c/music · by marco@beehaw.org · 3yxkcd: Musical Scales https://xkcd.com/2788 "In the Hall of the Mountain King was accidentally composed on log/log paper." 27 points · 8 comments · view on lemmy.world
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drownedPhoenician@feddit.de · 1 pts · 3y
And thus the spectrogram was born
GaryPonderosa@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
Hahahahahaha. I get this joke. It is very funny. You should probably explain it for the other people who are not so smart as me who is smart.
theory@mander.xyz · 5 pts · 3y
On a normal scale, the ticks go 1..2..3..4...
on a log scale, ticks go 1..10..100...1000...
Sound and frequency, weirdly, is always in a log scale, you just dont notice it
Time however, usually shouldnt be 😂
GaryPonderosa@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
Thanks. I guess I never realized notes were on a log scale.
julianh@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 3y
If it helps, going up an octave doubles the frequency. So we perceive the difference between 100hz and 200hz to be the same as the difference between 300hz and 600hz.
marco@beehaw.org · 2 pts · 3y
You have to know music and math to appreciate this, true.
If you need an explanation I'd say read the intro for log scale https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logarithmic_scale
And then listen to https://youtu.be/4nMUr8Rt2AI
atimholt@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 3y
I think there's a website called "xkcd explained", or something.
KickMeElmo@beehaw.org · 2 pts · 3y
explainxkcd.com