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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. All Making Waves →
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every chord has a mirror
Oct 30, 2026 · Making Waves
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
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the number nobody chose
Oct 23, 2026 · Making Waves
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
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two notes, one way home
Oct 16, 2026 · Making Waves
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
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one note, a whole chord
Oct 9, 2026 · Making Waves
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
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listen mic, stone room, gate
Oct 2, 2026 · Making Waves
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 · Making Waves
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
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where do you hide it?
Sep 17, 2026 · Making Waves
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 · 04
songs. stories. the process.
Scratch That. I finally heard the song I’ve been trying to make.
New
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this is the song
Sep 19, 2026 · ~15 min · Finding Out
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.
Last week
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me or the machine
Sep 13, 2026 · ~12:23 · Finding Out
I wrote three choruses. Then Suno got the same lyrics. Same words, different melodies. Which would you actually play again?
Earlier
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joe, stay out of afrobeats
Sep 5, 2026 · ~11:08 · Finding Out
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
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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. This is the first episode of FINDING OUT: a series about making music, figuring things out, and documenting what happens along the way.