a weak response makes me horribly lonely, so stop it...
I'm not getting any notifications at all, so I thought I'd been abandoned, but Twitter's just busted...
Just take my word for it - instead of playing the basic root note with your left hand, it sounds kinda fancy if you just play the seventh instead, so everyone should try it out.
It's the thing where if you play a seventh with your left hand, it's kind of fancy-like, and also the thing where you play G and F with the left hand and Dbm with the right. I'm using a mouse, so my hands aren't actually on a keyboard, but.
F, Db, E, Ab, and the bass is G... What even is that?
I don't understand the chords of my own progressions.
I'm facing a pot boiling at 1 AM and chanting "Become tasty...", so I'm pretty sure I qualify as a witch. :witch:
When people claim "double standards" about people who have conflicting emotions, I think they're just under a mistaken impression that they're living without contradictions themselves. Though actually, no, I don't think having two conflicting emotions at the same time is a contradiction at all!
But you kinda wanna push through that conflict to proudly put the end result out into the world like "This is the ultimate art in the universe!!", right???
Schrödinger's Creator
I think creators are creatures in two overlapping states: thinking they're geniuses, and thinking they're hopelessly lacking talent.
A Hollywood movie where if I don't make a tweet that gets over 1000 likes every 3 days, the bus with hostages on it explodes.
I did good staying indoors on sunny Saturday, so even though it's raining, I'm gonna go for a walk... Gotta recover mentally or else.
Spaghetti Challenge
I'm behind the times, so until a few months ago, I thought SpaCha [Super Chat, donating to streamers on YouTube] was a weapon in Splatoon.
However nice the weather is, there are a lot of people out on Saturdays, so I'm not leaving the house then... I'm not, but the weather is nice... The sun is calling me... :sniffle:
I'm really fond of my friends who, after I got absurdly drunk during a group call and gave a stupid-loud presentation on Bloom Into You, actually heeded me and read it.
There's a 5-billion lightyear gap between understanding the structure of an amazing progression and producing it yourself.
Plus, it'll probably be quite some time before I get to making another song I can stream. And I'm absolutely unable to do something steadily every day, so I'm really not suited for it...
I can't play an instrument, and even my composing is both tedious and unintelligible, so it's not very appealing to stream. So I keep thinking I wanna figure something out, but what should I even do...
People who provided amusing content offline before are putting a lot of stuff online now, so the web is overflowing with lots of amazing content, which should be a wonderful thing, yet I'm weak and feel my own powerlessness over it instead...
I'm an adolescent, so just putting "kiss" into lyrics stimulates me.
I know once I surpass a certain level I'll enter the realm of self-satisfation, but...
I think I'm getting good at composing, so I want to be praised.
Dammit, corona, you dummy! I'm not lettin' you outta the house! This ain't gonna go like you planned! I'm gonna wash my hands real good, ora-ora!! Don't underestimate the power of human science!! Get a load of alcohol disinfection, ora-ora!
Just by being unable to meet the people I want to meet, how many relationships I would've otherwise fostered have been nipped in the bud...? Feelings are raw and perishable, so if you keep them locked up instead of spitting them out, they change shape.
Hikaru Utada's "distance" was playing at the supermarket, which is awfully timely.
No, it's not a club where people inspire each other by shouting "In the name of our order, we shall protect the kingdom!!" (night club)
"I'll fill ya fulla holes!!" is something a strong character would never say. It's almost always a sign they're not gonna be filled fulla holes.
When you get into delicate subjects like this, it's hard to avoid hurting someone with your wording, so enough of that. I like pervy stuff! That is all!
Of course, my intent here isn't to belittle ace people - I'm saying that all of us have some kind of irregularity like that. Myself, I think romance between girls is beautiful, but that's also irregular relative to the animal instinct to propagate. Once you start thinking about that, it becomes clear "normal" is an illusion.
People laugh when I write lyrics with sexual metaphors, but I'm being pretty serious about it myself, and I just plain think of it as beautiful.
I suppose "platonic" is meant to mean "purely beautiful," but that lack of desire the human animal should normally have leads me to theorize it's actually the less wholesome option.
Nothing's happening these days, and yet I want to give a status report of some kind on Fanbox.
I haven't taken a train in over a month, so I've forgotten how.
أغنية مثليه [Arabic for "lesbian song"]
I know it's pointless, but I like thinking about what if I had a ton of money. It's fun.
If I hired a super amazing cook, I'd also get super amazingly fat, so I'd have to hire a super amazing esthetician too. Don't count chickens or whatever.
And then I'd build a super amazing mansion and live in a super amazing room, hire a super amazing cook, care for a super huge dog or something, and wear frilly clothes and eat buckets of pudding until I'm laid to rest.
Really, if I had infinite money, I wouldn't buy synths - for every song, I'd gather super amazing instrument players and have a super amazing audio engineer make super amazing sound and order a super amazing video and upload it like "Here's a super amazing song!!!"
[Screenshot of a girl from... some game or another, presumably: "Where should we go today? There's this shop I wanted to go to... Would you go out with me there? Is that a problem...?"]
It's a problem.
People talk a lot about fated partners, but I'm just like, being a good fit isn't a goal, it's a start...
That's why I only write those kinds of lyrics... Especially lately...
Rather than a super miracle destiny romance love that'll last forever without having to do anything, I think a love that has meaning because they stay together while being worn down day-to-day and sharing things and having their differences and suffering is far more beautiful. Even if that isn't an absolute and eternal love.
There are so many things that won't get across if you don't put them into words, so not saying them means you're conveying that much less, and it's really worrying not knowing how someone else feels, and "love" might sound like some sacred thing, but it's really just the accumulation of daily efforts, and geez I've become such a lousy realist... That's your thirties for you...
I can't say I don't understand the feeling behind "I've stopped saying "I love you" lately, because really, I've just started loving you" [a lyric from Gospellers's "hitori"], but that's exactly the time you need to vocalize "I love you" or else! :angry face: #OSTERSuddenlySnappingAt2AM
L e s b i a n s o n g ( s o c i a l d i s t a n c i n g ) [Retweets kissing fish]
My legs aren't getting any less numb, but I've gotten so used to it that I'm actually not sure if they're numb anymore... I'm adapting.
Making big-band with a mouse is lethally difficult, and requires immense, life-whittling energy, but every time, I convince myself "I bet big band would suit this song for sure... I should do it..." and put myself into a corner.
A Hollywood movie where if the number of bass notes drops below a certain value, the bomb on the bus explodes.
And input mistakes I only notice now that I'm listening to just the bass and piano... Always happens.
Why's the video getting weird partway through?
A song by a sick person who dies if the bass isn't moving. #Dominowns
My Nether Regions Are Inappropriate Lady #SayMyNetherRegionsAreThenASongName
Just Saying Things I Wanna Say With No Context Bot
I think a whole lot about how even the coolest person stops being cool the moment they try to act cool. Because acting cool means you're thinking "I want to be seen as cool," right? Too cute... You're not cool, you're cute.
I super can't remember a time I've ever been treated like someone living among the clouds. I'm living down on the ground, and at the very least, those actively producing works are full-fledged ground-dwelling humans, and being human, of course we get sad and lonely sometimes.
Whenever you feel like everyone around you is radiant and you're just garbage, you should social distance yourself from social media.
I gained another 1000 followers... Nice to meet you.
I'm always at a loss when people ask what kind of music I make. lesbian song
#80PercentOfMyFollowersProbablyHavent had surgery with full-body anesthesia twice in one day.
Like, listening to Miracle Paint now, for example, it's not sexy at all. I had no comprehension of how to handle tension back then, and the sound is so frank, it's just plain old pop... Though I do think it's good.
Thank you for the total of 30,000 likes!: folded hands: If you want to listen to my songs after hearing this,please start with my latest ones! :folded hands: A lot of my older songs are more famous, but you'll probably be like "I thought this person had a good ear for music, but maybe I was wrong..."
[Jun: "It's Friday, hop. Apparently coronavirus was popular this week, but is everything okay? Let's make it through today and cheerfully break into next week, hop!"]
Does this mean nothing to you?
The feeling of listening to a song whose progression is beyond my understanding is like eagerly observing a magic act being carried out in front of me determined to expose the trick, but having no clue how they did it. I wonder if someday I'll be able to see...
Cosmically speaking, 300 light years is super close, but it's inconceivably far for humanity at present...
For those saying they want to hear more, please hear more! I've got lots in store! A single click may save your life!!
It's clear to me that everyone likes sexy songs.
RT @heltune Give Me the Water
Give Me the New Song
My notifications ain't stoppin'! I'm a celebrity!
Bonus pervy bass. #Dominowns
My sexy video's going viral.
I can't play any instruments satisfactorily, and recording videos is hard, so what content can I provide in these times...?, I worry to myself, as I go on making dumb videos.
Sexy songs generally do things like landing at a position that's a half-tone off from the destination before they actually reach it, so it feels like they're a compilation of teases...
When I listen to a song and shout about it being sexy, I mean the latter.
I summed up the difference in perception of sexy songs. #OSTERExplains #Dominowns
Common Idea of a ♡Sexy♡ Song:
There's this sorta husky sax playing, and it feels like Fujiko-chan's gonna show up in sexy lingerie... ♡
Hey, Lupiiiiin... ♡♡♡ (I like this for what it is)
♡EmM7♡ (tends to end with a minor-major seventh)
What Music Nerds Come Up With As A ♡Sexy♡ Song (key of G):
♡E7/F#♡ (Wha... I'm not mentally prepared...)
♡Fm/B♡ (So sexy!!)
♡B7♡ (For now...)
♡EmM7(9,11)→Em♡ (Such sexy passing note tension ♡♡♡)
♡C#ø(9)♡ (You're going there?!?! Sexy ♡♡♡♡)
♡Am7/D♡ (Sexy slash chord)
♡C→C6(b5)♡ (Bass in the back in pretty sexy too)
♡Dsus4/B♡ (Sexy resolution-postponing)
♡G#augM7/A#♡ (Slash aug + the sound of M7...?! ♡♡♡)
♡Am7♡ (Oh, you would, wouldn't you)
♡Ebaug/F♡ (Another slash aug?!?!?!?!)
♡Am7/D♡ (Slash-chord bringing the heat)
♡D#9♡ (So sexy to end with a key change)
I'm sad...
Besides tagliatelle, there's also tagliata. Tagliatelle is spaghetti, tagliata is that stuff that's like steak. Done. Learned. I'll have forgotten in a week.
Aren't there too many fashion terms to keep track of, too? I can never remember "sarouel," and sometimes say "dolman" instead. That's not even close.
For now, I've learned that tagliatelle is like fettuccine, but I'll probably forget again after a week. I really do live like this.
Words like tagliatelle and pappardelle have sort of a "stumbling" feeling that makes me wanna say them out loud. But all I want to do is say them, so I only have a hazy memory of what they actually are. The names come to me first.
I often forget meal names too. I'm like, what the heck was tagliatelle again?
Mixing 1000mg of Tamarin.
Marmoset → Monkey
Capelin → Fish
Tamarin → Monkey
Tanqueray [contains "curry" in Japanese] → Alcohol
Calais [literally same as "curry" in Japanese] → Place name
I want a list of words like this that are tricky to remember because they sound familiar, but there's a discrepancy between the name and what they actually are.
Don't dance to the tune of manipulative information. Dance in your home.
When there's an ideology or organization that people don't like and they see news validating their opinion, authenticity goes out the window, and they proudly proclaim "I told you so"... I figure that's how fake news spreads.
I was wondering what the opposite of Bikkuri [Surprised] Donkey is, and I think it might be Serene Mario.
Not to say being more realistic means it's better, but I believe even fantasy is higher quality if it's created with an understanding of reality.
And I mean, that feels more realistic. I think there are lots of girls who seem empty-headed on the surface but are actually clever. Try listening to my songs while thinking about that kind of thing...
Though yeah, personally, girls who are conscious of stuff are more my style than absentminded girls...
But then, girls who don't realize they're not honest with their feelings are also cute...
Girls who aren't honest about their feelings, but are aware they're not honest about their feelings, are cute, huh.
I'm actually gonna get to work now.
Furthermore, I have some just-squeeze whipped cream I bought to put on pancakes left in the fridge. If you're clever, perhaps you've already caught on.
I'm considering the situation, to determine when I should unleash this special move of mine.
Isn't having a single pudding left in the fridge similar to having a full special gauge?
"Justice" and "evil" are just subjective and vague concepts anyway, so if you think of values as simply "for me" or "not for me," and leave or try not to get involved when they're the latter, the world would be more peaceful... Spending 50 hours a day thinking about this.
Ultimately, there's people who genuinely look at issues of discrimination and try to get rid of them, and then there's people who want to feel good about "fighting for justice" no matter what it is, and the latter going overboard just causes new discrimination... I've seen that happen a lot... Let's all live peacefully.
I'm a woman who supports diversity, so I think it's good that even if the bass stays in the low range supporting the song, there can also be a tricky melody playing in the high range.
Supporting diversity means recognizing new values, but it doesn't mean you gotta reject existing values! It's fine if a woman does chores and a man works, and it's fine if a man does chores and a woman works, or if either do whatever - ain't that supporting diversityyy?!
Come to think of it, weren't they updating the MIDI standard and increasing the control change resolution to 128ths?? When's that? Wonder if that'll make things a little more live-like... Might not if the synths don't support it, though...
Velocity basically means the speed with which the keyboard is hit, so "huge" isn't the right word there, huh. But in most cases, it's the strength assigned to the speed at which the keyboard is being played, so I tend to use the weird wording of "huge velocity."
I guess the most overwhelming difference between manual composition and a recording is dynamic range, but I really want the notes to stand out, so I tend to set all the velocities huge...
I know I'm a mouse-inputter, so whatever, but if a skilled player's performance was turned into MIDI data and played with Keyscape, I honestly don't know if I could tell whether it was live or not... It's amazing how they replicate that special recording feel.
I can understand why the artificialness leaks out for instruments like horns and strings where the note connections are tricky, but... I think the trickiest to discern might be piano. The Keyscape piano is seriously nuts.
If you record the sound of hitting drums and just play it like that, it feels like it'd be relatively easy to emulate a live performance compared to other instruments. But I can instantly tell when it's done manually, which is super strange... What's the difference there, I wonder... Feels like a live recording and a sampled synth are different from the very first hit.
When I listen to music, I have an unbreakable habit of immediately analyzing what instruments were recorded and what instruments were done manually...
Dammiiiiiiiiiit! Break through social distancing and let me make abundant contact alreadyyyyy!!!!!
You'd think since you're stuck inside you have time to do a lot of work, but my mind's worn down and my efficiency has dropped dramatically. I'm thinking about how the time I spent meeting people and talking and laughing and crying even when I was like "I don't have time" was important to me...
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.
Mouse-Entered Performance That Feels Shockingly Live
I want everyone else to love half-diminisheds too, and I want them to also like my songs that excessively use half-diminisheds while they're at it...
Once again, it's a super feeling-based lecture, and it feels more like a showcase of songs that use half-diminisheds well.
Finished my half-dim lecture video, so I'll post it at a good time today...
One month since surgery!
Miracle painting,
Marvelous showtime
With a stroke of magic, put me in a trance
Everything up to your fingernails,
Dip it in alcohol and thoroughly disinfect
I took an afternoon nap and then the sun had set, so I'll probably upload my new lecture video tomorrow.
And I'm not sure why, but I brought all kinds of printed porno to the ceremony. Maybe it could be used for magic...
I had a dream where I finally started my first year at a school for magic, but class was canceled because of coronavirus.