#bee flat

[magiciancelemis]

*SLAMS HEAD INTO PILE OF SHEET MUSIC*

crazybryguy, THE MAN HAS A NACK FOR MUSIC

I read the entire notations, derp, over-analyzed the dang joke

[fordfuckpines-blog]

#BEE FLAT#NO

I LOVETHIS ASK MEME ALREADY

[elanorpam]

Please explain the stepping on a bee musical thing to me? ;---; i've seen that post like 10 times and i just don't get it

In english, for whatever reason, all notation is basically guitar tab notation. So the notes start at C and end at B (bear with me here) in this configuration:

Do = C

Re = D

Mi = E

Fa = F

Sol = G

La = A

Si = B

According to my extremely foggy memories of musical theory, back in medieval times the starting note for Some Church Scale in Some Place was the equivalent of La, which the Dudes in Charge then dubbed A. For reasons. It's been 11 years. I'm sorry.

Also, in these such Places, the sostenido was called sharp and the bemol was called flat. For reasons I don't fucking know either. How is a sostenido sharp? It's just half a tone above, at least the linguistical root of the word sostenido makes a scrap of sense in context. Mind you, I don't think anyone knows what a bemol actually is, so. You got me, anglo-saxon-germanic musical notation. You got me good.

So the joke is that in english, a Si Bemol would be pronounced a B-flat. Which is just like if you walked on a bee and flattened it under your shoe. B-flat. Bee flat.

Wow.