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The most mind-blowing concept in music (Harmonic Series)
🕑 Added 2023-01-26 23:57:12 +0000 UTCAs many of you know we will be doing a deep dive into the harmonic series, which is the mathematical basis of musical Harmony that is set by nature and unaffected by human opinion, and pretty much totally untaught in music education. The ancients in fact considered music a science and the ultimate crossroads between the arts and sciences. Because we do not teach the scientific basis of music it becomes merely a practical art which largely strip it of its glorious universal potential. It is an endlessly deep subject with profound implications on music harmony, theory, and composition. On this thread I am going to be posting some YouTube videos for you guys to watch to get you started on the subject. I am currently working on some content for this but some of these videos are fantastic and probably better than what I can do as a basic overview so it will do you a lot of good too check these out. Absorb what you can and if there are parts that you don't understand just write down some questions and we can go over it. The main link here is one of the best general overviews of the harmonic series I have seen, I will post some other links in the comments as well and please feel free to comment or ask questions below. The implications of the harmonic series are beyond mind blowing so allow yourself to have your mind blown by what we have not been taught.
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Thanks for sharing will check out.
Hey all! I was going to say somewhat along the same topic as this (cause Andrew does a version of this in the video) - this guy used white noise and an eq to bring out certain freq to come up with your own chord/sounds. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/93E77hBM-1Y
Yeah there may be no more instrument that is more harmonic Rich than that. It will be cool to see you pull it out and give us some examples of it as time goes on here. I could even see us doing some collective recordings where we are all having access to tracks where you provide us with some cool drones
Nah man keep it comin'! I have a Tanpura from India that produces pure harmonics at much higher decibels than other stringed instruments. Sometimes I'll pull a frequency generator app out to help train myself to detect higher order harmonics. I've remarked at when I find something on the generator that lines up, then switch it off and pay attention to that particular harmonic on the Tanpura that it sounds EXACTLY the same as the sine wave generator. That always seemed bizarre to me, until now! It further weirds me out to think about the fact that a sine generator app doesn't sound beautiful to me, though it doesn't sound unpleasant either, and yet pure acoustic harmonics coming off real instruments do sound awesome. At the end of the day they sound pretty much identical!? Crazy..
