Well, this turned out way better than I had originally hoped for.
Thank you to everyone who suggested an idea, I'm going to do my best to work out a system going forward, but I think that requests offer a really great way for me to give back to you all.
I'm thinking that maybe as time g...
This is the early access post for "Why Home Alone is the Best Christmas Soundtrack Ever." You should not be charged for this, if you are, please do not hesitate to contact me.
So this was the first video that you guys requested and I'm really happy with how it turned out an...
2018-12-20 00:45:14 +0000 UTC View Post
So here's a video that's been rattling around in the back of my head for a while.
Not just the poetry stuff, but also all the stuff to do with racist American history.
It took me a crazy long while to get everything together for this video, especially because I didn't want to mislabel...
2018-11-29 23:56:12 +0000 UTC View Post
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So, right off the bat, a few things.
1. This one's really long, I know I tend to say that a lot, but I think this is the...
2018-11-28 00:28:46 +0000 UTC View PostOk everyone, we're going to try something new.
I've been seeing other YouTubers doing this kinda thing with a lot of success, and I figured it could give you guys something else with your extremely generous donations.
Having said that, I'm not 100% sure how I'm going to organize t...
2018-11-07 15:26:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Well this one's honestly been a long time coming.
I've been getting this question multiple times a week, every week, for over a year now.
So I'm kinda amazed at how long it took me to get around to it.
Honestly, I'd really love to be able to put together a massive video (or video series) ...
This is the early access post for "My Favorite Soundtrack and why I like it." You should not be charged, if you are please do not hesitate to contact me.
So this was remarkably difficult to make, not just because of all of the information, but because I had several drafts of this scr...
When I went to go an see Deadpool 2, I really wasn't expecting to have something like this come up.
Like with a lot of other films rising up nowadays, I was honestly just expecting some Suicide Squad-esque musical jokes (like the Dolly Parton bit), but after hearing "Tomorrow" from Annie during a ...
2018-09-29 02:15:54 +0000 UTC View Post
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Well, this video was incredibly hard to make.
Not just because "On Repeat: How Music Plays the Mind" is an incredibly complicated ...
2018-09-26 20:23:33 +0000 UTC View Post
This was one of the hardest videos I've ever made.
Not because I know that I'm not (or ever was) a great sight singer, or that there would be thousands of people with perfect pitch and tuners telling me I was all over the place, but because I didn't want to let my professor down.
On Monday ...
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This one was really difficult to make.
Last Monday (20th) my Music Theory prof...
2018-08-29 14:58:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Thanks for all the questions guys, this was a lot of fun!
Lemme know if you'd want to have me do something like this again.
And I'm only linking this video here, so it's just something special for you Patreons!
Video.
Ok, but all jokes aside, this was a video that kind of hit me out of nowhere.
I was literally just going through my old movies and wanted to re-watch watchmen (I used to watch it religiously) and...
This is the early access post for "Watchmen's Perfect Musical Choice. You should not be charged for this, if you are, please do not hesitate to contact me.
I feel like in the spirit of the video I should keep this short and sweet.
Or maybe I don't get it and I already spoiled the sent...
2018-07-20 03:11:22 +0000 UTC View PostHi all, I don't know about you but I've been having the shittiest month I've had in a LOOOOONG time.
And it's only the 8th!
So as a means of celebrating, I thought I'd help move the channel in the right direction with a small purge of some of the videos I've grown to dislike over time, ...
This was definitely one of the more difficult videos I've made.
I spent a LOT of time researching the general debate between absolute and program music and how it came to be. Hopefully that aspect of the video made sense!
But I really wanted to talk about this idea mostly because I fe...
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So as I mentioned in another post, this video's been kicking my ass all month long.
There was a shocking amount of information that I nee...
2018-06-27 23:47:54 +0000 UTC View PostSo I know I'm not the best with deadlines, but that's kind of the nature of this business.
I've had weeks where I've watched dozens of hours of film and find nothing to talk about.
Unfortunately, I'm sort of in a perfect storm of excuses right now.
The first video I was planning on maki...
In all honesty, this was easily one of the best scores I've heard Marvel put out. It feels like they have a really serious chance to win an Oscar or a Grammy for this soundtrack.
But this was a really interesting video to make.
When I first went out to break this video down I looked at ea...
This is the early access post for "How the Music in Black Panther Tells a Story." You should not be charged for this post, if you are, please do not hesitate to contact me.
Well, we all knew this one was coming.
I can vividly remember walking out of the theater thinking "yep, that's g...
2018-05-28 23:39:15 +0000 UTC View Post
So here's a weird one.
I kept hearing newer Film, TV, and Video Game themes that weren't really themes. Like, the main idea to an intellectual property wasn't really a complete musical idea, and I'd argue that that makes a piece of music overall more forgettable for the general public. &...
This is the early access post for my "How to Write a Theme" video. You should not be charged for this post, if you are, please do not hesitate to contact me.
I constantly see this debate online as to what makes or breaks a good theme.
And not once have I seen anyone actually talkin...
2018-05-16 02:46:07 +0000 UTC View PostSo YouTube, for whatever reason, has suddenly started going through my channel and claiming videos.
"Transformers: What Could Have Been" and "Instrumentation in Steven Universe" have both been claimed.
So, as a means of not being forced to involuntarily work for studios (for free!) I'm movi...
Believe it or not, I actually had this one planned for a really, really long time.
It's strange that with all of the chaos surrounding the franchise that they would still have the foresight to reuse so much of the musical material throughout the series.
Like, it really stuns me that the franchi...
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MAN, these films are LONG.
Each one is about 2.5 hours long.
Meaning that to watch all 5 back-to-back is 1...
2018-04-19 21:35:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's one that's the result of a LOT of people asking me for my opinion on the best way for them to learn how to play an instrument.
I can't tell you how many times I've had someone message me with "hey, do you have any tips for teaching yourself X instrument"
And the alternative to th...
This is the early access post for "How to take your Performance to the Next Level." You should not be charged for this post, if you are, please do not hesitate to contact me.
One of the most common questions I've gotten since I started doing this whole YouTube thing, surprisingly, has b...
Been waiting for an opportunity to make a video like this for a loooooooooooong, long time.
I remember walking out of the theater after seeing this film, turning to my girlfriend and saying "well, that's a video."
The interesting thing about neurologic music therapy is that it either w...
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This one was a LOT of work.
As it turns out, neuroscience is a really complicated field.
It g...
2018-03-17 01:45:32 +0000 UTC View Post
I wanted to make this video for a while, but I couldn't come up with a good time or reason to make it until now.
In looking up some topics for some other videos, I found out that Paul Metz, the guy who put this technique together, and my old music theory professor, had just retired.
So ...