This short is an excerpt from my "Music Theory Iceberg" video, which you can watch in full here: • The Music Theory Icebe... Short edited by Rob Goorney
You left out the coolest point, which is that for a very large part, harmonies that sound good to us when slowed down translate into rhythms that sound good to us.
How do you know that's true..and isnt this not technically always true right since you can change the rhythm of something and not change the pitch necessarily right or vice versa, so why does he say that?
@@leif1075 As demonstrated in this video, any note if slowed down enough will sound like a steady beat. So if a chord of notes is slowed down a lot, it will sound like multiple beats going at the same time. The way those beats interact with each other depends on what chord is slowed down.
"the beating of insect wings sounding like a [note]". isnt that the point? that the vibrations of the wings could actually be interpreted as a low freq note
Dude that 160BPM kick drum put my whole body in absolute terror mode. That specific beat - and perhaps hte monster energy i just ingested - synced up with something in my brain
This is the fundamental of electronic music or specifically how they make electronic instruments. Use one cycle of a wave: sine, square, triangle, saw, or complex and then oscillate it to make a note.
@@urnoob5528 youre partly right. It’s just a language, you understand me i understand you. But technically, a cycle can contain many waves or waveforms. I can have a sine wave next to a square wave in a cycle, that’s not 2 cycles, those are 2 waves in one cycle.
Rhythm = pitch ❌ Frequency = pitch ✅ Edit: So a lot of people pointed this out. Just to clear some confusion for any non-music nerds, rhythm could be ta, ta, ta, ta, or it could be ta, ti ti, ta, ti ti, or it could be ta, ti ti, ti ti, ta. (It's hard to represent sound through text) Tempo however, is the beats per minute, so the gap between notes is completely consistent. What the guy in the video was actually trying to say is that tempo is the same as frequency, except much lower. The problem with this logic is that frequency is the distance between wave peaks, so the smallest length of any sound that still has meaning, while tempo is the length between notes, or complete sounds. So saying that tempo and frequency are the same thing is kinda like saying that sedimentary rock is the same thing as sand. (Maybe not the best metaphor but you get the idea.)
We don't say that waves and particles are the same thing in quantum mechanics, we instead say that waves and particles are 2 phenomena of the same underlying quantised nature of matter. So it's not completely accurate to say that pitch = rhythm, but rather that pitch and rhythm are 2 phenomena of the same underlying quantised nature of harmonics.
@@_shadownotes_ You're right. So many RU-vidrs do this to the point that it feels "played out" and I've gotten a bit sick of it tbh, BUT this one was SO well done, it really feels seamless natural. Honestly the best loop I've heard. If everyone did it this well, i migut not be as tired of it lol
@MyUncleWorksForNintendo haha I wouldn't say it was the BEST loop I've ever heard. Personally loops will always annoy me anyway, because for some reason I always hate letting any youtube video reach the end. I guess I feel like it's wasting my time or something.
Why is that good? It only makes you needlessly watch the same video again becasue you did not know it had ended. It's beneficial to creators, not to viewers
*important note: the threshold between what we perceive something to be pulses vs a continuous tone is what defines Low Frequency Oscillations (LFOs), and HIGH Frequency Oscillations (HFOs)
@@Rudxain guess depends on shape? sin is possible to hear lower, square is square.. even 50HZ square can be kinda pulses (electricity is like crispy yea?)
the rhythm doesn't need to be a frequency but pitch is a frequency. they are similar but not the same thing. the rhythm is not how frequently we say one word after another to build sentences. part of the rythm is how we accentuate the words and pitch. a piano song can follow a rythm to empathize certain notes. doing that is what brings most of the feeling and elegance into the song. rythm is way more complex than just the "slow" apparent frequency it is following.
Rhythm occurs at a given interval or at specific intervals It's not the same as pitch, but both pitch and rhythm occur at intervals The difference is that frequency is based on an oscillation and rhythm is based on a timing interval One is a tone, and the other is a tone at a given interval
yeah, it comes from the flyback transformer inside the tv modulating the electromagnets to bend the electron beam from left to right across the scanlines in a sawtooth-like pattern, moving from left to right and then nearly instantaneously going back to the left, 525 lines per frame in ntsc, 29.97 frames per second and 525*29.97=15734 which is the frequency of the high pitched noise you hear
@@Jarran2RAnd not all people can hear this noise, even; or at least not to the point it can hurt their ears, like it did to me when I was a kid. Ouch.
@@Jarran2R So when you see wavy lines pulsing across an image on the screen, is that a visual representation of this failing somewhat? Or that something unrelated
@@ccnomad My understanding is that when you see waves and such on a screen, it's because the camera capturing the image is recording at close to, but not precisely on, the same frequency as the screen refresh. At least for old systems.
the artist "Kobaryo" (known mainly in rhythm game communities) has used this to their advantage in the sonf "singularity at 2.64+e6BPM" to make most of the melody entirely out of percussion
@@haruthegremlin as a dragon (girl) it is my duty to mention every niche interest I have to anyone I know but also this was 8 months ago to a point where some 5 months ago I started making music and did this myself before too LOL
One time, I was on a speedcore gig where the final act increased the bpm so much that it became a note, going higher and higher and eventually reaching the ultrasonic.
@@LiberatedMind1 Yeah that's the definition, but if I'm understanding 'perfect lossless resolution' correctly then we'd be able to discern each beat that makes up what we normally discern as a pitch, fundamentally changing how we perceive sound
Technically, yes, but only in the fact that they are frequencies. When you're specifying what is commonly understand "rhythm", it more complex than mere frequency.
Exactly. Which is why I deem this as misinfo, not only because it is but also because of the massive text saying "pitch=rhythm" and the title saying it is the same thing.
Adam Neely has a great talk about this. I think it's called new horizons or something. He talks about how intervals are polyrhythms and it adds a lot of depth to this idea
theres a genre that takes this idea and runs away with it, its called extratone and it sounds pretty nuts. my song recomendation for it would be Aekhloria - Timeless Heresy since its crazy enough with how it uses this concept but is still melodic
If I could swap the popularity of two songs, I'd swap Uranoid with any song from Aekhloria or the other artists on the channel. Uranoid is kind of the example for extratone and it just destroys the genre's popularity because Uranoid just isn't a good music. Even for extratone, it's always the same tone.
FREAKING THANK YOU BECAUSE GETTING PEOPLE TO UNDERSTAND THIS VERY SIMPLE CONCEPT HAS BEEN FRUSTRATING ME FOR ROUGHLY 40 YEARS THANK YOU YOU ARE A GD GIFT TO HUMANITY
Does that mean that pitch = rhythm though? I would say it has an effect. A quick pitch shift can change the rhythm. Just because you can slow a note down to a pulse doesn't really mean anything musically.
I’m a musician. I’ve always had a gift for music ever since I was a child. I have perfect pitch, which I feel like it’s also the reason why I have such rhythm. Anyone can have a gift for music, but if you do your research, you will find that people who are born blind and people who are on the autism spectrum have such an amazing gift for music. Perfect pitch is common for those who are born blind and autistic. They have such a repertoire for music, that it’s unbelievably incredible.
@@snared_ Well, many people don't even know what a Fourier transform is, I guess the spectrum of their knowledge is too narrow because science is unfortunately not well-spread.
Any regular repeating rhythm will become pitch if sped up, but it is easiest to demonstrate with a simple pulse. And a pulse is best described really as a rhythm rather than a tempo.
@@DavidBennettPiano Yes, pulse is a rhythm, but tempo of it is what makes the pitch, and not the rhythmic pattern of it. Changing the rhytmic pattern would modulate the timbre... (but whatever, even with the imprecise word, the demonstration shows clearly what you meant...
This gets even more crazy once you realize: harmony = rhythm = pitch 🤫😌 every harmony creates its own rhythm by the individual tension that comes from the single Frequencies within the harmony, the frequency ratio so to speak.
That's how/why DJs and other musicians use similar techniques to take a sound and make it into a build up to a beat drop. It's a cool technique....they take a sample, then loop the last sound from 1/4 notes up to 1/64th notes or faster, then add a small break...drop the beat. 👍
This is completely wrong... A few reasons: rythm is neither always represented by pure notes themselves, nor constituted by bits equally distanced (hence characterised by a frequency). The other way is also wrong: under 20 Hz, the human ear does not hear "a pitch".
Any rhythm played at a high enough tempo becomes a tone. Any tone slowed down enough becomes a rhythm. It's technically wrong in that tempo = pitch, not rhythm = pitch, but that's not *completely* wrong.
@@ccfffvbbbbbffg1774 Hello, As I recall, you just recapped the thesis of the video. I gave a reason why it is not true: it dwells in the definition of both notions.
