Gonna go get a snack! (Funny how I’ve started to get a headache and fear I’m getting sick, and Etho posts- Maybe this and food will help.) Everyone else enjoy your “Etho day”! :D
Regarding the whole "B# = C??" thing, there are some reasons to do it when teaching chord/scale construction which is best discussed another time. But playing and writing for piano myself, I've found that it all depends on what's most readable in the moment. If you're playing a long string of alternating C's and C#'s, you could write them all out as variations of C, but then you're sheet music would be a mess of modifiers constantly sharp-ing and un-sharping the C. In this case, you can say "mark all C's on the page as C# and let B# represent all the natural/un-sharp C's" and this will make the page less cluttered without changing the actual sound of what's coming out. But again, it all depends on what the songwriter/transcriber decides is most readable on a case to case basis.
Yep, readability is a big part of it, but also the direction your melody is moving and the key of the song also matters. When ascending, it's more common to use sharps, and flats while descending. This sometimes is affected by the key, for example in a "sharp" key like A or E, you might be more likely to use sharps and naturals as opposed to flats. And when these things conflict, readability can help resolve which to use. You will almost never see B# because C is much easier to read. In a song with lots of C's and C#'s, changing to a key like A-flat might make sense, because then you could notate C and D-flat without any modifiers, but depends on the rest of the song
I would describe it as a glass half full/ half empty situation. People say, it's philosophy, but it actually just depends on your point of view in that situation. If you're filling someone up with an open bottle of whine, you could say: hey look, I filled you up and your glass is half full now. If you just drank from the glass, you would say, it's half empty. In music, this is either the direction the melody is taking (e.g. reaching up/ascending) or the interval that applies. And yes, you may also adjust the notation afterwards to make it more readable.
Yes very true! I’m studying music theory and this is all dependent of the key signature as well as there can be a B# in the key signature which means there is a C# in the key signature as well and that’s where you usually see a B# on the staff
Simply put, if you look at the piano, there is no black key between B and C. Therefore if you '#' (+1) a B, its ends up being a C, and if you 'b' (-1) a C it ends up being a B. The same goes for E and F since there is no black key between them too.
+1. It's nice to learn more about how experienced Minecraft RUclipsrs record and edit their videos. :) I know that my process isn't as optimized as it could be. I'm wasting a ton of time recording stuff I don't need, and while editing I waste a bunch of time re-watching that unnecessary footage. If I were a better talker I would need fewer takes. And if I were more aggressive about hitting the "Stop" button I wouldn't record extra minutes of nothing all the time.
Honestly regarding the editing and commentary, while you might feel it lost something, it was actually a really good way to give us a bunch of information in short bursts and to me, still felt very personal.
The only downside is it only works for like a show and tell style of recording, if he was like mining or something you miss out on his reaction to falling in lava or a creeper surprising him or something like that.
24:23 Etho kinda nailed the note block thing, and even the guess about having two (or more) names for the same note is pretty accurate too! When there are two names for the same note, we say those names/notes are enharmonics. In Western music the major scale is treated kind of as the "default scale", and it can be played by playing all the white notes on a piano: C D E F G A B C If we were to use a scale which sharpened the 4th degree/note of the scale (which would be an F) then we could call that F# a sharpened 4th. Now if another separate scale flattened the G in the scale (the 5th degree/note), we'd call that a Gb (G flat) and not an F# because we already have an "F note" in our scale, and to call it an F# would imply that we're modifying a note in our scale that we're not. So Etho was on the right lines as it's all about ease of communicating which notes are being modified and in what ways. It's tough to explain without reading and playing music but that's roughly the idea!
Additionally, while Gb and F# are the same note today, they weren't the same note historically. Modern Western instruments are tuned at equal temperament. Without going into the ridiculous math behind tuning at equal temperament, the basic reason that it is standard is that no matter what key you're playing in, everything sounds in tune. You can play something in a key that calls for a Gb in its scale and then play something in a key that calls for an F#, and both will sound good. You can also tune an instrument at a different temperament, like just intonation. This makes the math easier, as that kind of tuning keeps the intervals between notes at nice whole number ratios. It also lends for a 'purer' and more accurate sound, but only for the note that's used as the base when tuning. Basically, if you're playing something where you treat C as your central note (or 'fundamental frequency') you tune the instrument one way. If you want to then play something that has a fundamental frequency of A, you have to retune the instrument around that A note in order for everything to sound right. Some older instruments like the chromatic harpsichord are tuned using just intonation today, because the music written to be played on them used just intonation. Therefore, on the average chromatic harpsichord, the sharps and flats are actually different notes. A B flat and an A#, which are the same note in a modern octave, would sound different. If you don't have a background in music, this is a lot easier to understand with an actual chromatic harpsichord in front of you. My father plays harpsichord music in both equal temperament and just intonation, depending on what music he's playing, so I've heard him retuning the harpsichord quite a few times. TL;DR Gb and F# can actually make different sounds depending on how you choose to tune your instrument. We've largely abandoned the musical trends that call for that sort of tuning in favor of having notes that are slightly out-of-tune, but are the same amount of out-of-tune in relationship to each other. This makes it way easier to play multiple pieces of music on the same instrument.
Just another small thing to add, another reason for sharps and flats is because when building a scale you follow a "formula" on how to build it. Say you want to make the major scale starting at any note. Starting at that note you can follow this: T T S T T T S T is for tone, or two notes. Sometimes this is represented as a W for whole step. S is for semi-tone, or one note. Sometimes this is represented as a H for half step. Starting at any note you can go up a tone (two notes), another tone, a semi-tone, etc... and you will have built the major scale for that note. But a scale should never have two of the same letter within it. So a single scale shouldn't have D and D#, so instead you'd use D and E flat. A scale should also never use a flat and a sharp, it's one or the other.
@@doctordumbass9425 Honestly it's something I didn't understand at all until I actually started studying music so I don't blame you lol, rly weird concept to just explain and not experience in action
Just to pitch in with a bit of math, it has everything to do with the ratios between frequencies of different notes. *(There's a tl;dr towards the bottom.)* Our monkey brains crave simple ratios for some reason; ratios like 2:1, 3:2, 4:1, 5:4, etc. In other words, when we hear a note with some frequency, we _really_ like it when the next note's frequency is something like 4/3 times the first frequency. We really _don't_ like it when the second note is, say, 77/64 times the first one. That isn't a simple ratio. Now, if you pull a string taught and pluck it, it vibrates at a certain frequency. And then if you make it half as long, it vibrates at twice the frequency. Hey that's a 2:1 ratio! Our monkey brain likes that. But we don't want to make music with only two notes, that'll get boring. We need a system that allows for as many ratios as possible. But as it turns out, there's really no elegant solution here. No matter what you do, it's a trade-off three variables: flexibility, versatility, and accuracy. You can design a system that is versatile in what ratios it can play, and accurate in how perfectly in can play them, but is limited by what keys you can play in. Or it can be flexible in what keys it works for, and versatile in what ratios it can play in each key, but none of the ratios sound very good. Or it can be flexible in its keys, and have some very good sounding ratios, but it leaves out many others. *TL;DR:* The modern western system is a compromise. The ratio between two adjacent notes is the twelfth root of 2 over 1. It's a highly irrational number that it fairly good at approximating the ratios we consider to be "most useful" in a wide range of keys. However, it's only _fairly_ good, and it has to correct for its slight margin of error somewhere (kind of like a leap year). The places where it does that just happen to be at B#/C and G#/A. At least, that generally how I understand it. Let me know if there are any inaccuracies.
I love the story time “catch up” style of the first 8 minutes Etho! If it’s not too much work, I’d love to have more of that! Hearing you narrate casually was so nice! Your humor really comes out in that style!
Enjoyed the editing at the start, a nice twist to see! And, as someone with a Masters degree in music composition, and who literally teaches music theory - gotta say, genuinely really impressed with how well you explained some very complicated ideas so concisely and effectively :') I know professional players who couldn't do it even close to as well! The ways in which you impress just continue to increase exponentially 😂😂 Nice one :')
I only have a BA but I totally agree. I was particularly impressed with the explanation of why there’s a B# or Cb (basically context and maintaining note names). It blew my mind in school how so many of my super talented colleagues didn’t understand hardly anything about music theory. I ended up being the go to guy for help with theory homework, despite being a significantly less talented performer.
Etho teaching music is probably my favorite thing that he's done. Whether it uses flats or sharps depends on which key you're in (think of it as which note a scale in that key starts with). *Each key must use each letter once.* For example, The key of A Major must use sharps A - B - C# - D - E - F# - G# - A otherwise you'd have A - B - *Db - D* - E - Gb - *Ab - A* which violates that rule.
For further explanation, each set of notes is a key which allows you to identify which number of note on the scale it is. For instance your A major scale, the C# is the 3rd note and the main chord made with it (generally C# E G#) that would be known as the iii chord (lowercase denotes minor, but that's more complication)
Way I was taught it in band class was that, to use your numbering system, sharps and flats are a + .5 or - .5 adjustment rather than a full note change's +1 or -1 EDIT: the Minecraft noteblocks give you a 2 octave chromatic scale to work with, chromatic scales being a series of every note between two values, A#/Bb, B, C, C#/Db, D, D#/Eb, E, F, F#/Gb, G, and G#/Ab, each being equidistant from the two on either side of it. Some google fu tells me that the space between B&C and E&F having nothing between them is an artifact of breaking that series down into 2 sets of seven and those 2 sets of seven are functional so it never got changed to a more technically consistent set.
@Eff the same tone has to be able to be written in multiple ways to show its position in the key that its in. I think the composers who chose to write it that way mean it to be noted as such. Perhaps it's only done that way purely as a choice (for instance a fX (instead of a g) being an accidental in a piece in c # minor. This could also mean that it's supposed to be part of a particular voice in that piece, Say there's a baseline and it has a constant repeating pattern with occasional accidentals. Sometimes it makes it easier to read too. Anyway enough of this complicated reasoning. music is beautiful and often hard to read/understand.
This is spot on. I was hoping there would be an explanation that wasn’t all bloated with lingo and derailed into naturals and accidentals and you nailed it. Spot on my friend
24:00 Hi music student here. From my understanding, the reason why we have things like B# and Fb is because of the way chords are constructed. A chord is a collection of notes played in unison in order to achieve a fuller, richer, more expressive sound. The most basic chord has 3 different notes that make it up. These notes are the root, the third, and the fifth. The root is the note you're constructing the chord on. The third is the third scale degree counting up from the root, and the fifth is the fifth scale degree counting up from the root. In other words, if your chord's root is A, your third would be C (because C is the third scale degree of the A scale), and your fifth would be E (because E is the fifth scale degree of the A scale). But what if I wanted to represent the sounds of a chord that is a half-step above A? Well then I would sharp A, but because chords are constructed relative to the base note, that would mean I would also have to sharp C, and sharp E. So I would end up with A#, C#, and E#. However, due to the way notes are assigned, E# shares the frequency with another note that already exists in an easier notation: F. However, while E# and F share the same frequency, the reason why we use E# in our chord instead of F is because E# is the fifth of the chord, and F is the sixth. If we use the note name "F", we would be expressing a different chord than the one we originally intended. It would carry a different harmonic context, and thus would require different set up and resolutions in order to properly make logical musical sense within the music. The same logic can be applied to B#. B#, while being the same frequency as C, carries a different harmonic implication than C, and thus is expressing something different from C.
Heya, (ex) music student here too! Although if we're being fair, a lot of the info below is from a generous amount of wikipediaing. To add on, I think the reason why E# is F and why B# is C - but not, say, G# being A - is, we used to think of notes, chords and keys (the "palette" of notes you use to paint your musical artwork with) quite differently. Back in ancient Greece, they used to have different "modes," and the notes from those modes never mix with each other. So, you had, say, a specific set of notes belonging to a mode (e.g. what we call A-B-C-D-E-F-G now would be Aeolian Mode) - and if you used the mode you stuck to those notes. Different villages used different sets of notes, and how much each note was higher than the last was different depending on which mode you used and which note up the mode you were referring to, although they generally tended to be around the half-step to full-step range (clicking once to clicking twice on the note block), as these provided a generally good spread of tones around the octave. These modes got carried over into (classical, not South American) Latin music and then into medieval times, where they were used by the church. The church used six notes in their music (I'm not too sure why they dropped the seventh, or if they adapted it from pagan/folk music), and had mainly three "modes" (which they called hexachords) - like G-A-B-C-D-E and C-D-E-F-G-A. It was possible then to shift from one set of notes to the other. But they particularly disliked shifting in and out of the third one - which started from F - because of a very special kind of interval (that's the difference in pitch between two notes) resulted, called the tritone. They disliked it so much that they began altering one of the notes - B - so that it would sound smoother. In order to differentiate the two Bs they called one the "soft B" and another the "square B", which slowly became the ♭ (flat) and ♮ (natural; no flat) signs we are familiar with today. I think the ♯ (sharp) sign was invented later but it was based on this natural. This first example of note alteration became more and more common with different notes as musicians started to explore more and more different mode-shifting, sounds and concepts - especially after music became something not only the church would play, but also the aristocracy, and later the common people. (Not to say that regular folk did not sing and play music, but it was not as readily standardised and notated.) I think the standardisation of the 12-tone chromatic scale, which formed the basis of a lot of the freedom in transposing between different keys in our current era, happened sometime when Bach was alive - or it could even have been largely devised by him, but don't quote me on that. As for why exactly ABCDEFG, nobody really knows, but the earliest records we have which used that notation was some 6th century bloke called Boethius. He actually had different notes for two octaves - ABCDEFGHIKLMNO - but when it expanded to three later on I think people had a bit of foresight to think that the alphabet wouldn't be enough to contain further expansions, and started adopting the recycling of alphabets when it got to the next octave. The usage of a two-octage range of notes dates back even further to Ptolemy (1st c.). So yeah! The gist of it, I guess, is that there were a lot of legacy issues which kinda stuck around. We tried to include patches to update it and make it more generalised but quirks like C♭ = B still exist.
As both a musician and someone currently studying to be a physics teacher, your explanation of sound frequencies and basic music theory (like what an octave is) was just great. It was lots of fun to watch your process. I’m glad you’re enjoying learning about music theory.
@@samuelhokanson7560 No, C flat and B are identical. If you look at a piano, there are no black keys between B and C, so C flat is the same note as B, and B sharp is the same note as C.
Musician and engineering student here! I’m also glad Etho’s learning music theory; looking forward to seeing more note block things in the future, hopefully! How do you like studying to be a physics teacher so far?
@@singerofsongss Oh, interesting, well actually, I myself transferred into education from engineering! I have been enjoying education. It definitely was the right decision. I also coach track and field and run a youth group, and I quite enjoy it. I hope engineering goes well for you.
I never thought that during my ten years of watching Etho that he would be explaining music theory in a let’s play video. Awesome stuff! For the record, he did a pretty darn good job of explaining music theory (I have a music degree).
The intro was pretty perfect honestly, I think you hit the nail on the head with kind of speeding through some of the smaller projects but still get enough information out of what you’re doing to make everything make sense.
About the enderporter, the have separated rendering and handleling of entities, thats now "simulation distance" You had simulation distance at 12, while rendering was at 17, thats why it didnt work, if you out simulation distance at 17, and rendering at 12 it will work just as before ;)
I really like the "what Etho's been up to" segment. It shows the care and thoughts on your projects and delivers the tiny, charming quality of life tweaks. I think it helps make your world feel more 'lived in' and lets me feel more involved. I'd love to see it pop up more often, maybe every few episodes, if not every episode.
Yeah - I wouldn't want it to take up this much of the episode every episode, but a bit every so often? Would love that. Especially after the longer breaks.
I actually really like the beginning of the episode, it gives a little summary of what been happening in the world without making it an episode of its own/taking up to much time (hope that made sense)
Etho, minecraft is EXACTLY the game where things never need to be perfect because you can change them at any time. So I never worry about it, and come back to old projects repeatedly, even just to tidy up a few blocks or re-understand a machine. I think you should do it more often in fact, and focus less on perfect-the-first-time builds.
Hey Etho. I turn 18 in 2 weeks and I just started playing Minecraft with my brother and friends again for the first time in about 4 years. I wanted to check your channel to see what you’ve been up to and it’s insane that you’re still doing stuff. You were probably my most watched RUclipsr when I was about 8-11 and so many of my favorite minecraft memories are from watching you on the Mindcrack server. Thank you for the memories and for being a wonderful part of my childhood. I hope that other kids can experience the level of happiness and enjoyment you’ve given me through your videos. God bless you❤️
^ Render distance isn’t tied to making things happen in chunks anymore. Simulation distance is a slider they brought over from Bedrock, the value it’s set to determines what chunks the player actively loads
@@ovencake523 pretty sure simulation distance handles how far the game will load things like redstone, minecarts, furnaces etc, whereas render distance is just how far the game will render what the player can see. So you can have a render distance of 5, simulation distance 10, and a furnace 10 chunks away will still work, but you won't be able to see it
So the idea is that a b# is a c some notes have the same names and when there’s keys some keys have so many flats that and so many sharps that viewing it is easier. The order of sharps is FCGDAEB so if you were to have all seven sharps in your key (c sharp key) and you wanted to play the Note c writing down C on a music score would automatically make it a C sharp because of the key signature so counteract this he would place a note on the B line and then the key signature would automatically change it to a B sharp playing the tone of a C
If you would like to look into this more, the musical term is ‘Enharmonics’. Same principal applies to notes such as G# and Ab, D# and Eb, so on and so forth. Great explanation of octaves and frequencies in the vid.
I've been making music for 4 years now, freestyling melodies day after day. But scales, keys, modes etc. have always completely and utterly confused me. Understanding them might be useful but definitely not necessary if you want to make music of your own. Just record yourself singing over a beat every single day and edit it so you piece together a song. It will be bad. But if you keep at it you'll get better.
Yes I know exactly what you mean. I struggle a lot with sleeping, and I fell asleep to one of his videos recently. Which doesn't mean the video was boring, but apparantly my insomniac brain felt comfortable enough with the sound of his voice that I finally fell in a calm sleep, the first in many weeks. How insane that a stranger from Canada just helped me with this terrible life-controlling disorder?
@@anika1883 i've been rewatching let's plays to help me fall asleep for several years. a calm, friendly voice and something to be mildly distracted by seems to really help.
@@liamernst9626 That's very good point. I can lower my guard and enjoy. I have that habit of trying to find out when the other hermits are acting, or being genuine, but with Etho, his acting is either done obviously sarcastic, or pretty transparent. It probably helps my bias, he's shown to be a very genuine person in all his years.
@@emberborn That's so nice! I think I might do so as well, for some reason I sleep way better and way more calmly when my brain is soothed and distracted by Etho's videos.
The postcom sections are a nice change of pace, and very efficient, but I agree they do feel a bit more impersonal. Personally, I think they’re great to use occasionally, but shouldn’t be overused, and if the editing is a lot more difficult it might often not be worth bothering.
I really like how Etho's editing has improved over the last year, it feels like ever since Hermitcraft S7 he's been getting a lot better at the small details. I've been really enjoying it!
I think it’s in the nature of Etho to always try to improve things to spice it up, else he gets bored. He needs a challenge to be at his best. I think it that’s why he still can play Minecraft and find new stuff to do in it and we are the ones that benefits by the great content. But to be honest, he could make a video about anything and I would find it interesting. He’s so damn wholesome and likable! 🤩
I loved the "What has Etho Been Up To?" section! I think you'll become more natural with commentary the more you do! I think the section was a good length and I really enjoyed seeing what projects you've been working on! It's been really fun seeing you try new editing and filming techniques! It always reminds me when Zisteau challenged you to an editing battle all those years ago!
I just finished watching your Terrafirmapunk series, and all of the reasons you went over in finishing the series the way you made total sense. In fact, it's kind of apparent from your last episode in the series that a lot of the quests you checked out were broken, and those you still hadn't had a high chance of being broken, too. You really did marvelous job with that series; I can't imagine many RUclipsrs making more progress than you did, especially with the limited number of automation or long-range travel options, that I found surprising in a modpack with that many mods. And your love for the basic Terrafirmacraft concepts really came through despite the modpack jankiness. I hope someone puts together a great modpack with a future version of Terrafirmacraft & Minecraft, where these issues are ironed out, and I hope you'll want to pick it up again :)
Yes, the terrafirmacraft series was awesome :) There actually is an independent game, that is inspired by mc/terrafirmacraft called Vintage Story. If no new patch for terrafirmacraft comes out in the near future, etho could try it out.
24:19 You got it right honestly. the reason its different sometimes is because in different keys ( A major, F Minor etc..) we use different sets of sharps and flats. And like you said, it helps keep that note in context with all the other notes. its a lot easier to read a sharp, in a key that is filled with sharps, flats with flats etc. Really its just all context based and can change depending on composer, arranger ect.
Etho! If you’re gonna do work on the enderporters, I wanted to suggest using something different than the tripwires! I’m sure you already knew this, but a string of retracting pistons all retract instantly in the same tick. (As in when you have a piston extending a redstone block to power another piston and then unpower the first one, the second will retract at the same time as the first) I used that trick to make enderporters in my world which are actually instant! To cut down on the cost of pistons, I had the piston push 11 honey/slime blocks and a redstone block on the end powering 15 redstone dust leading to the next piston, which then repeats the same configuration. It also works vertically! Hope you see this and it at least have fun thinking about it, have a great day Ergo!
The flats and sharps are basically a way of creating musical grammar. The same audible notes can relate to different harmonies and using sharps/flats helps define what the harmony is. As a basic example: C -> Eb is an interval of a third (counting notes C,D,E), but C -> D# is a second (because it counts only C, D). Despite the end output being identical, the harmony is different - one is a third, the other is a second. This system of intervals is the founding block for chords and keys. It's kinda like musical homophones. If you want to understand more, I recommend researching intervals, key signatures & chord harmony. They all link together. Terminologies: - going up a "Semitone" is the equivalent of clicking a note block once - going up a "tone" is the equivalent of clicking a note block twice - "accidentals": the name for sharps, flats and naturals.
Etho: "Good news everybody, note blocks are actually really simple!" Proceeds to spend the next 20 minutes talking about music theory, diving into the intricacies and tips and tricks of tempo and the specific methods to translate songs.
19:10 You can search specific comments by setting up a filter in RUclips studio. Should be able to type any characters directly into the filter section. Hope this was useful :) Edit: that was probably the most I've ever learned about music theory. Fascinating stuff! thx for sharing
@@mxhddr I think the comment filter in youtube studio is better for the uploader than using ctrl+f. But for everyone else, ctrl+f is pretty much the only option.
I think the editing style works really well! Your post-commentary feels very natural, defo seems like a useful tool to update us on grindier stuff you’ve done. I think a mix of both live commentary and post feels nice
24:16 Key signatures. Sometimes it's easier to write a note as a flat or sharp of another note rather than a natural note when working with certain key signatures (e.g. when writing in F# major, it's better to write E# than F when there is already a F#).
it's also important to remember that not every instrument is a fixed pitch instrument. for a piano and fretted instruments, B# is the same as C natural, but this isn't always true. When dealing with choirs, for example, they use on average twice as many pitches per octave as a fixed pitch instrument.
yah key signatures is the big one i can think of if you have at the start of the song that all b's are going to be flat you want to avoid writing out natural signs when you can just use a cflat
@@yannilibbes8219 but that's just people getting their notes wrong isn't it? I mean yeah you have to plan for it, but if everyone's really on key and performing well, not sliding their voice, etc it should sound be the same number of pitches as a piano as I understand it.
I never properly thanked you for teaching me English way back in like 2014 when I was in my early teens. Today I'm 22 and in my third year in collage. For some reason RUclips recommend me to watch this video and it was really nostalgic! Even if i haven't watched you for many years now I'm still happy for all the joy you brought me back in the days!
@@Jordan22220 I went to the swedish elementary school as well. But I had always struggled with English until i started watching English videos that didn't have subtitles.
This episode made me so happy. Loved the recap, I can understand the "loses heart" thought BUT it adds so much more imagery for the world knowing more happenings. Regarding your comment on moving beacons - I personally just never move them. Typically if an area will have any habitation longevity it just gets a beacon planted otherwise I'll just grind it out without one.
Thank you for clarifying about the TFC series Etho. Just to let you know, there are newer modpacks like TechNodeFirmaCraft and Poetica if you ever do wanna start a Season 4, but honestly I am enjoying your LP world and your Season 2 of Etho's Modded Minecraft much more anyways. Love your content and keep up the amazing work!
yeah ive also played a bit of tnfc, cool how it has a specific objective if you want one but at the same time no quest book. it'd be really cool to see etho play it too.
Thank you guys those packs sound awesome, i didn't even know about the new 1.12.2 Version of TFC called TerraFirmaCraft : The New Generation or TFC:TNC. Etho, you should write this on a List somewhere to come back to when your modded series is over. Which i'm enjoying very much btw. (Yes i totally just wrote that so people that are searching can find this "thread") PS.: There was a comment further down about a similar standalone game called "Vintage Story"
Thanks Etho, I noticed the difference with the editing at the start and agree with you, it's good for summing progress between episodes but loses the uniqueness that is you! Also thank you for the Terrafirmacraft explanation, really interesting to hear how you feel about it. Looking forward to more LP and modded!
Hey Etho, bit late but i’ve been doing music for almost a decade. Basically, each note can be itself, naturalised, sharpened or flattened. The reason why there are different names for each note (called enharmonic equivalents) is because of the different keys that each contain their own sharps or flats. Each key (B flat major, C sharp minor, F major to name a few) has their own key signature which is how many sharps or flats are in it going up or down an octave. An enharmonic equivalent can also be found as an entire scale (octave); the major keys G sharp and F flat look different but they actually sound the same. There is more to this but I hope this helps, thanks for the great vid as always
Hey etho, kind of tough question: How long do you see yourself continuing your channel? I have been subbed for almost ten years now, and will continue to watch as long as you keep putting out new content (best channel on youtube!), but I understand that being a content creator online is a new thing of this generation, and the timespan of doing such has not yet been established. Do you see yourself doing this for another ten, twenty, thirty years? I’m all on board for any of the above or more! Keep doing you etho, love the channel!
I was thinking about it. But it's sad and pointless. Everything around us is changing so fast. Who knows what he decides in a month, a year, ten? And I bet most of us will respect his decision anyway. Snacking with tears in our eyes, remembering all the great times. I hope the feel of seeing that unedited thumbnail and just pure childish joy of clicking it never ends. Thank you Etho for being a literal part of our lifes. (Still a really hard concept to grasp (try explaining it to someone), but it is how it it)
I don't think there's really a number you can put on it. Etho strikes me as the kind of guy who's gonna keep doing this until it stops being fun for him.
I LOVED the post commentary. Not only was it a really nice way to see what you've been up to and your thought process, but it also doubles down on my favorite thing about your Minecraft videos in particular which is the variety! We get to see way more different pieces of the world per video!
Loved the intro section tbh. A lot of the time you just unveil things "Hey I did this off screen!" But if you started every episode with "here's what I did off screen today" then we feel caught up to speed, and can move right along with your regular editing style :) Maybe so a mix of both? Quick catch up In the beginning, followed by regular stuff?
@@tobiaswhittaker7462 Not really, ghasts are much more annoying than creepers since they don't stop spawning with light like creepers do, and they are much bigger and harder to build for less gunpowder.
Who wants to mess with transporting cats for a creeper farm, and youve clearly never made a ghast farm before lol, cant really get any simpler. Build portals and spawning floors, ghasts instantly go through portals to an overworld kill chamber. stack layers of portals for increased rates, I built mine in like 20 minutes and get 5k drops/hour
22:30 etho was kinda right but it’s actually cool how sound waves work in octaves. basically sound waves are actually physical space carried through vibration, so the reason 2 C# notes in different octaves resonate to us is bc the higher C# is simply vibrating at twice the rate the lower C# is. another fun fact the reason we can’t hear frequencies below 20hz is bc the physical space of 20hz is wider than the width of your head, so the frequency can’t resonate between your ears lol
Hey Etho, only been a yearlong fan but I started a world of your modpack and just want to say thanks for being an inspiring, educational, and kind youtuber :). ur great keep doing you!
Doing it as well and having a blast. First serious foray into mod packs other than playing terrafirmapack a long time ago. Enjoying learning all the new options and trying to figure out how to mix and match Create, Immersive Engineering, and Mekanism is very entertaining.
I always come back to this series, it’s a fond memory from my childhood. I’m very happy to see Etho is pulling in the views too! Keep killing it man, forever a fan.
24:31 To answer this question, I can only think of 1 main reason which is the key signature. All pieces of music have a key signature that automatically determines the sharps and flats for a piece which is generally consistent for most of the piece, and for example if your key signature has Bb, or C#, it allows you to write only a B or C without the signage. Following that, if a the key signature has Bb and you write it as a B, but then you wanted to follow that with a B# in the same bar you have to put the signage on the second B whereas with a regular C you can represent the same note without needing the signage.
Well i think a more simple answer is that you generally want every "letter" only represented once in a key. So if your key has a C in it, you won't have a C# in it, so it has to be a Db.
About the music Sharps and Flats: Every song is in a "Key" which dictates what notes are sharp or flat. Every key must have one of each letter in for the keys' respective scales. For example, the key of C major goes C, D, E, F, G, A, B, C; whereas the key of A major goes A, B, C#, E, F#, G#, A. Our western music scale consists of a pattern that goes by steps, the major scale pattern is Whole, Whole, Half, Whole, Whole Whole, Half. A whole step in two Minecraft pitches and a half step is one.
Hi Etho! The problem with your ender-porters isn’t related to any changes in render distance, it’s related to your simulation distance setting. That is the setting to change to affect how far the simulation works, and you had it at 12 the entire time there.
Terrafirmacraft, despite all the difficulties you faced while making the episode, was one of the series I loved the most. I really liked the atmosphere. In a similar vein, one of the other series I absolutely adore is Crash Landing. Any plans on playing something similar again? Once you're done with modded land, of course(loving it btw).
Seconded, I really enjoyed terrafirmacraft, though I admit it's very slow, and I can't fault anyone for avoiding terrafirmapunk - that modpack was busted on day one and didn't get better. Crash Landing was very enjoyable as well, and I too would enjoy seeing something similar.
The new commentary was great! It’s nice to know some of the smaller things you do in your world without dedicating too much of the limited time you have. Also when you added the types of flowers in editing was nice I think more of that would be cool
I really like seeing you do small tasks around the world. For me, the "What's Etho been up to?" segment is definitely a keeper! Not necessarily every episode, but sprinkling it in every now and then could be really nice.
24:36 the reason for using 2 of the "same note" has a lot to do with the key it's in. The key may default A and C to A# and C#, so an accidental may be added at some point as a one time change to that particular note
Hello, a music student here, The music alphabet goes to 6, a,b,c,d,e,f,g. So a flat in music is what we call a half step down and a sharp is a half step up. Different instruments play in different octaves. Tubas play a lot lower that a flute. The weird thing is that everything is made of a keyboard so notes for different instruments are different for different instruments. Yea weird. It gets weirder though, because from e to f and b to c is a half step up even though it should be a whole step because there is no sharp or flat. Also instruments are counted in octaves. So you could buy a 2 octave piano or an 8 octave piano. Basically an octave in just going up the alphabet. A,B,C,D,E,F,G,A,B,C,D,E,F,G.
The "What Was Etho Up To?" section was pretty fun. Was like a bonus mini-episode. I wouldn't want that to become the new norm I don't think, but it was a fun addition
Basically what is happening with the notes is: If you look on a piano 21:15, between a black and a white key there is a small gap and between two adjacent white keys there is a small gap only if there is no black key between them (like B-C and E-F). With a sharp "#" you can go up one small gap and with a flat "b" you can go down one small gap. This is why B# equals C and Cb equals B
About note-naming conventions: you can have every note(name) only once in a scale. If you have a C in it and the next note has to be a semi-tone higher, the next note is not a C# but a Db since you used C already. Even though it is technically the same pitch. Hope this is understandable.
One other reason: In some musical temperament (e.g. Phytagorean), B# and C is not exactly the same. On piano you can only play fixed frequencies, but e.g. on violin, you can play as many as you like. Check out on Quora: 'What is the difference between B sharp and C natural?'
He actually talked about Rubix cubes way way back in comment of the day and said that they are actually super easy to learn and once you know how to do them it is extremely simple to do them over and over again. I can also do rub cubes and can attest to that fact, once you know how to do it it is actually a super simple system
@@awesomenesschanel I can solve them too, didn't know about his earlier comment, but there are also various other types of twisty puzzles, each completely different, I wonder if hes interested in those
566 episodes and I’ve seen everyone of them for the past however many years this series has been going for world change and everything it is truely amazing keep it up Etho at your own pace of course
5:20 This is the exact mentality Walt Disney had towards Disneyland. *”Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.”* In this case, it would be your individual imagination, but the point still stands. He created a world of fantasy, joy, and efficiency, with a devout community. As have you Etho!
I really like it when there´s a little plain grindy minecraft in the episodes from time to time. As long as you have stuuff to talk about it´s very calming. I think you are the only one where you even see a cave, nether or end at all. For example i watched the whole season of HC from multiple perspectives and i think the only time i saw anything else but the overworld was when doc build his shulker farm.
I just rewatched his first episode of season 2 and the difference in Ethos charisma is astonishing. He sounds like he's very tired or like he's trying not to wake up roommates in his first episodes.
So I've been catching up on Etho's LP videos from the last 2 years (my "Watch Later" queue is a disaster) over the last week or so... and now I have caught up. Now I'm sad that I have to _wait_ for more! I've been watching (intermittently but I'm pretty sure I've seen every episode) since the Man Cave was just getting started. I love the creativity, the variety, the honesty, the quirks, and the genuine talent that shines through and has grown so much over the years. Keep it up, Etho!
24:30 your explanation was actually quite good! Depending on the key of the song, a B# instead of a C (or vice versa) is used because of harmonic reasons (which is a whole other thing). Basically because of how the notes relate to each other.
Also on certain instruments like violin where you can play an infinite range of different notes in between each note, it is often the case that a C and a B sharp are played slightly differently to add emotion to the piece.
Wow! This was like 5 episodes of content in one. Great to see you’ve been spending so much time in your world. And great to see so much of it again in one episode!
Just one hundred more episodes until the next scripted show one. I can’t wait for Herobrine to make an appearance. EDIT: Also, I noticed the post-commentary. It was helpful. I like it, in small doses anyways; but you do you. They’re your videos, I’m just watching them :)
5:53 weird audio glitch in the right channel.
I though my new headphones broke lol.
I thought my headphones broke..
Oh I got that too
It scared me haha
I thought my headphones broke too. Glad it wasn't just me
It's Etho day everyone stop what you're doing and go get your snacks
Yes Sir!
Gonna go get a snack!
(Funny how I’ve started to get a headache and fear I’m getting sick, and Etho posts-
Maybe this and food will help.)
Everyone else enjoy your “Etho day”! :D
@@taytaythehufflepuff8532 You too! Hope you get well soon
I would, but I've already brushed my teeth :'(
Agreeable
Regarding the whole "B# = C??" thing, there are some reasons to do it when teaching chord/scale construction which is best discussed another time. But playing and writing for piano myself, I've found that it all depends on what's most readable in the moment.
If you're playing a long string of alternating C's and C#'s, you could write them all out as variations of C, but then you're sheet music would be a mess of modifiers constantly sharp-ing and un-sharping the C. In this case, you can say "mark all C's on the page as C# and let B# represent all the natural/un-sharp C's" and this will make the page less cluttered without changing the actual sound of what's coming out.
But again, it all depends on what the songwriter/transcriber decides is most readable on a case to case basis.
Yep, readability is a big part of it, but also the direction your melody is moving and the key of the song also matters. When ascending, it's more common to use sharps, and flats while descending. This sometimes is affected by the key, for example in a "sharp" key like A or E, you might be more likely to use sharps and naturals as opposed to flats. And when these things conflict, readability can help resolve which to use. You will almost never see B# because C is much easier to read.
In a song with lots of C's and C#'s, changing to a key like A-flat might make sense, because then you could notate C and D-flat without any modifiers, but depends on the rest of the song
I would describe it as a glass half full/ half empty situation. People say, it's philosophy, but it actually just depends on your point of view in that situation. If you're filling someone up with an open bottle of whine, you could say: hey look, I filled you up and your glass is half full now. If you just drank from the glass, you would say, it's half empty.
In music, this is either the direction the melody is taking (e.g. reaching up/ascending) or the interval that applies.
And yes, you may also adjust the notation afterwards to make it more readable.
Yes very true! I’m studying music theory and this is all dependent of the key signature as well as there can be a B# in the key signature which means there is a C# in the key signature as well and that’s where you usually see a B# on the staff
Simply put, if you look at the piano, there is no black key between B and C. Therefore if you '#' (+1) a B, its ends up being a C, and if you 'b' (-1) a C it ends up being a B. The same goes for E and F since there is no black key between them too.
@@coracias key of c sounds like KFC
He explained his editing process and now I finally know how he knows when he’s out of time for the episode
+1. It's nice to learn more about how experienced Minecraft RUclipsrs record and edit their videos. :) I know that my process isn't as optimized as it could be. I'm wasting a ton of time recording stuff I don't need, and while editing I waste a bunch of time re-watching that unnecessary footage. If I were a better talker I would need fewer takes. And if I were more aggressive about hitting the "Stop" button I wouldn't record extra minutes of nothing all the time.
Honestly regarding the editing and commentary, while you might feel it lost something, it was actually a really good way to give us a bunch of information in short bursts and to me, still felt very personal.
Definetly
I second this, basically summarises my thoughts on the first portion of the video too.
The only downside is it only works for like a show and tell style of recording, if he was like mining or something you miss out on his reaction to falling in lava or a creeper surprising him or something like that.
Agreed!
I feel like the segment was a bit too long.. maybe 2/3 would be better? Still, the quality was good, I liked it!
Etho failing to fly out of a hole, failing again and then just cutting made me laugh so much
6:00
Etho: this is going to be a very weird intro.
Us: Yes…that’s what we’re here for.
24:23 Etho kinda nailed the note block thing, and even the guess about having two (or more) names for the same note is pretty accurate too!
When there are two names for the same note, we say those names/notes are enharmonics.
In Western music the major scale is treated kind of as the "default scale", and it can be played by playing all the white notes on a piano: C D E F G A B C
If we were to use a scale which sharpened the 4th degree/note of the scale (which would be an F) then we could call that F# a sharpened 4th.
Now if another separate scale flattened the G in the scale (the 5th degree/note), we'd call that a Gb (G flat) and not an F# because we already have an "F note" in our scale, and to call it an F# would imply that we're modifying a note in our scale that we're not.
So Etho was on the right lines as it's all about ease of communicating which notes are being modified and in what ways. It's tough to explain without reading and playing music but that's roughly the idea!
Additionally, while Gb and F# are the same note today, they weren't the same note historically.
Modern Western instruments are tuned at equal temperament. Without going into the ridiculous math behind tuning at equal temperament, the basic reason that it is standard is that no matter what key you're playing in, everything sounds in tune. You can play something in a key that calls for a Gb in its scale and then play something in a key that calls for an F#, and both will sound good.
You can also tune an instrument at a different temperament, like just intonation. This makes the math easier, as that kind of tuning keeps the intervals between notes at nice whole number ratios. It also lends for a 'purer' and more accurate sound, but only for the note that's used as the base when tuning. Basically, if you're playing something where you treat C as your central note (or 'fundamental frequency') you tune the instrument one way. If you want to then play something that has a fundamental frequency of A, you have to retune the instrument around that A note in order for everything to sound right.
Some older instruments like the chromatic harpsichord are tuned using just intonation today, because the music written to be played on them used just intonation. Therefore, on the average chromatic harpsichord, the sharps and flats are actually different notes. A B flat and an A#, which are the same note in a modern octave, would sound different.
If you don't have a background in music, this is a lot easier to understand with an actual chromatic harpsichord in front of you. My father plays harpsichord music in both equal temperament and just intonation, depending on what music he's playing, so I've heard him retuning the harpsichord quite a few times.
TL;DR Gb and F# can actually make different sounds depending on how you choose to tune your instrument. We've largely abandoned the musical trends that call for that sort of tuning in favor of having notes that are slightly out-of-tune, but are the same amount of out-of-tune in relationship to each other. This makes it way easier to play multiple pieces of music on the same instrument.
Just another small thing to add, another reason for sharps and flats is because when building a scale you follow a "formula" on how to build it. Say you want to make the major scale starting at any note. Starting at that note you can follow this: T T S T T T S
T is for tone, or two notes. Sometimes this is represented as a W for whole step.
S is for semi-tone, or one note. Sometimes this is represented as a H for half step.
Starting at any note you can go up a tone (two notes), another tone, a semi-tone, etc... and you will have built the major scale for that note.
But a scale should never have two of the same letter within it. So a single scale shouldn't have D and D#, so instead you'd use D and E flat. A scale should also never use a flat and a sharp, it's one or the other.
Even though you wrote it clearly, it's tough to understand lol. I've never learned a thing about music however
@@doctordumbass9425 Honestly it's something I didn't understand at all until I actually started studying music so I don't blame you lol, rly weird concept to just explain and not experience in action
Just to pitch in with a bit of math, it has everything to do with the ratios between frequencies of different notes. *(There's a tl;dr towards the bottom.)* Our monkey brains crave simple ratios for some reason; ratios like 2:1, 3:2, 4:1, 5:4, etc.
In other words, when we hear a note with some frequency, we _really_ like it when the next note's frequency is something like 4/3 times the first frequency. We really _don't_ like it when the second note is, say, 77/64 times the first one. That isn't a simple ratio.
Now, if you pull a string taught and pluck it, it vibrates at a certain frequency. And then if you make it half as long, it vibrates at twice the frequency. Hey that's a 2:1 ratio! Our monkey brain likes that. But we don't want to make music with only two notes, that'll get boring. We need a system that allows for as many ratios as possible.
But as it turns out, there's really no elegant solution here. No matter what you do, it's a trade-off three variables: flexibility, versatility, and accuracy. You can design a system that is versatile in what ratios it can play, and accurate in how perfectly in can play them, but is limited by what keys you can play in. Or it can be flexible in what keys it works for, and versatile in what ratios it can play in each key, but none of the ratios sound very good. Or it can be flexible in its keys, and have some very good sounding ratios, but it leaves out many others.
*TL;DR:*
The modern western system is a compromise. The ratio between two adjacent notes is the twelfth root of 2 over 1. It's a highly irrational number that it fairly good at approximating the ratios we consider to be "most useful" in a wide range of keys. However, it's only _fairly_ good, and it has to correct for its slight margin of error somewhere (kind of like a leap year). The places where it does that just happen to be at B#/C and G#/A.
At least, that generally how I understand it. Let me know if there are any inaccuracies.
Etho teaching music theory not the episode I was expecting. 10/10
It was fantastic
Indeed as someone who knows lots of music theory I did get a lot of joy from that
He's honestly so cool for this one. Loved the episode.
2:48 cutting the footage just right so you see him casually passing diamonds is the most Etho thing, I love it!
I love the story time “catch up” style of the first 8 minutes Etho! If it’s not too much work, I’d love to have more of that! Hearing you narrate casually was so nice! Your humor really comes out in that style!
Agreed
Agreed!!
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Agree!
Enjoyed the editing at the start, a nice twist to see!
And, as someone with a Masters degree in music composition, and who literally teaches music theory - gotta say, genuinely really impressed with how well you explained some very complicated ideas so concisely and effectively :') I know professional players who couldn't do it even close to as well!
The ways in which you impress just continue to increase exponentially 😂😂 Nice one :')
I only have a BA but I totally agree. I was particularly impressed with the explanation of why there’s a B# or Cb (basically context and maintaining note names). It blew my mind in school how so many of my super talented colleagues didn’t understand hardly anything about music theory. I ended up being the go to guy for help with theory homework, despite being a significantly less talented performer.
Love the Minecraft version of music theory
It's really nice to see a recap at the beginning so we can see what has changed in the world "off camera" keep it up it's a great idea
Etho teaching music is probably my favorite thing that he's done. Whether it uses flats or sharps depends on which key you're in (think of it as which note a scale in that key starts with). *Each key must use each letter once.* For example, The key of A Major must use sharps
A - B - C# - D - E - F# - G# - A
otherwise you'd have
A - B - *Db - D* - E - Gb - *Ab - A* which violates that rule.
For further explanation, each set of notes is a key which allows you to identify which number of note on the scale it is. For instance your A major scale, the C# is the 3rd note and the main chord made with it (generally C# E G#) that would be known as the iii chord (lowercase denotes minor, but that's more complication)
Way I was taught it in band class was that, to use your numbering system, sharps and flats are a + .5 or - .5 adjustment rather than a full note change's +1 or -1
EDIT: the Minecraft noteblocks give you a 2 octave chromatic scale to work with, chromatic scales being a series of every note between two values, A#/Bb, B, C, C#/Db, D, D#/Eb, E, F, F#/Gb, G, and G#/Ab, each being equidistant from the two on either side of it.
Some google fu tells me that the space between B&C and E&F having nothing between them is an artifact of breaking that series down into 2 sets of seven and those 2 sets of seven are functional so it never got changed to a more technically consistent set.
@Eff the same tone has to be able to be written in multiple ways to show its position in the key that its in. I think the composers who chose to write it that way mean it to be noted as such. Perhaps it's only done that way purely as a choice (for instance a fX (instead of a g) being an accidental in a piece in c # minor. This could also mean that it's supposed to be part of a particular voice in that piece, Say there's a baseline and it has a constant repeating pattern with occasional accidentals.
Sometimes it makes it easier to read too. Anyway enough of this complicated reasoning. music is beautiful and often hard to read/understand.
Well explained!
This is spot on. I was hoping there would be an explanation that wasn’t all bloated with lingo and derailed into naturals and accidentals and you nailed it. Spot on my friend
Really liked the editing in this episode, gives more of a glimpse or a insight of what you've been working on while you're explaining things!
I think a healthy mix of both would definitely work out well
i Agree, it was really nice him voicing over sort of like a 100 days video
What ethos been up to has been a question on my mind many many weeks since i subbed
I loved the “What’s Etho been up to?” segment
Agreed
24:00 Hi music student here. From my understanding, the reason why we have things like B# and Fb is because of the way chords are constructed. A chord is a collection of notes played in unison in order to achieve a fuller, richer, more expressive sound. The most basic chord has 3 different notes that make it up. These notes are the root, the third, and the fifth. The root is the note you're constructing the chord on. The third is the third scale degree counting up from the root, and the fifth is the fifth scale degree counting up from the root. In other words, if your chord's root is A, your third would be C (because C is the third scale degree of the A scale), and your fifth would be E (because E is the fifth scale degree of the A scale). But what if I wanted to represent the sounds of a chord that is a half-step above A? Well then I would sharp A, but because chords are constructed relative to the base note, that would mean I would also have to sharp C, and sharp E. So I would end up with A#, C#, and E#. However, due to the way notes are assigned, E# shares the frequency with another note that already exists in an easier notation: F. However, while E# and F share the same frequency, the reason why we use E# in our chord instead of F is because E# is the fifth of the chord, and F is the sixth. If we use the note name "F", we would be expressing a different chord than the one we originally intended. It would carry a different harmonic context, and thus would require different set up and resolutions in order to properly make logical musical sense within the music. The same logic can be applied to B#. B#, while being the same frequency as C, carries a different harmonic implication than C, and thus is expressing something different from C.
Lets not mention an A# major triad. 👀
Heya, (ex) music student here too! Although if we're being fair, a lot of the info below is from a generous amount of wikipediaing.
To add on, I think the reason why E# is F and why B# is C - but not, say, G# being A - is, we used to think of notes, chords and keys (the "palette" of notes you use to paint your musical artwork with) quite differently. Back in ancient Greece, they used to have different "modes," and the notes from those modes never mix with each other. So, you had, say, a specific set of notes belonging to a mode (e.g. what we call A-B-C-D-E-F-G now would be Aeolian Mode) - and if you used the mode you stuck to those notes. Different villages used different sets of notes, and how much each note was higher than the last was different depending on which mode you used and which note up the mode you were referring to, although they generally tended to be around the half-step to full-step range (clicking once to clicking twice on the note block), as these provided a generally good spread of tones around the octave. These modes got carried over into (classical, not South American) Latin music and then into medieval times, where they were used by the church.
The church used six notes in their music (I'm not too sure why they dropped the seventh, or if they adapted it from pagan/folk music), and had mainly three "modes" (which they called hexachords) - like G-A-B-C-D-E and C-D-E-F-G-A. It was possible then to shift from one set of notes to the other. But they particularly disliked shifting in and out of the third one - which started from F - because of a very special kind of interval (that's the difference in pitch between two notes) resulted, called the tritone. They disliked it so much that they began altering one of the notes - B - so that it would sound smoother. In order to differentiate the two Bs they called one the "soft B" and another the "square B", which slowly became the ♭ (flat) and ♮ (natural; no flat) signs we are familiar with today. I think the ♯ (sharp) sign was invented later but it was based on this natural.
This first example of note alteration became more and more common with different notes as musicians started to explore more and more different mode-shifting, sounds and concepts - especially after music became something not only the church would play, but also the aristocracy, and later the common people. (Not to say that regular folk did not sing and play music, but it was not as readily standardised and notated.) I think the standardisation of the 12-tone chromatic scale, which formed the basis of a lot of the freedom in transposing between different keys in our current era, happened sometime when Bach was alive - or it could even have been largely devised by him, but don't quote me on that.
As for why exactly ABCDEFG, nobody really knows, but the earliest records we have which used that notation was some 6th century bloke called Boethius. He actually had different notes for two octaves - ABCDEFGHIKLMNO - but when it expanded to three later on I think people had a bit of foresight to think that the alphabet wouldn't be enough to contain further expansions, and started adopting the recycling of alphabets when it got to the next octave. The usage of a two-octage range of notes dates back even further to Ptolemy (1st c.).
So yeah! The gist of it, I guess, is that there were a lot of legacy issues which kinda stuck around. We tried to include patches to update it and make it more generalised but quirks like C♭ = B still exist.
This comment has little likes when it reviewed me of what i've learned so far in music 😂
Although personally, I hope nobody ever has to see a Bb. I freaking hate things like Bb and E# or Fb
beat me to the punch!
As both a musician and someone currently studying to be a physics teacher, your explanation of sound frequencies and basic music theory (like what an octave is) was just great. It was lots of fun to watch your process. I’m glad you’re enjoying learning about music theory.
agreed. however he got the sharp/flat explanation wrong. As u know a Cb is not a B, its a B#. awesome episode but that part made me cringe a lil
@@samuelhokanson7560 No, C flat and B are identical. If you look at a piano, there are no black keys between B and C, so C flat is the same note as B, and B sharp is the same note as C.
Musician and engineering student here! I’m also glad Etho’s learning music theory; looking forward to seeing more note block things in the future, hopefully! How do you like studying to be a physics teacher so far?
@@singerofsongss Oh, interesting, well actually, I myself transferred into education from engineering! I have been enjoying education. It definitely was the right decision. I also coach track and field and run a youth group, and I quite enjoy it. I hope engineering goes well for you.
Man you really killed it with the editing on this one! Hoping for another star-wipe transition, haven't had one of those in a while.
NO, NOW YOU LISTEN TO ME! why should i waste my time at school? i am super famous on youtube. tell me, dear neb
@@AxxLAfriku how sad are you in life?
@@AxxLAfriku I’m gonna get a bunch of people to report you and have you lose your channel for a valid reason
I never thought that during my ten years of watching Etho that he would be explaining music theory in a let’s play video. Awesome stuff! For the record, he did a pretty darn good job of explaining music theory (I have a music degree).
Haha I was always kinda interested in learning music theory, I never expected it to be in a minecraft let’s play.
The intro was pretty perfect honestly, I think you hit the nail on the head with kind of speeding through some of the smaller projects but still get enough information out of what you’re doing to make everything make sense.
About the enderporter, the have separated rendering and handleling of entities, thats now "simulation distance" You had simulation distance at 12, while rendering was at 17, thats why it didnt work, if you out simulation distance at 17, and rendering at 12 it will work just as before ;)
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@@cayansc1 simulation dist is in java now
@@cayansc1 what's wrong with bedrock?
@@liamernst9626 I'm only a bedrock player actually. So, I can tell you. EVERYTHING :)
@@cayansc1 It's not that bad, except for when all your villagers die. But hey you can push furnaces!
I loved the post commentary, it does not lose heart when you're in it.
1000%
I really like the "what Etho's been up to" segment. It shows the care and thoughts on your projects and delivers the tiny, charming quality of life tweaks. I think it helps make your world feel more 'lived in' and lets me feel more involved. I'd love to see it pop up more often, maybe every few episodes, if not every episode.
Yeah - I wouldn't want it to take up this much of the episode every episode, but a bit every so often? Would love that. Especially after the longer breaks.
I actually really like the beginning of the episode, it gives a little summary of what been happening in the world without making it an episode of its own/taking up to much time (hope that made sense)
Etho, minecraft is EXACTLY the game where things never need to be perfect because you can change them at any time. So I never worry about it, and come back to old projects repeatedly, even just to tidy up a few blocks or re-understand a machine. I think you should do it more often in fact, and focus less on perfect-the-first-time builds.
The first part of this video feels like an "Etho Documentary"
I love how I drop everything to literally watch Etho whenever he uploads. It's a gift every time.
@Hilda Kimina looks sus
same here
I want more modded
Hey Etho. I turn 18 in 2 weeks and I just started playing Minecraft with my brother and friends again for the first time in about 4 years. I wanted to check your channel to see what you’ve been up to and it’s insane that you’re still doing stuff. You were probably my most watched RUclipsr when I was about 8-11 and so many of my favorite minecraft memories are from watching you on the Mindcrack server. Thank you for the memories and for being a wonderful part of my childhood. I hope that other kids can experience the level of happiness and enjoyment you’ve given me through your videos. God bless you❤️
For the enderporters, maybe you need to turn your "simulation distance" up.
^ Render distance isn’t tied to making things happen in chunks anymore. Simulation distance is a slider they brought over from Bedrock, the value it’s set to determines what chunks the player actively loads
isnt this a bedrock thing? i didnt think java had simulation distance
@@goldencloud7527 it does now
@@OntosTorin whats the difference between simulation and render distance?
@@ovencake523 pretty sure simulation distance handles how far the game will load things like redstone, minecarts, furnaces etc, whereas render distance is just how far the game will render what the player can see. So you can have a render distance of 5, simulation distance 10, and a furnace 10 chunks away will still work, but you won't be able to see it
So the idea is that a b# is a c some notes have the same names and when there’s keys some keys have so many flats that and so many sharps that viewing it is easier. The order of sharps is FCGDAEB so if you were to have all seven sharps in your key (c sharp key) and you wanted to play the Note c writing down C on a music score would automatically make it a C sharp because of the key signature so counteract this he would place a note on the B line and then the key signature would automatically change it to a B sharp playing the tone of a C
It's true
If you would like to look into this more, the musical term is ‘Enharmonics’. Same principal applies to notes such as G# and Ab, D# and Eb, so on and so forth. Great explanation of octaves and frequencies in the vid.
I read that thrice and still have no clue what's going on
@@NGabunchanumbers Me too, I am still confusion
I've been making music for 4 years now, freestyling melodies day after day. But scales, keys, modes etc. have always completely and utterly confused me. Understanding them might be useful but definitely not necessary if you want to make music of your own. Just record yourself singing over a beat every single day and edit it so you piece together a song. It will be bad. But if you keep at it you'll get better.
For the people who don't know, this let's play has been going on for 11 years! This is such a good series (: keep it up
etho’s voice is so.. lovely to listen to. i’m not sure how to describe it. he’s just so chill and it’s so comforting
I think it's just that he is very genuine
Yes I know exactly what you mean. I struggle a lot with sleeping, and I fell asleep to one of his videos recently. Which doesn't mean the video was boring, but apparantly my insomniac brain felt comfortable enough with the sound of his voice that I finally fell in a calm sleep, the first in many weeks. How insane that a stranger from Canada just helped me with this terrible life-controlling disorder?
@@anika1883 i've been rewatching let's plays to help me fall asleep for several years. a calm, friendly voice and something to be mildly distracted by seems to really help.
@@liamernst9626 That's very good point. I can lower my guard and enjoy. I have that habit of trying to find out when the other hermits are acting, or being genuine, but with Etho, his acting is either done obviously sarcastic, or pretty transparent. It probably helps my bias, he's shown to be a very genuine person in all his years.
@@emberborn That's so nice! I think I might do so as well, for some reason I sleep way better and way more calmly when my brain is soothed and distracted by Etho's videos.
This series was my childhood, so happy it’s still going : )
The postcom sections are a nice change of pace, and very efficient, but I agree they do feel a bit more impersonal. Personally, I think they’re great to use occasionally, but shouldn’t be overused, and if the editing is a lot more difficult it might often not be worth bothering.
I really like how Etho's editing has improved over the last year, it feels like ever since Hermitcraft S7 he's been getting a lot better at the small details. I've been really enjoying it!
I think it’s in the nature of Etho to always try to improve things to spice it up, else he gets bored. He needs a challenge to be at his best. I think it that’s why he still can play Minecraft and find new stuff to do in it and we are the ones that benefits by the great content.
But to be honest, he could make a video about anything and I would find it interesting. He’s so damn wholesome and likable! 🤩
I love the first part seeing Etho going back to old projects and just do something about it
I loved the "What has Etho Been Up To?" section! I think you'll become more natural with commentary the more you do! I think the section was a good length and I really enjoyed seeing what projects you've been working on! It's been really fun seeing you try new editing and filming techniques! It always reminds me when Zisteau challenged you to an editing battle all those years ago!
He's been doing this for 10 years... at this point it's part of his style at this point
I just finished watching your Terrafirmapunk series, and all of the reasons you went over in finishing the series the way you made total sense. In fact, it's kind of apparent from your last episode in the series that a lot of the quests you checked out were broken, and those you still hadn't had a high chance of being broken, too.
You really did marvelous job with that series; I can't imagine many RUclipsrs making more progress than you did, especially with the limited number of automation or long-range travel options, that I found surprising in a modpack with that many mods. And your love for the basic Terrafirmacraft concepts really came through despite the modpack jankiness. I hope someone puts together a great modpack with a future version of Terrafirmacraft & Minecraft, where these issues are ironed out, and I hope you'll want to pick it up again :)
Yes, the terrafirmacraft series was awesome :)
There actually is an independent game, that is inspired by mc/terrafirmacraft called Vintage Story.
If no new patch for terrafirmacraft comes out in the near future, etho could try it out.
24:19 You got it right honestly. the reason its different sometimes is because in different keys ( A major, F Minor etc..) we use different sets of sharps and flats. And like you said, it helps keep that note in context with all the other notes. its a lot easier to read a sharp, in a key that is filled with sharps, flats with flats etc. Really its just all context based and can change depending on composer, arranger ect.
Hey Etho, can we get a caving Q&A while you light up the caves? It’s been a really long time. Great episode as usual!
I second this
@@phrog9493 I third this.
Solidarity
Etho! If you’re gonna do work on the enderporters, I wanted to suggest using something different than the tripwires! I’m sure you already knew this, but a string of retracting pistons all retract instantly in the same tick. (As in when you have a piston extending a redstone block to power another piston and then unpower the first one, the second will retract at the same time as the first) I used that trick to make enderporters in my world which are actually instant! To cut down on the cost of pistons, I had the piston push 11 honey/slime blocks and a redstone block on the end powering 15 redstone dust leading to the next piston, which then repeats the same configuration. It also works vertically! Hope you see this and it at least have fun thinking about it, have a great day Ergo!
The flats and sharps are basically a way of creating musical grammar. The same audible notes can relate to different harmonies and using sharps/flats helps define what the harmony is. As a basic example: C -> Eb is an interval of a third (counting notes C,D,E), but C -> D# is a second (because it counts only C, D). Despite the end output being identical, the harmony is different - one is a third, the other is a second. This system of intervals is the founding block for chords and keys.
It's kinda like musical homophones.
If you want to understand more, I recommend researching intervals, key signatures & chord harmony. They all link together.
Terminologies:
- going up a "Semitone" is the equivalent of clicking a note block once
- going up a "tone" is the equivalent of clicking a note block twice
- "accidentals": the name for sharps, flats and naturals.
Etho: "Good news everybody, note blocks are actually really simple!"
Proceeds to spend the next 20 minutes talking about music theory, diving into the intricacies and tips and tricks of tempo and the specific methods to translate songs.
If you've ever heard a music nerd talk about the subject, how Etho explained it is actually very simple.
“It’s quite simple, really.”
19:10 You can search specific comments by setting up a filter in RUclips studio. Should be able to type any characters directly into the filter section. Hope this was useful :)
Edit: that was probably the most I've ever learned about music theory. Fascinating stuff! thx for sharing
Would Ctrl+F not do the trick?
I dont think it does because it doesn't load all the comments at once. and also not the replies
@@mxhddr I think the comment filter in youtube studio is better for the uploader than using ctrl+f. But for everyone else, ctrl+f is pretty much the only option.
Maybe RUclips and Google can work together to find a company who have some experience with making search engines
Hi Rek
I always love how Etho always sounds like he’s chilling around a campfire telling us all his stories
I think the editing style works really well! Your post-commentary feels very natural, defo seems like a useful tool to update us on grindier stuff you’ve done. I think a mix of both live commentary and post feels nice
Agreed, the mix of both is the way to go!
24:16 Key signatures. Sometimes it's easier to write a note as a flat or sharp of another note rather than a natural note when working with certain key signatures (e.g. when writing in F# major, it's better to write E# than F when there is already a F#).
it's also important to remember that not every instrument is a fixed pitch instrument. for a piano and fretted instruments, B# is the same as C natural, but this isn't always true. When dealing with choirs, for example, they use on average twice as many pitches per octave as a fixed pitch instrument.
Sound be crazy
yah key signatures is the big one i can think of if you have at the start of the song that all b's are going to be flat you want to avoid writing out natural signs when you can just use a cflat
@@yannilibbes8219 but that's just people getting their notes wrong isn't it? I mean yeah you have to plan for it, but if everyone's really on key and performing well, not sliding their voice, etc it should sound be the same number of pitches as a piano as I understand it.
You can use the natural symbol ♮ for ignoring the key signature for that note (sorry, professional english is not my thing).
I started watching your videos when I was 12, Here I am now watching you play the same single player world in my first apartment on my own at 21.
I loved the intro. It makes me feel more connected to the survival aspect of the world rather than it feel almost like a creative world.
As a musician and an Etho fan, hearing Etho explaining music theory made my day :)
I never properly thanked you for teaching me English way back in like 2014 when I was in my early teens. Today I'm 22 and in my third year in collage. For some reason RUclips recommend me to watch this video and it was really nostalgic! Even if i haven't watched you for many years now I'm still happy for all the joy you brought me back in the days!
Did you just watch RUclips? Anything else to learn English
@@Jordan22220 I went to the swedish elementary school as well. But I had always struggled with English until i started watching English videos that didn't have subtitles.
This episode made me so happy. Loved the recap, I can understand the "loses heart" thought BUT it adds so much more imagery for the world knowing more happenings. Regarding your comment on moving beacons - I personally just never move them. Typically if an area will have any habitation longevity it just gets a beacon planted otherwise I'll just grind it out without one.
Thank you for clarifying about the TFC series Etho. Just to let you know, there are newer modpacks like TechNodeFirmaCraft and Poetica if you ever do wanna start a Season 4, but honestly I am enjoying your LP world and your Season 2 of Etho's Modded Minecraft much more anyways.
Love your content and keep up the amazing work!
TNFC was a lot of fun and far better integrated than TFP was. I hadn't heard of Poetica, but it looks like it could be fun.
yeah ive also played a bit of tnfc, cool how it has a specific objective if you want one but at the same time no quest book.
it'd be really cool to see etho play it too.
Thank you guys those packs sound awesome, i didn't even know about the new 1.12.2 Version of TFC called TerraFirmaCraft : The New Generation or TFC:TNC.
Etho, you should write this on a List somewhere to come back to when your modded series is over. Which i'm enjoying very much btw.
(Yes i totally just wrote that so people that are searching can find this "thread")
PS.: There was a comment further down about a similar standalone game called "Vintage Story"
Thanks Etho, I noticed the difference with the editing at the start and agree with you, it's good for summing progress between episodes but loses the uniqueness that is you! Also thank you for the Terrafirmacraft explanation, really interesting to hear how you feel about it. Looking forward to more LP and modded!
Glad to see the music making a come back. It was the highlight of the Hermit S7 season.
The self destruct setting in a beacon would be AMAZING!
Hey Etho, bit late but i’ve been doing music for almost a decade. Basically, each note can be itself, naturalised, sharpened or flattened. The reason why there are different names for each note (called enharmonic equivalents) is because of the different keys that each contain their own sharps or flats. Each key (B flat major, C sharp minor, F major to name a few) has their own key signature which is how many sharps or flats are in it going up or down an octave. An enharmonic equivalent can also be found as an entire scale (octave); the major keys G sharp and F flat look different but they actually sound the same. There is more to this but I hope this helps, thanks for the great vid as always
Hey etho, kind of tough question:
How long do you see yourself continuing your channel? I have been subbed for almost ten years now, and will continue to watch as long as you keep putting out new content (best channel on youtube!), but I understand that being a content creator online is a new thing of this generation, and the timespan of doing such has not yet been established. Do you see yourself doing this for another ten, twenty, thirty years? I’m all on board for any of the above or more! Keep doing you etho, love the channel!
Great question, I second this^^^
Never really thought this through I guess....very interesting question I like it.
In my opinion, the day we get know when Etho is quitting would be a really sad day, whenever it may be.
I was thinking about it. But it's sad and pointless. Everything around us is changing so fast. Who knows what he decides in a month, a year, ten? And I bet most of us will respect his decision anyway. Snacking with tears in our eyes, remembering all the great times. I hope the feel of seeing that unedited thumbnail and just pure childish joy of clicking it never ends.
Thank you Etho for being a literal part of our lifes. (Still a really hard concept to grasp (try explaining it to someone), but it is how it it)
I don't think there's really a number you can put on it. Etho strikes me as the kind of guy who's gonna keep doing this until it stops being fun for him.
It’s nice to see what you been up to , it’s interesting 👍🏻
I LOVED the post commentary. Not only was it a really nice way to see what you've been up to and your thought process, but it also doubles down on my favorite thing about your Minecraft videos in particular which is the variety! We get to see way more different pieces of the world per video!
Loved the intro section tbh. A lot of the time you just unveil things "Hey I did this off screen!" But if you started every episode with "here's what I did off screen today" then we feel caught up to speed, and can move right along with your regular editing style :)
Maybe so a mix of both? Quick catch up In the beginning, followed by regular stuff?
A good idea would be build the cat powered creeper farm but link it to the nether. The rates are just crazy I built it myself. Over an ocean though
Ghast farms are overall less complicated
@@tobiaswhittaker7462 Not really, ghasts are much more annoying than creepers since they don't stop spawning with light like creepers do, and they are much bigger and harder to build for less gunpowder.
Who wants to mess with transporting cats for a creeper farm, and youve clearly never made a ghast farm before lol, cant really get any simpler. Build portals and spawning floors, ghasts instantly go through portals to an overworld kill chamber. stack layers of portals for increased rates, I built mine in like 20 minutes and get 5k drops/hour
@@tobiaswhittaker7462 They're pretty simple and lame, I doubt it would fit with Etho's play style
@@tobiaswhittaker7462 lol complaining about transporting cats
22:30 etho was kinda right but it’s actually cool how sound waves work in octaves. basically sound waves are actually physical space carried through vibration, so the reason 2 C# notes in different octaves resonate to us is bc the higher C# is simply vibrating at twice the rate the lower C# is. another fun fact the reason we can’t hear frequencies below 20hz is bc the physical space of 20hz is wider than the width of your head, so the frequency can’t resonate between your ears lol
Hey Etho, only been a yearlong fan but I started a world of your modpack and just want to say thanks for being an inspiring, educational, and kind youtuber :). ur great keep doing you!
I did that too!
Doing it as well and having a blast. First serious foray into mod packs other than playing terrafirmapack a long time ago. Enjoying learning all the new options and trying to figure out how to mix and match Create, Immersive Engineering, and Mekanism is very entertaining.
Loved the intro, so nice having a summary! Great editing. Loved having the flowers pop up as you said them haha!
I always come back to this series, it’s a fond memory from my childhood. I’m very happy to see Etho is pulling in the views too! Keep killing it man, forever a fan.
It’s a good episode design. I like it, it opens like a sitcom “what happened last episode “ and you tie it in to what’s happening now.
lol now I'm imagining a "previously on etho plays minecraft" where he attempts to recap the previous 500 episodes…
24:31 To answer this question, I can only think of 1 main reason which is the key signature. All pieces of music have a key signature that automatically determines the sharps and flats for a piece which is generally consistent for most of the piece, and for example if your key signature has Bb, or C#, it allows you to write only a B or C without the signage. Following that, if a the key signature has Bb and you write it as a B, but then you wanted to follow that with a B# in the same bar you have to put the signage on the second B whereas with a regular C you can represent the same note without needing the signage.
Well i think a more simple answer is that you generally want every "letter" only represented once in a key. So if your key has a C in it, you won't have a C# in it, so it has to be a Db.
About the music Sharps and Flats: Every song is in a "Key" which dictates what notes are sharp or flat. Every key must have one of each letter in for the keys' respective scales. For example, the key of C major goes C, D, E, F, G, A, B, C; whereas the key of A major goes A, B, C#, E, F#, G#, A. Our western music scale consists of a pattern that goes by steps, the major scale pattern is Whole, Whole, Half, Whole, Whole Whole, Half. A whole step in two Minecraft pitches and a half step is one.
Hours of work condensed into 8 minutes, nobody else does it like Etho that’s why I still watch! Having not played in years
I sense a new Etho golden age! This editing is amazing, and I love the increase in LP episodes as of recent! :)
Hi Etho! The problem with your ender-porters isn’t related to any changes in render distance, it’s related to your simulation distance setting. That is the setting to change to affect how far the simulation works, and you had it at 12 the entire time there.
That's a relief! Hopefully Etho sees your comment.
Terrafirmacraft, despite all the difficulties you faced while making the episode, was one of the series I loved the most. I really liked the atmosphere. In a similar vein, one of the other series I absolutely adore is Crash Landing. Any plans on playing something similar again? Once you're done with modded land, of course(loving it btw).
Seconded, I really enjoyed terrafirmacraft, though I admit it's very slow, and I can't fault anyone for avoiding terrafirmapunk - that modpack was busted on day one and didn't get better. Crash Landing was very enjoyable as well, and I too would enjoy seeing something similar.
The new commentary was great! It’s nice to know some of the smaller things you do in your world without dedicating too much of the limited time you have. Also when you added the types of flowers in editing was nice I think more of that would be cool
I really like seeing you do small tasks around the world. For me, the "What's Etho been up to?" segment is definitely a keeper! Not necessarily every episode, but sprinkling it in every now and then could be really nice.
24:36 the reason for using 2 of the "same note" has a lot to do with the key it's in. The key may default A and C to A# and C#, so an accidental may be added at some point as a one time change to that particular note
Etho: There's a block missing here for some reason, also Etho: I'll break this block here to get in and not replace it haha
Hello, a music student here, The music alphabet goes to 6, a,b,c,d,e,f,g. So a flat in music is what we call a half step down and a sharp is a half step up. Different instruments play in different octaves. Tubas play a lot lower that a flute. The weird thing is that everything is made of a keyboard so notes for different instruments are different for different instruments. Yea weird. It gets weirder though, because from e to f and b to c is a half step up even though it should be a whole step because there is no sharp or flat. Also instruments are counted in octaves. So you could buy a 2 octave piano or an 8 octave piano. Basically an octave in just going up the alphabet. A,B,C,D,E,F,G,A,B,C,D,E,F,G.
The "What Was Etho Up To?" section was pretty fun. Was like a bonus mini-episode. I wouldn't want that to become the new norm I don't think, but it was a fun addition
Etho is one of the only RUclipsrs that I’ve watched for over 5 years that never gets old, your content is never stale and is very exciting to watch
Finally, after 7 mouths I’ve finally have watched every lets play video (including the ones from 2011)
There were ones from 2010
Hasn't he restarted like 3 times, I remember the good ol days
@@markisler1737 He restarted 1 time
Basically what is happening with the notes is:
If you look on a piano 21:15, between a black and a white key there is a small gap and between two adjacent white keys there is a small gap only if there is no black key between them (like B-C and E-F).
With a sharp "#" you can go up one small gap and with a flat "b" you can go down one small gap.
This is why B# equals C and Cb equals B
About note-naming conventions: you can have every note(name) only once in a scale. If you have a C in it and the next note has to be a semi-tone higher, the next note is not a C# but a Db since you used C already. Even though it is technically the same pitch. Hope this is understandable.
it's more situational than this, but this is generally correct
oh that makes sense
One other reason: In some musical temperament (e.g. Phytagorean), B# and C is not exactly the same. On piano you can only play fixed frequencies, but e.g. on violin, you can play as many as you like.
Check out on Quora: 'What is the difference between B sharp and C natural?'
Lol. Yes, but let's not go too far down the rabbit hole. Note blocks are in equal temperament. No need to confuse everybody by diving this deep.
Hi Etho, you seem like a clever guy, I was wondering if you were ever interested in twisty puzzles like the Rubik's cube or just puzzles in general?
He actually talked about Rubix cubes way way back in comment of the day and said that they are actually super easy to learn and once you know how to do them it is extremely simple to do them over and over again.
I can also do rub cubes and can attest to that fact, once you know how to do it it is actually a super simple system
@@awesomenesschanel I can solve them too, didn't know about his earlier comment, but there are also various other types of twisty puzzles, each completely different, I wonder if hes interested in those
566 episodes and I’ve seen everyone of them for the past however many years this series has been going for world change and everything it is truely amazing keep it up Etho at your own pace of course
5:20 This is the exact mentality Walt Disney had towards Disneyland.
*”Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.”*
In this case, it would be your individual imagination, but the point still stands. He created a world of fantasy, joy, and efficiency, with a devout community. As have you Etho!
Yeah but he died though didnt he
@@Josh-pj7tq most people have
@@andreou2473 Damn. Do you think we will as well??
I really like it when there´s a little plain grindy minecraft in the episodes from time to time. As long as you have stuuff to talk about it´s very calming. I think you are the only one where you even see a cave, nether or end at all. For example i watched the whole season of HC from multiple perspectives and i think the only time i saw anything else but the overworld was when doc build his shulker farm.
4:57 Etho, I don't play minecraft for like 5 years. But I will never stop watching you. I think it's pretty safe to say it's a "you" thing.
Got my snacks, time to end the day right with a good old Etho's bedtime story
I just rewatched his first episode of season 2 and the difference in Ethos charisma is astonishing. He sounds like he's very tired or like he's trying not to wake up roommates in his first episodes.
The post commentary is so great to get through more info because it's more visually interesting
Hey Etho, with the ender porters, did you try upping the Simulation Distance? It's separate to render distance and affects things like entities.
So I've been catching up on Etho's LP videos from the last 2 years (my "Watch Later" queue is a disaster) over the last week or so... and now I have caught up. Now I'm sad that I have to _wait_ for more! I've been watching (intermittently but I'm pretty sure I've seen every episode) since the Man Cave was just getting started. I love the creativity, the variety, the honesty, the quirks, and the genuine talent that shines through and has grown so much over the years. Keep it up, Etho!
24:30 your explanation was actually quite good! Depending on the key of the song, a B# instead of a C (or vice versa) is used because of harmonic reasons (which is a whole other thing). Basically because of how the notes relate to each other.
Also on certain instruments like violin where you can play an infinite range of different notes in between each note, it is often the case that a C and a B sharp are played slightly differently to add emotion to the piece.
@@jamesthomson13 YES GREED! A B# would generally be tuned slightly lower than a C - much music theory required to explain further...
PS - on a modern piano, it makes no difference - a B# and a C are exactly the same note.
@@jq12345678 Indeed . It was the topic of my music teacher's entire PHD in music xD
Wow! This was like 5 episodes of content in one. Great to see you’ve been spending so much time in your world. And great to see so much of it again in one episode!
so you've been playing in the same world for nine years?! i can barely keep in the same world for a few weeks without getting bored. respect
15:36, for whatever reason the Arrow in your nose had me laughing uncontrollably.
Just one hundred more episodes until the next scripted show one. I can’t wait for Herobrine to make an appearance.
EDIT: Also, I noticed the post-commentary. It was helpful. I like it, in small doses anyways; but you do you. They’re your videos, I’m just watching them :)
I like what you did at the beginning. Its something you could do for when you spot something you wanna do or fix but wouldn't fill an entire episode.
566 episodes in and Ethos is still finding ways to try and spice up the editing making of his videos. Love your videos!