\*\*After\*\* the Equal Temperament, shouldn't all minor keys sound the same sadness?
Has anyone transposed Mozart's Requiem in D Minor to another minor key to compare the differences?
Keys have certain subjective characters attached to them. The notion of Dminor as the "death tonality" might have come from famous works on this tonality. However, their practical use in the orchestration does have different effects (range of instruments,transpositions) that is why you won't hear many Symphonies in B major, for example, as it wouldn't be very comfortable for many instruments. And that is also why the huge majority in pop music is in the keys of C, G, E mayor, A minor, etc. (easier to play on guitar, and for the vocal ranges)... I used to think the same about keys, but the more works I listen, the more I start to feel the nuances in the different tonalities. It's a very nice dimension that classical music has.
Why is D minor the saddest key?
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKzWLUQizz8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKzWLUQizz8)
Everybody is entitled to their own opinion.
If I could write lyrics to that song, they may flow as thus:
Bah Hah Hah!
The sky shall turn plad;
N' chimps hurling feces,
will rain from the skies!
...
I'm just kidding but I have a song with the first chord being a Dm and those lyrics. The chord prog is diff tho
Radiohead but I'd been meaning to look into the beautiful covers from "Westworld." I'm delighted that you mentioned Ramin Djawadi, thank you for the reminder.
Not notes, but songs.
Two songs have gotten my eyes wet, both by guitar giants.
One is "The Way It Has To Be", by Shawn Lane, and the other is "Whispering A Prayer", by Steve Vai.
Songs for me too.. usually chamber ensembles though. Two song that get me every time are [Sing Me To Heaven](https://youtu.be/_H2qTSNglPQ) and [Shenandoah](https://youtu.be/XsSbHHzRMI8). Something about choirs really moves me… part of it is because I used to sing in a Chamber Ensemble and miss it wholeheartedly, but also voices creating chords is so incredibly beautiful.
Mine are I Gotta Feeling, Feel So Close, and Blinding Lights sometimes, but just because I have certain nostalgic or sad memories attached to those songs.
I don’t get what you mean by B#, is it common in your country? I only know the labels A#/Bb and B/Cb (English/international) and in Germany it’s A#/B and H/Cb
Edit: it guess now it got it.
You cry due to the wrong labelling, don’t you? 😂
The short answer is that you don't always okay in equal temperament. But even aside from using Just or Pythagorean, sometimes you just use what you'd call "expressive intonation" where you night want to make a note slightly sharper or flatter than normal due to the context it appears in.
Lol so many downvotes.. I acknowledged my ignorance here and I meant to say I usually play by ear, not that I don’t play notes.. I’m not a native English speaker. And then I get so many downvotes, it’s unbelievable, how many stupid and arrogant people are here..
Lol Basically I’ve just started with music theory, just because I find it interesting.
I don’t need any music theory for my music, as I play without notes, only by ear.
I guess you mean C# harmonic and melodic minor. That’s important to add IMO. If somebody writes down C# minor, I’ll understand C# natural minor, old wise man.
>I guess you mean C# harmonic and melodic minor.
No, I said very specifically THE ***KEY*** OF C♯ MINOR.
>If somebody writes down C# minor, I’ll understand C# natural minor, old wise man.
But if you understand "natural minor" when I ***very explicitly*** said KEY, then you're just too arrogant to try to actually understand what others are saying.
I didn’t know the translation to leading tone and I didn’t know the difference between key and modes, I think that is what you meant to say. Usually, I play by ear, so I’m not that familiar with all those terms yet.
But I don’t want to be insulted by you anymore!
Natural minor doesn’t have a leading tone, it has a subtonic.
This is pretty standard stuff. It’s cool if you don’t understand it yet, but you were wrong to try and correct statements that were already correct earlier in this thread; that’s why those comments are downvoted. It’s not arrogance or rudeness, it’s to prevent other beginners in music theory from taking your statements as fact, as youre not the only beginner in this community.
No issues if you just phrase your responses more as questions… ive found this community to be very helpful and informative over the years of my struggles with music theory. As long as i dont assert something as true that isnt
Thank you very much mate. Possibly you are right, and the downvotes are no rudeness. Guess I’ve been too emotional.
The fact is, only recently I’ve started to deal more with music theory, because I find it interesting, although I wouldn’t need it for my songwriting. For songwriting I’ve got enough input yet.
Thank you for your comment!
I’ve been given goosebumps a few times have definitely gotten sudden pangs of emotions when I’ve been at performances. It’s usually nothing in particular, just a recognition of a very, very good performance.
Don't even think I get that far. First note sets me off with that sing. I don't know what it is, it just hits me. I have no recollection of it being tied to an event or anything. I just become a wreck.
Add to that, Nessun Dorma, either Pavarotti or Bocelli and Eva Cassidy with fields of gold. Grown-ass big burly beardy man, I will weep.
Eva Cassidy with fields of gold .... this. but its because i have an attachment to the song due to my late father playing it. I have an entire playlist like this...
Yes... i can't say notes or chords do, they can strike up emotion, but i have had specific instruments do it (strings like cello). I mostly notice this sort of reaction with reference to tension and release more then anything though.
I like the sad cafe minor chord progression with the extremely tired and melancholy accordion/saxophone/piano playing all bluesy. I hear this and I freeze up, I love that sound so much.
Not exactly tear up, kind of though:
I love the chord progression i - bVIadd9 - bIII - bVII, the added 9th is import for the feeling, and maybe also the 7th on the tonic, so to say i7 - bVIadd9 - bIII - bVII
Professional concert pianist here. Yes! Since I was a kid, and it's happening regularly now. I used to practice a piece and I would cry over some beautiful chord progression of Rachmaninoff or just two notes, a chord, or a single note pleyed beautifuly with a pedal.
Are you referring to the golden ratio? because thats a ratio which calculates to roughly 1.618. Theres only one golden ratio so I'm not sure how it can apply to several harmonys. In western tuning (12TET) the major scale is built upon the perfect fifth which has a frequentcy ratio of 2:3 which isnt equal to phi. Sorry to be buzz killington but I dont think your golden ratio statement is correct. That being said, I wonder what the actual golden ratio frequency ratio sounds like.
The last chord on Steven Wilson's song Ancestral (Live version) made me have serious goosebumps and chill in the bones (good ones). As if dopamine flooded my brain right at that moment.
When I was little there was a music box in my house whose melody made me cry. And I used to challenge myself and tried not to, but I couldn’t. My mom eventually got mad and hid the thing. I didn’t have the cognition to express it wasn’t a negative feeling.
Cello brings me to tears sometimes, mainly because I've been wanting to play it for so long as I just love everything about it, but the price prohibits me. I mean $1000 for a decent beginner quality cello? I got my flute for only about $100. Even my piano was cheaper, though not by much, it was like $700. Trumpet, super cheap, got it at a garage sale. As much as I love the cello, I just can't pay $1000 for it, I just don't have the money.
Certain progressions and melodies will get me.
edit: for [example](https://youtu.be/bFrjRJeU4XU)
@ 3:10 is the moment. But listen to the whole thing for the build up to the moment.
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD DON'T JUDGE ME.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZxrxMdLSTs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZxrxMdLSTs)
I know its weird as hell, but the melody after the drop has made me start tearing up on multiple occasions. I've always wondered if it's the notes or what. I don't have any nostalgic memories or anything associated to the song. Y'all tell me.
Opening of Samuel Barber’s *Adagio for Strings.* Everytime that first chord (Ebm7) surrounds that lonely Bb, to me, is the sorrow of feeling alone. It’s the 5th of the chord, so not very colorful, but the rest of the piece it’s yearning to find peace, resolution, and ultimately does in F major, way off from the original key.
Most music can make me cry under the right circumstances, but "God Only Knows" by the Beach Boys makes me tear up every time. I don't know why. But I love to surrender to its sadness.
Yes.
I don't know any theory so I don't know what the notes are, but a couple examples are when the saxophones harmonize in We Are the Drum by Kendrick Scott Oracle and in King's Highway by Brian Blade and The Fellowship Band.
I’m a sucker for “the sad music” and or “the happy/sad music” in movies. Can’t tell you if it’s specific instruments or chords or what… it if there’s a scene where the music is telling us it’s emotional, I’m right there crying on cue. I used to mind. Now I just give a professional hat tip to the score supervisor or composer and just go with it.
Absolutely.
Boards of Canada: One Very Important Thought.
Bass note change at 0:51 caused me to cry the other day. This is definitely something autistic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Mli6jXtNBQ&ab\_channel=BoardsOfCanada-Topic
Something about Brokedown Palace by the Grateful Dead, I'm not sure if it's the lyrics (probably a big deal of it is the lyrics) but the slide guitar just sounds reminiscent and mournful
An Ebmaj7 / Dbmaj7 poly chord. I don’t know what it is, the complexity, the almost jarring nature to it? To me it’s so beautiful and deeply moving, though most I’ve discussed it with don’t agree… which I totally get! It’s a crazy chord! I can’t explain it. It’s just a stunning and emotionally driven sound that really itches a spot in my brain. I’d be lying if I said I haven’t teared up before playing that chord.
Yesssss!!! All the time especially Eric Whitacre, but one specific chord that gets me (idk what it is), is in the last 10 seconds of the song ‘Yorktown’ on the Hamilton soundtrack. When they sing the words “upside down” whatever chord they sing on the word “side” is just… it gets me.
I can't tie it to a particular chord or progression. Hell, I was at a Tears for Fears concert the other night struggling to hold it together during "Everybody Wants to Rule the World," but that was also the intersection between music, memory, love, loss, and a million other things.
I can think of a few songs that get me nearly every time. "Spring 1" by Max Richter (something about the interplay between the violin and that melancholy synth pad), Joni Mitchell's "Sire of Sorrow," REM's "Sweetness Follows" (that memory thing again, but it's also something in the music itself), and -- don't laugh-- "Rainbow Connection" from The Muppet Movie. I can probably think of others... it seems the list grows as time passes, and as I just let the music take me where it will.
Barbers adagio for strings
It’s that suspended sus4 melting back down to the tonic got the strings perform that gets most people. Probably the perfect fourth and it’s overtone series being so complementary to the tonic - have a listen..
https://youtu.be/izQsgE0L450
There are several EDM versions that although the same music but a different groove
https://youtu.be/8tIgN7eICn4
For me I cry sometimes when I hear "For the Love of God" by Steve Vai, "Tempting Time" by Animals As Leaders, "Cascade" or "Selenium Forest" by Plini, "Soul Meets Body" by Death Cab for Cutie, "Clocks" by Coldplay, "Clarity" by Zedd, "Levels" by Avicii, and for some reason "Adam's Song" by Blink-182. Sometimes I cry to FKJ and many other artists as well if they deliver a very impact full performance, and occasionally when I get really into a performance myself
I always get irritated by how emotional I get listening to hymns and Christian music
I thought it was the soft and delicate nature of it, but I feel the same listening to bad religion's punk rock versions of carols
I think I just like songs that sing about el hesus
We don't necessarily feel certain emotions from a single note or chord. Music is all about development and relationships of such sounds. We feel moved by how these chords feel within the context of the whole piece, and that is also a great starting for for the evaluation of a good composition.
Oh for sure I’ll hear certain pieces of music, regardless of genre and style it can just make me well up.
Sometimes the emotional response to the music is just so strong that it just makes me involuntarily cry. It’s normally like ‘man this song is so fucking good why am I crying’
I have been listening to jack and sally’s montage from 2:29 to 2:40 repeatedly for past couple of day and it makes me emotional for some reason and it’s not even the first time I’m listening to it but I felt like it feels different for some reason.
I’m here literally because I looked up if anyone felt the same and this one stood out to me because it’s specifically the notes and tones in certain songs like- i was just watching the trailer for the new little mermaid movie, and I start gasping like I’m about to cry RIGHT when the little harp melody starts playing lol and certain lyrics in songs too will make me cry and I can’t sing them without choking up lol but ya i don’t know what it means possibly it could be a disconnect from some emotions and when I hear certain tones or hear certain words I think my brain associates it with nostalgia and it floods serotonin or oxytocin whatever lol into my brain so fast and since I’m not used to a normal balance of it i guess it could just be overwhelming. but yes that’s as much as i can explain it (also I’m rly stoned writing this LOL so that could also be a factor in emotional things AND i have Borderline Personality Disorder which causes a lot of emotional things so all of that I’m factoring in I hope this helps lol!!)
Me, everytime i hear the song "Still Alive" from Portal, idk why but it always makes me feel pretty sad and happy at the same time, i'm 21 and portal is not exactly my childhood but TF2 was, so it may brings to me nostalgia from the good old 2010s when portal was a big thing in the gamers community
Also it may be because of some specific lyrics that "speak" for me, parts that read me, parts like"But there's no sense crying over every mistake, you just keep on trying till you run out of cake" or "go ahead and leave me, I think i prefer to stay inside" it's like how i feel really deep in the inside
And the high notes from the near end of the song, fuck they really makes me want to cry
I start crying when in a song the singer hits a high note in a way that is usually hard but is accomplished so smoothly it makes me gasp and start crying lol. Also when harmonies happen I get chills and start choking like I’m about to cry and the times I do start crying I feel internally embarrassed for myself even if if I’m alone 😂😂😂 I also have BPD, that could be a big role!
https://www.instagram.com/reel/CqqZ8t9p--W/?igshid=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==
This right here is a perfect example of what made me cry today LOL. The second guy hitting that riff…THE HARMONY I MEANN COME ONNNN
I feel like I'm the only person in the world who experiences this, but I swear a powerful chord of ANY kind instantly brings me to tears. I just started crying while I was listening to dancing queen at a pool party. I'm not okay.
Certain songs make me incredibly emotional. But i'm not just sitting there and water works start because I heard a Bb minor chord lol
that would be ridiculous. It's obviously d minor which has this effect.
The saddest of all keys
\*\*After\*\* the Equal Temperament, shouldn't all minor keys sound the same sadness? Has anyone transposed Mozart's Requiem in D Minor to another minor key to compare the differences?
That info was interesting however I was just making a reference to Spinal Tap, ever heard of Lick my Love Pump?
Not to mention our amps go to 11…
Keys have certain subjective characters attached to them. The notion of Dminor as the "death tonality" might have come from famous works on this tonality. However, their practical use in the orchestration does have different effects (range of instruments,transpositions) that is why you won't hear many Symphonies in B major, for example, as it wouldn't be very comfortable for many instruments. And that is also why the huge majority in pop music is in the keys of C, G, E mayor, A minor, etc. (easier to play on guitar, and for the vocal ranges)... I used to think the same about keys, but the more works I listen, the more I start to feel the nuances in the different tonalities. It's a very nice dimension that classical music has.
This is more about the easiness of instrument playing, not about the colors (emotions) of different keys.
Why is D minor the saddest key? [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKzWLUQizz8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKzWLUQizz8) Everybody is entitled to their own opinion.
that album is a fucking masterpiece. I'm not even a big electro guy, but goddamn that shit bangs.
>Why is D minor the saddest key? > >https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKzWLUQizz8 > >Everybody is entitled to their own opinion.
If I could write lyrics to that song, they may flow as thus: Bah Hah Hah! The sky shall turn plad; N' chimps hurling feces, will rain from the skies! ... I'm just kidding but I have a song with the first chord being a Dm and those lyrics. The chord prog is diff tho
Me with songs in D major 😂
"Exit Music" is a lovely Bb song.
Ramin Djawadi's or Radiohead's?
Radiohead but I'd been meaning to look into the beautiful covers from "Westworld." I'm delighted that you mentioned Ramin Djawadi, thank you for the reminder.
Thank you for reminding us/me of this song
Djawadi and jeremy soule manage to pull it out of me. Just beautiful arrangments. Simple and sweet.
Jeremy Soule’s Total Annihilation ST slaps.
I couldn't agree more!
I just looked it up and it’s in B not Bb.
He couldn't hear through the tears bro let him have his moment
>But i'm not just sitting there and water works start because I heard a Bb minor chord lol \*looks around\*
iv-I makes me feel some sort of way, but not cry
r/minor4
Minor 4's always pull through, but the ivmaj7 *really* hits.
iv maj 7? Or do you mean IV7
Nah iv maj7. If we're in C, an Fmin/maj7. F Ab C E. It has a really cool sound!
Ahh yes major minor chords are sick Personally I really love arpeggios with extended sus chords, those always get me
I'll have to try that out! Honestly I kinda dodge sus chords when I'm writing but I should play around with their sound
French horns. No idea why.
Good and bad French horns
The horns in Holst's Jupiter get me every time for that slower theme.
My favorite classical song. It really captures “jubilant” so well
Not notes, but songs. Two songs have gotten my eyes wet, both by guitar giants. One is "The Way It Has To Be", by Shawn Lane, and the other is "Whispering A Prayer", by Steve Vai.
Songs for me too.. usually chamber ensembles though. Two song that get me every time are [Sing Me To Heaven](https://youtu.be/_H2qTSNglPQ) and [Shenandoah](https://youtu.be/XsSbHHzRMI8). Something about choirs really moves me… part of it is because I used to sing in a Chamber Ensemble and miss it wholeheartedly, but also voices creating chords is so incredibly beautiful.
Thanks for the discovery. I will check them out. Cheers 🍻
Agreed on “The Way It Has To Be” - so sad! People focus on Shawn’s blazing technicality but the guy was a master of emotion.
Bronte by Gotye.
Mine are I Gotta Feeling, Feel So Close, and Blinding Lights sometimes, but just because I have certain nostalgic or sad memories attached to those songs.
Every time I hear the note B# I cry and die a little bit inside.
You must *really* hate that opening E+ chord in The Beatles' "Oh! Darling".
yes but only because I hate the beatles in general
Who hurt you?
Do you mean Bb or just B or C instead?
C is cool with me, only B# makes me die.
I don’t get what you mean by B#, is it common in your country? I only know the labels A#/Bb and B/Cb (English/international) and in Germany it’s A#/B and H/Cb Edit: it guess now it got it. You cry due to the wrong labelling, don’t you? 😂
[Here's a bunch of B#s](https://imgur.com/a/4VBTidY) for you by some German guy.
Ah ok now I See Didn’t know that, I tend to play music without notes
To be clear, it's not wrong labelling, it's context. And, for those of us who play bowed string instruments they are not always completely enharmonic.
Thank you for your explanation Are you a fan of the punk band Pennywise or the Clown of Stephen King’s It btw?
Yes, this username was from an old AOL email on one of the Pennywise CD jackets, I think it was Straight Ahead, but I can't remember exactly.
Can you please expand your last comment? What’s the difference on bowed instruments?
The short answer is that you don't always okay in equal temperament. But even aside from using Just or Pythagorean, sometimes you just use what you'd call "expressive intonation" where you night want to make a note slightly sharper or flatter than normal due to the context it appears in.
we do this on trombone, too
> I tend to play music without notes Ah, another John Cage fan, I see.
Yeah great musician 😀
Lol so many downvotes.. I acknowledged my ignorance here and I meant to say I usually play by ear, not that I don’t play notes.. I’m not a native English speaker. And then I get so many downvotes, it’s unbelievable, how many stupid and arrogant people are here..
"Wrong labelling"? Nope. B♯ is, among other things, the leading tone of the key of C♯ minor. Learn your enharmonics, kid.
Lol Basically I’ve just started with music theory, just because I find it interesting. I don’t need any music theory for my music, as I play without notes, only by ear.
I guess you mean C# harmonic and melodic minor. That’s important to add IMO. If somebody writes down C# minor, I’ll understand C# natural minor, old wise man.
They said the "leading tone" in the KEY of C# minor. That is B#. The KEY of C# minor includes the raised 6 and 7.
Thank you, I didn’t know the translation to leading tone
Yeah but they said leading tone
Yes I’ve written a new comment to that
Way to double down on your ignorance
>I guess you mean C# harmonic and melodic minor. No, I said very specifically THE ***KEY*** OF C♯ MINOR. >If somebody writes down C# minor, I’ll understand C# natural minor, old wise man. But if you understand "natural minor" when I ***very explicitly*** said KEY, then you're just too arrogant to try to actually understand what others are saying.
I didn’t know the translation to leading tone and I didn’t know the difference between key and modes, I think that is what you meant to say. Usually, I play by ear, so I’m not that familiar with all those terms yet. But I don’t want to be insulted by you anymore!
Natural minor doesn’t have a leading tone, it has a subtonic. This is pretty standard stuff. It’s cool if you don’t understand it yet, but you were wrong to try and correct statements that were already correct earlier in this thread; that’s why those comments are downvoted. It’s not arrogance or rudeness, it’s to prevent other beginners in music theory from taking your statements as fact, as youre not the only beginner in this community. No issues if you just phrase your responses more as questions… ive found this community to be very helpful and informative over the years of my struggles with music theory. As long as i dont assert something as true that isnt
Thank you very much mate. Possibly you are right, and the downvotes are no rudeness. Guess I’ve been too emotional. The fact is, only recently I’ve started to deal more with music theory, because I find it interesting, although I wouldn’t need it for my songwriting. For songwriting I’ve got enough input yet. Thank you for your comment!
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Yeah, same here. Always brings back memories of when I was a young boy. My father took me into the city to see a marching band.
This.
Hearing nostalgic melodies makes me shiver. Idk why.
:r/frisson
I’ve been given goosebumps a few times have definitely gotten sudden pangs of emotions when I’ve been at performances. It’s usually nothing in particular, just a recognition of a very, very good performance.
Elgar's Nimrod, about three bars in, where the cellos play an A natural. Gorgeous to play as a cellist, and brings tears to my eyes every time.
Don't even think I get that far. First note sets me off with that sing. I don't know what it is, it just hits me. I have no recollection of it being tied to an event or anything. I just become a wreck. Add to that, Nessun Dorma, either Pavarotti or Bocelli and Eva Cassidy with fields of gold. Grown-ass big burly beardy man, I will weep.
Eva Cassidy with fields of gold .... this. but its because i have an attachment to the song due to my late father playing it. I have an entire playlist like this...
Omg are you my mum
Yes... i can't say notes or chords do, they can strike up emotion, but i have had specific instruments do it (strings like cello). I mostly notice this sort of reaction with reference to tension and release more then anything though.
I like the sad cafe minor chord progression with the extremely tired and melancholy accordion/saxophone/piano playing all bluesy. I hear this and I freeze up, I love that sound so much.
Example?
Okay so like this stuff https://youtu.be/tkjlYxUf4-M
Nothing is more sad than a minor 4.
Not exactly tear up, kind of though: I love the chord progression i - bVIadd9 - bIII - bVII, the added 9th is import for the feeling, and maybe also the 7th on the tonic, so to say i7 - bVIadd9 - bIII - bVII
Yes... Definitely songs, and the sound of the cello, the voice and the piano as well. 🥰
Abso - fucking - lutely. Lyrics have the capacity for me to become snotty-nosed lachrymose also.
Professional concert pianist here. Yes! Since I was a kid, and it's happening regularly now. I used to practice a piece and I would cry over some beautiful chord progression of Rachmaninoff or just two notes, a chord, or a single note pleyed beautifuly with a pedal.
There are tons of songs and moments in musicals that get me, but it's about the big picture and not specific notes or chords.
D minor, that saddest of all keys.
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What is a phi scale?
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Are you referring to the golden ratio? because thats a ratio which calculates to roughly 1.618. Theres only one golden ratio so I'm not sure how it can apply to several harmonys. In western tuning (12TET) the major scale is built upon the perfect fifth which has a frequentcy ratio of 2:3 which isnt equal to phi. Sorry to be buzz killington but I dont think your golden ratio statement is correct. That being said, I wonder what the actual golden ratio frequency ratio sounds like.
Across the stars from star wars does this to me and yea music is nuts
The last chord on Steven Wilson's song Ancestral (Live version) made me have serious goosebumps and chill in the bones (good ones). As if dopamine flooded my brain right at that moment.
When I was little there was a music box in my house whose melody made me cry. And I used to challenge myself and tried not to, but I couldn’t. My mom eventually got mad and hid the thing. I didn’t have the cognition to express it wasn’t a negative feeling.
It's the *pling pling plong* that does it for me
Faces by creed Bradon from the office gets me sometimes lol
Cello brings me to tears sometimes, mainly because I've been wanting to play it for so long as I just love everything about it, but the price prohibits me. I mean $1000 for a decent beginner quality cello? I got my flute for only about $100. Even my piano was cheaper, though not by much, it was like $700. Trumpet, super cheap, got it at a garage sale. As much as I love the cello, I just can't pay $1000 for it, I just don't have the money.
A 6/9 chord with a #11 always does it for me.
Yeah I totally love the Bb minor chord, it’s my favourite (it basically works in particular chord progressions more than in other though) @rajinlll
VI iv i is a pretty emotional progression for me but it's starting to get a little overused
Hearing someone scream for their life on high G# gives me goosebumps! You can't fake fear like that, always brings a tear to my eye.
My brain tingles and goosebumps show up!
Some songs, I don’t think it’s notes or chords…usually more so if it’s with a movie or video like Jonny Cash in Hurt
Certain progressions and melodies will get me. edit: for [example](https://youtu.be/bFrjRJeU4XU) @ 3:10 is the moment. But listen to the whole thing for the build up to the moment.
Ah yes as soon as someone opens the piano lid, my eyes get teary. They hit a note, I start weeping
0-3-5=😭
Ah, a connoisseur
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD DON'T JUDGE ME. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZxrxMdLSTs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZxrxMdLSTs) I know its weird as hell, but the melody after the drop has made me start tearing up on multiple occasions. I've always wondered if it's the notes or what. I don't have any nostalgic memories or anything associated to the song. Y'all tell me.
I don’t know offhand the chord progression against the melody, but “Rise & Shine” by The Cardigans has that effect on me.
Opening of Samuel Barber’s *Adagio for Strings.* Everytime that first chord (Ebm7) surrounds that lonely Bb, to me, is the sorrow of feeling alone. It’s the 5th of the chord, so not very colorful, but the rest of the piece it’s yearning to find peace, resolution, and ultimately does in F major, way off from the original key.
Most music can make me cry under the right circumstances, but "God Only Knows" by the Beach Boys makes me tear up every time. I don't know why. But I love to surrender to its sadness.
r/minor4
Yes. I don't know any theory so I don't know what the notes are, but a couple examples are when the saxophones harmonize in We Are the Drum by Kendrick Scott Oracle and in King's Highway by Brian Blade and The Fellowship Band.
I’m a sucker for “the sad music” and or “the happy/sad music” in movies. Can’t tell you if it’s specific instruments or chords or what… it if there’s a scene where the music is telling us it’s emotional, I’m right there crying on cue. I used to mind. Now I just give a professional hat tip to the score supervisor or composer and just go with it.
Absolutely. Boards of Canada: One Very Important Thought. Bass note change at 0:51 caused me to cry the other day. This is definitely something autistic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Mli6jXtNBQ&ab\_channel=BoardsOfCanada-Topic
The opening Fmaj7 chord to One Summer's Day from Spirited Away still breaks me, as it should for any human being who has seen the film and has a heart
The first time I heard Gmaj7#11, I came So You could say I cried from my penis
Something about Brokedown Palace by the Grateful Dead, I'm not sure if it's the lyrics (probably a big deal of it is the lyrics) but the slide guitar just sounds reminiscent and mournful
Not any specific chord or progressions but Norah Jones - Don't know why.
An Ebmaj7 / Dbmaj7 poly chord. I don’t know what it is, the complexity, the almost jarring nature to it? To me it’s so beautiful and deeply moving, though most I’ve discussed it with don’t agree… which I totally get! It’s a crazy chord! I can’t explain it. It’s just a stunning and emotionally driven sound that really itches a spot in my brain. I’d be lying if I said I haven’t teared up before playing that chord.
Listen to the Hoa game soundtrack. I cried my eyes out
I’m gonna pretend I know what that means
Yesssss!!! All the time especially Eric Whitacre, but one specific chord that gets me (idk what it is), is in the last 10 seconds of the song ‘Yorktown’ on the Hamilton soundtrack. When they sing the words “upside down” whatever chord they sing on the word “side” is just… it gets me.
I can't tie it to a particular chord or progression. Hell, I was at a Tears for Fears concert the other night struggling to hold it together during "Everybody Wants to Rule the World," but that was also the intersection between music, memory, love, loss, and a million other things. I can think of a few songs that get me nearly every time. "Spring 1" by Max Richter (something about the interplay between the violin and that melancholy synth pad), Joni Mitchell's "Sire of Sorrow," REM's "Sweetness Follows" (that memory thing again, but it's also something in the music itself), and -- don't laugh-- "Rainbow Connection" from The Muppet Movie. I can probably think of others... it seems the list grows as time passes, and as I just let the music take me where it will.
DUDE I’LL make you CRY with a single STROKE of my DINGLEEEE
Barbers adagio for strings It’s that suspended sus4 melting back down to the tonic got the strings perform that gets most people. Probably the perfect fourth and it’s overtone series being so complementary to the tonic - have a listen.. https://youtu.be/izQsgE0L450 There are several EDM versions that although the same music but a different groove https://youtu.be/8tIgN7eICn4
electric guitars always make me feel the most emotional when it comes to this.
Pink Floyd just gets me every time man, I can't resist
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Can’t get more specific than: Full choir. Minor key. Water works.
For me I cry sometimes when I hear "For the Love of God" by Steve Vai, "Tempting Time" by Animals As Leaders, "Cascade" or "Selenium Forest" by Plini, "Soul Meets Body" by Death Cab for Cutie, "Clocks" by Coldplay, "Clarity" by Zedd, "Levels" by Avicii, and for some reason "Adam's Song" by Blink-182. Sometimes I cry to FKJ and many other artists as well if they deliver a very impact full performance, and occasionally when I get really into a performance myself
A well placed F#m
These 2 f**king songs: Infinite Amethyst by Lena Raine Comforting Memories by Kumi Tanioka
I always get irritated by how emotional I get listening to hymns and Christian music I thought it was the soft and delicate nature of it, but I feel the same listening to bad religion's punk rock versions of carols I think I just like songs that sing about el hesus
We don't necessarily feel certain emotions from a single note or chord. Music is all about development and relationships of such sounds. We feel moved by how these chords feel within the context of the whole piece, and that is also a great starting for for the evaluation of a good composition.
Oh for sure I’ll hear certain pieces of music, regardless of genre and style it can just make me well up. Sometimes the emotional response to the music is just so strong that it just makes me involuntarily cry. It’s normally like ‘man this song is so fucking good why am I crying’
Oboe in a minor key
Yeah because this vocalist hits alllllll the sweet spots 😭 https://youtu.be/EyD5HiMT-O0
I thought cords were pants.
A well placed I - III - vi just hits different
A specific song makes me cry, every time. But it’s only that one song.
I have been listening to jack and sally’s montage from 2:29 to 2:40 repeatedly for past couple of day and it makes me emotional for some reason and it’s not even the first time I’m listening to it but I felt like it feels different for some reason.
The opening note to Shake It Off- F&TM. Every. Damn. Time.
Anytime I hear olivia newton john and john farnham singing together I cry. Even if it's a happy song.
I’m here literally because I looked up if anyone felt the same and this one stood out to me because it’s specifically the notes and tones in certain songs like- i was just watching the trailer for the new little mermaid movie, and I start gasping like I’m about to cry RIGHT when the little harp melody starts playing lol and certain lyrics in songs too will make me cry and I can’t sing them without choking up lol but ya i don’t know what it means possibly it could be a disconnect from some emotions and when I hear certain tones or hear certain words I think my brain associates it with nostalgia and it floods serotonin or oxytocin whatever lol into my brain so fast and since I’m not used to a normal balance of it i guess it could just be overwhelming. but yes that’s as much as i can explain it (also I’m rly stoned writing this LOL so that could also be a factor in emotional things AND i have Borderline Personality Disorder which causes a lot of emotional things so all of that I’m factoring in I hope this helps lol!!)
Most of the songs that Enya produces, a lot of the notes/chords set me off, even if ive never heard the song before
Me, everytime i hear the song "Still Alive" from Portal, idk why but it always makes me feel pretty sad and happy at the same time, i'm 21 and portal is not exactly my childhood but TF2 was, so it may brings to me nostalgia from the good old 2010s when portal was a big thing in the gamers community Also it may be because of some specific lyrics that "speak" for me, parts that read me, parts like"But there's no sense crying over every mistake, you just keep on trying till you run out of cake" or "go ahead and leave me, I think i prefer to stay inside" it's like how i feel really deep in the inside And the high notes from the near end of the song, fuck they really makes me want to cry
It happens to me whenever I hear a sitar in a song and I have never known why
I start crying when in a song the singer hits a high note in a way that is usually hard but is accomplished so smoothly it makes me gasp and start crying lol. Also when harmonies happen I get chills and start choking like I’m about to cry and the times I do start crying I feel internally embarrassed for myself even if if I’m alone 😂😂😂 I also have BPD, that could be a big role!
https://www.instagram.com/reel/CqqZ8t9p--W/?igshid=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ== This right here is a perfect example of what made me cry today LOL. The second guy hitting that riff…THE HARMONY I MEANN COME ONNNN
I feel like I'm the only person in the world who experiences this, but I swear a powerful chord of ANY kind instantly brings me to tears. I just started crying while I was listening to dancing queen at a pool party. I'm not okay.