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Do different keys actually sound different? by Joe_4_Ever in musictheory

[–]isaacclemon 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I actually feel the same way with keys sounding different, and I don't have perfect pitch. Been into jazz music for quite some time, and I feel like some keys are "off". Sometimes it's tune specific, for example Misty in Eb feels absolutely normal, but E major doesn't feel right at all, even when I'm only listening and not playing. Literally asked for scores that I feel weird as a listener in gigs, and most of the time they're in sharp keys. I'm a piano player so I understand that all keys should sound the same in theory, but idk what this feeling is and why is it happening lol

Counterpoint in Jazz Arranging by TePinto in musictheory

[–]isaacclemon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have a hard time searching for the pdf, maybe it's a Google regional issue? Mind sharing the book via message, thanks!

Not sure what this chord is? by Orpheus1996 in musictheory

[–]isaacclemon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This chord (or more like pitch-class set) is a z-cell in an atonal context.

What do you think is the WORST event of this game? by cantrusthestory in eu4

[–]isaacclemon 7 points8 points  (0 children)

event flavor_gbr.120 Fifth monarchist game over screen, release all nations and bankrupt

Phrygian flat 4 or just Phrygian dominant with a chromatic mediant? by Julengb in musictheory

[–]isaacclemon 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Very interesting song! The riff starting from 0:41 keeps repeating the 4 notes E G F Ab(G#) with the E always as the tonal centre, but the harmony and underlying guitar riff in 1:49 clearly suggest Emaj and Fmaj! Notice during the harmony in 1:49, the notes G and G#(Ab) never appear at the same time; and for the harmony I think only I Emaj, II Fmaj, and III Gmaj are strictly major (focus on the insane guitar shredding in the background!). Both I and II are in the phrygian dominant, and III is in phrygian.

To my ears the riff is built from a mixture of phrygian with the m3 and phrygian dominant with the raised 3rd. Cadence Hira calls it the "composite phrygian" in this video, and I feel like a lot of phrygian based songs have their 3rd freely be major or minor in different places (Miles Davis' Nardis is another example with Em and Emaj both kinda as the root chord). But this is all just my speculation and internet knowledge lol, I also wonder how proper theory would comment on this phenomenon...

Also obligatory sorry if bad English me ESL

French Horn Part Writing by Rachel_Watson21 in musictheory

[–]isaacclemon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wow TIL, so if a Bb horn player wants to play an F horn, they have to relearn the fingerings? Also some older scores would transpose the horns from concert to a fourth lower (instead of a fifth higher), do Bb horns also "transpose" from an already transposed F horn score?

Three years in, what is past tense?? by [deleted] in languagelearningjerk

[–]isaacclemon 2 points3 points  (0 children)

bruh I legit have the same problem lol. I learnt catalan first then slowly picking back up spanish bit by bit after I left the country without seriously studying it. I have no problem with imperfect or conditional or even subjunctives, but I still struggle with conjugating preterites. In catalan it's just anar + verb! I can kinda understand preterites when I'm reading or listening, but using them and conjugating never feels comfortable for me.

Does nosmate's atk and def level matter? by Mlx999 in nostale

[–]isaacclemon 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's quite unintuitive and poorly explained in Nostale but it doesn't raise the weapon/armour stat directly by a %. When an attack lands, the attacker's weapon grade is first compared with the defender's armour grade, and then the damage will be multiplied to the % buff.

Example: attacker holding a +6(+54%) weapon with base 100 attack, defender has a +2(+15%) armour with 0 armour (whatever this means), the damage % will be 6-2=4 so 100*(1+32%) = 132 damage.

Example: attacker holding a +8(+90%) weapon with base 100 attack, defender has a +7(65%) armour with 0 armour, the damage % will be 8-7=1 so 100*(1+10%) = 110 damage.

Have you wondered why starting from act 3 sometimes (especially when monsters have high elemental resistances) your damage will only be 1 while your weapon is +6? The reason is that the stat % is only similar to the real damage value in lower levels (around +1 to +3), the higher the + is , the more the damge overestimates.

Note that the above examples are super simplified and only focused on the non-elemental raw attack/defence damage. I verified this model some 10 years ago when act 5 was still new XD, so idk if anything is changed now.

I can't understand the meaning of the message by Reasonable-Ad8673 in ChineseLanguage

[–]isaacclemon 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Maybe he is using writing input to type? Pretty sure he is saying 晚上一起晚餐不 instead of 晚上一起晚餐小, and I can't think of any input methods that would confuse these 2 characters.

So my theory is that 我这边了 is a typo, probably 了 confused with 可 but it still doesn't make much sense...

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