What makes instruments sound different?

[@wesleymorgan8406]

I am literally working on my lesson plan to teach my Physics students about resonance, natural frequencies, and harmonics. So glad you uploaded this!

[@drewlyton]

I'm glad someone who actually knows what they're talking about didn't find some giant detramental factual error hahaha! Thank you for being a teacher and inspiring learning!

[@paulwalker6936]

Me too!

[@sannekaribo4253]

I don't usually comment but this is great presentation

[@DelvingDeeper]

You might want to mute the background track when playing the examples. It's not only harder to hear and distinguish them, it's also annoying >

[@drewlyton]

Thanks for the feedback!

[@MrJdsenior]

I know I'm way late to the party here, but I gotta say, useful critical feedback, in a YT comment? Are you sure you understand how these comment sections are supposed to work? :-)

[@basozaraz4996]

@@MrJdsenior😭

[@rajibalam9748]

Wow, Mr. Lytle, this video is high calibre! The animation, narration, presentation, sound and content are all amazing! Why, I wonder, do you only have half a thousand subscribers? Good luck with this channel :)

[@heyhalogen]

I pulled this up, hoping to give a better explanation to my 7yo how sound “happens”, but I learned, too! I loved all my physics courses in college & am a musician & I still learned something new! Great video 🥰

[@drewlyton]

Thanks Haley!

[@axlcrush]

Thanks for this, when I was singing in a quartet, that was what I was trying to do - tweaking my voice to create a unique canvas of sound with the other 3 voices. I wouldn't have sung that way if alone.

[@RavikumarG]

Very profound content, It started with curious thoughts in the field of acoustics and ended with a beautiful and wise statement.

[@gandalfthedank8872]

That’s a beautiful message. Amazing work, and never be afraid to be “preachy”. It’s what the world needs. Thank you.

[@Dmutt]

Had to watch this as part of my Physics lesson and man your content is amazing! Was blown away at the fact you only had 475 subscribers. Your videos were Profesional and just so well done, keep it up.

[@drewlyton]

@Dmutt that's amazing! Tell you Physics teacher I appreciate them haha, and thank you for watching!

[@chrisbravo3392]

Was your instructor Wesley Morgan? I just saw a comment by him saying he showed this to his students lol

[@Dmutt]

@@chrisbravo3392 Nah different guy, from UOA

[@artsparadisopracticaleduca4378]

This is a really informative video about musical instruments and their sounds with a bit of science explained! Really nice info graphics! I like how you explained things very clearly and they make a lot of sense. You'd make a great professor! One thing that would make the info much better would be if you could explain some of the basics to the viewers, such as what the concept of frequency mean and how it looks in the color graph. The other concept being the volume. These things might seem obvious for those who took physics, but for many, these are really new ideas. Keep up the good work, and if you have editors working with you to organize your lecture notes and presentation, that would take you to places! 👍

[@baileylee2912]

He really just made choirs a metaphor for societies' unity.

[@tophatbill77]

Drew- I fell down a worm hole doing some research on dementia for a kids book. I have been singing my whole life. Singing barbershop is the most amazing way to hear overtones . The Buffalo Bill's were amazing at it. Your passion is so beautiful. Thank you. I needed you today.

[@viphomeconcerts]

Very good video. Concise and informative. Especially liked the brief part at the end about choirs.

[@prodjazzeh]

This is a BEAUTIFUL presentation, I appreciate your hard work!

[@HofTheStage]

Man, what a beautiful video, just found it. I'll make sure to check the other ones too. Thank you, have a nice day!

[@drewlyton]

Aww thanks H of The Stage! Glad you enjoyed it!

[@alvarengaaustin]

"Every note is a chord" that stuck with me due to the fact that most chords are made up of very fast polyrhythms. Ergo a polyrhythm of 5:4 is equivalent to a Major 3rd if sped up to an unplayable speed you will get a Major 3rd at whatever pitch the speed is set at. So back to that statement "Every note is a chord" therefore that means that every rhythm, whether singular quarter notes or combined rhythms can make notes or chords. Rhythms are notes and notes are rhythms. Music is quite an interesting thing.

[@drewlyton]

Dude that was beautiful. You should make a video about that haha!

[@alvarengaaustin]

Ahhh if only I were as talented. Amazing video friend!

[@rickmonarch4552]

So what i didn't understand is, why isn't the fundamental sound have the strongest amplitude. But then I realized, that the octave and fundamental frequency by 2 to the n frequencies are really the same notes, therefore it really is the most noteable note, but it makes me even more curious about how it relates to recognition of perfect pitch. So perfect pitch people find it harder to recognise pure frequencies as notes, soo they really rely on timbre, but how. What kind of sound patterns does one note from another have for different notes, I wonder.

[@engchoontan8483]

Modern spectrum-analyser of different materials of the same design = quality of sound. Wood is many-types, joints are many different-glue to different woods, hinges affect vibration vectors and release soundboard (is not amplification soundboard) Drummer plays fruits selection with fingers = tonal quality, timbre Military play sonar on fruits and no eat fruits

[@engchoontan8483]

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[@MrJdsenior]

Good point on the vocal true tuning. One of my choir directors was explaining that once, and obviously it occurs when you are singing against nothing (a Capella) or against just one note of the chord played. If the instrument and the voices are playing the same chord, and you tried to truly tune the vocal chord, it would be a train wreck, at least it seems that way to me. I was looking up different tunings, some which provide true, no beat, chords on some chords, and what they call wolf chords on others, so that some chords are excluded by those tunings, because they are audible train wrecks. What well tempered (current Western tuning) actually means is that NO two different notes are in perfect tune, except, IIRC, octaves, which I think are true doublings, because again, IIRC (to lazy to work it out) those are the only intervals where the thelwth root of two (mulitplier for current semitone frequency, to get the next in line) works out to an integer division, if that made any sense. If not, feel free to correct me, I am an engineer, electrical, not a physicist, so this is a bit out of my wheelhouse. This means, if I understand this correctly, that all non octave spread notes are very slightly out of tune with all other possible notes, but to an equal degree, so that no true wolf chords exist, and songs can be written in any key, none excluded. And then we get out, eventually, into perception of sound, which frankly, when I read a book about it, just made my hair hurt, most of it. TM curves and the like, obvious, some of it generated that record scratch sound in my head, to keep the imagery bound mostly to the subject. :-) Great vid.

[@julioxstaticv3782]

Made me actually cry at the end lol Thanks for sharing the love in this video

[@schwaar]

This is really beautiful

[@wuhuislandnewspaper5675]

As a musician, had this question in mind for years. Thank you, I like you :)

[@dhreyne4594]

I can't believe that you only have 500+ subs when you make amazing videos🤨

[@florentinosanchez3969]

Thank you so much for this video

[@bio7771]

pros: he is adorabile, good video and context, fair explaining cons: background music, didn`t quite get it, unexpected ending

[@ibrezmohd9448]

How you harmonised sound instruments with society, and created a learning for us from both, required a lot of hard work, much appreciated man

[@taniaburguete127]

What an excellent way of explaining what pitch is.....and with graphics too! love your video im going to share it with my students!!!!! thank you

[@ZacVrono]

Mind blown! Excellent explanation.

[@briannguyen6994]

this is a beatiful video. and you have a great and profound message to spread :D Keep going with this please! I'm subscribing because you're about to be on the come up lmao

[@nour_mlm_modeliste]

This is so beautuful ,the music the inspiring talk the magic and science and everything 🖤

[@drewlyton]

Thanks for watching!

[@XSonicFighterX]

Hey Drew, excellent video! Great message and I look forward to seeing where you go from here!

[@drewlyton]

Aww thanks Alex! Hope all is going well!

[@steverox8141]

Very informative. Thank you. Love from India ❤

[@castantarizpececilia2566]

Excellent presentation, amusing, clear, informative, great animation!

[@Wutwut1n1]

Great video, thank you :)

[@roynathaniel9640]

excellent narating and video concept.

[@drewlyton]

Thanks!

[@dheeraj3945]

I don't exactly know why, but this video seems therapeutic 😅

[@haozhe3237]

Topic changes so drastically.

[@Cell4TR]

Great explanation

[@drewlyton]

Thanks Nyctophile!!

[@abdullahfathy858]

Great Video👌🏼

[@FarhanAmin1994]

This is brilliant and almost made me cry!

[@drewlyton]

Glad you enjoyed farhan ❤️

[@leighshotwell5325]

Great content and GREAT message!!!!

[@optic_sa1732]

You are really good. This is lovely

[@drewlyton]

Thanks friend!

[@tomasenrique]

Thanks!

[@sartajbhullar3782]

Why do we say, this song (melody) is in A minor (just an example). Why can't you play that song let's say in D minor. You can, but musicians will say, it is not going to be as pleasant as original. Why not? If the frequency interval in between the notes stays the same, then why not? It is just that you will have a different starting point (reference point). The frequency intervals up and down going any number of keys , any scale will stay the same, does not matter which key you start from. And it is the manipulation of those frequency intervals in the time frame, that we perceive as melody. So melody should stay exactly the same. Isn't it? Of course pitch will slightly be different. And interestingly, we do not question the originality of a melody when we start from a different octave, as long as the reference point stays the same. That means you can start from A5, or A6 instead of A4. So doubling the frequency or quadrupling the frequency of the reference point is considered 100% right; but it is not considered accurate if the frequency of the new point is not the multiple of 2 (in terms of original key). Why not? If a melody played in the range 220Hz .....440 Hz is same as the melody played between 440Hz...880Hz, why is it not exactly the same as the melody played in the range from 392Hz.....784 (783.99) Hz. This is the G4-G5 range. Bottomline is, doubling the frequency is Ok, but choosing something less or more than the double is not Ok, even though you follow the same rules/intervals of melody. WHY ?

[@pasanhabeynayake4823]

what a great video bro,hope u do more of these🔥🔥❤️ from Srilanka

[@ibrdik]

Most informative video i ever watch. Thanks!

[@drewlyton]

Thanks for watching 😊

[@Myuowomyu]

Why did I cry watching this? :')

[@oldmanandthesea7039]

One thing I don’t understand is why you played a strong rhythmic Latin percussion in the background while concentration is required to listen to the different timbers of various instruments.

[@aniya.kalinaw]

Wow. Informative and inspiring! 💕

[@bramklinkenberg9140]

This reminds me of Wandersong (and its message)

[@krit_ck]

Came here to learn why my voice sounds weird. Left with inspiration. Good job👍🏻

[@andrewzhu5294]

I don't comment this much, but this was a great video.

[@drewlyton]

Thanks Andrew!

[@VOTECHGURU]

Hey Drew, subbed. What software did you use in this vid? After Effects? Curious because my channel is all about voice over audio and I have courses that I'm looking to add sound theory to. Thx!

[@drewlyton]

Hey friend! Yup I used AE in this video 👍

[@yaseralwatani886]

I like the video but why the background music? Very distracting

[@dr.pritiagrekar2143]

very nice as a student i understand it very nicely

[@danielmunoz-lifeideas5124]

Good stuff brotha

[@DelvingDeeper]

Regardless I still liked the video very much and wanted to see the response. Keep it up and all the best. I'll stick around for a while if you don't mind.

[@drewlyton]

Aww thanks! Please do!

[@randomindividual7704]

My teachers in school taught me that while music was about frequency and maths, if you didn't have a talent for it you shouldn't bother...I hated that attitude and only later in life did I realize that anyone, and I mean ANYONE can learn to drawn, sing and play! Art isn't a gift that you are given by the heavens, it's an intrinsic part of humanity. Anyone can learn the skills to perfect their art, but the ability to create art and to feel it are natural to all human beings.

[@drewlyton]

I literally could not agree more @random individual. It makes me so mad that someone ever said that to you. Also, if you want to be part of a community for people growing their creative muscles, join lumastic.com - it's free :)

[@theodorostervall]

You're so thoughtful! Keep it up!

[@drewlyton]

Thanks for coming back Theodor!

[@starchild3369]

What for wonderful words - and more. It touches my heart - even the last part. For me as a musissian and quire-singer, I learned a lot in this short video - even for creating new voices to play with my doepfer trautonium on my modular synth. But as a spiritual awaken person, I have only to thank you for this awsome speach. Oh, yes - this is it. We, as humans, live all here in a big quire - and the best and only way, to live here in peace, is, to hear to each other. So - again: thank you for this great statement. NAMASTE

[@drewlyton]

Namaste 🙏

[@EFEYmusic]

Beautiful!

[@user-iw6wi7gf4g]

Came to learn about Timbres. Came out spiritually awakened. Jokes aside, appreciate you for spreading the knowledge

[@drewlyton]

🤣 so awesome! Thanks for watching!

[@FROMRUST2RUBY98]

Thank u very much yooo and abundance may be on the way to YA ,VERY DEEP SPEECH 👏👏👏

[@sarabretting3033]

I just cried a little

[@PeregrineChurch]

What is the music used for this video? I need that choral track

[@lyuda9978]

Wow juste magnifique!!

[@drewlyton]

Thank you!

[@mozart7074]

Thank you, very cool.

[@samadtaheri539]

Hi and thanks for your cool explanation. I have a question i hope you will help me. Overtones are always in higher frequencies or can occur in lower frequencies too?

[@drewlyton]

Hey Samad! Great question! There are things called undertones that work in a similar way

[@holirumicsfriend]

Wise comments on the importance of the arts! Really great explanation of sound! I’m less interested in the “collective” as we can’t control the “collective” although some do try! Best to support in a strong way every individual always in truth! Again great video!

[@hana.gemini]

Great video 🌻 My choir teacher use to say the same thing!

[@drewlyton]

Haha wow! Great minds! And thank you!

[@musicstuff2810]

Great video!

[@av6633]

Great video! Thank you for posting, But PLEASE remove the background music. It's ruining the whole experience.

[@geraltofrivia2206]

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[@kranthostv]

4:10 dude that quickly escalated to a political speech. Thank you so much for your video, it's so informative. I really needed this to go beyond just producing soundwaves to eventually make noises and instrumental sounds. I don't agree with the political part though, haha.

[@MultiTomatojuice]

Underrated

[@drewlyton]

Aww thanks!

[@TheVistastube]

I remember your earlier video about curiosty+story. Is it also be a laboratory, but for curiosity?

[@drewlyton]

Haha that was actually the original idea, but it's morphed over time. Good catch, and thanks for watching again!

[@paramesdriver]

அருமைங்க!... இசையின் ஒலி அலைகள் பற்றிய விளக்கம்.

[@channelVlogger]

Good video, liked the message

[@drewlyton]

Thank you!!!

[@gummithedummi]

This is a great video!

[@drewlyton]

Thanks @Woody BFB!

[@matthew3914]

Thanks for my physics presentation

[@FROMRUST2RUBY98]

Iwanna make some new instruments

[@rvsgaming102]

Nice

[@drewlyton]

Thanks Vandana!

[@bucherregaldomi9084]

brah your societal commentary is very relevant right now, probably forever but hopefully not :'O

[@lychee5269]

Great vid!!

[@drewlyton]

Thanks!

[@tychophotiou6962]

This video would have been good if it weren't for that really annoying drumming. It was so distracting that I couldn't even focus on notes. Terribly made video!

[@hopebruner9099]

If you think valves and strings will simply make instruments play in tune, you do not have a clear understanding of instruments.

[@rebeccakranz655]

What is the name of the songs you use?

[@drewlyton]

I wrote them, actually!

[@PeregrineChurch]

@@drewlyton Are they released? I want to listen to that choral track!

[@pamelabright1919]

this dude look like slappy

[@aggabus]

after 114 bye thanks drum

[@JL-dk3te]

Awesome

[@sharoyamartin754]

🎵

[@kadrodindubldva]

1:48 wrong.

[@kadrodindubldva]

what makes an instrument's note special is its unique intensities in harmonics. it is not a chord - a chord is the amalgamation of the different harmonics played by each individual note. They are slightly different and as you probably already know, these harmonics don't usually coincide - which makes the warm and wide sound of a chord due to the sound waves not being in phase.

[@Persun_McPersonson]

@@kadrodindubldva He was oversimplifying on purpose to make it easier for the average Joe to understand.

[@gloomysahash9849]

U have invented collectivism x)

[@alwyn7769]

❤️

[@allorgansnobody]

Why would they sound the same? Perhaps we glorify the single-tone categorical perception a bit too much!

[@sharked100]

Real G

[@sharoyamartin754]

🎶

[@leunark]

Who is this guy? Why aren't there million views on this video? I might sound weird, can someone join me ;)

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[@sarabethbarclay8615]

Hi

[@drewlyton]

Hi :)

[@livechartadvisor9044]

So Drew.....On earth there are a lot of humans that are intune with God on higher levels of consciousness and you are definitely one of them from you beautifully shared in this video....... I had a spiritual encounter many years and have been elevating more and more eversince and now the goal is to keep unifying all of us conscious beings to become a more powerful force together..... I use to spend a lot of time trying to wake others up but then was told within to unite with alike minds and energy to keep mastering my abilities and levels of vibration to be a bigger reflection for the rest. Its parents with children .... the parents know that some kids are just mentality too young to understand adult info and experiences so just still love them i the best way they can until hopefully they become mentally mature to be fully part of that higher vibration........God has me making music to keep my vibrations high and by meditating all of the time . Overall thanks for the video .. this was extremely needed. GOD Bless You