music theory: "There are seven notes in this scale." me: ok music theory: "So we call it an 'octave.'" me, a mathematician: wait
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music is basically base 8 math except for the way that math was made up all over again


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thing I don't get about base 8 is there are 7 things, and 5 things, and that makes 12 things, but none of those are 8 things.
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it's 8 things only if you count the base element for the next scale, too. But then you have overlap and that's uncanny
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I forgot to mention base 8 was also invented slightly differently.
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you know, as a person who doesn't remember NOT knowing how to read music, it never occurred to me how goofy this is.
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(related: if you ever do want music theory help from the Internet you are welcome to ask me)
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I have been slowly diving back into everything I've forgotten from 20 years ago and it's been a ride
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time signatures are not fractions, they just look like them.
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also they are stepwise not intervallic so a "fifth" has four steps, etc. hence why one octave up is 8va and two is 15va
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Have you encountered the Pythagorean Comma yet? :D https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagorean_comma …
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ok that just blew my mind. And then I explained it to my
#piano-studying child who likes math. Oops.
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ah it's been years since i looked at music notation lets see... nope...pic.twitter.com/dS4023beIt
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because that's the length of a whole note!
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You should play Frog Fractions, it'll make things much simpler!
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wait until you get to the part where 6/8 is not the same as 3/4
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it's not a "fraction" You will notice it's missing a slash It only indicates how many and what kind of values
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