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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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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We like some intervals that are not integer ratios?
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this is explained together with a bunch of other cool stuff in this very sexy book: homepages.abdn.ac.uk/d.j.benson/pag
Fun part of this explainer game is working out what nuanced truths to leave in and what to leave out
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