The Music Theory of CBAT (the reddit guy song)

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0:00 Intro
1:08 Part I - the music theory
4:18 Part II - rhythm and pulse
7:40 Part III - putting cbat to the test

Hudson Mohawke - Cbat

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[AdamNeely]

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[AlbornozVEVO]

"CBAT is a microtonal reharmonization of All I Want for Christmas is You" is the wildest sentence spoken so far this year.

[etruskin]

when you said "putting cbat to the test" i thought the video would take a WAYY different turn.

[communismwithgiggles]

“She recognized the rhythm and asked me to stop.”
I have never been so devastated at laughing at a sentence in my life.

[savlecz]

Not gonna lie, when Adam said "putting CBAT to the test", I expected a different story than a band concert.

[McKeelix]

I’d say it’s a little more like an auditory loss.jpg than a rickroll. It’s simple enough to sneak into compositions without sounding out of place, yet distinct enough that you recognize it almost immediately. I honestly hope this meme sticks around the way rickrolls and loss memes have; it has a lot of creative potential.

[thomasgadd]

I don't know if Adam realizes that when he says CBAT will be a rhythmic rickroll, it automatically means that now CBAT's fate is to become a rhythmic rickroll

[obquixote]

“She recognized this and asked me to stop.” I had to pause and take off my glasses I laughed so hard.

[ellendegenerate]

This sounds like a song you’d hear in a horror movie while the characters are going through a psychedelic clown maze

[brynnjohnson]

Can confirm the usage of CBAT as a rhythmic rickroll - my choir director used it as a rhythm exercise during rehearsals at one point and no one realized until it was too late.

[kywarrior]

imagine the feelings of that girlfriend dumping the guy and trying to escape this 2 year nightmare just to encounter later her weekly (or daily) torture have became a popular meme

[RobotSavetheworld]

One thing that i think gets overlooked in the whole CBat phenomenon is that I'm almost sure the "annoying synth line" is actually an audio sample, in this case, the sound of a very squeaky door. The reason why that's important is that there's been a history of using a sample of the sound of "squeaking bed springs" in hip hop and trap music, for obvious suggestive intentions. It was first used in Trillville's "Some Cut" and spread throughout the late 2000s hip hop scene, making it all the way to Columbia and even Boyband Kpop. I think whoever was using this song for coitus was probably taking a cue from those tracks that used the rhythmic squeak of bedsprings to drive their beats and their sex appeal, but didn't consider that CBat's sample is less like an old bed getting a raunchy workout, and more like a clown falling down an up escalator.

[Robert_DROP_TABLE_students--]

seeing if a sungazer audience can pick up a rhythm and then declaring it "entrainable" has got to be the most egregious case of sample bias i have ever seen

[MnilinM]

Note: The Sungazer audience wasn't headbanging to the rhythm of the melody... They moved to the beat.

[GabeMillerMusic]

7:59 Two months later, audiences going HAM over an overly intense cover of cbat is still as glorious as it is hilarious.

[cameronmoore]

I am 100% convinced that the "synth" sound is actually a sample of a door creaking.

[CapslockGoD]

"Nothing to get you more in the mood than the screams of an infant" - Those are some metal lyrics

[StevenC]

Adam Neely Drinking Game: take a shot every time Balkan rhythms are mentioned

[mongarcia]

That mixture of CBAT and The Lick caught me off-guard, I laughed way harder than normal

[Hallwo_]

Hearing CBAT get mangled into the lick sent me into a state of shock, like I got my soul forcibly yanked out of my body