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Exploring music's rabbit holes
Little musical tidbits and rabbit holes, concepts you may never have considered, for musically curious folk. Same @joemendick channel.
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07
every chord has a mirror
Oct 30, 2026
Hold a mirror up to the keyboard and every chord in a key gets a twin. C major lands on C minor, G7 on F minor 6, and the pull home survives the flip. Then Danny Boy and Moonlight Sonata, mirrored.
Live
06
the number nobody chose
Oct 23, 2026
Two clips, and one is tuned to 432 Hz, the “healing frequency”. Which one feels calmer? I followed the claims behind 432 six layers down, and measured what I could.
Live
05
two notes, one way home
Oct 16, 2026
Two notes, six half steps apart: the tritone, “the devil in music”. Out of context it's just rough. Inside a key it's the one interval that tells your ear where home is - and pulls you there.
Live
04
one note, a whole chord
Oct 9, 2026
Sing one note and you've sung a chord. Every note from a voice, a string or a horn is a stack of quieter notes - the harmonic series - and the major chord is sitting in it.
Live
03
listen mic, stone room, gate
Oct 2, 2026
A listen mic nobody meant to record, a stone room, a compressor, and a gate. Rebuild the 1980s snare, one piece at a time.
Live
02
your brain invents the melody
Sep 25, 2026
Listen to a spoken phrase on a loop. Somewhere around the third pass your brain starts hearing a melody. Nothing in the sound changes.
Live
01
where do you hide it?
Sep 17, 2026
Start on C. Climb fifths twelve times and you should land back on C. You don’t. Every tuning system is a different answer to where you hide that gap.
Finding Out
Latest
04
this is the song
Sep 19, 2026 · ~15 min
I finally heard the song I’ve been trying to make: Out of This World. This episode is about getting to that north-star track: the process, and the breakthrough. Lyric video.
Previous
03
me or the machine
Sep 13, 2026 · ~12:23
I wrote three choruses. Then Suno got the same lyrics. Same words, different melodies. Which would you actually play again?
Earlier
02
joe, stay out of afrobeats
Sep 5, 2026 · ~11:08
I’d never heard Afrobeats. So I tried to make one in Suno Studio 2.0, and found out how far out of the loop I was.
Earlier
01
an empty room, an unwritten song
Aug 29, 2026 · 11:38
I had an empty room, an unwritten song, and a week to see what would happen.