@michaelsmusicmind: Every note secretly contains a chord. Try it on a piano! #musictheory #music #piano #physics #harmonics Piano: Salamander Grand Piano by Alexander Holm (CC BY 3.0). Saxophone: "Sax Alto - C4" by MTG, freesound.org (CC BY 3.0). Cello: University of Iowa Electronic Music Studios.

Poh :

Music theory should not be boring. This is very intuitive.

𝕾𝖔𝖉𝖆 :

was about to do the experiment then i realised that i have an electric piano😭

mihohomundo :

how about our voices, how could we assess every timbre?

Smart~Guy :

I disagree.

Morris :

please teach about microtonal notes!

NicDelcambre :

Bonus fact! The higher strings vibrating where you play the lower one is called “sympathetic resonance.” This is also the same reason troops can’t march across a bridge in lockstep (exaggeration but you get the idea.)

Austin :

Wow, what a fantastic visualization of vibrating string harmonics

Paul :

A classical musician friend was talking about this, he said to me you've never heard a pure note. I suggested a synthesiser but I was wrong he told me, the loudspeaker, the room and even your actual ears put harmonics on the 'pure' note. It is apparently impossible!

berksdxtf :

As a music student this is very helpful and true thank you!

JimCrz 🌍 :

I never did understand harmonics. After watching this video, I still don’t. So I guess I never will.

cxxspr :

Not sure it’s an infinite chord given we only hear up to 22khz

llllllll :

the overtones making a major triad is also the reason why bach's and many baroque pieces overall end with major tonic even if the piece is in minor. bc it sounds more natural to our ears! minor triad literally creates dissonant bc it contradicts the overtones!!

Tomasega ☁︎✰ :

sound waves make your eardrum move in n out in sync w the wave. a pure sine at 400hz makes your drum wobble at 400hz. but across the drum is varied sensitivity to dif frequencies, so you can hear multiple complex combos of dif freq wobbles at once. the foundation is so simple but we process patterns in that constant in/out psec info so fast n effectively. like reading matrix code in the air.

crunchy_toes :

is this similar to how overtones work? or would it be a different explanation

chwum :

If this is original content it’s very well made! And super easy to understand

rps1982 :

I know this is true from a physics sense, but just when I think I start getting a handle on music theory, along comes this fact 😳

Spencer™ • Enemies :

Im a violinist, we use this to check whether we are in tune!

fregg :

It's nice to see this visualized because I found it very confusing when I first started playing guitar how two guitars could play a note of the same pitch, but with a different tone.

Ms. Doctor Pepper 🥤 :

That bflat is a dominant 7 btw

azur. :

Ivar✪⸆⸉ :

How does it swing in 1x 2x 3x 4x 5x simultaneously im so confused

Jay :

so basically notes are like colors and each instruments have different shades of the color

aron_with_1_a :

Wait I'm confused. How does the string vibrate at different frequencies all at the same time??

sofia ☆ :

wait im so lost how do i hold down a note without playing it

¡ǝɯɐu ןooɔ :

If you knock on wood, there is a note (say, a C), but if you knock fast enough, like 440 times/second, it is an A, but made of a bunch of C notes. So what is that original C note made of?