Testing 432 Hz Frequencies (and temperaments) 

sounds like the piano is holding in a monster shit

P A I D I L L U M I N A T I S H I L L

The "played through bad frequencies'" clip made me smile every single time.

At 11:20 I feel like switching between 12-tone and pythagorean and back into 12-tone could make some incredible smooth jazz, it feels like the notes get looser and laid back when it switches to pythagporean

I tuned my guitar to 432 and after playing for 5 minutes I cured cancer and became one with the universe. I'm now transcending multiple dimensions simultaneously.

Cool. Next time someone says to me "OMFG you're a horrible singer," I will reply that I'm using the 432 Chakra Earth Vibration scales.

I really like the sound of Pythagorean tuning, and I wish it wasn't polluted by the bizarre "wrong frequency" crowd. A lot of beautiful music has been made with it.

So, my bass guitars are all tuned down to 432 on a small digital guitar tuner. The intervals are fine, everything is just slightly warmer. It sounds almost like tuning down a half step, or E-flat tuning. One of my old guitar players used to tune down similarly and when I brought one of my basses over to jam one night, I forgot to retune it back up to 440. We hooked up and found out that it was actually "close enough for rock and roll." Amazingly, it matched up pretty well and it was a little easier to sing to. I was originally a singer for the band we were in so many years ago and I remember thinking it was easier to hit the notes. Additionally, it added a darkness and melancholy to the grungy, dirty music we were playing. Since I had to figure out harmonies, and we were playing covers by bands that detune similarly themselves, it helped us get a dirtier sound. AIC used a lot of flat harmonies anyway, so did Soundgarden and Billy Corgan messed with his tuning as well. It even worked well for Jane's Addiction songs. Many popular bands get their distinct sounds from alternative tuning and when you tune down 8 hz it's sonicly like tuning down what we call a "half step" or tuning the guitar to E flat. Tony Iommi and Frank Zappa did a lot of this type of thing and the Seattle bands got it from their lesser known punk contemporaries like the Melvins and the Dwarves.

No wonder humanity is so screwed, our chakras sound like trash

Mom can I have 'A' Mom: No, we have A at home A at home: 432 Hz

Your communication skills, musical knowledge and technical facility on your instruments are always a joy to behold. In this particular video, I’m just as impressed with your flawless and highly effective video editing skills. Wonderful content!

Thank you so much. Years ago, I went on this same quest but just didn't have the ability nor the resources to answer the riddle of the Pythagorean comma , eventually decided to keep on composing music in 440 and with equal temperament. So, I found your video more than fascinating. Count me in as a new subscriber to your channel. Keep up the good work.

I don't use any of your low peasant frequencies to tune my bass. I let it tune itself by dropping it on the ground and let mother Earth give me the frequency the universe wants me play in.

the chakra tuning hurt my soul, which i don’t think is the feeling that aligning my chakras should render

I agree with this video. Equal temperament is by far and away the most practical tuning for an instrument that is played in different keys. I do wonder, however, if a just intonation could be made to work with modern electronic instruments if the tuning dynamically adapted, while being performed, to modal changes in the music? It might be instructive to analyze the frequencies of an very good acapella group as they sing tight harmonies. Once you have an untempered instrument, like the human voice, you can make any frequency you like, particularly if you are not trying to match a tempered instrument. Do acapella groups tend towards just intonation or something else? How do they respond, intonation-wise, to modal shifts? Accomplished acapella singers all seem to share the trait of being able to listen very closely to other members of the group. The sound of acapella groups is, at least to my ear, quite different to listening to music produced with well tempered instruments. They also seem to manage modal shifts without sounding horrible.

Dude! You are BRILLIANT! I enjoyed this so much, and it brought a lot of light to the matter, and to tuning irregularities in general...

my chakras don't work anymore, you ruined them

Yeah man I'm not playing out of tune I'm just playing at the same frequencies as my chakras bro

I tried listening to a few harsh metal songs I like in 432hz and I swear it lost all of its BITE! Some songs did sound clearer, with less distortion maybe, (which worked better with more melodic songs,) but it's that abrasive feeling I get when listening to metal that I love, when I need to channel my anger. This is going just by the vids on youtube claiming to be songs converted to 432hz. Some pop songs do sound easier to listen to at 432, smoother, not as sluggish as the original. But 432hz is definitely not for all music. Either way, it would be awesome to see more musicians step out of these established comfort zones and play around with tuning and weird combinations.

432hz is the music equivalent to astrology.

The factor 9 grid sounds to me like my grandmas piano that hasn’t been tuned in about 15 years

One time I thought I made a new scale and I thought I was a genius then I realized it was literally just in B minor

if a jazz musician says something is out of place or weird, you better believe it.

The earth tuning sounds bad because you failed to take into account that the earth is flat. To fix this, flatten all the notes LOL

The A = 432 Hz factor 9 grid reminds me of those $1 toy pianos for kids

What a great video on tuning systems!

Fabulous analysis of the body of work. I play the harp, only at home, and never thought about tuning down to 432. It already gives me an incredible sense of well-being, so I will be curious. Thank you for all the time you put into that.

"It's played through bad frequencies" tshirts for sale when?

I don't think you understand, Adam. It's played through bad frequencies.

😆This was brilliant, thank you for explaining tuning PROPERLY!

Wow this is cool you really analyzed it so good. Thank you so much🙂❤️

“So, maybe we’re targeting too many chakras at the same time?” Best.

These "better frequencies" just sound like my grandma's old piano that she refused to get tuned.

I honestly loved the factor 9 improvisation

Great video and demonstration! Thank you!!!

432 hz: when you are sick and you hear strange pitches.

No! No no! This video was played through bad frequencies! RU-vid is hiding the truth by re-tuning the videos!

The drop in at 6min 14 secs, was ace, thanks Adam and team, I came across this video just now, as I was searching on ways to create theses electronically, and you give a great step by step breakdown, ace editing, and direction and presented, in such a way, some neurones were firing for me as feel like I have learnt some great knowledge from your video, cheers.😃

20+ years ago my dad had a piano tuner/ rebuilder friend who was experimenting with alternate tunings. But it was supposed to be the tuning that classical composers like Mozart composed in...

The chakra tuning resonated my digestive chakras so much it completely evacuated the entire system Very cleansing 11/10

Anytime someone takes a phone selfie video of themselves giving advice in the vertical aspect ratio... you know it’s gonna be good advice.

This is by far the best and most coherent video on this subject I’ve seen, thankyou!

This is extremely interesting! Thank you for taking the time! I'm still asking myseld what it would mean if we'd just adapt one of those other temperaments? Would we just need to compose nice music that uses other temperments? What would that mean in the greater scale? Would it be possible to do the same music in a different temperment, through e.g. adding more keys to the piano?

OH, now I get it. My body is SUPPOSED to feel like shit! Thanks chakra frequencies!

Adam Neely 2 years ago: "I'm not interested in debunking every documentary about 432 hz" and here we are and i'm not complaining

I really enjoyed your experimentation with pop culture frequency concepts. You also pointed out the subtle mathematical issues with retuning and transposition algorithms beautifully. Equal temperament is a longstanding best practice because it resonates most harmonically with our brains. It "feels" good. New Age isn't for everything. This kind of reminds me of New Coke. It sounded like a good idea until we all realized that it tasted bad. Lol

Thanks for this video. Piano rarely calms me.

If this man plays “its played through bad frequencies” one more time im bouta change his resonant frequency

As a guitarist I like playing in ~427 hz a lot, it’s the note in between A and Ab. I think it sounds really ear catching.

PROTIP: Make sure the synth and your chakras are in the same frequency

Awesome video! Thank you for sharing!

Great content Adam! I play cello. A-432 sounds more resonant. At least on my instrument. Comes in handy when playing Bach Suites. Thanks much!

“Programming chakral frequencies” sounds like a Sims loading screen

licks in 432Hz is peak jazztube and you cannot convince me otherwise

Great vid. I’ve been soundhealing for 8 years with 440 hz singing bowls. I’ve used 432 hz before, too. I have this weird ability to feel and see sound and honestly it’s more about the player’s “intention”riding on these waves rather than the actual frequency. Both tunings are fine,but it really depends on the energy collaborating with them. Two bands can play exact same song but it will literally FEEL different in my body depending on if they were sad or joyful while they recorded it.

that bit of improvisation at the end is a genius demonstration of all of the benefits and drawbacks of all of the alternate tuning, but when it went back into 440, it just utterly obsolesced all of the other tuning. It just sounded correct.

Can't believe we both uploaded temperament-related videos on the same day!

432 hertz can summon John Coltrane himself.

Tbh, I mostly play my guitar in 432 12TET and i quite like it. also happened to participate in som cool jams using 417 Hz 12TET. I like, how it just something else. Also some older (historical) guitars seem to be built for these frequencies, since they resonate better when using lower tunings. However, thas propably mostly due to the fact, that historically lower tunings were much more common.

it's played through bad frequencies

The cut back to "played thru bad frequencies" is golden lmao

420 has improved music for generations, but kinda hz when you cough.

that chakral one gave me chills over and over again

Awesome Video and a great education!

turns out we tune music a certain way because it sounds good. it has nothing to do with the cosmic cumdrop of the universe, it just sounds good

Never thought I would ever hear an out of tune digital piano

[[TL;DR] - Its just... REALLY complicated 😵‍💫] I agree that A LOT of the proliferation of this "bad vs good 440 vs 423" idea has gotten EXTREMELY twisted and watered down to the point of nonsense. ....THAT being said. You made GREAT points on the topic in this video, and i think if we were to follow some of these lines of thought, while keeping in mind that what is WRITTEN down as music (mainly older music than we dont have ORIGINAL recordings of) is not necessarily what the original musicians instruments' tuning truly was (assuming they stayed tuned to the intention of the player over time), AS WELL as other items that may affect the way we view or think of what these different concepts or phenomena are, and how humans and cultures have thought about it over time. And finally, i think this is definitely progagated by (besides the virality of social media dum-dums) a lot of Western cultures (American DEFINITELY) are extrememly, especially these days, unexposed, or underexposed, to any sort of TRULY varied flavors and sounds and rhythyms of peoples and cultures the world over. anyway, great vid and very objective. BUT ALSO, dont underestimate the power of someones(/groups) idea of percieved power gained, whether through concrete structuring (changing the Hz), or through semi-passive 'allowance'/opportunity (letting ppl just RUN with an idea until its smeared and almost indecipherable from its original state, whether it started from some thread of truth or not).

Perfect, thank you for the explanation.

My tv is only 60hz. I cant see the sounds. Help?

I love that the “played through bad frequencies” clip pops in and out throughout the video 😂😂

11:19 you casually played one of the most beautiful sounds i'd ever heard. even through the change in frequencies my breath was just stolen. is this a song or just improv? this sounds insane. i'm literally choked up

'Precise Temperament Tuning' is a geometrical approach to music temperament replacing the Just Intonation's Major Third interval (1.25 or 5/4) with 1.26. In this approach, the MINOR (3rd) interval FALLS (from 1.2 to 1.19) and the MAJOR (3rd) interval LIFTS (increasing from 1.25 to 1.26)

As a violin player, I can no longer accept criticism. "I wasn't playing it wrong, I was playing a tridecimal diminished fifth!" All of them sounded like different kinds of inebriated. There is some curious stage performance ideas involving many different pianos in there. Great stuff!

7:13 My chakras became so aligned that all the toxins in my system immediately exited my mouth. Amazing!

Your descriptions of the other tuning systems was very charitable. I don't know if it comes into this or not, or how it plays out mathematically, but I've been told by a piano tuner that the tuning on a piano is actually a big fudge. As in the very high notes and the very low ones are not really where they should be so that they sound better when played against notes in the middle. So I've heard.

I think if an alternative tuning is used in a composition or improvisation as part of thay process by using the ear/sound that is fine. However Adam I totally AGREE with your points in this video and thank you for checking these things out!

All musical cultures contain a perfect 5th Chakra tuning: *hold my scented candle*

432 Hz sounds like grandma's piano that hasn't been tuned since I've been alive Edit: How the fuck did a random comment I barely even remember making get 3k likes

The first improvisation you did with the factor 9 tuning had me rolling around laughing.

While listening to 432hz music, I felt that my brain relaxed. I actually didn’t know how much my brain was tensed!! I am choral conductor and my job is to listen.. Thank you for this video❤

Maybe tone deaf people aren't actually tone deaf but are instead tuned to the 432 Hz factor 9 grid? lol

*ＩＴ＇Ｓ　ＰＬＡＹＥＤ　ＴＨＲＯＵＧＨ　ＢＡＤ　ＦＲＥＱＵＥＮＣＩＥＳ*

I like how you write your videos like music. With a chorus that repeats throughout.

I’ve heard the most beautiful music that made a place of heaven here on earth in 440, with musicians and vocalists collaborating together in perfect (imperfect) harmony.

"MOM, I'm not playing out of tune. I'm just playing A = 432 factor 9 grid!"

I remember your old 432 debunk video

I really appreciate the multiple examples. I don’t play piano but something I wondered is if your using the 9 factor vs the 12, wouldn’t it make sense that the key combinations would be different. What I mean, no offense to you because your piano playing is very good but if it’s your first time playing in 9 factor couldn’t it be possible that 9 factor doesn’t actually sound bad but you just don’t know how to play it yet? Just something to think about. I really like the video and learned from it. Thanks

Very interesting. Great video!

7:12 I actually felt my chakras aligning. Or maybe that was just nausea.

I have heard this before! Then we had the piano tuner come by!

Our current tuning is so deeply engrained in most of us that I really don't think we can get an accurate assessment of how pleasant different tunings sound. It's so different from what we've heard our entire lives that of course it'll sound "off." Just my humble opinion... Great video!!

That made me feel more in the 432 there's a trueness to it and there's a humility to it

Going back to 440Hz after so many "Good Frequencies" just makes me love it much much more.

I'm a piano technician, and I've only had one (memorable) customer who ever requested a 432 frequency tuning. I let him know that I'd be happy to do it, but that it might make it difficult to get the piano back to standard tuning or to play with any other instruments or recordings. He seemed fully convinced that 432 was the way to go and suggested I look up the "schumann frequency". After I got home I looked up some of this material, and I don't know that I've ever seen so much crazy all thrown together like that. Anyhow, thanks for the demo on all of this, Adam.

thank you! When I tried the 432 Hz tuning on my own music it was a very unpleasant experience.

I like the human chakra resonant frequency music. Something about it gives me uncontrollable fits of laughter. I think that's what happens when you engage the chakras.

The chakra one made my entire house smell like patchouli. I might be having an aneurism.

7:18 My 3rd eye is extremely open and my ears are extremely closed.

Thanks to you for deBSing all those alternative tunings craps and other gaïa resonnance delirium.

Thank you, very informative!