The Difference Between Pitch, Note, and Tone 

I’m so glad you found your way here! I’m definitely not a mathematician or physicist so you probably have some great insights for me as well!

I first “learned” clarinet, then sax. I always had trouble with theory. Now, I’ve discovered guitar. When tuned in P4 (fourths tuning) it’s like a music theory showcase. Maybe you’d find value in trying it out.

I first “learned” clarinet, then sax. I always had trouble with theory. Now, I’ve discovered guitar. When tuned in P4 (fourths tuning) it’s like a music theory showcase. Maybe you’d find value in trying it out.

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What is exXtly the difference of timbre and a pitch. I thought timbre and putch is obe and same. The quality of someone or something is the timbre and tbay is also the pitxh of bogh and low. Am I correct? Pleasr i really want to know the exact difference.

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This was it for me. I'm not very musically inclined but I love math and science. The way this was explained made music clearer for the first time in my life and I'm almost 50. Nobody has ever explained pitch, key, and tone this way in any music environment I've been in. It's like an amazing door has been finally opened.

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that's one way of looking at it!

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Thank you so much! The EQ is the stock plug in that comes with Logic Pro 🙂 I just manually removed all of the frequencies

That's certainly a good question! Maybe try listening to a pure sine wave pitch first (for example C4) and then listen to that same pitch on an instrument and see if you can hear the fundamental!

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This is a great question! I recommend training your ear more intently (that is, if you don’t already know your intervals). You can use apps like Perfect Ear or my go-to site is Teoria.com . Start very small, with just the major and minor 2nd intervals. Then move on major 2nd and 3rd, minor 3rd, etc. it’s admittedly a process that will take some time, but it will absolutely fix your problem! You will start to hear pitches rather than tone! I will say, in addition to that, it might be a good idea to hear/sing the same pitch on multiple instruments (if you have access). So, you’d play middle C on a piano, then the same C on a guitar, and the same C on say, a violin, and start to train your ear that way.

This is a great observation! This is definitely true and you’re correct about the recording being in between, or smaller than a half step. It’s similar to when someone sings a note but they’re slightly sharp or flat. This is really common on mediums that are deteriorating, like the cassettes you mentioned. Or sometimes on older recordings made with tape they would decide post-recording that the song should be faster. So rather than spending the money re-recording, they’d speed up the master slightly, which would also pitch the track slightly sharp. For example Everybody Wants to Rule the World by Tears for Fears is in D, but was sped up post recording so it sits somewhere between D and Eb . In reference to notes between G and Gb, there are certainly frequencies in between. In the West, we’ve decided that the half step is the smallest, but there are an infinite number of frequencies in between that we don’t recognize, so they sound out of tune to us. Many refer to these as micro tones. In a lot of cultures in the East, (Indian, Turkish, Japanese music, etc.) they actually do recognize these some of these pitches. This is often called “microtonal music”. I hope that answers your question!!

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Ok. Got to the 6th minute mark and I can hear it now. Love the visuals!

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Great question! Those are the subharmonics or the undertone series.

@@MusicTheoriesChannel - thanks! I was unaware of this phenomenon. It does make sense because adjusting low frequencies on an equalizer changes the character of pitches well above its range.

To be honest, in the colloquial sense people sort of use tone and timbre interchangeably. But the way I think about it is tone describes the balance of the sound and the timbre describes the quality of the overall sound. For example a singer can adjust their tone using registers and placement; if they sing in their upper head voice it may have an "airy" tone compared to their mixed voice which may have a "nasally" tone, compared to their chest voice which may have a "hearty" tone. But timbre describes the singer's voice as a whole, which might be "smooth" or "brassy" or "warm". An electric guitar's tone can be adjusted on an amplifier by playing around with lows (bass), mids, and highs (treble) among other things. The timbre will come from that specific guitar's overall sound quality, which is mostly designated by the specific pick ups the guitar is using. I hope that makes sense!

Yes, typically the pitch of your voice would match the pitch of the melody, unless you change the key!

The singing voice ia but another instrument in the arrangement. It might not sing the exact notes of the melody, but if it had a melody of its own it would have to be harmonized with the instrumental one by the arrangement.

@@egoalter1276 thanks. The key word here is "harmonized", seems to be the most accurate answer

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