What if Hey Ya used 31 notes instead of 12?

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What could Outkast's Hey Ya sound like if we reinterpreted it with microtonal harmony? In todays microtonal music theory deep dive and video essay, Mel Presson and I explore the xenharmonic world of 31 EDO (also called 31 TET). We'll show you behind the scenes of how to arrange a song with microtones using neutral harmony and a special subset of 31 EDO: Heptatonic Mohajira. What would Hey Ya sound like if we had 31 notes per octave instead of 12?

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Timestamps:
00:00 - Intro
00:55 - Music Theory Analysis: Chord incompatibility
02:55 - The Arrangement: 31 EDO & The Neutral Chord
07:35 - Field Shifting Tangent
09:59 - Heptatonic Mohajira
11:15 - The Scrapbooking Method
13:06 - The Deeper Meaning Behind Hey Ya!
18:15 - Hey Ya! Cover