12tone

12tone is a YouTuber who makes videos about music theory.
==Personal life==
12tone is agender, and uses they/them pronouns. They were diagnosed with autism as a child, and informed of this at fifteen.
12tone enjoys rock climbing.
==Education and academia==
In college, 12tone was a vocalist. They have a Bachelor's degree in vocal performance.
In 2020, they contributed to the Oxford Handbook on Public Music Theory, which includes a chapter on Music Theory YouTube.
==YouTube==
In the early year of 12tone's channel, most of their videos were about things they already knew about. For a time, they were their music theory class's unofficial tutor, and found they "really enjoyed teaching it,… [and] wanted an outlet for that."
In August 2021, 12tone switched from a weekly to an every-other-week upload schedule, as they worried about running out of topics.
12tone is influenced by minutephysics and Vihart. The elephant in 12tone's videos comes from "Elephants Grow Big, Dangly Faces", a mnemonic for the lines of the .
They edit in .
The channel's logo, of a treble and bass clef, was created by its original animator, Emmanuel.
==Podcast==
They co-host the podcast Ghost Notes with Polyphonic.
==References==
Category:Educational YouTubers
Category:Music YouTubers
Category:Users who joined in 2014
Category:LGBT YouTubers