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208 | Rick Beato on the Theory of Popular Music

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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The Intuition Is Trained by the Beatles

A great thing that I learned from watching the Beatles get back documentary was that the guys in the band have phenomenally good memories. So and that intuition is trained by the fact that we grow up listening to music, right? It's not like if you were put on a desert island as a baby, but you sort of pick up things from the air. And even if you don't like you say, you know, the names for them, certain things sound good. But let me just do a very little bit of asking about what music theory is or what it comes down to in modern Western music.

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