Ethan Teaches You Music Podcast

Paid subscribers get notated transcriptions and other musicological goodies Music in this episode: John Coltrane - “Giant Steps” (1960) Miles Davis - “Blues By Five” (1957) Thelonious Monk & John Coltrane - “Nutty” (1957) John Coltrane - “Moment’s Notice” (1958) Miles Davis - “Milestones” (1958) Miles Davis - “So What” (1959) John Coltrane - “Countdown” (1960) John Coltrane - “Cousin Mary” (1960)...

Paid subscribers get notated transcriptions and other musicological extras Music appearing in this episode: Talking Heads - “Once in a Lifetime” (1980) Talking Heads - "Don't Worry About the Government" (1977) Talking Heads - "Take Me To The River" (1978) Fela Kuti - “Zombie” (1976) Talking Heads - “Right Start (Unfinished Outtake)” (2006) Robert Palmer - “Addicted to Love” (1985) Talking Heads -...

Subscribers get notated transcriptions, guitar tab and other goodies Music in this episode: Björk - "Bachelorette" (1997) Björk - "Human Behaviour" (1993) Björk - "Isobel" (1995) Aubrey Ghent and Friends - "There Is A Fountain Filled With Blood" (1997) Carlos Di Sarli - "Indio Manso" (1958) Astor Piazzolla - "La Milonga del Angel" performed by Fabio Furia (2014) Björk - "Oceania" (2004) Müslüm Gür...

Paid subscribers get notated transcriptions and other musicological resources . Music in this episode: Björk - "Jóga" (1997) Björk - "Arisen My Senses" (2017) (I describe it as using flutes, I meant harp; the rest of the album is full of flutes though) (Also it was released 20 years after Homogenic, not 30, my editor is so fired) (My editor is me unfortunately) Deodato - “Thus Spoke Zarathustra (2...

Paid subscribers get transcriptions and extra musicological analysis . Music in this episode: Glen Campbell - “Wichita Lineman” (1968) The Beach Boys - "Hang On To Your Ego" (1966) Merle Haggard - “Mama Tried” (1968) Glen Campbell - "By The Time I Get To Phoenix" (1967) The Who - “Baba O’Riley” (1971) Patsy Cline - "Crazy" (1961) Johnny Horton - “Honky-Tonk Hardwood Floor” (1957) Dee Felice Trio -...

Paid subscribers get notated charts and other musicological goodies . Music in this episode: INXS - “Need You Tonight” (1987) Psyche - “Unveiling The Secret” (1986) Mr Fingers - “Washing Machine” (1986) Queen - “Another One Bites The Dust” (1980) The Beatles - "Piggies" (1968) Bonnie Raitt - “Need You Tonight” (2016) Vitamin String Quartet - “Need You Tonight” (2006) - after recording, I learned f...

New thing I’m trying: paid subscribers get extra bonus content like notated transcriptions and guitar tab Music in this episode: T-Bone Walker - "Call It Stormy Monday (But Tuesday’s Just As Bad)" (1947) T-Bone Walker - "Mean Old World" (1942) Charlie Christian - "Air Mail Special" (1941) Charlie Christian - "Solo Flight" (1941) Bobby "Blue" Bland - "Stormy Monday Blues" (1961) The Allman Brothers...

Music appearing in this episode: Paul Simon - "You Can Call Me Al" (1986) Paul Simon - "Diamonds On the Soles of Her Shoes (Alternate Unreleased Version)" (2012) Bakithi Kumalo - unknown titles (2019) Stimela - "Say Say No" (1984) Talking Heads - "Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On)" (1980) Mickey Hart ft. Jerry Garcia - "The Eliminators" (1990) Mpharanyana and The Cannibals - "Hlotse" (1978) La...

Music appearing in this episode: Simon & Garfunkel - "Bridge Over Troubled Water" (1970) JS Bach - St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244 - O Haupt Voll Blut Und Wunden (1727) Paul Simon - "American Tune" (1973) The Swan Silvertones - "Oh Mary Don't You Weep" (1959) Paul Simon - "Loves Me Like a Rock" (1973) Aretha Franklin - "Bridge Over Troubled Water" (Live at Fillmore West, San Francisco, February 5, 19...

Music appearing in this episode: Otis Redding - "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay" (1967) Otis Redding - "Try a Little Tenderness" (1966) Elizabeth Cotten - "Freight Train" (1958) Mongo Santamaría - "Sitting on the Dock of the Bay" (1968) Peggy Lee - "Dock Of The Bay" (1969) DJ Shadow - "Mellow But Chunky" (2012) World Saxophone Quartet - "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay" (1989) De La Soul - "Eye...

Hear a DJ mix I made that includes most of the tracks referenced in this episode. The tracks: Herbie Hancock - "Rockit" (1983) Miles Davis - "Freedom Jazz Dance" (1967) Herbie Hancock - "Maiden Voyage" (1965) Miles Davis - “Shhh/Peaceful” (1969) Herbie Hancock - "Chameleon" (1973) Herbie Hancock - "I Thought It Was You" (1978) Material ft. Nona Hendryx - "Take A Chance" (1982) Malcolm McLaren - "B...

Music in this episode: De La Soul - "Eye Know" (1989) Mad Lads - "Make This Young Lady Mine" (1969) Lee Dorsey - "Get Out Of My Life, Woman" (1967) Sly and the Family Stone - "Sing a Simple Song" (1969) Steely Dan - "Peg" (1977) Otis Redding - "(Sittin' on) The Dock of the Bay" (1967) Hear a DJ-style mix I made of these tracks: Read more about Philip Tagg’s concept of “one-chord changes” . Read mo...

Music in this episode: Barbecue Bob - "Mississippi Heavy Water Blues" (1927) Charlie Patton - "High Water Everywhere, Pt 1" (1929) Memphis Minnie & Kansas Joe McCoy - "When the Levee Breaks" (1929) Led Zeppelin - "If It Keeps On Raining (Rough Mix)" (1971) Led Zeppelin - "When the Levee Breaks" (1971) Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - "When The Levee Breaks" (2024) Beastie Boys - "Rhymin' and Stealin...

Music in this episode: The Beatles - "She Said She Said" (1966) The Beatles - "Hey Jude" (1968) The Grateful Dead - "Morning Dew" (1972) Lorde - "Royals" (2013) The Beatles - "Here Comes The Sun" (1969) The Rolling Stones - "Jumpin' Jack Flash" (1968) Melanie Safka - "People in the Front Row" (1968) The Beatles - "A Day in the Life" (1967) Jimi Hendrix - "Hey Joe" (1967) Al Green - "Take Me To The...

Music in this episode: Gloria Gaynor - "I Will Survive" (1978) The Beatles - "You Never Give Me Your Money" (1969) JS Bach - Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F Major, BWV 1047 - I. Allegro (1721) performed by Henryk Szeryng, Sir Neville Marriner, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Michala Petri, Heinz Holliger & André Bernard JS Bach - Partita No. 2 In D Minor, BWV 1004 V. Ciaconna (c. 1720) perform...

This episode includes an excerpt of Miles Okazaki’s video on tuning a guitar using harmonics. It also includes synthesized versions of three excerpts of pieces by JS Bach, which I tempo-mapped to the following recordings: Glenn Gould - Goldberg Variations BWV 988 - Aria (1741) Glenn Gould - Sinfonia No. 9 in F Minor, BWV 795 (1723) Angela Hewitt - The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080: Contrapunctus I Other...

This episode features Glenn Gould's 1963 recording of Johann Sebastien Bach's Prelude No. 1 in C Major from The Well-Tempered Clavier Book I, BWV 846 (1722). I also tempo-mapped Gould's performances of other WTC preludes and used them for the tempos of the MIDI versions of the various movements. A small correction: I say in the episode that five-limit just intonation is the basis for Western Europ...

Music in this episode: Herbie Hancock - "Watermelon Man" (Takin' Off, 1962) Mongo Santamaría - "Watermelon Man" (1963) Poncho Sanchez - "Watermelon Man" (1999) Johnny Taylor - "Watermelon Man" (1967) Herbie Hancock - "Watermelon Man" (Headhunters, 1973) Simha Aron & Geneviève Taurelle - "Hindewhu (Whistle) Solo" (The Music of the Ba-Benzélé Pygmies, 1966) Digable Planets - "Escapism (Gettin' Free)...

Music in this episode: James Brown - "Funky Drummer (Part One and Two)" (1969) James Brown - "Funky Drummer Bonus Beat Reprise" (1986) Eric B and Rakim - "Lyrics of Fury" (1988) Ultramagnetic MCs - "Give the Drummer Some" (1988) Public Enemy - "Fight the Power" (1989) Beastie Boys - "Shadrach" (1989) LL Cool J - "Mama Said Knock You Out" (1990) Sinéad O'Connor - "I Am Stretched on Your Grave" (199...

Music included in this episode: Vassily Kalinnikov - Symphony No. 1 in G Minor - II. Andante comodamente (1895) The Beatles - “In My Life” (1965) Willie Nelson - "I'd Have To Be Crazy" (1976) Lauryn Hill - "Can't Take My Eyes Off of You" (1998) (Update: a commenter pointed out that my analysis here accurately describes the original Frankie Valli version, but Lauryn Hill uses the minor iv chord in...

Music appearing in this episode: Ella Fitzgerald - "It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)" (1957) Piotr Tchaikovsky - "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy" (1892) The Duke Ellington Orchestra - "Sugar Rum Cherry (Dance Of The Sugar-Plum Fairy)" (1960) JS Bach - Concerto for 2 Violins in D Minor, BWV 1043 I. Vivace (c. 1730) Django Reinhardt, Stéphane Grappelli & Eddie South - "Improvisation...

Music appearing in this episode: Skip James - "Devil Got My Woman" (1931) Robert Johnson - "Kindhearted Woman Blues" (1936) Charlie Christian - "Waiting for Benny" (1941) Duke Ellington - "Far Away Blues" (1946) John Lee Hooker - "Boogie Chillen" (1948) Little Walter Jacobs - "Juke" (1952) Muddy Waters - "Standing Around Crying" (1952) The Osborne Brothers - "Ruby" (1957) Thelonious Monk - "Functi...

Tracks featured in this episode: “You Are My Sunshine” by the Pine Ridge Boys (1939) “You Are My Sunshine” by Ray Charles (1962) Read more about Ray’s arrangement and see a transcription here . Read more about Black artists in country here . Get full access to Ethan teaches you music at ethanhein.substack.com/subscribe

In this episode, I use “Don’t You Worry ‘Bout A Thing” by Stevie Wonder (1973) as a jumping off point to contemplate the headache of naming notes and chords in keys with a lot of flats and sharps in them. The confusion stems from the fact that Western European note naming conventions got established in a time before twelve-tone equal temperament, when E-flat and D-sharp were two very different not...

There’s a particular passage in one of McCoy Tyner’s piano solos with John Coltrane that I adore. In his right hand, McCoy is playing the blues. In his left hand, he is playing a mysterious chord. This episode is about that chord. The music you hear at the beginning and end is an original track of mine called “Voice Leading.” Other pieces of music discussed, in order of appearance: “Lonnie’s Lamen...