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So basically, with both of your hands you're controlling pitch and volume and kind of trying to create the illusion that you're doing separate notes, when really it's continuously going ...

1 amp 2 amp 3 amp 4 amp see 8th notes?

It says right now, we think music is notes and how they're played.

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Musical Symbols

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Unknown note

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Ancient Greek Musical Notation

Give him the note...

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Byzantine Musical Symbols

Phonetic Symbols

abc musical notation file

When you know the notes to sing

The acoustics of music are much harder than those of language.

And the pitches, the notes, as you know, are just vibrations.

Combining Diacritical Marks for Symbols

Look at the 8th notes.1 amp 2 amp 3 amp 4 amp ...

Treble

I screwed up the very first note.

Correct the pitch of a voice singing out of tune

Tenor

And so we first measured the number of notes.

Modifier Tone Letters

It doesn't change key, the notes are long, there's almost no rhythm whatsoever, and the room flatters the music.

Okay, now if we consider that in a cochlear implant patient pitch perception could be off as much as two octaves, let's see what happens here when we randomize this to within one semitone.

Loudness meter according to EBU R128 for JACK

Each of these neocortical columns would produce a note.

We're going to sing those three wonderful notes T, E, D.

It's just these two notes in the middle.

They were also forced to listen to loud music day and night.

In the 10th century, little squiggles were used just to indicate the general shape of the tune.

Want to enter pronunciation symbols quickly? Double click the symbol you need to directly add it.

Well, I want you to hear some really shimmering sharps and flats.

Soprano Sax

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Soprano

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The key's perfect.

They don't produce different musical notes.

No notes, no flats, no sharps.