https://yokaimusic.com/en/blog Music knowledge, notes and original music — the Yokai Music blog. en https://yokaimusic.com/en/blog/intervals-basics https://yokaimusic.com/en/blog/intervals-basics Sat, 11 Jul 2026 10:00:00 GMT Music's brightness, darkness and tension aren't born from a single note but from the distance between two. From how to count intervals to the major third, perfect fifth and tritone — learned by ear through melodies you already know. https://yokaimusic.com/en/blog/why-do-re-mi https://yokaimusic.com/en/blog/why-do-re-mi Sat, 11 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT Do-re-mi-fa-sol-la-ti-do isn't a rule someone invented — it's an answer that sound itself worked out first. We follow the octave, the perfect fifth and the harmonic series to hear *why* it had to be these seven notes. https://yokaimusic.com/en/blog/hiphop-instruments https://yokaimusic.com/en/blog/hiphop-instruments Fri, 03 Jul 2026 12:30:00 GMT Hip-hop's 'instruments' are a little different — not things you play, but tools that build the beat: turntables, the 808 drum machine, the MPC sampler, the synth, and finally the voice on top. Hear each one, one video at a time. https://yokaimusic.com/en/blog/jazz-instruments https://yokaimusic.com/en/blog/jazz-instruments Fri, 03 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT Meet the instruments of jazz one by one, each with a video. From the singing horns of the front line (sax, trumpet, trombone, clarinet) to the rhythm section that holds it all up (piano, bass, drums, guitar) — hearing them makes it click. https://yokaimusic.com/en/blog/hiphop-essentials https://yokaimusic.com/en/blog/hiphop-essentials Tue, 30 Jun 2026 15:00:00 GMT A fresh set of classics that our 6-part History of Hip-Hop never got to — 21 tracks from old school to trap, in chronological order. Just hit play from the top and 40 years of hip-hop rolls by. https://yokaimusic.com/en/blog/hiphop-history-6 https://yokaimusic.com/en/blog/hiphop-history-6 Tue, 30 Jun 2026 14:00:00 GMT "Trap" out of Atlanta becomes the world's default sound and streaming changes everything from the 2010s on. The music born on a Bronx street finally becomes the biggest genre on the planet. https://yokaimusic.com/en/blog/hiphop-history-5 https://yokaimusic.com/en/blog/hiphop-history-5 Tue, 30 Jun 2026 13:00:00 GMT The long-dismissed South rises as hip-hop's new center, and hip-hop finally conquers the global pop charts in the 2000s — the era when producers became stars, too. https://yokaimusic.com/en/blog/hiphop-history-4 https://yokaimusic.com/en/blog/hiphop-history-4 Tue, 30 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT The mellow G-Funk of the West and the rough, dense boom bap of the East collided head-on in the 1990s — the hottest, and most painful, era in hip-hop history. https://yokaimusic.com/en/blog/hiphop-history-3 https://yokaimusic.com/en/blog/hiphop-history-3 Tue, 30 Jun 2026 11:00:00 GMT From political messages to street reality to jazz-smooth sound — every style bloomed at once in the Golden Age. Hip-hop at its most colorful and daring. https://yokaimusic.com/en/blog/hiphop-history-2 https://yokaimusic.com/en/blog/hiphop-history-2 Tue, 30 Jun 2026 10:00:00 GMT Drum machines and samplers arrive, hip-hop shakes hands with rock and conquers MTV, and rap technique explodes — the 1980s laid the foundation of "boom bap." https://yokaimusic.com/en/blog/hiphop-history-1 https://yokaimusic.com/en/blog/hiphop-history-1 Tue, 30 Jun 2026 09:00:00 GMT Hip-hop was born at 1970s block parties in the Bronx. The moment a DJ stretched out the "break" and an MC started talking over it, a story that would shake the whole world began. https://yokaimusic.com/en/blog/jazz-history-6 https://yokaimusic.com/en/blog/jazz-history-6 Mon, 29 Jun 2026 14:00:00 GMT Jazz meets rock, funk and electronics. From Miles's 'Bitches Brew' to the hip-hop generation's Kamasi Washington — jazz still alive and moving. https://yokaimusic.com/en/blog/jazz-history-5 https://yokaimusic.com/en/blog/jazz-history-5 Mon, 29 Jun 2026 13:00:00 GMT Unchaining the chords. Miles's 'Kind of Blue', Coltrane's spiritual quest, and free jazz that threw out every rule. https://yokaimusic.com/en/blog/jazz-history-4 https://yokaimusic.com/en/blog/jazz-history-4 Mon, 29 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT After bebop's heat, jazz flowed in two directions — the cool, elegant West Coast sound, and hot hard bop that returned to blues and gospel. https://yokaimusic.com/en/blog/jazz-history-3 https://yokaimusic.com/en/blog/jazz-history-3 Mon, 29 Jun 2026 11:00:00 GMT The revolution led by Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie. From dance music to an art you concentrate on — the moment jazz changed most. https://yokaimusic.com/en/blog/jazz-history-2 https://yokaimusic.com/en/blog/jazz-history-2 Mon, 29 Jun 2026 10:00:00 GMT The age of big bands and dance halls. From Duke Ellington to Billie Holiday's cry — the golden era when jazz became America's popular music. https://yokaimusic.com/en/blog/jazz-history-1 https://yokaimusic.com/en/blog/jazz-history-1 Mon, 29 Jun 2026 09:00:00 GMT Jazz was born in New Orleans, where blues, ragtime and brass bands collided — up to the moment Louis Armstrong invented the idea of the "solo." https://yokaimusic.com/en/blog/hello-yokai https://yokaimusic.com/en/blog/hello-yokai Sun, 28 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT A corner of Yokai Music for writing and original tracks — the making-of, the inspirations, and the sounds themselves. https://yokaimusic.com/en/blog/scales-basics https://yokaimusic.com/en/blog/scales-basics Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT A scale is your melodic palette. How major and minor are built, why they feel the way they do, relative keys, pentatonics, and how to tell them apart by ear. https://yokaimusic.com/en/blog/synth-history https://yokaimusic.com/en/blog/synth-history Sat, 20 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT From the Theremin and Moog to polysynths, the DX7 and software synths — a century of the instruments that made electronic music, at a glance.