What is Major Tones, you ask?

Major Tones is a celebration of the bands, the beats and the songs that shaped us.

Sure, it's about bringing people together for a showdown of lyrical chops and questionable confidence – but it’s also about taking people back.

Back to the high school parties we snuck out of windows to get to, the road trips where we sang until our voices cracked, and the impromptu kitchen choruses that became the soundtrack of our growing up.

Major Tones isn’t just a trivia game. It’s a love letter to the lyrics that raised us, wrecked us, saved us – and that still get belted out in the car while we take the long way home.

So shuffle the deck, cue the nostalgia and let the lyrics take you back. No speakers, no playlist – just your memory, your mates and the song lines that live rent-free in your head.
Major Tones founder Tianna Nadalin standing in garage with dozens of boxes of her first delivery of Major Tones games

The major tones origin story

Some ideas are born in boardrooms. Others are born on a couch at midnight after a solid Music Max session and a few too many spicy margaritas in the sleep-deprived haze of newborn life.

It was created by Melbourne-based journalist and former community radio host Tianna Nadalin.

During the Covid 19 lockdowns, she and her partner would spend Friday nights queuing their favourite film clips, cranking the volume and turning their living room into a low-key karaoke bar where they would re-live the soundtrack of their youths, one power ballad at a time.

Major Tones is about capturing that feeling, about creating a game that brings people together to laugh, reminisce and test how well they remember the words that once meant everything.

Born in isolation, built over late-night singalongs and fuelled by nostalgic YouTube deep dives, it shows us that music doesn’t just fill the silence – it fills the space between.

DISCLAIMER: This is not the greatest game in the world. This is just a tribute.