This just changed my life. I'm an ADHD-based musician, who struggles with connecting music theory into my way of understanding. Perfect explanation of perspective and connecting math to creative work.
every thing ,shape ,size , solid ,liquid pattern ,gaseous patterns , blackhole and rest that we don't know yet ,all can be explained or simply show with an math equation
A good ear can replace theory anyday. Once tuned the notes on ur instrament are stationairy and tangeble. Theyre at ur disposal. Rhythm and structure are the intangibles. I too am a musician of 25+ years multiple instraments and adhd. Theory doesnt work for me. And prob wont for you. Much better to focus on the intangibles and trust your ears. All scales are groups of notes that are most consinet decreasing or increasing. But without dissonance its hard to convey alot of emotion or feeling. Trust your ear Brother
I agree, I had the concentration of a gnat in class. Getting a grasp of the circle of fifths then applying it to an instrument or writing is 1 of the most fundamental yet giant steps any musician of any genre can take
If you make an equilateral triangle or square and then rotate it, something amazing happens. You discover that there are only four unique augmented chords and three unique diminished 7 chords because their intervals are equally spaced.
Yes, they are just inversions of each other. And lots of complex chords can be viewed and created as stacks of types of trị chords on top of bass notes or even other note combinations, I.E. a Cmaj7aug5th is basically a E major chord over a C bass note C E G# B. These views of complex chords and scales has helped me to grasp complex harmony over the years
Thanks a lot for saving my life, i was getting tagged as insane by my musician friends saying that I am thinking absurd, i wish to collaborate with you guys, i am looking forward to develop a unique data structure that can develop into a machine learning model and analyse a given piece of music into a mathematical expression, which can be further analysed with the human cognition system and deduce the impact of the music on the brain and it's cognitive reactions. Great research by you guys. Thanks 🙏
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THIS! I've been waiting for a good sound mathematical video about music. As far as I'm concerned word like 'major', 'minor', 'sharp', 'flat' only confuse the issue. To me, there are only steps and patterns around the wheel. This video does an excellent job of showing how frequencies are related to make pleasing structures. I might suggest showing how the 0-4-7 combination (major) and the 0-5-8 combo(minor) are really just mirrors about the vertical axis. Also, maybe show how the 'church' scales are related by simply rotating the major wheel.
@@umbertojr 0-5-8 is also a minor since it effectively also a 5-8-12, which when down shifted is a 0-3-7. it just has a different name (I forget which), which is one of my points of confusion. There are 3 variations of a minor scale that are within a single octave range.... 0-3-7, 0-5-8 and 0-4-9
@@glenneric1 You're right that 0-5-8 makes a minor chord, namely an F minor chord (if 0 = C). It would be a 2nd inversion minor chord because its 5th (C) is on the bottom, so it's spelled C(0) - F(5) - Ab(8). 1st inversion is when its 3rd (Ab) is on bottom.
This visual system makes a lot more sense than our current method of notating chords. It should become a standard chord notation method. Recognize the shape, recognize the kind of chord to play. Observe its angle in the wheel, know what key it is. Easy. This is the method I would choose to teach our 12 tone musical system to an alien race. It's very logical and representational.
Holy COW. About 3 years ago, I had a waking vision of Pythagoras pointing out this exact concept, with the addition of musical frequencies aligning with the 7 colors of ROYGBIV. Furthermore, the shapes illustrated in your video align perfectly with what are called "Grand Aspects" in astrology. Needless to say, all of this stuff is related, and it blew my mind when I had that revelation. Awesome video!
LOVE your site. I'm just learning to play a keyboard (repertoire limited to Freres Jacques, Mussels, and Cockles, etc..) I find it so fascinating that music has so many mathematical, almost mystical components.
Since you don't want to know what a pentatonic scale is, I'll tell you. Take a tube and blow over the top of it, like blowing over a bottle. You'll get a note dependent on the length of that tube. ~ Its fundamental frequency. By blowing harder and harder, you can get other notes, 4 distinct different notes before eventually getting one that's twice the fundamental frequency. One octave up. The fundamental and those 4 other distinct notes, are the pentatonic major scale. So 5 of the 12 notes in a Western chromatic octave scale can be achieved with a fixed-length tube and physics. (There was a 'toy' in the 70's that was a flexible corrugated tube about 1m / 1yd long, and by twirling it around at different speeds you could get those 5 notes, and smack anyone within range.)
I've been playing guitar for a long time, 22 years, and I feel stuck in the room, musically speaking. Using keyboards to record music has been helping me but I get so caught up in learning those programs I forget to study what the hell I actually just recorded. I'm left handed, but I play right handed thank God, but my brain does not understand like other's do. I'm gonna need to watch this video over and over. I know where most the notes are but I am far from understanding the Liles of triads And what makes a chord beyond just full blown bar chords. Learning to play these, I get bored easily and go back to my knuckle dragging style of play. A mix between dirty Slur atmospheric blues and heavy metal, with side quests into other genres to shake the tree a little bit. (Just finished a Latin trap song) , which uses sounds notes and progressions I'm unfamiliar with I have all these new sound packs and there is Arabic trap music, Punjab (india) those cultures use obviously different scales than a typical good Ole murican guitarist like myself. And I'm very disappointed in my lack of knowledge on music in a global and historical scale. I just seen a video about the hurrian hymn number 6 (the oldest sing ever written that could be still transcribed. Like 3400 years old from the an area in (todays) Syria. But the translation is muddle a bit, I think it's a minor scale But it was meant for a lyre instrument with out instruction on tuning But i digress thank you for this video.
I was studying Ptolemy in college (great books program) and I remember our professor showing us how musical intervals somehow match up with the planets and their orbits as well. If someone knows what I am talking about I would love to know where I can read and learn more about that.
This is not the true geometry of music. The notes of the chromatic scale are at the vertices of specific polygons. Those polygons are the triangle, square, pentagon, octagon, and the pentadecagon.
Do you have an app for messing about in this duodecagon? I use this concept already but i draw it and that takes time. Also id like to change the colors. The lack of magenta bothers me (learn to CMYK plz) and i color code the notes differently
Hou can a circle "represent" a perfect octave? When you only used 12 points on it? I mean in that scene everything can be represented perfectly by a circle
is there a website where you can select the decogram and hear sound. i want to try something with it. but unsure if one exists. searching for one i'm not having much luck. any help thanks🤞
