You've likely heard of major and minor chords before, but what if I told you there was another chord in between called the neutral chord? And what if I told you there exists a chord that sounds "more major" than the major chord and another one that sounds "more minor" than the minor chord?
Also, why are there 12 notes within an octave? What if we split an octave into 31 notes? Or 17 notes? What is just intonation? What are inframinor and ultramajor chords? And why on earth is there _*math*_ in this video? Let's find out!
Timestamps
0:00 introduction
0:48 tuning musical intervals using just intonation
3:16 the 31 equal temperament scale
4:56 triads in 31-edo
6:31 conclusion
Sources
https://en.xen.wiki/w/31edo
https://en.xen.wiki/w/31edo_chord_names
https://en.xen.wiki/w/Just_intonation
If you're interested in writing microtonal music yourself, check out this Musescore plugin (works best with Musescore 3.6): https://github.com/euwbah/musescore-xen-tuner
Thanks for watching!
The MiiYoo Team ❤️