HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAA

That cracked me UP something awful. LMFAHS



Reminds me of an episode of I Love Lucy where Lucy and her girlfriends were trying to play an upbeat song but it instead sounded like a funeral dirge.

But this is better because it's non-fiction.

*promote

You know me, gotta swim against the current.

Ok....we hadn’t set any rules. Honestly I thought it didn’t count because there was no shine from that sun. ;-)
....so....I’ll go from a dark sun song that makes me happy to the most upbeat happy sunshine song that makes most people feel ill!

I've been trying to stick with upbeat songs w/sunshine but if you want to go darker and include sun then i think we could be here for sometime.

Dark and one of the first 45's i had as a kid https://youtu.be/-tPcc1ftj8E

I agree, back then this song creeped us out as it was a big downer in contrast to all the upbeat top 40 songs we liked to sing along to.

Fuuuuuu- that sucks.
Good thing the jazz is so upbeat.

Keeping the Oh Snap alive! Just waiting for the Snap Son to make it's come back. I like both of these so much.

Personally, I'm rather fond of a singular Snap or SNAP. Maybe some Shnap or Shizz-nap -- put that one together with some dee oh double gee!

I just really like the word "snap", especially in this particular emotional context. It's so positive and upbeat; I feel awake. And it's not at all contradictory or assuming like Bad, Cool or Radical; and, not nearly as aggrandizing as Awesome.

It's also not emotionally inappropriate like Sick, Rude or Bomb. Nor strange and alienating like Gnarly, Gnar, Gnar Gnar, and Sicky Gnar Gnar. Or as fluffy and clueless as Bodacious and Tubular; you can't Shwing everything; and, calling your mom's apple pie Tight or Fit is just... not right. (And what's Book?)

Snap. It's the musical sound of your fingers. Addam's Family says what? Snap Snap.

Still... NOT excited enough to go out and pick up some onyx yeast and put it on my toast. But, if I see it laying around on... someone's floor(?...?) I'll give it a go.

((?...?) = the questioning look of mild disgust on my face, best represented colloquially as a deadpan "wut.")

Whoever put this together is rather dishonest.
NC: "These lightsaber battles looked prettier (but the plot/characters sucked)"
P: "These lightsaber battles suck because of the plot/characters (but at least they look pretty)"

OH THEY'RE SO DIFFERENT!


Truckchase, he's none of those things. The Big Bang Theory?! If you also think that TBBT is cheap, lousy comedy then NC might be right up your street. He's definitely not upbeat.

I must be the only one who found both of these people to be kind of annoying, in one corner we have Cynical Nerd and in the other we have Upbeat Nerd, what better pairing for a YouTube deathmatch.
I thought the lightsaber fights in both trilogies were fine, they were just following different models, I thought the acrobatics of the newer films was fun to watch. And why bother making everyone pretend that they're swinging around claymores when both the film makers and the audience know those energy blades probably weigh next to nothing?
I always kind of assumed the wooden acting (especially with the Jedi) came from Luca's directing, I imagine he was shooting for a kind of Zen sense of cool but didn't manage to find the right balance.
And I'll never understand why some people hate CG so much, it's a tool that can be used well or poorly, just like models and miniatures and fully built sets. But from the way some people talk about it you'd think life before CG was all some kind of golden age where everything was perfect.

Beautiful!! *love, *art, *promote!
The video works very well in deed in contrast to the upbeat music.
Would fit right into a *melancholy or *sadness channel...

Maybe he's an upbeat pscyho who wants to make a real difference.

Quirky, but I agree that the upbeat tempo doesn't really convey heart ache or loss to me...

You can ride those ramps in Ohio. Wish they were closer

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The feel,set up and music feels completely like Voorays videos. Happy go lucky fun with Can't Stop Won't Stop 'lively' songs (or other upbeat hip hop) over it. Not complaining, just saying. I actually thought it was another Vooray summer event.

[url redacted] - Vooray vids, worth the watch /; same styled events.

Totes. Simon's journalist background really sets his storytelling style apart from other shows. I bet the Emmy people felt more comfortable giving statues to people who cut their chops in TV than to a reporter.

Have you seen Treme? Same narrative style, but more upbeat and optimistic. Great music too.

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...