The most mind-blowing concept in music (Harmonic Series)

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auiya · 2021-06 · Strong recommendation

Music producer Andrew Huang does a fantastic job demonstrating the harmonic series concepts in a video from last year: [VIDEO]

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hug · 2021-07 · Recommendation

The harmonic series is a really neat thing to learn about -- one of those "art is math" kind of moments. This video does a good job of explaining it in a relatively short and simple way, but goes in-depth enough that even people with an understanding of music might learn something: [VIDEO]

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noxToken · 2021-05 · Recommendation

Andrew Huang does a good job of explaining harmonics and overtones[0]. You only need to watch until about the 4 minute mark (from the timestamp) to get an explanation of harmonics and what the sonograms represent. The short of it is that most natural sounds product a root tone plus a varying amount of related tones above it. Our ears hear the root tone, and the other tones above it are what give the sound its uniqueness. That's why a guitar, a clarinet and 3 singers can produce the same note while sounding distinct. Birds seem to produce a natural sound without a lot of the related tones above it. Their sound is, relatively speaking, much purer than most other natural sounds. That's very unique. [0]: [VIDEO]

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