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Okay so this is the tritone.

We're hanging out at our place with Kat, Damer's best friend and an amazing composer.

Can you just give us a little explanation of what that actually is?

Yeah, totally. So the tritone is actually comprised of the most dissonant interval in Western music.

It's the diminished fifth and essentially it was so dissonant that the Catholic Church banned it from music.

I mean, you have to think, like, this was way back in the day,

like, you know, single digit centuries, early teen centuries,

and all music at that time was was sacred so you know how could you

worship any God with such a dissident tone they actually even called it the

devil's tone and in Latin it's Diabolos and

Musica or whatever but it's pretty serious.

Moo kind of grading right? But you know actually the thing I find most

interesting about the tritone is the diminished fifth, the tritone,

actually finds itself between two perfect intervals, the perfect fourth and the perfect fifth.

And then let me explain the reason thank you yeah I see that glazed look in your eye yeah yeah

Basically the reason those intervals are deemed you know perfect is because the frequency

ratio is exact it's it's perfect and the diminished fifth you know is just a half

step above a perfect fourth and just a half step below the perfect

fifth.

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