The Power Of The Mu Chord

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Peter Martin

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🗓️ 23 March 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Adam and Peter let you in on a little secret they'd like to call The "Mu" Chord. Check out what that might be in this episode.

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0:00.0	Hey Peter.
0:01.8	Yep.
0:02.3	Today we're going to be talking about one of the most sophisticated,
0:05.2	intelligent, complex, deeply spiritual, harmonic concepts available to us as modern musicians.
0:13.1	Wow.
0:13.7	What chord is this?
0:14.8	Mm-hmm.
0:16.9	Ah!
0:17.0	Mm-hmm. I'm at a minute.
0:33.3	A little reprise there.
0:35.4	I'm Peter Martin.
0:36.1	And you're listening to the you'll hear it podcast. Music advice and cattle coming at. Is that a cattle call by the chance? It is a cow sound effect. This is, by the way, this is an open studio podcast in case you didn't know. So, yeah. But we are today are going to be talking to... Sponsored by the Missouri Farm Board.
0:55.6	I wish we had that Missouri Farm Board money.
0:58.9	Oh, come on now.
0:59.5	Come on now.
1:00.4	No, today we're going to be talking about a couple of different things, but I wanted to talk about the power of the moo cord.
1:07.5	Well, this is very interesting, very topical, and something I don't really understand. So this is going to be what they call an explainer video or explainer podcast. So first of all, do you know anything about the moot chord? No, I don't know about the, I mean, I know it's, is that a moon chord? It's a mu major. I know how to play it. Yeah. Is that still with the third to? Still with the third. I usually do it without the third.
1:28.4	The third on the bottom. So, and we're spelling moo, not as a cow, but as M.U. And it actually, the term itself, uh, the legend has it is it was coined by, uh, are you reading from Wikipedia right now? No, not at all. Uh, Steely Dan's Donald Fagan and Walter Becker.
1:25.9	And it talks about a very specific kind of shape. Are you reading from Wikipedia right now? No, not at all. Steely Dan's Donald Fagan and Walter Becker.
1:45.1	And it talks about a very specific kind of shape.
1:48.4	And it's a beautiful shape that gets used in all kinds of music.
1:51.4	And we've been doing some short videos, short content pieces about sort of, we've been doing moo adjacent things.
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