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0:00 Mission Impossible.
2:14 YYZ.
3:46 SOS.
5:04 The Beatles.
5:44 Syntax in Morse Code.
7:20 Sanctuary.
8:27 Colombian Military Secret Message.
9:42 Kraftwerk.
10:07 Gorillaz.
10:25 Inspector Morse.
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I think David ran out of chords progressions
I think he can write his owe at this point..if he wants to.
He knows all 12 note works and you can alter any of those chords degree to any type of chords.
It’s educating the masses in digustable chunks…without 3 degree in music theory.
it requires alot of RESEARCH, WORK and effort. I couldnt listen to some of the songs he uses as REFERENCE.
Being an educator isnt always easy..I dont have that patients…I’d probably tell 99% students to get BENT !!!! 😂
I would never have thought of using Morse code to write melodies. It’s a cool idea
I wrote one a while back, and it works rather well. Not going to say what, because it’s an unreleased song, and I don’t want someone to come swipe my idea. The pauses are tough to get accurate. But it is a little easier to do in a fast rhythm, so the riff doesn’t feel too plodding and clunky. Another trick I used is to use a tight bass drum on the dashes and a tom on the dots.
I once did it in a song and built the whole time signature around it as well
Honorable mention to Starlight by Muse, where the claps spell out T I T S, which may or may not be accidental 😅
😅😂
this was my first thought when i saw the video title. apparently, it wasn’t intentional, but the band members all found it hilarious when told, and would even bring it up in interviews!!
I was just about to comment the same thing!
I was just about to comment that same thing xD
@cherrycolouredx Sounds like they were a-mused.
There was a popular 1970s sitcom theme tune on the BBC with a piccolo playing the morse code sequence S-O-M-E-M-O-T-H-E-R-S-D-O-A-V-E-E-M. I can’t remember which one that might have been.
Im pretty sure thats the show’s name in morse code
I thought of that show as soon as I began watching this video.
@morpethian956Me too! Apparently it was written to a very tight deadline for £50.
I was genuinely surprised David didn’t include this. His knowledge is pretty broad and this is such a great example. I heard the composer was a morse operator in the war and automatically started tapping it out, when he realised it sounded cool.
@penguinguy1814I’m pretty sure the OP knows that and is joking.
CYANIDE by METALLICA opens with Accents spelling out SOS
Speaking of Metallica, I’ve heard “One” is supposed to use Morse code, but I could never quite find it.
@talroitberg5913 Maybe the double bass spells out aaaaaaaaaaaaaa
@talroitberg5913 I don’t know about the song, but the music video where the band is headbanging IS morse code from the movie the song is based on called Johnny Get Your Gun. It spells out “Kill me”
Yep, think it also has it once after each chorus, and maybe at the end as well, it’s been a bit since I last heard it, so I could be wrong
@talroitberg5913 There’s no morse code in One, even though it would make sense if there was, and so some people say there’s “SOS” hidden there (It’s not) some others say there’s a “Kill me” hidden there in morse (Couldn’t find that either).
However, Cyanide is very intentional.
Mike Oldfield inserted a “F*ck off RB” message in morse code in Amarok. RB standing for Richard Branson.
Maybe so, but if Branson got him back for it, it would been his ‘remorse’ code. Ha!
You beat me to it!
that album was a wild one
I know that Oldfield and Branson started Virgin records and that Branson is a billionaire and Oldfield isn’t but I don’t know much of the rest of the story.
@FrahamenMy understanding is that Virgin wanted to force him down the path of writing pop songs (see Discovery, Islands and Earth Moving). He had one album left in his contract and that was Amarok (where the morse code features). That album is one track 60 minutes long and impossible to extract any kind of 7″ single from. Only fly in that theory is Heaven’s Open came after on Virgin as his last contracted album with them at that time.
funny how the dashes are DOTTED quarter notes.
and the dots *aren’t* xD
Dashes (properly called dahs) are supposed to be three times as long as dots (properly called dits).
yeah should’ve been dashed quarter notes innit
Not only did Barrington Pheloung spell out MORSE in his music for Inspector Morse he would also, in later episodes, give spoilers (and red herrings) to the killer’s identity. In the final episode he reveals Morse’s first name – Endeavour – which had always been a mystery.
Cool!!!
Yes, I love that they did that
I had heard that was true, but I never heard that much of a difference in the episodes theme.
@RickDeevey I don’t know where he was able to sneak them in, but he wrote many, many hours of original music for Morse (30+ episodes) and Lewis (40+). I think you’d have to have an ear finely attuned to both music and Morse code to spot them. I do not 😥
If I had to take a guess, it would be during the opening credits: Morse’s theme would be the same, but as the guest star(s) are introduced with a quick scene and their name in that iconic white-on-black text, that would be the place to drop a musical hint.
The funny thing is that the theme has to be played accurately, or you make typos! I’ve heard covers spell MOSSE or MEIRSE or just gibberish because the rhythm was off.
The Propellerheads version of On Her Majesty’s Secret Service has OHMSS in morse as the opening.
OMG YES
Actually near the end, too
Came here to post this ❤
Beethoven’s 5th symphony/ The 4 note motif is the Morse letter V. This led to its use in wartime broadcasts, Victory V. And this led to its use in the final minutes of “Supper’s Ready” by Genesis.
I think I read this in “V for Vendetta”. Of course, Beethoven’s 5th symphony predates the invention of Morse code, so he didn’t use it intentionally. Still, what a great coincidence!
This is a coincidence, as Morse code didn’t exist when it was written
As highlighted in the theme throughout the film ‘the longest day’
And to take the coincidence one step further, V is Roman for 5, the symphony number.
My understanding is that the assigning of dots and dashes to the letters was done on the basis of how frequently a letter appeared in some sort of averaged-out text, with the most frequently used letters getting the simplest code. That’s why “E” and “T” are a just a single dot and a dash respectively while the least used lettters get a combination of four dots or dashes. It all saves time when you’re tapping out a message. The connection between Beethoven’s Vth and the letter “V” is purely coincidental.
I’m an amateur radio operator. The hams who can do Morse the fastest — speeds at >35 words per minute — are hearing entire words, not letters. It’s a rhythmic language.
It’s just like written language in that way. Children start by learning to read words letter by letter, then gain the skill of reading whole words at once.
My dad’s friend was a ham radio operator and he was very quick with morse code. I don’t recall any of the spacing that David talked about in the video. To my ear it was continuous. Is that what it’s like at the advanced levels?
@martinedwards2004 Since the gaps are generally the same size as the signals themselves, at fast enough speeds it can get hard to distinguish
@martinedwards2004 I think the spacing’s more approximated after a point.
Of course you’d use em…dashes.
The Neil Cicierega song “Piss” (from Mouth Silence) has morse code in the bridge that spells out “Somebody once told me.” Missed opportunity for it to have been “All that glimmers is gold,” tho.
was hoping someone was gonna mention this
I GET KNOCKED DOWN
I love the mouth series so much I’ve listened to all of them 3 times over
@The_Phoenix225 Those are rookie numbers. Don’t wanna see my hand where my hand be at
I clicked this video specifically to locate (or make) this comment.
The song “The Tide Is Turning” from Roger Waters’ concept album Radio K.A.O.S. has a literal Morse code backdrop. It’s a verse the studio heads wouldn’t let him put in the song, so he snuck it in anyway.
Dude
That colombian one might just be the coolest thing ive ever seen, absolutely genius of the military to do that
😊😊
Reminds me of the US soldier in Vietnam who blinked out a distress message on television while imprisoned in a Viet Cong camp.
Lucifer by The Alan Parsons Project
The online game RuneScape has a song that plays in a viking-themed area called “Norse Code” and the main flute melody spells the word RuneScape in morse code.
I’ve played RS since 2005 and never knew this 🤣
What is this, an episode of *generic day tv show*?
I will have to log in and check that out! 🎉
… . .-. .. — ..- … .-.. -.– / -.-. — — .-.. / …- .. -.. . — / -.. .- …- .. -.. -.-.– / .-. . .- .-.. .-.. -.– / . -. .— — -.– . -.. / – …. .. … / — -. . .-.-.-
(Translate from Morse ↓)
Seriously cool video David! Really enjoyed this one.
Thanks Tim! Happy Christmas 😊
@DavidBennettPiano you too! .- -. -.. / .- / …- . .-. -.– / …. .- .–. .–. -.– / -. . .– / -.– . .- .-.
Nice seeing you here, Tim! It makes total sense that you’d also watch David, but it’s still a nice surprise when two YouTubers I follow interact.
Happy Christmas to you both!
@TheTimTraveller”And a very happy new year”
2003 Battlestar Galactica Theme.
I love the fact that the Mission Impossible theme is just going “mimimimimimimimimimimimimimimimi” the whole time
Suits Tom Cruise down to the ground then.
You mean like Beaker from The Muppet Show, then?
M=Mission and I=Impossible.
@Enbeecutee2011yes, I’m aware
nah, its just “zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz”
I wrote a metal song once that has 2 lyrics: The sung ones and ones in morse code, represented by the rhythm guitar and bass. The idea came to me when I saw another one of these dumb “hidden satanic messages in rock” videos and just thought: well, let’s give them what they already think is there!
Wrote some dumb, cliche lyrics, put them into a text-to-morse tool that creates midi files and loaded that into the notation software. Wasn’t as flawless of a process as it may sound, but a decent starting point.
wtf ??? I listen to Highway to Hell, 666 number of the beast, Evil Woman ( ELO)…Forward
Full diminished…aka Devil’s intervals..it dose sound evil depending how you play it…
Hell…I can make anything sound evil (just ask my ex wife)
She sounded like an angel that save my soul when we first met…..
She sounded like the most evil wicked witch of a biotch, from north and south…when we got a divorced.
My favorite example is from The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. For context, there were four Champions who piloted mechs called Divine Beasts to fight Calamity Ganon, but each of them were killed inside the Beasts by him. In each of the Divine Beast’s themes, you can hear different Morse code messages: SOS and SAD (which people theorize stands for Seek And Destroy, probably a message from Ganon to each of the Blights he sent to kill the Champions). The order and the spot in the songs where these messages appear varies to reflect the personalities of each of the Champions inside. My favorite one is how the SOS sent by Revali, the cocky and overconfident one, appeared the latest compared to the other themes and is more frantic than the rest. It’s a haunting detail that adds to how tragic this game is.
Hey, pretty nice, man! Kudos!
Thanks ❤