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[Song Appeal @SongAppeal]

@ThreatNotation I genuinely love bubble-gum pop

[Top40 Theory (Asaf Peres) @Top40Theory]

This is one of the biggest weaknesses of the field of Music Theory, especially in the way it's taught. Lots of looking for the *what* and barely any discussion of the *why*.

[Song Appeal @SongAppeal]

@12tonevideos Glad to see you back! Hope it's good for you.

[Song Appeal @SongAppeal]

My thoughts on Hawkeye's needle drops:
https://t.co/DEiIMJuI7D

[Dr. Megan non Brevis @theorymeg]

It's our first semester trying out our new theory curriculum and I've never had more students tell me "I love theory" and "theory is my favorite class."

[Song Appeal @SongAppeal]

I would share my Spotify Year In Review, but... I don't have Spotify

[Song Appeal @SongAppeal]

@12tonevideos Happy birthday, Cory!
Sequences (playing the same tune again, but higher or lower) give us both novelty & familiarity at the same time, causing a double-dose of dopamine.

[Song Appeal @SongAppeal]

@andrewhuang add9 is my go-to pretty chord.
I also love 7sus4, rearranged where the 7 is on the bottom. I guess you could describe that as "sus4/7".

[Song Appeal @SongAppeal]

@12tonevideos I also think it's pretty good. And I'm glad that YouTube is recommending the video that you straight up said "Yeah, this one's not gonna do well with the algorithm"

[Song Appeal @SongAppeal]

@12tonevideos It was made by 12tone, and it's about music theory. That's why I want to watch it.

[Matticus Rex @mschoendorff]

It’s too bad bII6 is the Neapolitan instead of the augmented 6th chords, which *actually* come in three distinct flavors.

[Song Appeal @SongAppeal]

What are your favorite Christmas songs?

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@12tonevideos I love this! Our brains are already built to reward us for learning new things!

[Song Appeal @SongAppeal]

I find it fascinating that current hip-hop has a genre convention that makes it totally acceptable for the artist to casually use their own name in the lyrics as it if was "son", "girl", "you", etc.
In other genres, that would feel really weird.

[Song Appeal @SongAppeal]

@Luci_Alessio To be clearer about this: If someone wrote a song that sounds vaguely classical, but it was in the Romantic or Baroque era, saying "classical" works, especially when talking to someone who isn't a professional music theorist or historian. They'll get what you mean.

[Song Appeal @SongAppeal]

@Luci_Alessio Using "classical" to mean "the classical period" and "classical-style music" are both totally OK.

[Song Appeal @SongAppeal]

dang... @12tonevideos is really helping push the entire field of music theory forward

[Song Appeal @SongAppeal]

@ethanhein "deep-fried"

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Thoughts?

https://t.co/lTr7aRaqPe

#Soundtrack

[Song Appeal @SongAppeal]

It's the verse specifically

Extremely simple rhythms
Chord tones or passing tones
Pentatonic preference
Tight rhyme scheme (AABCCB)
A sequence in the 2nd half of the melody
And a perfect cadence right at the end

That's called a campfire song

[Song Appeal @SongAppeal]

I'm sorry to break the bad news to you...
But "Teenagers" by My Chemical Romance is a campfire song