Pi Day 2022 - Chromatic Piano 

Hey everyone, happy Pi Day! We made it to another one! I gotta do my duty and remind you about merch, so here’s some more details about shiny things, available here: store.dftba.com/collections/vi-hart 1. Pi Day 2022 Piano Composition: Sheet Music and MP3: store.dftba.com/products/piano-sheet-music-digital-download-and-mp3 I’ve had requests for sheet music for previous work, so this time I thought I’d do it right and make it available at the start. Could I have maybe picked an easier piece to play and to notate? Well, this is the piece Pi wanted to be this year. I don’t make the rules. I plan to followup with a video with more on how to play it, but be forewarned this piano composition has some subtle difficulties even if it isn’t like, fast and full of fancy stuff. 2. Chromatic Challenge Coin and Challenge Sheetmusic: store.dftba.com/products/pi-chromatic-challenge-metal-coin-and-digital-download Reading through 314 digits of chromatic pi is an experience, and I couldn’t resist the idea of creating a challenge coin so that you can commemorate the moment with a small shiny token of chromatic success. You don’t need to be perfect to earn the coin, you just need to challenge yourself to do some note reading outside your comfort zone. When you order this item a popup should allow you to check off the clefs you want to download. Guitar tabs are also an option. We know that hard work doesn’t always translate into literal money, but I can live out the fantasy that it does, by creating a non-monetary challenge coin that values hard musical work at Pi triangle dollars, by the authority of a triangle who loves us all. 3. We’re restocking the Triangle Pins! store.dftba.com/collections/vi-hart/products/triangle-pin Speaking of the triangle who loves us all: when I first had triangle pins made years ago, I was skeptical about how they would come out given that my triangle logo is a bit… like something a child would draw, and also, it has thin parts. But they came out amazing and I love them. Other people apparently did too, so they sold out a while back. But we’re doing another order. 4. Pi Day 2022 Exclusive Shirt: Cryptic Edition store.dftba.com/products/pi-day-2022-exclusive-shirt-cryptic-edition This shirt is designed to be a puzzle for the mathemusically inclined. Y’all already know that it’s a Pi Day shirt, but for those who don’t, it’s a puzzle to figure out that this graphic represents the digits of Pi in musical form. There’s no text or hints, except that the design is circular. This is printed using a metallic copper ink on a maroon shirt, to match the moody serious tone of the piano piece in this year’s Pi Day video. We’ve got 2 options for cut, both in sizes XS - 4XL. We’re doing one round of preorders and then this shirt will never be sold again, because that’s the nature of an exclusive 2022 design. 5. Pi Day 2022 Exclusive Shirt: Shiny Edition store.dftba.com/products/pi-day-2022-exclusive-shirt-shiny-edition If the Cryptic Edition is subtle, this version is designed for MAXIMUM SHINY. I hadn’t planned to do two shirt designs, but when DFTBA showed me the holographic foil options I could not resist. The foil is rainbow colored on a macro scale, and then holographically shiny within each color. So this shirt needed to happen, but I also didn’t want to sacrifice the proper moodiness and lower price point I could get with the other design, so we ended up doing both. This is also an exclusive 2022 design where we’ll do preorders this month and never again. 6. Become a patron: www.patreon.com/vihart Becoming a patron is a thing you can do if you want. I am not really sure what the value proposition is, but people do it anyway so I suppose I’ve just learned to trust their judgement that there’s something worthwhile here.

I can't help but notice that this hinges on Base 10. PI doesn't have to be Base 10, one could, for example, do the same exercise but with PI in base 12, or base 88, or any other base. I think that might be an interesting exercise.

My favorite part of pi is where it's exactly Chopin's Prelude in A flat Major, but with the iconic opening riff from Smoke on the Water inserted after the sixteenth measure. It doesn't occur until quite a long way into pi, though. 🤔

This will be my 6th Vihart Pi Day video that I watch, and probably one of my favorite one's I've seen since. Doesn't need a rant on why Pi sucks. Why Pi is good. Making a pie. Making a pizza pie. Just some soothing, sometimes grim, mostly mysterious digits of Pi played on a piano. Cheers to another Pi day. π

Love how this video isn't gonna be here for 2 days and there's already hype for it. Goes to show just how high quality your stuff is, Mathamusician

Pi Day is special because it's how I found you, Vi! Every year without fail, I've made a little baked tau in celebration. Thanks for all the years of this channel :)

I remember watching your videos and thinking you were the coolest. I went to school and showed everyone how to make a hexaflexagon and doodled in my notebook in very mathematic ways, hoping someone would notice and ask me about it. I always played music with candy buttons and thought of you every time i saw a quesadilla. Thank you for many memories and happiness growing up. Good to see you again. :)

Your writing is beyond beautiful. Even after 10 years of watching your channel, you have continued to teach me not just about math itself, but how to love math and appreciate its beauty. Now that I am finishing my Master's degree in math, I am still filled with that same sense of wonder that I had when I was just a kid finding your channel for the first time. Thank you for teaching me how to love math.

hey! when i was younger i watched your videos and i really looked up to you. seeing someone passionate about math helped a younger me understand it better. i would make hexaflexagons and give them to all my friends at lunch, and teach them how to make them too. i loved your pi videos as well. i’m a freshman in high school now, and struggling in math, but i hope to one day be passionate about something as strongly as you are about math. thanks for everything.

this is the most beautiful piece of music ive heard all year. its sad yet uncomfortable in a way where its like you want to leave but you cant because its filling you hope yet its all falling apart and somehow its still perfectly balanced.

Oh wow. I've been reading the comments while listening to the composition, and I read Vihart's "We made it to another one!", and that's a really, really powerful phrase to relisten to the piece with. We made it to another one, everyone. We made it.

If you made a video of just the pi song I would listen to it on repeat for like a week straight! It’s so beautiful! Happy Pi Day everyone!! 🎉🎉🥧

Omg she’s actually gonna upload 😱

Watching these videos is always a unique experience. Sometimes I feel like you make them just for me. But frankly, you’ve been doing these long enough that I’ve really just become the person I am largely because of your videos. So it feels like these videos are made just for me, but really I made myself into a person based on them. Isn’t that kind of beautiful?

Man.... I didn't quite understand anything here, but it's really precious that she is still doing these videos

7m6s: "Let us grieve the notes we will never hear." All your videos seem to have at least one comment, obvious in retrospect, that I never expected. Even on subjects I thought I knew well, like hexaflexagons. Thank you for still being here.

Congrats, Vi! You are giving me motivation to really learn the sharps/flats on my ocarina. (It's a long/weird story how I became initially interested in it, but it started before Link ever touched one.)

As someone who never learned how to read notes but has been playing piano for over a decade now, i absolutely love this.

i always look forward to your videos since my birthday is on the 14th it is like a pi day treat every year thanks for the amazing content :)

This is lovely and mysterious and glassy like the strange surface of something on a cloudy day just before it starts to rain but with more richness and warmth than you would expect for that, there's something gently sinister about it to and a troubled yet poetic melancholy. It reminds me of radiohead's pyramid song a little. Also the Arr. Vi Hart on the sheet music makes me think of the composer Arvo Pärt. My favorite moment is probably 11:02.5 for 8 to 10 notes, it sounds a little familiar. Carving music out of that much randomness is not at all easy, it's like if you printed out a grid of random black and white pixels and managed to find a way of blurring and coloring and resizing them that made them look like an piano! (hmmm maybe I should try that, that might be fun). All in all, 5 stellar objects out of 5.

Thanks Vihart - always a pleasure to hear your ruminations on numbers and music.

Vi is one of my favourite youtubers and I love every single one of their videos. Can't wait to see this one!

I thought you were gone. Today is a good day.

Literally the best thing about Pi Day is seeing Vi upload!

There are so many little points where it sounds like it’s about to become a happy, uplifting tune, before the Pi spider reminds you of the Faustian bargain you made in 1873 to become a mathemusician and it becomes dark again

Funny story about math and music: I used to have a math teacher who, funnily enough, doesn't like math all that much. Which is funny, because I LOVE math, so I always found it funny that I would be the one interested in the maths while my teacher would sigh tiredly. One day I found out that he also plays the guitar like me. I got excited, and I blurted out that there's a lot of math involved in music, forgetting that he doesn't like math. He just looked down and gave me a defeated sigh and said "yeah..." and it sounded so sad, I kinda felt bad for reminding him lmao. He was a great teacher though, and I'm sure he makes his students feel understood because of his demeanor to math.

always looking forward to a vihart video on pi day ;)

Nice piano. Awesome video. Happy 12th Anniversary.

Vi, you're one of the most special content creators on this site, I love the way you see things and your deep and meditative looks at the mundane and not so mundane have helped me become the person I am today. I love mathematics and a big part of that is due to you. Thank you for making these wonderful videos year after year, and I'm truly grateful for the years I've been able to spend with your voice.

Happy pi day! I love this tradition. I can't believe there have been 12 of these.

Above and beyond for this one, I feel you really captured and expressed the randomness.

Every PI day is a good day because of you Vi TY for making these videos

I’m very excited, we’re gonna watch this is all my math classes. This is basically my lesson plan for Monday 😂

I’ve been celebrating pi day for 3-4 years, I made an apple pie a few days ago to celebrate! It was my first time making a pie :)) and now, after watching this, I’ve seen all your pi day videos so far!

This is one of the most beautiful concepts I've ever heard. Absolutely wonderful!

5:12 i love how she just say something completely deep and beatiful in the middle of the video as she was saying good morning or something just as banal

subtle flex of your bosendorfer I approve

My tau is greater than pi shirt is still my favorite T to this day, and the new one looks like it will challenge that spot. Thank you for continuing your videos, I don't know if you realize what they mean to math enthusiasts but perhaps you do

I LOVE PI DAY! I NEED PI DAY! I have sorely missed Pi Day!!!

Your videos are always a delight, whether you are showing us wonderful mathematics or like today, showing us another side of you, your musical, artistical talents. Always very high quality production value and super enjoyable to watch. Thank you, for making it to another one with us.

Thank you for the videos they always mean more than you realize, Thank you so much

Around every Pi day, I remember Vihart exists, and it brings me joy.

"do you smell that? it's math! it's the traces of a vihart lurking in its natural habitat, lets follow the scent and observe closely!"

YAAAAS I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THE ANNUAL PI DAY VIDEO!!!!!!!!!

I had this same idea when I was 14. It is nice to see this idea again.

Thank you. feels like visiting with an old friend

I just watched theodd1sout video on pi and I was checking if you still posted pi day videos after all these years AND YOU DO

I saw Pi open for Anthrax back in '89. Killer show.

if it’s pi day, it’s *vi* day :)

Looking forward to Pi day exactly because Vihart uploads.

Your music is wonderful. Thank you Vihart.

You're absolutely amazing. Keep doing you! It's encouraging me to keep doing me.

I know I'm late, but thank you for continuing this tradition! It's always great to see a new video on this channel

Hey Vi! I've missed your videos. I hope you have been keeping well in these trying times.

There are 12 notes in the chromatic scale, so it seems obvious to me that π in base 12 would be better for converting to notes in the chromatic scale. If π has to be represented in base 10, then it could be converted to notes in 10 equal divisions of octave; but that would be hard to play on a piano.

glad to see another one of your videos, ive been watching these since i was in elementary school and they helped me stay interested in math

That was inspiring! I love math and love music, and your videos are the perfect combo. This was a great way to start off pi day this year! I think Schoenberg should have taken lessons from you! I love the chromaticisation of pi so much more than the emancipation of dissonance.

I think this is just objectively the best youtuber on the platform.

Vihart still uploads? Great to see!

I got so excited then looked at date and now have a test of patience

This was really spooky to listen to, as someone who has memorized a fair bit of pi by converting it onto the major scale rather than the chromatic scale

Such awesomeness! It inspires me to see what happens with 10-TET!

What a good video, happy pi day Vihart

always happy to see an upload! i hope you are doing well!

Your videos always awe and inspire me 😊

Always a pleasure to see a video from you. I can't wait until my shiny merch arrives :)

Thank you Vi! You are amazing!

Really well composed... and performed. Thank you, Vi.

Always look forward to these on my birthday

I love your videos and seeing how you express mathematics in so many ways. As someone who loves math but is completely inept when it comes to music, this video was both beautiful and impossible to understand.

I love this musical exploration of Pi. One of these years I bet Vihart will be creating a pi song on a prepared piano. :P

Brilliant! It’s so nice to see you back.

I love how this piece does not seem to ever resolve, a bit like PI.. it goes on seemingly forever... Great video thanks!

This sounds like something Nils Frahm or Yiruma or Ólafur Arnalds would compose. Brava.

for the next one it would be really cool to see this with a 10EDO scale

This IS an International Holiday and Vihart IS the lead ambassador/leader of it. And it IS the best holiday of the year (subjectively for the last part lol)

Alban Berg would have loved this. Thank you for sharing, Vi, you are an amazing person and artist!

dude can’t wait for this!!!

Yay your back. I hope you start updating, your one of the nicest RU-vid channels.

As a person who loves math and music. This is amazing.

Leaving out 2 notes on the 12 note scale really doesn't matter, because each next key is the same ratio of a 12th root of 2 to each other, and as long as any given series of tones have the same ratio of pitches to each other, the melody sounds the same, just shifted in pitch. Although, representing pi in base 12, and then mapping that to the piano would be interesting.

I wonder if, had you shown the sheet music to Ada, Countess of Lovelace, she would have figured it out? She theorised about computer-composed music, after all.

last years pi day piano song was so incredible

that is one beautiful grand piano :)

I found this video a day and a half late... it's after midnight on the 16th now where I am... but it's my first night off in five. This is amazing. Your channel in its early days was one of the things that got me back into recreational mathematics, and your online presence has been missed. My specific interests these days are the Collatz Conjecture (thanks to Veritasium following up on the original introduction of the problem by Numberphile), the Riemann Hypothesis, and the Euler-Mascheroni constant (both thanks to 3Blue1Brown and Mathologer). This video now has me wondering how the numbers e and gamma sound... and how the Collatz sequences (especially the longer ones) would sound... just dropping some ideas to hopefully inspire more amazing videos like this.

We also need a Vi day to appreciate all the effort put into these videos.

Yay pi day I love 3.14, but you know what I love more than pi day, the leftovers as in 3.1415, so the 15th of March is leftover day

Beautiful hands, Vi.

Always informative and inspiring. Thanks for making numbers beautiful yet again.

Music is a topic I am even more clueless about than math, but this was still an enjoyable watch

We love you Vihart ❤️

Vi hasn't uploaded in forever!!!!! I cant wait!

I already know this is good! And also Happy PI day! 💗

God I'm so jealous of your handspan. I can BARELY stretch a ninth and it hurts to do so. I love playing piano but its heartbreaking to be limited by my body

It felt so special to have you release a video on my birthday!!! (Pi day is my birthday, maybe that’s why I like math so much 😉)

Too tired to comment something meaningful but oh my God my heart I love math and music sm and this made my night thank you

It seems like some of the real opportunities here would be to represent Pi in other bases, like with a bass 5 we could play the Black notes. In base 5, beating of pie would still be 3.14 so we could keep it March 14th though maybe we would need to change the 14 into base 5 which would make pie day March 9th

Happy pi day! You have a lovely piano. Next challenge: write a pi melody with a contrapuntal line based on another constant (e, or perhaps phi). They can have different rhythms but must strictly follow the digits and still sound good together.

Always appreciate your explanations. Happy Pi Day!

My first time here! I enjoyed this very Much!