This is the one most useful video on overtones and its topics I have found. Seeing the clip of the irregular string vibrating changed my idea on music in all. This video helped me understnd overtones and timbre really well, thanks

Wow, I know nothing about music but I was doing a math class about harmonic series. Suddenly a video of overtone singing from 5 years ago popped up in my mind and I wondered if it is, in fact, a harmonic series thingy stuff... and well, that rabbit hole very soon brought me here! Awesome video

What an excellent video! I've been wondering about this stuff for a long time and you explained it very well :)

What an awesome tutorial. Well-explained and well-animated.

Wow! I learned a lot in this video! It goes more in depth than my intonation class or other videos on harmonics.

soooo perfect, i really understood about the notes and everything through this video. Thanks a lot❤️❤️❤️

Really enjoying this series. Thanks

@WalkThatBass

7 жыл бұрын

Glad to hear it :) Thanks for the comment.

This was super helpful. As someone who just picked up music theory I have countless questions, but they are rarely answered. Thank you

Man, you are the best I found yet on youtube to explain musics math in details. I'll listen eagerly each and every part. You got a sub and as many likes as you have videos. Thank you so much!!!!!

Oh my god dude, I've been thinking/reading about this stuff for a long time and this is the first time I hear about the overtones arising from being unable to pluck the string starting at a perfect curve. That makes so much sense!

Wow!! This is EXCELLENT! You put a lot of time into this, and I want to thank you very much....it was time very well spent.

Well done! this is a very interesting and useful series

thank you so much! one of the best videos i've seen about overtones! and all slo mo vids and software demos were very helpful for deeper understanding!!!

Perfectly clear and concise, great work!!

Thank you. Excellent lecture. Even though the materials in this video are quite fundamental, but the way you explained it really help me to have a better understanding of sound and music.

Comprehensive and concise, thank you very much for this!

Brilliantly explained. Keep up the great work!

Thanks. Very well explained. Understood the physics behind the musical instruments ...A perfect blend of an musician and a Physicist.

Really helpful. Especially gives me inspiration to "forge" an instrument digitally through wave tables and oscillators.

@Maxim_Corp

3 жыл бұрын

Yo saaaame

This answered basically all my questions about overtones, thank you

Thank you so much for sharing knowledge, I read a book on music theory but don't fully understand it . After watching your overtones diagram, I can understand a little more what I just read. I will watch again your video until I really understand what you're talking about.

Very nice! This answered many of my questions!

You are really good at explaining dude, thanks a bunch!

Wonderful video!

this is absolutely fascinating

This was really useful for my physics subject

never knew that before. so beautifully simple when you see it illustrated. the harmonics are 'waves on the wave'. You can even see it on a skipping rope I reckon. Get it going round - there's your fundamental - and then with a bit of flick of the wrist you can send a wave along the length of it to the other person - that'd be the mixture of harmonics. That's what that shot of the guitar string revealed. Beautiful, entirely.

I learned about this a few years ago but I needed to touch up on my knowledge and this helped tremendously! Thank you :)

Thank you...this helped me with studying for the MCAT!

Brilliant! Thank you so much!

Wow amazingly simplified explanation 👌

This was excellently explained thank you very much.

Thanks, made it easy to understand, fun to watch

Great video 👏👏👏

Super clear and helpful! Thank you!

Excellent video my friend!

Fantastic explanation and examples!

Thank you for the clear explanations!!

brilliant video. But "the sound of a violin" sounds like a church organ

@eliascorrea8573

2 жыл бұрын

The violin has vibrato and many other dynamics naturally. You can't accurately recreate the sound of a violin only by changing what harmonic sounds the most but you can recreate it's timbre like he did in the video :)

holy cow your videos are so good!

A very clear explanation.

@WalkThatBass

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Paul :)

Pretty awesome video thanks

Great video!

Your Videos were my wish and you made my wish come true. A wish of understanding and to find answers to my Questions. Thank you.

Thanks a lot.. was looking just for this :)

wow, this is the best explanation iv seen

Very good physics explanation on musical notes production. The pitch is seemed to be determine between the points where ALL the waves are at zero amplitude.

this video is gold with gold and sugar and gold again

The best animation I´ve ever seen

@WalkThatBass

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks :) Very nice of you to say...though perhaps a slight exaggeration.

Lovely content! Keep it up!

@WalkThatBass

7 жыл бұрын

Cheers, will do.

Brilliant!!!

Great video! I'll make a serie on my channel on Home Recording next weeks and I'll surely recomand this video to the people who want to learn more! Thank you!

Really informative series

MINDBLOWN

BRILLIANTLY EXPLAINED Many Frequencies playing at once on any note ,of the fundamental Most here will find that difficult to take in , but its a fact Some better singers have more overtones in their voices making a richer sound

Awesome. So this is why, all other things equal, no 2 voices sound the same.

best tutorial

This is very helpful thanks

Awesome. Thanks!

Best explanation

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Thank you so much. This is so fascinating to learn about, and I can't appreciate enough the way you're able to present it in a way that is so easy to understand. You are such a fantastic teacher!

Great video! I am self-studying overtones because I am interested why my open cello strings vibrate even when I don't play them.

@jellybean2619

2 жыл бұрын

i play the cello too! it's called synthetic vibration, when you play the same note on another string:)

@joaoomar3613

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, synthetic vibration is also why drums don't have notes, because one side of the drum is tuned to onde note and the onther side tuned to a different note, which makes the sound "die" inside the drum. Sometimes when I'm talking with someone that's distant from me, i can hear one of my guitar strings vibrate, probably because I sad something in the same pitch very loudly.

when you pluck the A string on a "GEETSAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH"

Unreal 👏

Great!!!

Please also do a video about overtones in a flute. Thanx. This video was an eye (ear) opener .;}

Very interesting. I was wondering how it could be possible to recognize an instrument based on a spectrogram of its sound. You said violin had certain predominant harmonics, is there a comprehensive list of characteristic harmonics for every instruments out there? I would appreciate any pertinent links.

i have no music theory background, just fidling in my pc and i always wondered about overtones on basses for example, like how can bass in F# have overtone A# that doesnt fit into my F# minor scale and sometimes it made me to stop in progress because i was so confused and thought that it will sound ,,not in scale" and bad (ye i dont really trust my ears about ,,music being correct")...after years i wanted to find out and this was sooooo helpful man. thank you so much

Cool video! Just one thing, at 9:44, I believe the reeds of woodwinds and the lips of brass players are the things that cause the air to vibrate in those instruments, like the strings. Maybe you were thinking about flutes?

How do you find the favored harmonics of different instruments?

The relationship between string length and frequency is not direct; it's inversely proportional.

@methandtopology

5 жыл бұрын

And that is because the string length is proportional to the wavelength, and given a specific string acting as a medium for the wave, the speed is constant. Therefore, to satisfy v=fλ, any change in the string length inversely changes the frequency.

@tejabommireddy5665

3 жыл бұрын

@@methandtopology h

Incredible video! Very well and methodically taught! Could you recommend some good books to read about this? A small blibliography we could also read? Thank you!

@WalkThatBass

6 жыл бұрын

Hi Jorge. The following are both good resources: How Music Works ~ John Powell The Physics of Sound ~ Richard E. Berg

@JorgeTabaresMusic

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you! I appreciate it. I just discovered your channel and am enjoying your videos very much.

the Angels numbers. you explained it finally . timbre tambor - it how things go out of tune and frequency .

It might be worth mentioning that the first nine harmonics starting from A are exactly, or very close to, the tones A A E A C# E G A B which might be described a particular voicing of the chord A9 even if only one low A I'd actually played. Í other words: The A string contains an A, A7 and a A9 chord. It works the other way around as well. Play A E C# E G A B and your brain might choose to fill in an extra lower, subharmonic, A in order to complete the pattern above.

@ThePi314Man

7 жыл бұрын

Torkil Zachariassen As well, the ascending ratios of notes follow the Fibonacci sequence.

@alexshih3747

6 жыл бұрын

Not to be pedantic, but C# and G are quite noticeably different from the true harmonics that come from the overtone series.

Hi, my music teacher tell's me that B and G string are more often out of tune than other strings on a guitar. I hope to know something about stress in materials and things like that and hopefully one day able to build my own guitar. I've never heard this before and at this point I'm unable to match this in my technical background. I'm not sure if this is true or based on some of his personal experience... Is it just a coincidence? If truly so, whats the reason for this? (I don't mean any bridge or tuning machine's issue's here)

@ogorangeduck

3 жыл бұрын

That's because the equal temperament system (the tuning system Western music uses nowadays) makes the third fairly sharp, and B and G are a third apart, so that third is harder to make sound right (it's also psychological, as the two strings can be perfectly in tune and still sound off compared to the other strings)

@NcMuggets

3 жыл бұрын

Strings going out of tune have nothing to do with temperament.

Interesting :3

How does the shape of motion in the slowed down recording of a violin string vibrating (2:54) or the gif of the combined harmonics (2:39) resemble/relate to the wave shape? can you see the wave shape from the behavior of the string? Are they different because of the visual demonstration of the longitudinal wave?

This lesson is fucking beautiful!

Could you by any chance explain why some harmonics get softer and die off eventually?? My thinking is that since they have smaller amplitudes, they may be bullied out by the larger amplitude ones, but i could be very wrong, some help would be great thankyou!

if a bugle players buzzes a tone outside harmonics on bugle will it just not resonate properly through the horn?

@jacobruiz97

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, exactly. In most cases, when a player attempts to play a note that does not exist in the horn’s natural harmonics, a weak, “flubby” sound comes out

5:26 - So a violin is periodic in its harmonics while very concentrated at the fundamental, while a flute has very few overtones, with exception to a little whiff sticking out at the 3rd harmonic! Pure & robust vs. pure & sinewy :)

On a natural resonant signal, the intensity (amplitude) of the overtones tends to decrease exponentially.

What would happen if you create several sine waves that are harmonic to each other (110 Hz, 220 Hz, 440Hz, etc) but shift the nodes so they don't line up? Will it sound different?

Fantastic! Just what I was looking for. I've wondered for some time: How do we know it's Frank Sinatra singing a middle C and not a piano playing Middle C. Overtones I guess. At about 5:35 the video shows the Synth Oscillator which is some kind of overtone graphic equalizer thingie. Is there one of these that we can play with somewhere online? And/or can we see the differences between instruments and voices on a Synth Oscillator somewhere? Thanks

Wow. Amazing videos and explanation. 6mins in, wondering with the flute vs the violin, and the dominant harmonic being the fundamental or the 2nd, and the subsequent harmonic series (248 for violin vs f+3 for flute) is that common across instrument types, or inferable in anyway? Similarly with the selected amplitudes were they calculated? Really great presentation and explanation 👍🏻👍🏻

Facinating video. I'd like to use little bits (stills) in my next video on Charlie Parker The Levin Wilson controversy part 3. It will save me a hell of a lot of time. If not ok to do that please let me know here. thanks. Ps I'll pass credit to you.

@bebopreview3187

4 жыл бұрын

Actually it will be part 4. it's taking longer to finish this series than I thought.

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I know this video has been out a while, but another reason piano timbre changes up the scales is because the ratio of string length to where the hammer hits is also different. A few inches on a 5' string is a much smaller ratio than a single inch on a 10" string. The hammer hits much closer to the end of the string on the longer one and much closer to the middle on the shorter one, even if raw distance is smaller. Those are not exact numbers but I hope they show the point.

what sets up the string to fundamental frequency?

A question on the harmonic series. So we know that if we start at 110 Hz, the third harmonic is 330 Hz (i.e. 1/3), but what about the mirrored node (i.e. 2/3) at 165 Hz? Same goes for the 4th harmonic. 440 Hz (i.e. 1/4) is OK, but why not also 146.67 Hz (i.e. node 3/4)?

This concept of higher order modes of oscillation has everything to do with how an instrument body amplifies, too. A guitar body has modes and overtones just like a string. So does the volume of air in the guitar. A video/image search for "modes oscillation guitar soundboard" or "chladni plates" is illustrative of this idea moving from one dimension to two. It's cool how much more complicated the patterns are.

I would like to know where we can get this ADSynth software he's using. Google seems very shy of revealing any info on it to me... though I got the impression it should be freeware...

I got the software you said at 5:36, but I don't find anything that looks like what you have at 5:36. How do I get that so I can see a frequency and the various over tones as I add them?

@WalkThatBass

4 жыл бұрын

It's an instrument called ZynAddSubFX in LMMS. Found a short tutorial of it online. Try that. kzread.info/dash/bejne/f5OjrrWbZaevoLA.html

Hi! I am looking for a way to measure wich overtones are more or less dominant when I am bowing in different ways on a violin. I want to know what I hear. Can you help? Any app or other tool? ❤

very sugoi

Just to get this straight, if I pluck middle C and then one octave up the shorter string will translate the same amount of kinetic energy into a higher pitched frequency because the rate of oscillation is higher, but the timbre will generally be identical because the materials of the instrument are identical and the string lengths are geometrically proportional to each other. In this way we get the same harmonics at a higher or lower pitch and therefore it makes sense to call both of these notes "C." Is this correct?

How will it sound if we stack overtones using just sine waves?

what is sound note ? note and tone are same things ?