
Episode 109 - Name that Tune
The Black Tapes
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The Difference Between a Shepherd Tone and a Smaller Number
If you take two and harmonically equivalent notes, like C and B sharp, there's a slight difference. A perfect circle of fifths is not really perfect when it comes to octaves. You could discover this in discrepancy 2,000 years ago - thanks to computers we're now able to plug it into various other uses. Have you heard of a shepherd tone? Is that a band? Not a band. No.
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