More Polyrhythms - Music Theory Crash Course

There are many different ways to look at polyrhythms in music and today we are looking at a different one, using star shapes. Last time we visualized these rhythms using straight sided polygons but I had a great comment on the last video that suggested using a star shape. So after many hours of making the new animations here are the more common polyrhythms you will find in music visualized using star shapes. This is an exercise in visualizing musician not a method for teaching polyrhythms. I hope you enjoy!
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  • @oenwilson2486
    @oenwilson24862 жыл бұрын

    That 1:2:3:4:5:6:7:9:11:13:17 polyrhythm could've sounded awesome if you chose notes that harmonized well with it but great video nonetheless

  • @GOATaro_

    @GOATaro_

    2 жыл бұрын

    Agree

  • @vuedanto8576

    @vuedanto8576

    2 жыл бұрын

    It sounds great when it was 1:2:3:4:5

  • @TimothyLowYK

    @TimothyLowYK

    2 жыл бұрын

    I think it was meant to be a quartal chord built on perfect fourths

  • @oenwilson2486

    @oenwilson2486

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@TimothyLowYK guess that explains why quartal harmony probably only sounds nice to a certain degree cuz when a lot of the fourths are stacked it doesn't sound as great compaerd to the stack of fifths probably

  • @tomdekler9280

    @tomdekler9280

    2 жыл бұрын

    Maybe if he adjusted the pitch to match the relative frequencies? I know 2:3 makes a perfect fifth if you speed it up enough.

  • @neopessimist7326
    @neopessimist73263 жыл бұрын

    Its quite interesting how you can hear the rythmn go almost go to unclear noise. Like a toddler that over enthausiastic rings the doorbell.

  • @cl0p38

    @cl0p38

    2 жыл бұрын

    It all started with 7, nobody likes 7

  • @LaurensHouweling

    @LaurensHouweling

    2 жыл бұрын

    to be fair it was played really fast

  • @circumplex9552

    @circumplex9552

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@cl0p38 all prime numbers are weird except 2 3 and 5

  • @scrapgrace

    @scrapgrace

    2 жыл бұрын

    Go 2x speed

  • @netric9084
    @netric90842 жыл бұрын

    I like how the ending sounded like someone playing random keys, laying their whole arm on the keyboard, playing random notes again, and repeating.

  • @ryanjoshuacalo9146

    @ryanjoshuacalo9146

    2 жыл бұрын

    and then ends with a peaceful silence

  • @Adam_S0612gg

    @Adam_S0612gg

    Жыл бұрын

    I USED TO DO THIS😭

  • @cheeseburgermonkey7104

    @cheeseburgermonkey7104

    7 ай бұрын

    One of them sounds like a car door open noise i cant even 😭😭😭😭

  • @gvmrpg
    @gvmrpg Жыл бұрын

    I've been playing drums for 16 years and for the first time in my life I managed to REALLY visualize what a 6:7 is actually doing in the background. Seeing it was so much easier than just clapping to the beat. Thank you for this!

  • @mmm-tacos
    @mmm-tacos Жыл бұрын

    i want to see that 1:2:3:4:5:6:7:9:11:13:17 polyrythm: 1. with just the dots 2. using the harmonic series as the notes

  • @PabloGambaccini

    @PabloGambaccini

    Жыл бұрын

    Was going to say the same, numbers equal harmonic series ❤ it's like a recursive harmonic series in that way.

  • @mihailmilev9909

    @mihailmilev9909

    11 ай бұрын

    ​@@PabloGambaccinitrue yeah actually

  • @mihailmilev9909

    @mihailmilev9909

    11 ай бұрын

    59th like

  • @mihailmilev9909

    @mihailmilev9909

    11 ай бұрын

    ​@@PabloGambaccini3rd like

  • @Whydoiexisthere-

    @Whydoiexisthere-

    7 ай бұрын

    I feel like the out-of-harmony notes can make its own unique song for certain scenes in like, a movie. Each polyrhythm adds onto the chaos, until it eventually transitions from music to noise…

  • @tristanhmusic
    @tristanhmusic3 жыл бұрын

    I think the stars are really effective, visually!

  • @seanofpeace
    @seanofpeace2 жыл бұрын

    I love how the sound of all the combined polyrhythms take a little 'breath' on the beat (at the bottom of the circle). Great video! Thank you!

  • @Rarok666
    @Rarok666 Жыл бұрын

    6:00 The fact you chose the tritone of all things on this exact polyrhythm

  • @bexsampson8271

    @bexsampson8271

    Жыл бұрын

    an alarm sound

  • @maurolionelmisjuegosyo940

    @maurolionelmisjuegosyo940

    Жыл бұрын

    And even it’s 9:11 (*police intensifies*)

  • @asheep7797

    @asheep7797

    Жыл бұрын

    ofc 9;11

  • @coleozaeta6344
    @coleozaeta63442 жыл бұрын

    The end was everything I wanted.

  • @tamarpeer261
    @tamarpeer2612 жыл бұрын

    You can also visualize x:y polyrhythms using an y:x billiard table with a ball that starts with 45 degrees. The reason it works is that reflection (the way the ball bounces off the wall) is the same as if your replicated the rectangle across the plane, and looked when the equation x=y hit the walls. It hits a vertical wall every y seconds, and a horizontal wall every x seconds.

  • @circumplex9552

    @circumplex9552

    2 жыл бұрын

    shouldnt the dimensions be 1/y:1/x?

  • @circumplex9552

    @circumplex9552

    2 жыл бұрын

    actually no wait, you explanation makes sense because (1/x)/(1/y) = y/x

  • @jaybonn5973
    @jaybonn59732 жыл бұрын

    I think there's a metaphor for the tritone being the most dominant sound in a cacophony of noise.

  • @SoldGabriel

    @SoldGabriel

    9 ай бұрын

    Fr

  • @viviwu5404
    @viviwu54042 жыл бұрын

    17 is so ridiculous it’s so hard to see and I love that!

  • @ferudunatakan
    @ferudunatakan Жыл бұрын

    5:2 is the best of di-rhythms. Because more points makes it so strident and fast. Others like 2:3 and 3:4 are simple ratios.

  • @komander2365
    @komander23652 жыл бұрын

    7:47 the last visualisation was a bit messed up, becasue there were many different stars hitting at the same spots. It would be super interesting to hear how prime-numbered stars would sound like. Great work tho, keep it up

  • @elskieuwu

    @elskieuwu

    2 жыл бұрын

    2:3:5:7:11:13:17

  • @ojd9145

    @ojd9145

    Жыл бұрын

    :19:23:29:31:37:41:43:47:53

  • @victorvirgili4447

    @victorvirgili4447

    Жыл бұрын

    “This next song is called ‘A World on Fire’”

  • @ci.netproductions
    @ci.netproductions2 жыл бұрын

    8:29… ah yes… SHEAR CHAOS!!!

  • @piacomispl2023
    @piacomispl20232 жыл бұрын

    The more complex the polirythm the more it sounds like a jackpot

  • @superactinide
    @superactinide Жыл бұрын

    love this, but it would be so much cooler if the notes matched the interval ratios of their polyrhythm

  • @lmilli8124
    @lmilli81242 жыл бұрын

    This reminds me of watching someone else's turn signal swap from in phase to out of phase with my own.

  • @timothysmudski1058

    @timothysmudski1058

    4 ай бұрын

    Nice, similar concept: watching the footsteps of two people walking abreast. If you're like the rain man you can calculate the ratio of their heights by observing their steps fall in and out of phase

  • @AhmedAldoori
    @AhmedAldoori Жыл бұрын

    This is absolutely brilliant, thank you so much for making this!

  • @spacetrucker2196
    @spacetrucker21962 жыл бұрын

    This is really good, I didn’t understand how to visualize polyrhythms other then playing by ear before this.

  • @Mikeinator_
    @Mikeinator_ Жыл бұрын

    I love how once the 1:2:3:4:5:6:7:9:11:13:17 polyrhythm is fully assembled it sounds like a pianist have a seizure while periodically having moments of clarity.

  • @user-gh2ys6jb3u
    @user-gh2ys6jb3u2 жыл бұрын

    The 3 points star is the most unique looking and sounding i've ever seen.

  • @johnellison3030
    @johnellison3030 Жыл бұрын

    Extremely educational video for me in understanding time signatures and changes to them in music. Very well done. Please do more of these.

  • @robertpien8708
    @robertpien87082 жыл бұрын

    I think polyrhythms are amazing so many colorful possibilities at your fingertips. Thanks for helping us expand are creativity.

  • @KororaPenguin

    @KororaPenguin

    8 ай бұрын

    kzread.info/dash/bejne/qIJslZqjYcanp6Q.html

  • @Polyrhythms
    @Polyrhythms Жыл бұрын

    This is very cool!

  • @Hariztoteles7178
    @Hariztoteles71782 жыл бұрын

    Cool tutorial. . quite easy to play

  • @leocrian3194
    @leocrian31943 жыл бұрын

    Loved it man!!! ❤️❤️❤️

  • @kengyangtan
    @kengyangtan Жыл бұрын

    The 1:2:3:4:5:6:7:9:11:13:17 sounded like an alarm that got more stressful every second

  • @robbes7rh
    @robbes7rh Жыл бұрын

    I love how you built up to that tour de force polyglot polyrhythm. Chaos that is completely coherent, symetrical, and orderly.

  • @lorenzoreesor1228
    @lorenzoreesor12283 жыл бұрын

    Each number in the sequence is the sum of the two numbers that precede it. So, the sequence goes: 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, and so on. The mathematical equation describing it is Xn+2= Xn+1 + Xn

  • @whiteboardDSA

    @whiteboardDSA

    3 жыл бұрын

    there is proof that musician actually use left brain more than right you seem to be the proof

  • @rs-tarxvfz

    @rs-tarxvfz

    2 жыл бұрын

    Uhm, Not sure, that is Fibonacci series. But the polyrhythm goes 1:2:3:4:5:6:7:9:11:13:17 which is not the Fibonacci Ratio

  • @MRX-ji3rh

    @MRX-ji3rh

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@rs-tarxvfz was about to say that

  • @danielyuan9862

    @danielyuan9862

    2 жыл бұрын

    I was like, "is this the right video?"

  • @yoffo_
    @yoffo_2 жыл бұрын

    Funny thing is, in the end i could clearly make out the 2:3 rhythm against the noise

  • @duality4y
    @duality4y2 жыл бұрын

    5:2 is pretty neat sounding

  • @jmegapixel7
    @jmegapixel72 жыл бұрын

    Absolutely brilliant video thank you so much. 👏🏻

  • @guiltfilterrecords
    @guiltfilterrecords Жыл бұрын

    Great video, have been struggling to understand polyrthyms, I am self taught musician and this is the best video, thanks so much dude!

  • @smun2931
    @smun29312 жыл бұрын

    you can use bezier curve to do better stars and having the point following the curves better

  • @Paruthi.618
    @Paruthi.6182 жыл бұрын

    Amazing video.. very cool video watched today on KZread

  • @ejb7969
    @ejb7969 Жыл бұрын

    Consider using the harmonic series for the final omnipolyrhythm! But yours sounds great!

  • @BananaDude508
    @BananaDude5082 жыл бұрын

    the best way to think about polyrhythms is 2 different car blinkers started at the same time, looking like they are in tune but they they leave sync then join again

  • @carmengomez8189
    @carmengomez8189 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you for teachimg me the basics

  • @alexandremigueldoromal
    @alexandremigueldoromal Жыл бұрын

    13 against 17 sounds the best in my opinion.

  • @skelenize
    @skelenize2 жыл бұрын

    5:56 yeah im pretty sure it sounded like that

  • @ridgidrumors
    @ridgidrumors2 жыл бұрын

    Soo when is the app coming out?

  • @DeathZeroTolerance
    @DeathZeroTolerance2 жыл бұрын

    5:2 has great tension, beautiful! Is this software available? Did you build it with manim? thanks

  • @thevoidanswerswithjazz2215
    @thevoidanswerswithjazz22152 жыл бұрын

    Ligeti would Looove this big combined one at the end

  • @joeboi8216
    @joeboi8216 Жыл бұрын

    God dammit, now I want a music maker using polyrhythms!

  • @eltonwild5648
    @eltonwild56483 жыл бұрын

    Really interesting. Thanks

  • @damiennightmaresx7950
    @damiennightmaresx7950 Жыл бұрын

    i love the final design and for what ever reason i thought i heard E before the 17 star got added-

  • @clasesdepercusion
    @clasesdepercusion2 жыл бұрын

    very interesting! thanks

  • @sirbanjorochambeaux
    @sirbanjorochambeaux Жыл бұрын

    i did some learns, but maybe do a more distinct sound like bass vs guitar (i'm not the greatest on the keys, and it was hard to tell them apart without watching). thamk.

  • @echolegend4400
    @echolegend44002 жыл бұрын

    1:2:3:4 sounded really good and then 5 brought chaos with it

  • @tristantheoofer2

    @tristantheoofer2

    Жыл бұрын

    even 1:2:3:4:5 doesnt sound bad and tbh that and 7:9 ontop sounds ok i guess. beyond that tho is chaos

  • @Rheologist
    @Rheologist2 жыл бұрын

    I noticed that the (high) frequency ratios of each of the first examples polyrhythm matched ;) nice

  • @sporghell
    @sporghell20 күн бұрын

    I love that 1:2:3:4:5:6 polyrhythm so much, 8:22

  • @lubricustheslippery5028
    @lubricustheslippery50282 жыл бұрын

    If you speed up an rhythm you get a tone. If you speed up a polyrhytm you should get a chord. It would be interesting to se the correspondens between chords and polyrythms.

  • @rickard.eriksson
    @rickard.eriksson2 жыл бұрын

    2 Years of explaining how polyrhtym works, and i look confused, and ask;" Why? ". 10 minutes of a YT video, and i go;" ooooooh, that explains a lot. ".

  • @crep50
    @crep502 жыл бұрын

    Time to make a song based off of the elusive 1:2:3:4:5:6:7:9:11:13:17 polyrhythm

  • @6ixty9nine24
    @6ixty9nine245 ай бұрын

    THAT 3:4 SOUNDS TOO AMAZING

  • @paulcastro7507
    @paulcastro75072 жыл бұрын

    I know some polyrythm because I know how they sound and I can imitate, but if I have to make a new polyrithm that I don't know (like 5:7) I would need to do the "maths" and after that remember the rythm and just playing it by memory. Is there any trick to not play the polyrythm by memory and doing the rythm just by heart?

  • @maker0824
    @maker08247 ай бұрын

    6:42 that kid’s going ham on that piano

  • @Green24152
    @Green2415210 ай бұрын

    even with all that noise the 2:3 combo moment shines through like a beacon

  • @willrandship
    @willrandship2 жыл бұрын

    That last one sounds like a sorting algorithm.

  • @Isaac-1028
    @Isaac-1028 Жыл бұрын

    5:56 "9 against 11 sounds like this" *Airplane crash sounds*

  • @haniel_0652
    @haniel_0652 Жыл бұрын

    9:11 sounds like an emergency if you think about that

  • @yahoo5726
    @yahoo5726 Жыл бұрын

    Primes against squares are nice.

  • @itsdjpenguin
    @itsdjpenguin Жыл бұрын

    funny how the 9:11 example has the two notes a tritone apart (which is a rather dissonant interval); wonder if that implies something related to said numbers

  • @armcannon1998
    @armcannon19982 жыл бұрын

    Tritone interval on the 911 polyrhythm, I see you

  • @kristianbruneteau206
    @kristianbruneteau206 Жыл бұрын

    Visually and mathematically beautiful

  • @jaybonn5973
    @jaybonn59732 жыл бұрын

    The use of the tonic fiths dominants and octaves majors and minors for the different ratios are not lost on me.

  • @ericscheit5540
    @ericscheit55407 ай бұрын

    Its amazing.

  • @fennelcomeaux9663
    @fennelcomeaux9663 Жыл бұрын

    that final polyrhythm almost sounded like something from a horror movie

  • @user-qo1yt4xh5b
    @user-qo1yt4xh5b26 күн бұрын

    The Polyrhythm 7:9 is amazing🤩

  • @nileprimewastaken
    @nileprimewastaken Жыл бұрын

    at the end, was the volume of the 3:4 polyrhythm boosted? I could still hear it through the noise, even when i was focusing on something else

  • @Flat_cones
    @Flat_cones2 жыл бұрын

    Can you maybe also talk about if there is a difference between 2:3 and 3:2 as an example

  • @phildiop8248

    @phildiop8248

    2 жыл бұрын

    There no real difference I think. Might be wrong, but I think it's just visually note a smaller number:larger number.

  • @inari.28

    @inari.28

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@phildiop8248 there is a difference actually, the second number in 2:3 and 3:2 is the "main" pulse, so if it's in 2:3 it is a beat of 3 with 2 beats countering it, and vice versa for 3:2

  • @phildiop8248

    @phildiop8248

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@inari.28 That's interesting. If both pulses act equally or if there's no ''main'' pulse, would it be small:large?

  • @TheRizzlerX
    @TheRizzlerX2 жыл бұрын

    It’s very interesting that its has 17 parts

  • @destroyerrider02
    @destroyerrider02 Жыл бұрын

    Can you use all polyrhythms (i.e. 1:2, 2:3, 3:4, 4:5, 5:6, 6:7, 7:9, 9:11, 11:13, and 13:17) to make a song? Reason why I asked this question is that some polyrhythms can be used to make music. For instance, 50s music uses polyrhythms to make the music more upbeat and hip.

  • @SerenityMusic3
    @SerenityMusic3 Жыл бұрын

    Love ❤️ this, where can I get one of those stars 🤩

  • @lorenzoreesor1228
    @lorenzoreesor12283 жыл бұрын

    Do poly rythrms of Fibonacci sequence .

  • @ferudunatakan

    @ferudunatakan

    Жыл бұрын

    The ratio converges to phi

  • @CuboctahedronThe3D
    @CuboctahedronThe3D8 ай бұрын

    A Decision has happened 8:58 Last one sounds fire

  • @Ducjk711
    @Ducjk711 Жыл бұрын

    This visualization makes a lot of sense now that you can actually over lap them and see which beat plays when

  • @IMINYOURWALLSHARHARHAR
    @IMINYOURWALLSHARHARHAR7 ай бұрын

    4:5 sounds so good

  • @Tristanchatoy07
    @Tristanchatoy07 Жыл бұрын

    but if you do 1000:2000 for a star, then it will look like a circle with a thick edge. and if you use marks for 1000:2000, then it will be 2 lines.

  • @ItzCataIO
    @ItzCataIO Жыл бұрын

    The 1-:>17 looks like all the colours are chasing the white one, it looks so funny.

  • @joshuakinder
    @joshuakinder11 ай бұрын

    9:06 ngl it was emotional, I was about to cry but the video ended soon later

  • @mansursher1764
    @mansursher17642 ай бұрын

    4:3 is amazing

  • @pyrokinetikrlz
    @pyrokinetikrlz2 жыл бұрын

    Chopin's Nocturne in B flat minor op9 no1 has a 11:6 polyrhythm in the second measure

  • @parsa.mostaghim
    @parsa.mostaghim2 жыл бұрын

    overlaping stars are much better to show the phase difference between two divisions

  • @conjunctionjunction8890
    @conjunctionjunction88902 жыл бұрын

    That last one was a real toe tapper

  • @sarahaprincesa
    @sarahaprincesa8 ай бұрын

    🤩 amazing

  • @sb10834
    @sb10834 Жыл бұрын

    5:2 sounds like a horror movie

  • @tydino101
    @tydino101 Жыл бұрын

    5:2 sounds like heaven

  • @xochitlmtzgcia
    @xochitlmtzgcia Жыл бұрын

    3:4 sounds awesome

  • @matthewpublikum3114
    @matthewpublikum31142 жыл бұрын

    What is the equation for figuring out the curvature of each star?

  • @danielyuan9862

    @danielyuan9862

    2 жыл бұрын

    Idk, but I'd roll a smaller circle inside a larger one and figure out the trajectory of a single point.

  • @Sora0934
    @Sora0934 Жыл бұрын

    7:43

  • @OgatRamastef
    @OgatRamastef10 ай бұрын

    Wich software is used to do these polyrithm animations?

  • @theweebrt
    @theweebrt9 ай бұрын

    Why not using Left-Right channel pan for the beats?

  • @kamenriderfaiz5558
    @kamenriderfaiz5558 Жыл бұрын

    5:6 sounds like an ambulance

  • @SupportPalestine985
    @SupportPalestine9856 ай бұрын

    That 5:2 one got me

  • @CeliaNightstep
    @CeliaNightstep Жыл бұрын

    5 to 6 soudns very much like church bells to me. Not sure if church bells sounds different but the ones where i live sounds like it

  • @genesisbyll2978
    @genesisbyll29787 ай бұрын

    8:52 AAAAAAAAAAAAAA THERE'S 78 BEATS IN THIS!!!

  • @VincentNoynayofficial

    @VincentNoynayofficial

    6 ай бұрын

    Wow.

  • @tommarnt
    @tommarnt7 ай бұрын

    3:43 this sounds like an opening to a sad song

  • @Márciakais
    @Márciakais Жыл бұрын

    Fico muito feliz por você estar presente foi...