Mark Tramo explaining the tritone aka the devil tone

[badmotherfuckerer]

Only this guy could sound so smart yet manage to make a single note sound out of tune

[Djaevnindy21]

@juiey2 The tritone is referred to as the devil tone because back in the Middle Ages the sound of is was deemed to dark sounding for the music of the time and was believed that it was the tones used to summon the devil. Most metal and hard rock bands use it today because of it's "dark" sound. A good example of it is the opening riff in the song Black Sabbath.

[lydianflatseven]

This guy is an embarrassment to niose

[theRamb1er]

@pencert It sounds like Purple Haze is in the key of E. Hendrix plays an E7#9 chord and the bass plays the Bb and then Bb again one octave higher. Bb is the tritone from E as it is three whole tones above it.

[spencermzj]

@theRamb1er Yep, you right.

[juiey2]

Can someone fucking explain to fucking me fucking why the fucking fuck tritone is a fucking diabolic fucking note?

She doesn't fucking sound fucking creepy to fucking me.

Can fucking someone fucking explain it?

Fucking thanks.

Oh and by the fucking way what's that fucking guitar?

[psininja92]

@juiey2 That's a Jazz guitar. And most people hear the dissonance of a tritone. Perhaps you've been exposed to a lot of jazz, and therefore don't hear it's dissonance. Although when you go through alot of ear-training, you'll be able to recognize the dissonance and leading tones of the notes.

[MichaelXhardcore]

@juiey2 lol stfu you idiot that comment is just retarded and not funny

[pencert]

Thought Purple Haze opened with a repeating octave, not tritone?

[TheErogenousZone]

I hope to Satan no one paid him for that speech...

[ChaseManhattan516]

Until 3:15 I seriously thought this guy had one leg. It looked so uncomfortable.

[aynrandy1]

That tone is unbelievably shitty

[timkick2]

He lost all credibility to me when he said flutist. So to me, that's just some idiot on a strange explaining music theory.

[psininja92]

@timkick2 That is what you call a person who plays the flute...

[timkick2]

@psininja92 Do you take everything seriously? You must be one hell of a person.

[RayoDesertico]

I think people here dont know that the church never branded the tritone as "The Devils Note", it was called that by people because it was never used in classical liturgical music because it was so dissonant in relation to other notes, not because it was satanic.

[luweyhamer]

Tyler the creator

[carissaxmarie]

Rap Genius - Bastard

[MinnesotaUnlimited]

@carissaxmarie yup

[franknblunt]

Sunshine of Your Love in there too.

Beethoven made that innovation? You have to watch and understand.

[hkoel1derkonig]

I know Dave Mustaine loved that tone, along with Slayer and Black Sabbath, and many other rock and heavy metal musicians.

[SJCSMCTUBE]

Jimi Hendrix was Satanic? C'mon man.

[PATRIOTxx3]

@SJCSMCTUBE no music is music......the gay church thought they could deem a sound as satanic

[Doodorz]

Thumbs up if you came here because of bastard.

[weightjr]

im here because of rap genius....

[Lavis16]

I don't know if this guy is nearvous or what but he's horrible at the guitar.

[IcyScythe]

@Lavis16 he probably isn't a guitar player... a lot of music professors at college will just use whatever instrument is appropriate to demonstrate some theory.

My basic "music history" class in college was taught by a classical guitarist but he used the piano plenty of times to show piano related things... even though he never practiced and wasn't any good.

it'd be stupid if he was playing these classic guitar riffs on a piano, flute or whatever his main instrument is.

[zeboink]

@Lavis16

He's emphasizing that tone at the expense of the rest of the licks.

[conman45011]

This is what the devil plays before he goes to sleep...

[Octobersundown]

@conman45011 tyler the creator

[conman45011]

@Octobersundown Yup. Tyler uses tritones in the song Bastard. So that is probably what the devil would listen to before he goes to sleep.

[Dessyman18]

@conman45011 rap genius?

[DoctorLipsh1ts]

@conman45011 tyler the creator?

[deathrockunion]

gah... don't play hendrix unless you play it right..

[Aiden057]

The so called "devil's interval" is also part of some of the most beautiful songs and is in no way an expression of "evil" or anything like that. It is just one of the common intervals in every major and minor scale and western music. I'm not sure what point this person is making, but 1) his version of Purple Haze is highly inaccurate, 2) his version of Tull is highly inaccurate.

[Ragnarockalypse]

If you think that is outrageous you should check out Sane by Meshuggah. The intro riff is heavily distorted Bb tritone chords in a jagged pattern with a screaming lead guitar playing the two notes of the tritone. There's some in-your-face atonality.

[7Metallikamp7]

its called the devils tone bcuz it was outlawed in medievil times. priests thought it sounded evil

[neb1010101]

Get some Guitar Lessons...............

[SuperFantasticMan]

This guy spent thousands of dollars and years of time to get his PhD in music and he can't play purple haze...

[Fretfeeler]

@SuperFantasticMan - hear hear... ouch!

[unsailed]

@SuperFantasticMan well, i'd be pissed too if the phd had been in mastering jimi songs. but, im pretty sure he has studied how music affects and reflects culture and how to manipulate that and all that shit. so i'm sure he is doing just fine without having to play purple haze to your standard. go to school, bro.

[stefrockets]

@SuperFantasticMan then again who can

[rockerr12595]

i don't get how that note relates to the devil

[busysignal2006]

@rockerr12595 the dissonance was considered over-used and offensive in medieval times

[rublab1]

@rockerr12595 The catholic church said it did...

[1dew]

What are the notes that are in these tritones?

[Studas2006]

Yeah but what if your guitar is in Eb, still the Devil's tone?

[Trames66]

@Studas2006 - Yes. It doesn't matter what the guitar is tuned to, as long as it (or any other instrument) is tuned to the logarithmic scale known as the "scale of equal temperament": the Tritone is always 6 semitones above the Tonic. For example, if the Tonic is E, the Tritone is B-flat; if the Tonic is E-flat, the Tritone is A; and so on. Mathematically, the Fundamental Frequency (F0) of the Tritone is the F0 of the Tonic multiplied by the square root of 2 (approximately 1.41).

[timninerell]

@Trames66 what the fuck!?

[xorganizationxvx]

These tones made me evil... not.

[gomes1258]

The song "Black Sabbath" from Black Sabbath has Tritone in its riff

so this song calls the Devil ??? F*ck

[stomp919]

Those bastards. I love rock music but it has caused many souls to perish.

[therockyjones]

Your description seems to confuse Cream's Sunshine of Your Love with an Iron Butterfly song. Also, who is this guy? Was this lecture strictly academic or was it some kind of christian deal?

[Trames66]

@therockyjones - This clip is from the Duke University Institute for Music & Brain Science Symposium, "Music & the Brain".

[ImHomeAtLast]

inna gada da vida is actually "in the garden of eden." but before they would ever choose to record a song the would get drunk so you cant understand what they say. funny huh? lots of people make rumours about how it is satanic. it isnt, they were just drunk

[Jesuslolowns]

Yeah, the singer wrote the name of the song down while drunk, ended up looking like that.

[wolfsblood07]

Awesome!