A couple weeks ago, while teaching two of my young students, I was talking about the intervals of the 4th, the tritone and the 5th. While demonstrating I realized that the Batman Theme, from more than 60 years ago, uses only those intervals, so I decided to write it out and fool with it a bit.
The rest of the story:
I’ve now presented this theme to several of my students, and it has really surprised me how much fun they had playing it. So I rewrote it tonight using a complicated modulation to get from D major or minor to G major or minor. (Whether this is in major or minor is unclear.)
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For months now I have made many instructional videos. A lot of these videos have been about musical intervals. This Batman theme is from the television show that premiered in 1966. It presents three different intervals in a way that is very clear. Those intervals are: the tritone, the fifth and the fourth. They happen over and over again.
I’ve been very serious playing some of the music I have presented on this channel, but this recording was just for fun. It was very lighthearted, so if it teaches people some things about musical theory, that would be a bonus.
I listened.
I have heard this a lot especially as a kid, batman is my favorite hero and I love hearing this because of what I used to hear as a kid.
<3 this music
I don’t think I’ve ever listened to this song all the way through but I can hear the words I know in this version.
It was fun to listen to.
Big grin. And by golly, about the 4ths, 5ths, and tritone. Memory lane.
I like the idea that you just found this while teaching intervals, it reminds me of when I play certain songs and hearing the start of another song in 2 of it’s notes and fiddling around with that. It’s very relatable.
That made me smile. I can picture him fighting crime in Gotham City.