Chords for Vocal Coach Reaction to Pentatonix - Evolution of Music

Yo, what's good Tristans and Tristfam?
So today we're gonna be checking out Pentatonix Evolution of Music.
Y'all have asked me to react to Pentatonix for a long, long time now, and I remember watching this
specific video several years ago, and I really haven't watched it since, so I'd really love to
check it out with you guys and react to it from the perspective of a vocal coach and someone who
has gone through way more music history classes than I can remember, because I was asleep.
Just
kidding.
I actually really like music history, so let's see what I can dig up from my college years
of music history and see if I can give some context and an analysis of the vocals of this
Evolution of Music video by Pentatonix.
So this is going to start out in the 11th century,
and 11th century music was very plain, monotone, and it was mostly done in church.
Let's see if _
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_ _ [G] _ [N] voice is okay.
It was mostly church music. _ _
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11th century music was much more
monotone and just straight, and then as music progressed they started adding more harmonies.
All the different singers would sing different lines and different rhythms and stuff like that,
so music got a little bit more [E] interesting.
11th century music is kind of boring by a lot of today's
standards.
I like it, but some people might think it's boring because it was meant to just praise.
It was meant to praise God.
It's not supposed to have all this flash and pizzazz.
It's supposed to
sound epic.
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_ [C] So they skipped really, really quickly there from [Gb] _
medieval era up until
the 1900s.
So as we hear the microphone become more and more prominent, the music is going to drastically [G] change.
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_ _ _ _ [G] Very jazz. _
This is like pre-rock.
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_ _ _ _ _ _ Oh my god, his voice is so good.
[C] Wow.
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[Ab] Some people call him a baritone, but I think that they only think that he's a baritone
compared to Mitch because he's still very much a tenor.
Mitch is just a high [D] tenor. _ _ _ _ _ _
Oh that's cool, the color starts to [G] come in.
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So the music has definitely gotten like sassier as it's gone on.
I don't know if that's just their
music choice, but that's interesting to hear. _ _ _
Wow, [Gm] she's such a good singer. _ _ _ _
_ _ [Eb] And their blend is amazing. _ _
[D] _ _ [G] _ 1970s.
Music [Ebm] of the 1970s was very [G] bombastic
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and complex.
Like it [G] was incredibly complex.
And then it gets more simple as the 80s come around.
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And [N] then the 90s was dominated by boy bands. _ _
And you know what's actually kind of disappointing is like music history in college, and part of the
reason why it was kind of lame is like they didn't, it was like so little time was dedicated
to modern music.
I took music history classes at several different schools and most of what we
focused on was freaking Gregorian, the ancient texts, the classical, the romantic, blah blah blah.
And then when it came to like modern music it was just sort of brushed aside.
It was like oh yeah
and all and then modern music this happened.
But like so much has actually happened in the last
hundred years of modern music it's ridiculous.
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[F] Iconic.
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_ [C] Music from the 90s into the 2000s changed so much.
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_ _ [Gm] _ _ _ [E] Starting to sound much more modern very slowly here.
[A] _ _ _ _ Ooh, classic [Ab] Gaga.
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_ Just me, we like to [Db] find so much of modern pop [Ab] music as much as people don't like to hear that.
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Oh, call me _ _ maybe. _ _
Hey guys, thanks so much for watching our medley of some of our favorite songs throughout history.
Sorry if we left out one of your favorite artists.
Throughout history. _ _
Sorry that's only funny because they definitely only focused, I didn't expect for that to happen, I forgot.
They definitely only focused on the last hundred years and when there's like 2,000 years of music.
I wish that my music history teachers would use this song as like an example and used it to like
teach primarily modern music because there's like they did such a good job capturing all the different
sounds from all the different eras.
Like they did a really good job making everything sound super
distinct and different while still having a sound that is very modern, do you know what I mean?
Because like 1920s music is pretty boring by today's standards to most people but they still
made it sound super modern and of course their vocals are always on point.
I would love, I've
heard lots of Mitch Grassi, I don't know the name of the guy in the middle.
I'd love to hear more
from him, more of the girl and then there's a bass and then there's a drummer, a drum dude, a beatboxer.
So I would love to hear more from all of them.
If any of them have like solo stuff out I would
love to check it out.
Feel free to drop that down in the comments.
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youcansinganything.com. Until next time Tristan's and Tristfam, peace out. _
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