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I'm building an interactive explainer to make music theory simple enough for anyone to learn with minimal effort. I would love your feedback! No prior knowledge necessary, just take a look and leave comments. Thank you!

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Music theory: what if it were easy?

An interactive explainer to make music theory as simple as possible.

Richard D. Bartlett (Berlin Aug 2-10)

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I've been wondering what you dudes will make of this

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hey this is dope! slight nitpick near the beginning - the thing about frequency ratios is subtle, it turns out it’s specific to instruments with overtones that are integer multiples of a fundamental frequency (e.g. woodwinds and string instruments) and there are others

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Richard D. Bartlett (Berlin Aug 2-10)

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We like some intervals that are not integer ratios?

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@QiaochuYuan

Oct 23, 2020

this is explained together with a bunch of other cool stuff in this very sexy book: homepages.abdn.ac.uk/d.j.benson/pag

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QC (in Berlin 7/29-??? w/ COVID

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there are instruments like the mbira that have non-integer overtones and you can also make synthetic sounds with arbitrary overtones and it turns out for those you don’t need harmonies to have integer ratios, what you need is for the overtones to mostly match up