Channel: Michael New

Category: Education

Tags: musicflatsscalekey signaturesharpsmusic theoryaccidental

Description: Check out my new YouTube channel here: youtube.com/theoveranalyzers UPDATE: Since there's been some criticism (thoughtful discussion mostly, you guys are great) about the first part of this video I wanted to clarify things: I'm explaining why, out of all the different pitches we have, we nearly always use 7. There isn't some physical law that causes it; it's just a very natural and aesthetically pleasing division of the octave. We could use 8, we could use 6, but they simply don't work as well. What I'm NOT trying to explain is why we separate an octave into twelve logarithmically equal divisions, why certain intervals are dissonant and some aren't, how the harmonic series helps determine those intervals, how just intonation compares to equal temperament, or any other very fundamental aspect of how we determine the pitches in our musical system. I have every intention of doing a lesson on "the physics of music". But that's a huge topic all to itself, and it's not what I was trying to explain here. Feel free to keep discussing it in the comments though. There's a lot of interesting thoughts on it.