I'm glad someone who actually knows what they're talking about didn't find some giant detramental factual error hahaha! Thank you for being a teacher and inspiring learning!
I know I'm way late to the party here, but I gotta say, useful critical feedback, in a YT comment? Are you sure you understand how these comment sections are supposed to work? :-)
I pulled this up, hoping to give a better explanation to my 7yo how sound “happens”, but I learned, too! I loved all my physics courses in college & am a musician & I still learned something new! Great video 🥰
Thanks for this, when I was singing in a quartet, that was what I was trying to do - tweaking my voice to create a unique canvas of sound with the other 3 voices. I wouldn't have sung that way if alone.
Wow, Mr. Lytle, this video is high calibre! The animation, narration, presentation, sound and content are all amazing! Why, I wonder, do you only have half a thousand subscribers? Good luck with this channel :)
Had to watch this as part of my Physics lesson and man your content is amazing! Was blown away at the fact you only had 475 subscribers. Your videos were Profesional and just so well done, keep it up.
Drew- I fell down a worm hole doing some research on dementia for a kids book. I have been singing my whole life. Singing barbershop is the most amazing way to hear overtones . The Buffalo Bill's were amazing at it. Your passion is so beautiful. Thank you. I needed you today.
This is a really informative video about musical instruments and their sounds with a bit of science explained! Really nice info graphics! I like how you explained things very clearly and they make a lot of sense. You'd make a great professor! One thing that would make the info much better would be if you could explain some of the basics to the viewers, such as what the concept of frequency mean and how it looks in the color graph. The other concept being the volume. These things might seem obvious for those who took physics, but for many, these are really new ideas. Keep up the good work, and if you have editors working with you to organize your lecture notes and presentation, that would take you to places! 👍
"Every note is a chord" that stuck with me due to the fact that most chords are made up of very fast polyrhythms. Ergo a polyrhythm of 5:4 is equivalent to a Major 3rd if sped up to an unplayable speed you will get a Major 3rd at whatever pitch the speed is set at. So back to that statement "Every note is a chord" therefore that means that every rhythm, whether singular quarter notes or combined rhythms can make notes or chords. Rhythms are notes and notes are rhythms. Music is quite an interesting thing.
Good point on the vocal true tuning. One of my choir directors was explaining that once, and obviously it occurs when you are singing against nothing (a Capella) or against just one note of the chord played. If the instrument and the voices are playing the same chord, and you tried to truly tune the vocal chord, it would be a train wreck, at least it seems that way to me. I was looking up different tunings, some which provide true, no beat, chords on some chords, and what they call wolf chords on others, so that some chords are excluded by those tunings, because they are audible train wrecks. What well tempered (current Western tuning) actually means is that NO two different notes are in perfect tune, except, IIRC, octaves, which I think are true doublings, because again, IIRC (to lazy to work it out) those are the only intervals where the thelwth root of two (mulitplier for current semitone frequency, to get the next in line) works out to an integer division, if that made any sense. If not, feel free to correct me, I am an engineer, electrical, not a physicist, so this is a bit out of my wheelhouse. This means, if I understand this correctly, that all non octave spread notes are very slightly out of tune with all other possible notes, but to an equal degree, so that no true wolf chords exist, and songs can be written in any key, none excluded. And then we get out, eventually, into perception of sound, which frankly, when I read a book about it, just made my hair hurt, most of it. TM curves and the like, obvious, some of it generated that record scratch sound in my head, to keep the imagery bound mostly to the subject. :-) Great vid.
this is a beatiful video. and you have a great and profound message to spread :D Keep going with this please! I'm subscribing because you're about to be on the come up lmao
Hey Drew, subbed. What software did you use in this vid? After Effects? Curious because my channel is all about voice over audio and I have courses that I'm looking to add sound theory to. Thx!
What for wonderful words - and more. It touches my heart - even the last part. For me as a musissian and quire-singer, I learned a lot in this short video - even for creating new voices to play with my doepfer trautonium on my modular synth. But as a spiritual awaken person, I have only to thank you for this awsome speach. Oh, yes - this is it. We, as humans, live all here in a big quire - and the best and only way, to live here in peace, is, to hear to each other. So - again: thank you for this great statement. NAMASTE
So what i didn't understand is, why isn't the fundamental sound have the strongest amplitude. But then I realized, that the octave and fundamental frequency by 2 to the n frequencies are really the same notes, therefore it really is the most noteable note, but it makes me even more curious about how it relates to recognition of perfect pitch. So perfect pitch people find it harder to recognise pure frequencies as notes, soo they really rely on timbre, but how. What kind of sound patterns does one note from another have for different notes, I wonder.
Regardless I still liked the video very much and wanted to see the response. Keep it up and all the best. I'll stick around for a while if you don't mind.
Wise comments on the importance of the arts! Really great explanation of sound! I’m less interested in the “collective” as we can’t control the “collective” although some do try! Best to support in a strong way every individual always in truth! Again great video!
Modern spectrum-analyser of different materials of the same design = quality of sound. Wood is many-types, joints are many different-glue to different woods, hinges affect vibration vectors and release soundboard (is not amplification soundboard) Drummer plays fruits selection with fingers = tonal quality, timbre Military play sonar on fruits and no eat fruits
Why do we say, this song (melody) is in A minor (just an example). Why can't you play that song let's say in D minor. You can, but musicians will say, it is not going to be as pleasant as original. Why not? If the frequency interval in between the notes stays the same, then why not? It is just that you will have a different starting point (reference point). The frequency intervals up and down going any number of keys , any scale will stay the same, does not matter which key you start from. And it is the manipulation of those frequency intervals in the time frame, that we perceive as melody. So melody should stay exactly the same. Isn't it? Of course pitch will slightly be different. And interestingly, we do not question the originality of a melody when we start from a different octave, as long as the reference point stays the same. That means you can start from A5, or A6 instead of A4. So doubling the frequency or quadrupling the frequency of the reference point is considered 100% right; but it is not considered accurate if the frequency of the new point is not the multiple of 2 (in terms of original key). Why not? If a melody played in the range 220Hz .....440 Hz is same as the melody played between 440Hz...880Hz, why is it not exactly the same as the melody played in the range from 392Hz.....784 (783.99) Hz. This is the G4-G5 range. Bottomline is, doubling the frequency is Ok, but choosing something less or more than the double is not Ok, even though you follow the same rules/intervals of melody. WHY ?
Hi and thanks for your cool explanation. I have a question i hope you will help me. Overtones are always in higher frequencies or can occur in lower frequencies too?
One thing I don’t understand is why you played a strong rhythmic Latin percussion in the background while concentration is required to listen to the different timbers of various instruments.
This video would have been good if it weren't for that really annoying drumming. It was so distracting that I couldn't even focus on notes. Terribly made video!
My teachers in school taught me that while music was about frequency and maths, if you didn't have a talent for it you shouldn't bother...I hated that attitude and only later in life did I realize that anyone, and I mean ANYONE can learn to drawn, sing and play! Art isn't a gift that you are given by the heavens, it's an intrinsic part of humanity. Anyone can learn the skills to perfect their art, but the ability to create art and to feel it are natural to all human beings.
I literally could not agree more @random individual. It makes me so mad that someone ever said that to you. Also, if you want to be part of a community for people growing their creative muscles, join lumastic.com - it's free :)
So Drew.....On earth there are a lot of humans that are intune with God on higher levels of consciousness and you are definitely one of them from you beautifully shared in this video....... I had a spiritual encounter many years and have been elevating more and more eversince and now the goal is to keep unifying all of us conscious beings to become a more powerful force together..... I use to spend a lot of time trying to wake others up but then was told within to unite with alike minds and energy to keep mastering my abilities and levels of vibration to be a bigger reflection for the rest. Its parents with children .... the parents know that some kids are just mentality too young to understand adult info and experiences so just still love them i the best way they can until hopefully they become mentally mature to be fully part of that higher vibration........God has me making music to keep my vibrations high and by meditating all of the time . Overall thanks for the video .. this was extremely needed. GOD Bless You
what makes an instrument's note special is its unique intensities in harmonics. it is not a chord - a chord is the amalgamation of the different harmonics played by each individual note. They are slightly different and as you probably already know, these harmonics don't usually coincide - which makes the warm and wide sound of a chord due to the sound waves not being in phase.
