How To Make ANY Melody in DESMOS

How To Make ANY Melody in DESMOS
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This video is my submission for 3Blue1Brown's Summer of Math Exposition Pi (SoME Pi). This video is my very in-depth tutorial for making any type of music in Desmos Graphing Calculator. I talk about how to make melodies, harmonies, and everything else in between. By the end of this video you should be an expert at creating music in Desmos. Please show me any of what you create. Happy Graphing!
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Sub Count: 501
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Link for the video from the clip (I remembered!!!): • The Amazing Digital Ci...
Link for Desmos Graph of Your New Home (song at end): www.desmos.com...
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I wish I were artistic enough to make the penguin icons, but no, it was not me.
Penguin icons credit: @Wingz_Artz
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Email: [e-mail]
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[@Tantalium1]

This is really cool! I knew you could create music with the "Hear Graph" feature but that requires a giant equation and its also inconsistent with how you the graph centered. This is a far superior method that I will use if I ever find a need to learn this. Good luck growing your channel! :D

[@BrainOfAPenguin]

Thanks so much for your kind words!

[@cyberarcher]

Sleep ❌
Watch someone make a song in math ✅

[@omaglorph]

I've just started making the bad piggies theme! I used to make music in Desmos before tone was added but didn't really understand how tone worked. Really useful video!

[@BrainOfAPenguin]

Thanks so much! Bad piggies sounds great, let me know how it ends up turning out!

[@I_is_the_are_confused]

Great now make at the speed of light

[@martin_mc3105]

funnily enough this exists already

[@additionalrock7006]

As a math enthusiast, this is awesome!

[@BrainOfAPenguin]

Thanks so much! Your words mean a lot!

[@camkcoffee]

lol this is genius. I’m gonna try this

[@BrainOfAPenguin]

Thanks so much! Please share whatever you make, I’d love to see it!

[@StellanSkyeto]

0:00 geometry dash 🗣️🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🔥

[@levelup2677]

I think youre extremely talented, i actually tried to write music in desmos with similar method but it uncomparable to your incredible work

[@BrainOfAPenguin]

Thanks so much! I really appreciate your kind words!

[@Ranvir_Singh_CDXLIV]

4:18 haha I see what you did there. C4

[@__________________________hi52]

try just intonation so c is 256
D is 256(9/8)
E is 256(5/4)
F is 256(4/3)
G is 256(3/2)
A is 256(27/16)
B is 256(15/8)
And for sharps and flat i mutliply it by 25/24 for sharp and 24/25 for flat, it still sound good

[@ScienceEffects-o4i]

I am impressed with your talents for programming, but this is way over my head . I am very good with math in general, but I have no music knowledge foundation and do not get the connection between math and music, so I will just stick with electronic music circuit hardware experimentation . It is lots more fun to build and experiment with electronic circuits than it is to rack my brains trying to figure out programming aspects of software .

[@ScienceEffects-o4i]

I found an old software guitar player by Creative Labs called Keytar, it looks quite easy and fun to use, so I will start experimenting with this software .

[@shaunnotsean4308]

4:11 Middle C is C4, not C5. Middle C is ~261.63 hz and C5 is ~523.251 hz. but good vid

[@forever_stay6793]

Cool project so you've earned a new subscriber

[@W0L1W1L0]

is there a way that you could find away to get more control over the exact tone of the notes in the octave? There's some out of tune notes. Other than that this is an amazing design!

[@BrainOfAPenguin]

All of the notes come from the equation I showed, and putting any number into the tone() function should give any note. One small thing I notice, however, is that because of that, Desmos is sometimes slightly off-pitch, especially with very high or very low notes. Hope this helps!

[@Patience-Human]

4:19 why do i hear- *explosion*

[@stchest]

Now DESMOS is my favorite DAW :)

[@GraceLee-jf1sd]

It is really fantastic ❤

[@BrainOfAPenguin]

Thanks so much!

[@skyveggiez292]

this is amazing

[@stumbleguysforfun7438]

Hey, i have a question, how can you make the pause between notes shorter?

[@BrainOfAPenguin]

Basically, you have to add complexity to your note lists by making them larger and then speeding up the whole song with ticker.
What this means is that instead of putting four E4 and then 1 rest, you need to do eight E4 and then 1 rest. Then you need to double the speed of the whole song using the ticker tool. You double the speed by halving the number in the ticker spot (ie instead of doing t->t+1 every 200 ms, do t->t+1 every 100 ms). Hope this helps!

[@Garlicbreadlover_]

i can’t figure out how to make measures, can anyone help?

[@Garlicbreadlover_]

i also can’t find the ticker

[@BrainOfAPenguin]

To make measures, they’re really just a special application of lists, which you can make by doing M=[…] (fill in the notes in the list. For ticker, go into account settings -> advanced -> turn on Actions. Then it should appear under the (+) sign in the top left

[@simonwillover4175]

2:00 okay, why not just have another list for the length of the notes and a 3rd for the rests?

[@BrainOfAPenguin]

Thats actually another really smart way to do it, and it scales better for bigger projects with more complicated rhythms. For me though, most of what I did was on the smaller scale and it was fine to do it in one list

[@simonwillover4175]

@@BrainOfAPenguinYeah. What you did is nice. But you had like 5 minutes of the video explaining the way the notes are split up. To be fair, it makes a lot of sense, since long notes are just sequences of short notes strung together.

[@nathanvic14]

0:00 IS THAT DASH FROM THE WORLD POPULAR MOBILE AND PC GAME GEOMETRY DASH THAT ONLY COSTS 3 DOLLARS????1!!!11!1!!1
(this comment is satire lmao)

[@sgiri2012]

I don't know anything about musical terms like octave,chord,tone,note, etc. is this common for all musical instruments. All i know about is sound and its technical terms like frequency, pitch,amplitude,timeperiod etc. can i learn about those terms as mentioned before without any prior knowledge and where do i learn those technical terms ? Is this same for all musical instruments like ukelele,piano etc. how to contact you ? Do you like to teach me through gmeet ? If so, i will pay for the class

[@BrainOfAPenguin]

These terms are pretty basic when learning any instrument, except for maybe 'chord', which doesn't apply to some instruments. There's probably a lot of sources you can find online by searching up 'music theory'. What you already know about pitch and time signature should help you a lot, though, when understanding the new concepts. If you have any additional questions, feel free to reach out to me with my channel email, which you can find in the channel description. Hope this helps!

[@abhradeepde2357]

no cuz why did i actually need this lol
also first

[@balt.]

where's uh. the graph :P

[@BrainOfAPenguin]

ur so right, I forgot to add it.
(I now added it :D )

[@bvssmouq6gamingofficialyt]

Middle C is actually C4 not C5

[@Unofficial2048tiles]

I HEARD DASH-

[@snaldi]

start of the video is too undsightreadable

[@mrmonkeytoes]

Bro just use a DAW 😭😭💀