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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oh wow nice, I've been putting together some scrappy notes for something like this for myself and now I can just point people to this instead. nicely done
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If there are missing parts I will like to add them
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personally I found it VERY helpful to learn that an even division of octave into semitones does NOT actually produce perfect ratios
(e.g. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just_into)
failing to call this out meant there was always a hidden bit of "shear" in my model of what was going on!!
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i learned about equal temperament from a lecture by noam elkies at RSI where he explained how the division into 12 notes could be explained using continued fractions and then played an improvised concert with kit armstrong, one of the other students who was some piano genius
