Ask a Music Theory Guru Anything

  On 2/5/2010 at 12:47 PM, Blanket Fort Collapse said:

Cock Blocking 101

Also, I laughed quite hard.

  On 2/6/2010 at 12:09 AM, wahrk said:

  On 2/5/2010 at 12:13 PM, Masonic Boom said:

Explain me Fletcher-Munson curves and how I can use them to drown out my annoying neighbours when they're having loud sex upstairs when I'm trying to work on my choons. Thanks.

 

Fletcher-Munson curves/eqaul loudness contours indicate the relationship between actual dBSPL (Sound Pressure Level) and perceived loudness by humans. As far as allowing you to drown out your neighbors, turn up your music, put on some cans, or grab some ear plugs, there's not really anything the curves can do for you. You might want to try this though: http://xkcd.com/368/

AH HA HA HAHAHAAAA OK, is there anything XKCD can't solve?

That was totally me, at my last flat with the Noize Lesbians next door. They'd have these awful, awful all night parties that would keep me awake until like, 6am. So I'd wait until the next afternoon when they were flopped out all over the garden with hangovers, then connect my CD player to my massive guitar amps, put on the most irritatingly abstract Philip Glass opera I could find, turn the amps up to 11 with the treble set to destroy the hangover irritating frequency in their brain, turn it on and go out for an hour or two.

I am an evil person, I know it.

  On 2/6/2010 at 11:12 AM, Masonic Boom said:

  On 2/6/2010 at 12:09 AM, wahrk said:

  On 2/5/2010 at 12:13 PM, Masonic Boom said:

Explain me Fletcher-Munson curves and how I can use them to drown out my annoying neighbours when they're having loud sex upstairs when I'm trying to work on my choons. Thanks.

 

Fletcher-Munson curves/eqaul loudness contours indicate the relationship between actual dBSPL (Sound Pressure Level) and perceived loudness by humans. As far as allowing you to drown out your neighbors, turn up your music, put on some cans, or grab some ear plugs, there's not really anything the curves can do for you. You might want to try this though: http://xkcd.com/368/

 

AH HA HA HAHAHAAAA OK, is there anything XKCD can't solve?

 

That was totally me, at my last flat with the Noize Lesbians next door. They'd have these awful, awful all night parties that would keep me awake until like, 6am. So I'd wait until the next afternoon when they were flopped out all over the garden with hangovers, then connect my CD player to my massive guitar amps, put on the most irritatingly abstract Philip Glass opera I could find, turn the amps up to 11 with the treble set to destroy the hangover irritating frequency in their brain, turn it on and go out for an hour or two.

 

I am an evil person, I know it.

Ha ha. Well done sir.

Oh hay

I need these chords. Here's a few different versions of the same progression:

0:31-0:46

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OU3_rSZ9rM

3:23-3:38

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfqegSR3vak

2:02-2:17

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ak1OERLTwM

  On 2/8/2010 at 1:45 AM, BoomTssPhace said:

Oh hay

 

I need these chords. Here's a few different versions of the same progression:

 

0:31-0:46

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OU3_rSZ9rM

 

3:23-3:38

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfqegSR3vak

 

2:02-2:17

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ak1OERLTwM

My bad getting back to this late. I'll hit it up once I get off of work.

  On 2/8/2010 at 1:45 AM, BoomTssPhace said:

Oh hay

 

I need these chords. Here's a few different versions of the same progression:

I ii vi V IV V I V7 in F#

or

F# G#m D#m C# B C# F# C#7

I'm pretty sure the 7th is there in the last chord, but it's not necessary if you don't want to play it.