Every time I try to learn about music theory it's like "there are three notes here, that's why we call it a four, and each note is five halves of a third, which combines over the measure to twelfth, it's very mathematical, see"
it's always one louder. that's all you need to know.
Hmmmmmm, yes, I see. *brain leaks out of ears*
It’s overrated, I had a number album without being able read a note of music or the theory. I know it now but it basically boils down to “Does that sound right? No, then it’s wrong”, so unless your tone deaf you should be ok :)
The terminology is based on the diatonic scale (just the white keys on a piano) and is from before Europeans had heard of the number 0. Also, in principle, intervals are based on the harmonic series, but that doesn’t actually work, so you have to hit the chromatic scale with a hammer
Can I help? Separately with regard to the maths: any note (A, B, C etc) played an octave higher is double the frequency. So A is 440Hz, and the next A is 880 Hz, and the next A is 1760 Hz. That’s why they sound just like a higher version of the same note.
never get into jazz..., .,..
I made the very strange decision to learn about microtonal stuff before most of established western music theory so I actually feel this since numbers don't usually match up with interval names, especially when working with scales that have more or less than 12 notes
If you know the intervals of the major scale, you know everything. Whole whole half whole whole whole half. Everything else is derived from that.
Playing guitar and encountered a chord, A#dim(4/7)aug5th... or something. The chord pictogram was horrific: NOBODY HAS 14 FINGERS ON ONE HAND! So I listened to the song and played an open A. THAT was a nice noise. I'm not interested in chords that look like a quadratic equation or a date.