WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE! That is seriously an order. Karen Cheng, above, approaches song writing in a wonderful, mathmatical way. This video breaks down music into mathmatics as she explains the relationship between good sounding songs, with notes that work together, and fractions.
Notes that work well together have ratios or fractions that are smaller and simpler. For example the note A, whose sound is the most pleasing, has a ratio 2:1; the note B has a ratio of 3:2, which sounds good but not as good as A; C on the other hand is a ratio of 45:32! The difference in sound is visible through these fractions. And as she says in the video, using these notes that have a simple ratios, are really the building blocks to any classical song.
Like I've stated before in this blog, FRACTIONS ARE EVERYWHERE! I just happen to come across this video and the relation to music I think is just so great. It would be fun to share with a math class or a even a music class. Sometimes as a student, when sitting learning different, content its hard to think of when you will ever use this stuff again. This video is a good reminder for all those "wanna-be" rockstars out there that math is definitely worth investing in.
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