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Perfect material for them. Haven't they been looking for something ever since their '50 songs, one chord' thing?

This looks staged to me, guys. The reactions of the people on first seeing the bear were just too calm. I think they would have been freaking out a little more if it was real. Also, when the bear was playing guitar, the chords we heard were not the ones that he was playing, I think. I don't know, maybe I'm too cynical.

Look at the keyboard, starting at middle C, which is a white key. All the keys in C major are white keys, so going right from middle C, the keys are named: C, D, E, F, G, A, B, then C again an octave higher.

The simplest way to hear the difference is to play a C major chord, which is the first, third and fifth notes of the scale: C, E, G. Just hit all three at the same time and you can hear they have a certain sound together - call it majorness.

In a minor chord, on the other hand, the middle note of the chord (the third, E in the case of a C chord) is flattened -- so, instead of hitting the white E key, you hit the black E-flat key to its left, while keeping the same C and G. You can hear those notes also have a certain sound to them - call it minorness. Go back and forth between the major and minor chords and you'll start to hear the difference.

Here's the thing: scales are based on the *intervals* between the notes in them. C to D is a full step, or just a step. D to E is also a full step. D to E-flat, on the other hand, is a half-step. So the major scale goes like this:

Step, step, half-step. Step. Step, step, half-step.

Notice how the first part and the second part of the scale are identical, with an additional step separating them? Now try flattening the third note of both parts to make a minor scale:

Step, half-step, step. Step. Step, half-step, step.

That's the minor natural scale. Starting at C, it goes: C, D, E-flat, F, G, A, B-flat, C. If you start from a different note, you transpose into a different key and end up with different notes being sharp or flat, but the major- or minorness of it still comes from the interval pattern.

Anyway, what they basically did was take the flattened third (E-flat) and seventh (B-flat) and raised them a half-step while leaving everything else the same. Boom, it sounds like a more upbeat song. Cheers!

Interesting. But now explain to me like I'm 5, what minor and major chords/scales are? The Wikipedia articles seem to assume a bit of musical theory knowledge, even trying to figure out what a chord is (seems to be just a stack of notes, but then they talk scales where there is no stack of notes at the same time). I know where middle C is on a piano, and on a sheet music and could follow a note to where it is by counting up or down (so no playing songs). I've always thought of the two clefs as left (for the bass clef) and right (for the treble clef) hand... so poor music knowledge here...

EDIT: I should note I can hear how it sounds more upbeat or whatever, but I hear the terms major/minor and chords all the time (I think I understand scale is going up the notes from whatever key you are starting at to the last key before repeating and then back down)... and just wondering on what the terms refer to...

Hrmm.. once I heard her say the thing about moving the plants it hit a chord. A dupe I say. But bed is caressing my nipples.

only four chords man - they are all the same song so they mix well together

Rawr rawr rawr power chords lack of originality rawr rawr.

From the first chords at the *beginning, you can tell that this clip deserves a lot of love - the solos always give me goosebumps. Mmmmh.

And fake...There are number of occasions where one ball touches the keys and a chord is played. Also sustain pedal is being pressed/released all the time. He has three octaves and is playing at least four, listen to the bass notes on that most complex part and compare to the end where he goes to the bottom key.

He could have it on step play mode where any key press advances the sequence forward.. It's still a fake but that's how i would do it.

autoshop class

making go karts using old lawnmowers

checking sparkplug to see if its firing, my buddy is holding it in his hand, my other buddy yanks the chord to start lawnmower

he makes a "ungh" sound as his arms... both, the one holding the spark plug and the one not, go straight up in the air like a ref signalling a touchdown


i still laugh about it



then there was the time I electrocuted my physics teacher in grade 12 lol

air puck with string of beads down hose so based on frequency you could create data points on a piece of paper as the puck travelled in an arc (table was slightly elevated so there was a slope)... you engage the electricity by stepping on a pedal



he called me over to look at something, stepped fully on the pedal while he was holding the puck in his hand lol

i was oblivious, my buddy figured it out because he was looking at my teacher and had heard the zap, zap, zap, zap... the teacher was getting shocks but held onto the puck, trying to figure out what was going on... until finally he threw the puck... the beads in the tube came apart, funnelled out the tube and had to be rethread



by my buddy, not me lol

They didn't get the Cm to C chord change right during the intro. That's the best part! Booo!

@yellowc I think we're on the same track really. I do think a case of comparing devices based purely on specs is a bit infantile. But it's something that Apple invites with their hyperbolic presentations and marketing. If they didn't describe every part of their devices as 'Revolutionary' or 'Unsurpassed' or 'Magic', then there'd be no need to pick them apart. Google didn't do that with the Nexus 7, they went with the 'experience' angle, and from what I've heard it hits those marks (as you've said too). AND it's stupendously cheap. It almost made me want a tablet (I really see little use in tablets for tablet's sake... which is why the Surface excites me, it's a tablet and a laptop without lugging around a keyboard/mouse as a separate thing... but I digress).

Yes, I think we both agree that Apple do something just 'right' that hits a chord with so many people.

What gets me more than anything is their horrendously self important marketing (it started with the Mac vs PC pushing untruths about how Macs never crashed and Windows PCs always did), and how people just believe it to be true, how I hear people mindlessly regurgitating the Apple marketing spiel about how iDevice X has the best Y ever... and how Apple invented feature Q.

I don't think anyone can deny that Apple created this smartphone world we live in, the iPhone was a landmark device, but that doesn't mean that everything they do is the best.

I've always hated barre chords. So hard on the fingers. Think I've found a solution here. Thx!

>> ^harlequinn:

>> ^raverman:
"It's like playing a musical instrument, except if you get the chords wrong the crowd will think less of your skills as a musician.">> ^PancakeMaster:
It's like a musical game of memory, except if you forget a block live a few hundred youngsters will boo you.


There are no chords to get wrong. The chord is programmed into one button.
This is an 8 x 8 grid of binary switches. Pressing a button activates a sample.
Compare to a piano with 88 keys, each key has variable volume depending on how hard you press it. Plus three pedals (soft, sustain, and sostenuto). You actually have to play the melody and accompanying chords.
I wouldn't call him a musician. Just like I don't call DJs musicians.


If he had made this soundtrack without using the launchpad, using DAW software and various plugins and samples, that somehow is more "musician"y than using a 64 key launchpad with samples that he probably prepared himself, even though the end result is the same? Maybe composers aren't musicians? Or are you saying this isn't music?

And, you must not think a person playing a small organ is a musician, since it has fewer keys than a piano, and each key is a binary switch that turns on and off the sound of the pipe.