So...I'm bored...MORE MATH TIME! Basic Music Theory: A measure is one "bar" of music. 4/4 is the time signature, or the amount of beats that can go into 1 measure In this experiment, we are going to use these types of notes: Quarter Rest: 1 beat of silence Quarter Note: 1 beat of a note Half Note: 2 beats of a note Whole Note: 4 beats of a note Eighth note: 1/2 a beat of a note Sixteenth Note: 1/4 a beat of a note Please keep in mind we are just using notes found in a C Major scale, meaning that there are these notes in the scale: C (lower) D E F G A B C (higher) Alright! So, in case you didn't know, 16 Sixteenth notes go into one measure. So, if you were to do your ENTIRE 4 bar phrase with just 16th notes, that means that it would look like: 4(8x8x8x8x8x8x8x8x8x8x8x8x8x8x8x8) Which is equal to: 1,125,899,906,842,624 different phrases! (Keep in mind that this is JUST if you do 16th notes in a C-Major scale!) Now, if you were to replace 16th notes with the others, you would get: Quarter Rests: 4(8x8x8x8) = 16,384 Quarter Notes: (same as above) Half Notes: 4(8x8) = 256 Whole Notes: 4(8) = 32 Eighth Notes: 4(8x8x8x8x8x8x8x8) = 67,108,864 Now, all of these added up are equal to: 1,125,899,973,984,544 different phrases (only using the same type of note for all the measures!) Well I am going to stop here....if you guys wanna continue this, post below. If I made a mistake in my math, make sure you reply so I can fix it *End math time with spenca* DFTBA <3
Kinda. I am in a high school orchestra (violins FTW :3) and my conductor/teacher was telling me about four-bar phrases in Eleanor Rigby, the Beatles song (one song that we are doing in the class). I saw the Vsauce video and I was wondering about 4-Bar phrases...soooooo :3
ah ok, but wtf why does all music sound similar then -.- like Axis of Awesome's 4 chords xD (Btw that was rhetorical I know why it sounds the same)
I play the piano, had for 5 years, and I wonder if my music teacher has played them all. She's been playing for like 40 years+...
It could be that its a chord progression that people just like. Look how famous those songs are. Good feeling while listening to the song = total hit :3 Dang...40 years...I have been playing violin for about 4 years, piano for 2, and guitar for three, and soon I will be starting cello and tenor saxophone :3
