Born in the golden age of ’80s gaming, it was always my dream to become a real-life video-game composer. Now nearly one hundred years later, I’ve made that dream a reality with the help of PICO-8. PICO-8 is a virtual console and game-making machine. The music editor looks like pic below. Instead of being read […]
Archive of posts tagged fourths
Crosswalk Tones
The crosswalk tones: a staccato fourth from A to E at a brisk pace to let you know how to walk. These tones are found on New York crosswalks. What do they sound like where you live?
The Common Loon Wail
What has a black head, beady red eyes, and cries like a banshee? It’s the Common Loon! Drag over the noteheads to listen. The Common Loon sings an interval of an imperfect fourth, usually from E to A. This is a much wider interval than most birds, who commonly sing thirds. The mysterious wail of […]
Jupiter Melody
I often think about this melody from Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity by Holst. Drag over the black stemmed noteheads below. This is the G Suspended Seventh chord in melodic form. It goes up in fourths because that’s what Suspended 7th chords do. It’s what I do too. Jupiter, the Jolly One is part of […]
Lazy Chord
Here’s a lazy little chord, To play it on guitar, it’s just “000000,” meaning all of the open strings on standard tuning: E-A-D-G-B-E. The score version above is an octave higher, barred on the 12th fret. They call it the E Minor Seventh Suspended Fourth. It can also be thought of as an Asus4(add 9). […]
Final Fantasy Fourths
The “Opening Theme” from Final Fantasy III (USA) is a series of ascending 4ths, a quartal harmonic structure, that eventually kicks in with a loud F Half-Diminshed Seventh chord, followed by an F Minor Diminished Seventh chord. Click on either measure to play/stop from that point. On guitar: 000011. Final Fantasy III is widely known […]
