0060 - Music Theory People (Patreon)

Oops! Posted this one a day early! My bad. Leaving it up.

(The blooper panels will still post Friday in the In-Universe and Author's Tiers, to still have something on that day, for everyone who likes a Friday treat.)

Music Theory People, even though ye here be lambasted (I always think music theory people consider themselves born in the wrong century, and really wish their underwear had lots of buttons up the sides), feel free to plug the song that Pat is listening to into your composition software, silence all the alarms and auto-corrects, and see how it sounds. If my calculations are right, it will sound like a room full of dentists, waiting to get their teeth cleaned (this will ultimately be deemed unnecessary) by a dentist. A perfect day, with perfect music. Or, it'll just be Lenore by Chick Corea, which is also great dentist-waitin' music.

Okay, okay. Look, I know that whether or not we get music theory, it's like physics – it makes sense as a way of operating within a particular space. And, like physics, it's kind of hard to get into, because schools teach us all the wrong things. Imagine if your neighbor kept bothering you by leaving his trash cans at the curb all week, but you both knew how to jam out on the bassoon, so you could just go into your yard and start tooting some bassoon notes that were accurate to your intentions, and pretty soon he'd come out with his bassoon, and you'd start jamming, and this would be an entrée to peaceful conflict resolution. School could have given us all this, if only they'd valued music theory over, say, the Boer Wars.