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208 | Rick Beato on the Theory of Popular Music
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
Is There an Understanding of the Major Scale?
There's some half steps and some whole steps in the major scale. And it sounds good when you play them together. Is there an understanding of why that sounds good? Or do we just say this is how this sounds? Let's put it to work. Why does that sound scary? Well, itSounds scary because it is a cluster that's called an X cell. They're not played consecutively chromatic. But they give because of the way the overtone series works, there's a lot of beating of intervals,. So you have all these beating intervals that are beating really quickly. It gives a very tense sound. And it just sounds scary.
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