Encoding the Fibonacci Sequence Into Music

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  • I made a piano piece from the Fibonacci Sequence by assigning numbers to the E major scale.
    Arranged and Performed by David Macdonald
    Filmed by Tristan Rios
    Twitter: / asongscout
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    My sheet music: www.musicnotes....
    Additional graphics from Wikimedia Commons

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  • @bunthaideng2492
    @bunthaideng2492 4 роки тому +5304

    When you love math, but your parents forced you to be a musician

    • @bunthaideng2492
      @bunthaideng2492 4 роки тому +11

      Thank you, done!!

    • @JustinG1057
      @JustinG1057 4 роки тому +11

      Hangwelani Madilonga In America, it’s “math” so back off.

    • @bunthaideng2492
      @bunthaideng2492 4 роки тому +13

      Justin Garrison really?
      Thank you!
      However, Hangwelani he was trying to correct me because I missed the word “math”

    • @JustinG1057
      @JustinG1057 4 роки тому +6

      @@bunthaideng2492 Oh, I see. Still crappy to be a grammar/spelling nazi, so I regret nothing.

    • @aismyfirstletter5716
      @aismyfirstletter5716 4 роки тому

      underrated

  • @xyzct
    @xyzct 5 років тому +3190

    This just shows you can crawl around the major scale any way you want and it sounds okay.

    • @davidhyrman144
      @davidhyrman144 5 років тому +80

      Exactly

    • @lemonwaterr
      @lemonwaterr 5 років тому +33

      Exactly2

    • @LauWo
      @LauWo 5 років тому +7

      Worthy of testing that theory :)

    • @rpyrat
      @rpyrat 5 років тому +17

      Exactly3

    • @brendanswords4659
      @brendanswords4659 5 років тому +47

      Well there was presumably a lot of thought into how he was going to play it to make it sound good

  • @DanLaDue
    @DanLaDue Рік тому +366

    My mom sent me this video after I started learning music production because she thought it was cool and interesting. She passed away unexpectedly and I come back to this a lot to watch and share a moment with her, remembering how conscientious she was. Between that connection and the music it brings me to tears. Thanks for this.

    • @redhotphoenixgamer6009
      @redhotphoenixgamer6009 Рік тому +5

      I’m so sorry for your loss

    • @kosmicway3074
      @kosmicway3074 Рік тому +7

      We are universe. We just change. You are everything. She's with you. She always be. Much love 💖

    • @HassleHoffer372
      @HassleHoffer372 Рік тому +2

      I’m reading this with my mum sitting a few meters away

    • @DanLaDue
      @DanLaDue Рік тому +3

      @@kosmicway3074 I genuinely appreciate the nice sentiment. But as much as that even is true, nothing eases the pain of wanting to be with her and talk to her. Thankful for music. Wishing you well.

    • @DanLaDue
      @DanLaDue Рік тому +3

      @@HassleHoffer372 cherish that. wish i could have had that moment.

  • @mathieupasquini2678
    @mathieupasquini2678 2 роки тому +925

    It's not beautiful because of the Fibonacci sequence, but because he use a diatonic scale where, by definition, the notes sound always great. You can play random notes or notes from Euler's numbers it will sound good. It's beautiful because of the piano player AND his harmonic chooses.

    • @ta_pegandofogo2988
      @ta_pegandofogo2988 Рік тому +57

      Welll said. He made a very good work with the harmony, the dynamics, the bass etc.

    • @pedrosaune
      @pedrosaune Рік тому +26

      diatonic scale sounding ALWAYS great?? are you sure?? there are 2 semitones and one tritone, you can easily get very unconfortable sounds using chords that aren't base on stacking thirds

    • @boogieplayer1772
      @boogieplayer1772 Рік тому +16

      @@pedrosaune Yes I'm sure :) Only using whole tones could make you unconfortable. I have a exercise with my student about diatonic, you can't play wrong ;)

    • @rubberduckz2739
      @rubberduckz2739 Рік тому

      Idc it helps me remember

    • @pleasecontactme4274
      @pleasecontactme4274 Рік тому

      o

  • @nembobuldrini
    @nembobuldrini 4 роки тому +1589

    As another guy mentioned down the line, the beauty of the composition is due to the harmonization + structure added by the player. It would probably work with random numbers as well. So it is human interpretation which renders it enjoyable. It would be interesting to have it generated *completely* algorithmically (melody+harmonization+rhythm) and see if it still would sound so great!

    • @XenophonSoulis
      @XenophonSoulis 4 роки тому +10

      Thanks, Mr. Obvious. π, as well as the Fibonacci sequence have a lot of Mathematical properties, but they don't have musical properties.

    • @tinottt1
      @tinottt1 4 роки тому +6

      My understanding is, the more mathematical a composition gets the less likely it sounds like music to the average human listener.

    • @jennabarton433
      @jennabarton433 4 роки тому +35

      I generated notes and chords using the Fibonacci sequence randomly when I was studying my computer science degree.
      It is much like any computer generated music and sounds.. Computer generated; quite random. The piece in this video sounds good but it's a human interpretation using the numbers in a way that fits Western composition rules. For example he has played larger numbers by sequencing the individual integers rather than playing those integers as a chord... Which would have sounded discordant and muddy but is what a computer would do unless you gave it additional rules to split those numbers into something more palatable to our musical sensibilities.

    • @technosaurus3805
      @technosaurus3805 4 роки тому +6

      I'd like to hear it with octal based numbers instead of decimal. It just seems like the keys would match up better.

    • @jennabarton433
      @jennabarton433 4 роки тому +1

      @@finlayson6868 Well put I totally agree xx

  • @dannychatzi4834
    @dannychatzi4834 4 роки тому +3272

    Composing music with maths. This is just magical.

    • @petrovbulgaria7160
      @petrovbulgaria7160 4 роки тому +12

      Totally!

    • @MakLife
      @MakLife 4 роки тому +73

      Music is based on maths, specifically the intervals between notes; simple ratios sound nice to the human brain.
      (Though in the modern tuning system of equal temperament, approximations of those ratios are used as just using the ratios will render many keys and chords useless, but your brain doesn’t really notice the difference between equal temperament and the ratios unless you’re really listening for it.)

    • @gtgodbear6320
      @gtgodbear6320 4 роки тому +25

      Bach wrote most of his music with math first then translated it into music.

    • @nuovoalbergooperai2630
      @nuovoalbergooperai2630 4 роки тому +19

      music is math

    • @alexandrahsueh4428
      @alexandrahsueh4428 4 роки тому +15

      mathimagical :)

  • @gracerongli3929
    @gracerongli3929 3 роки тому +405

    When I was about seven or eight years old, after seeing a lot of my mathematician father's notebooks with beautiful and mysterious math formulas like divine music notes from the sky, I asked my father, "dad, what is mathematics?". He answered, "at the highest level, it is like music, you can only feel". I never forget that moment....

    • @hentaiyamete1190
      @hentaiyamete1190 3 роки тому +12

      I'm pretty sure, he inspired you to do the things that which you love such as the multiple wave lengths of each notes traveling through the air into our ears and of course our heart content.

    • @gracerongli3929
      @gracerongli3929 3 роки тому +15

      @@hentaiyamete1190 yes, the rhythm of our heartbeat is the most beautiful music, when it’s tuned into the frequency of vibration of universe

    • @ikidu1102
      @ikidu1102 2 роки тому +5

      @@gracerongli3929 He's right indeed. I felt the whole beauty of mathematics as soon as you make your first proof of a theorem. Finding the "idea" or the "spark" that makes a proof a proof is a very intuitive process, indeed only something that can be felt.

    • @afulford
      @afulford 2 роки тому

      Beautiful.

    • @calypso
      @calypso 2 роки тому +1

      Lol sure that thing happened 🤣

  • @Leah1run
    @Leah1run 2 роки тому +17

    PLEASE I am literally BEGGING you to make this song longer…. It’s so beautiful 😢

  • @LeaveBetter
    @LeaveBetter 5 років тому +22005

    Better be careful playing that, you might open some portals or something.

  • @DamaniJones
    @DamaniJones 6 років тому +1991

    This man played the Fibonacci sequence so well that he was transported into nature lol.

  • @bluebull399
    @bluebull399 2 роки тому +139

    For those that don't play the piano. Ill let you into a secret. Once you know the keys and scales, you can basically press any key you want in that scale and it will sound good.
    If you look at his left hand he is playing arpegiated chords that set the mood or feel of the music. However, the right is essentially playing random notes (the fibbernachi sequence). However, it still sounds good because it's in key.
    I'll prove it, with your left hand hold down C, E and G. Now with your right hand, press any white note you like, it doesn't matter which one, they will all sound good.
    You've just learnt the chord of C, in the key of C with the scale of C. A free one hour piano lesson in 10 seconds...you're welcome.

    • @MaximumSunlite
      @MaximumSunlite 2 роки тому

      👀👀👀

    • @acakeyboi4345
      @acakeyboi4345 2 роки тому +6

      Don’t mind me, taking notes rn.

    • @balvsmalvs5425
      @balvsmalvs5425 2 роки тому

      Well done.

    • @frankjoseph6071
      @frankjoseph6071 Рік тому +2

      how much i owe u?

    • @commonpike
      @commonpike Рік тому +2

      With your left hand, just hold the C and G. The E sounds a little dark when it's that low.
      Now do the same with F and C. Bang! That's Lydian.

  • @philiproyd6563
    @philiproyd6563 2 роки тому +31

    A few years ago, I added this video clip into the favorites on my channel. After reviewing it again I see why it is a favorite. This is beautiful.

  • @christianguerra3843
    @christianguerra3843 6 років тому +2269

    *when the recommendation is actually worth it*

  • @kurisukunn2495
    @kurisukunn2495 4 роки тому +3143

    Ive never imagined that math can make you cry the other way

  • @NatureGloseScience
    @NatureGloseScience 3 роки тому +73

    This is soooo good that it just makes me cry. I love how you put the numbers beneath the view of you playing so that we can actually see and UNDERSTAND how the music and the number sequence is being played. Truly beautifully brilliant work!

    • @deanne1671
      @deanne1671 Рік тому +2

      You said what I was already feeling. Thank you! ❣️

  • @foureducks1248
    @foureducks1248 2 роки тому +24

    Lateralus by Tool is also something to check out. Their usage of syllables follows the sequence, and some other things, such as the intro being 1 minute and 38 seconds long: 13 and 8 are numbers in the sequence, and 13:8 is also thus, an example of the golden ratio. There's an in depth video on all the math they crammed into their 9+ minute song called "How Tool Used Math to Create 'Lateralus'".

  • @Gimbergp
    @Gimbergp 5 років тому +26210

    Now play the Pythagoras theorem

    • @takumijoong6271
      @takumijoong6271 5 років тому +360

      Gimberg Preval underrated comment

    • @bonbon2235
      @bonbon2235 5 років тому +1038

      That’s makes no sense it’s not a sequence

    • @MrShyguyRS
      @MrShyguyRS 5 років тому +467

      bon bon woosh

    • @bonbon2235
      @bonbon2235 5 років тому +341

      Julius Trenkler r/doublewooooosh

    • @MrShyguyRS
      @MrShyguyRS 5 років тому +257

      bon bon Boi nowhere in your comment was there a joke for me to miss. Additionally, there was no indication that you actually got OP's joke in the first place.

  • @jacobansari808
    @jacobansari808 4 роки тому +2018

    This sounds good because it’s in e major and has harmonies

    • @traviskoser883
      @traviskoser883 4 роки тому +66

      Euler's Number major. So glorious! :D

    • @roy2201
      @roy2201 4 роки тому +76

      Obviously because of adding the harmonie however the melodie is built up with the fibonacci scale. In General all music is created with harmonies to complete. It's not "just a piece in E Major" it's built up from a mathematical starting point not a musical inspiration.

    • @bryan.conrad
      @bryan.conrad 4 роки тому +128

      And he's playing notes corresponding to the *digits* of each number. With a system like this he could be using a random number generator and get indistinguishable results. Nothing specific to the Fibonacci sequence here.

    • @tinolucasvalencafernandes8201
      @tinolucasvalencafernandes8201 4 роки тому +5

      No, he is only using chord functions, he could have used any scale he wanted to. So he chose major to make it easier

    • @Trumpophone7
      @Trumpophone7 4 роки тому +8

      Thiks vf But the point is he didn’t use like a chromatic scale or like a whole tone scale I’m pretty sure

  • @STEAMzgjoi
    @STEAMzgjoi 4 роки тому +80

    "There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres." - Pythagoras

  • @jimfowler278
    @jimfowler278 3 роки тому +32

    Incredible. I have used this as a music lesson for the classes I teach. Thank you.

  • @victort.4798
    @victort.4798 4 роки тому +313

    This should be in a detective movie. Like this mysterious piano is playing this song and you don't know what it means, until this super smart person figures out it's the fibonacci sequence in E major, and that leads them to the next clue

    • @Rising_Pho3nix_23
      @Rising_Pho3nix_23 2 роки тому +5

      something like this is in the show fringe. child music prodigy just cant solve the end of the song, and a mathematician cant complete a formula. i wont spoil it for you

    • @ardhendumitra3458
      @ardhendumitra3458 2 роки тому +4

      there is a detective Conan movie like this

    • @VenThusiaist
      @VenThusiaist 2 роки тому +2

      what

    • @philipmurray6897
      @philipmurray6897 Рік тому

      Look at criminals minds codas theme tune

    • @dainswedd9900
      @dainswedd9900 Рік тому

      @@ardhendumitra3458 and also moonlight sonata murder case, the very ep 11

  • @joshp6061
    @joshp6061 4 роки тому +1506

    You can make music out of anything if you add harmonizing notes like he did

    • @TechnicalDribbler
      @TechnicalDribbler 4 роки тому +220

      Yea i wanted to hear it without the harmonizing notes. Kinda disappointed.

    • @TechnicalDribbler
      @TechnicalDribbler 4 роки тому +56

      @@CaptainMyCaptain33 dude.. what.. 😂😂

    • @mukulabdagiri4726
      @mukulabdagiri4726 4 роки тому +57

      Right.. it sounds harmonious just because he is adding notes.. otherwise the numbers are just randomly dispersed.

    • @miriahjohnson5567
      @miriahjohnson5567 4 роки тому +6

      Exactly

    • @trurocker03
      @trurocker03 4 роки тому +44

      Yeah this was a total cheat. I’d like to hear the right hand alone and see how well it creates music

  • @afridnishad6617
    @afridnishad6617 3 роки тому +6

    makes me realize that improvising with random notes is like poetry, you need to know which poetic devices to use where to repeat and where to create tension or else its just random notes

  • @Bflygrl2176
    @Bflygrl2176 2 роки тому +3

    This is why we like music, why notes, everything is constructed the way it is and is pleasing to us. I often think about these types of things; I love this guys’ simple profundity at just laying it out the way he did!

  • @Joepert1983
    @Joepert1983 4 роки тому +1142

    I really don't care if it's right or not, the idea of putting one of the worlds most famous mathematical sequence, into musical notes, is simply brilliant. Even if it was just to act as the spark to this beautiful piece of music. The fact that he eventually made this into what it is, merely points out to me that he's probably a great musician, with an even greater open mind. I like it... Keep it up!

    • @FoxyBoxery
      @FoxyBoxery 4 роки тому +14

      Well, it wasn't an act.
      This is the actual notes to numbers correlation.
      He only added the harmony (the chords)

    • @zedrictaylor1992
      @zedrictaylor1992 4 роки тому +1

      A

    • @user5214
      @user5214 3 роки тому +3

      @@FoxyBoxery and rhythm

    • @krishnachandra8857
      @krishnachandra8857 3 роки тому +5

      Talk to Princeton Maths Department Head, Manjul Bhargava. He has proved beyond doubt, that all music is combination of mathematical sequence, the ‘Pingala series’ or Europeans commonly know it as Fibonacci sequence. Indian mathematician codified the nature’s sequence in mathematics, from where everything could be traced.

    • @balthasarte5649
      @balthasarte5649 3 роки тому +1

      ACtually the Fibonacci sequence is in the Harmonic Series and Just Intonation

  • @arturryba6724
    @arturryba6724 6 років тому +641

    Beautiful. The next one: 'music from my DNA sequence'

    • @ElectricEarth
      @ElectricEarth 6 років тому +49

      Or how about: "music from my bowel movements." Butthoven's turd symphony. It could really make a splash.

    • @mikhailthegreatestdragon3627
      @mikhailthegreatestdragon3627 6 років тому +3

      Electric Earth
      Bruv

    • @shunalicekazami
      @shunalicekazami 6 років тому +1

      Electric Earth Why not mozart, he's a scatologist. Let's just say he's full of shit.

    • @gammafreak
      @gammafreak 6 років тому +2

      Played by a biological super computer melded into our brains.

    • @rubendez
      @rubendez 6 років тому +1

      Yesssss.

  • @cookingwithsimon
    @cookingwithsimon 3 роки тому +6

    Wow, David, didn't know you played piano so beautifully. I imagined I was at a memorial and you were playing that piece for our hero. Wow so beautiful, musical, mathematical, emotional, just what I needed.

  • @syberyah
    @syberyah 3 роки тому +23

    Oh my goodness, I was honestly grinning from ear to ear; this was so beautiful to listen to! ^-^ God's creation never ceases to amaze me; it's all so beautiful and incredible. ^-^

  • @anorangewithacapybaraunder2370
    @anorangewithacapybaraunder2370 4 роки тому +3228

    How to play piano,
    Step 1: Get a PhD in mathematics

    • @advocate1563
      @advocate1563 4 роки тому +46

      How to write music - get a PhD in mathematics

    • @rafaelguerra4748
      @rafaelguerra4748 4 роки тому +13

      Enter the italian mafia

    • @katherinevaldez7792
      @katherinevaldez7792 4 роки тому

      😂

    • @bxbyhair4955
      @bxbyhair4955 4 роки тому +2

      @Commenter in a Box but.. He's playing a piano???? *confusion*

    • @wereldkaart
      @wereldkaart 4 роки тому +16

      I don't think you need a PhD to google the Fibonacci sequence

  • @tippyandfriend
    @tippyandfriend 5 років тому +2716

    Now I want to know what pi sounds likes, and e.

    • @user-ob6gc3io6i
      @user-ob6gc3io6i 5 років тому +27

      Pi as music ua-cam.com/video/HV1-AjwDJwM/v-deo.html

    • @chelseaduran762
      @chelseaduran762 5 років тому +1

      Tippy Magoo great question

    • @jlt131
      @jlt131 5 років тому +2

      This same user has done so:
      ua-cam.com/video/OMq9he-5HUU/v-deo.html

    • @haronka
      @haronka 5 років тому +4

      I am insterested in this in hexadecimal form

    • @anilkumarsharma1205
      @anilkumarsharma1205 5 років тому +1

      @@haronka octane
      nine
      deca
      septa
      hexa
      penta
      quadrupling
      thrice
      binary etc
      so many things are there

  • @martinvoet217
    @martinvoet217 2 роки тому +2

    It is the harmonies that did the job. Just a very tallented composer with a sequence to deal with.

  • @kalp7568
    @kalp7568 3 роки тому +132

    I showed This To My Math Teacher Now He Teaches Us Maths With Piano.

  • @RADIOACTIVEBUNY
    @RADIOACTIVEBUNY 6 років тому +708

    Sometimes UA-cam has a good idea when it decides to show me something.

    • @kentwinstonmedia
      @kentwinstonmedia 6 років тому

      Same

    • @Giggiyygoo
      @Giggiyygoo 6 років тому

      Yeah, I like this stuff. But oddly, I've been getting multiple recommendations for how to make my own butter, San Francisco travel tips, and proper bicycling gear ratios. None of which I have any interest in, or have viewed.

  • @clowieflowers770
    @clowieflowers770 4 роки тому +1055

    when you love music but you enrolled in an engineering school

    • @Cons-Cat
      @Cons-Cat 4 роки тому +10

      Music degree programs are heavily math based too, they just have a lot of performance/producing. But engineering still has theses, so it's a similar amount.

    • @ashleyd4563
      @ashleyd4563 4 роки тому +2

      Steve Jobs loved literature and science, apparently it's a good mix! 😉

    • @braydontomak
      @braydontomak 4 роки тому +5

      I’m switching to be a music major from computer science and engineering! Do what you love🤙🏼

    • @anonymouse7773
      @anonymouse7773 4 роки тому

      Ha SAME. Too late to change now, I’m about to graduate in less than year and get a career in something that will never satisfy me like music does but whatever pays the bills and makes the fam happy...i know I know, not a good way to live life. But you know, maybe I can find a way to merge music and STEM in a way that hasn’t been done before.

    • @anonymouse7773
      @anonymouse7773 4 роки тому +2

      @@viniciusguedesdossantos2905 True true and tbh I don't actually hate STEM. I mean it wasn't my first choice but there are many really incredible real world applications and I don't want the bad experiences from college to ruin what the field actually is. Especially the field I’m going into, there are applications in gene editing and other upcoming issues in the field of medicine and ethical issues concerning it, so it’s actually really exciting. I think school sometimes takes away from the excitement of certain fields.

  • @chloemacdonald1892
    @chloemacdonald1892 Рік тому +2

    Please put this on your spotify! Four years later it still gets stuck in my head sometimes!

  • @normasea
    @normasea 2 роки тому +4

    For some reason I wish I could just hear :50 to 2:05 over and over in a loop. I'm not sure why, but that part really touches my heart.

  • @kingtesttube4996
    @kingtesttube4996 4 роки тому +569

    Playing this song on the piano seems like the cheat code to unlocking the secrets of the universe.

    • @PurpleAmalgam
      @PurpleAmalgam 2 роки тому +15

      nah its an easter egg

    • @kevinralfi4641
      @kevinralfi4641 2 роки тому +10

      the fact that your like is the 13th number on the fibonnacci sequence

  • @retrorebootmusic
    @retrorebootmusic 6 років тому +2805

    *when simple endless addition is better at writing melodys than you*

    • @lnetz77
      @lnetz77 6 років тому +47

      That part though! It violates rules taught in classical music theory due to jumps that aren't usually favored, but for contemporary classical aaaah fck it it works😜

    • @MCMaterac
      @MCMaterac 5 років тому +34

      Lemme fix it... *When a basically pseudorandom melody sounds better than one written by you.* (Playing digit by digit makes it pseudorandom).

    • @TheVeritableQuandary
      @TheVeritableQuandary 5 років тому +9

      @@MCMaterac
      I hear an echo of pointlessness.

    • @gabumonboys
      @gabumonboys 5 років тому +5

      It's because it's all in the same scale.

    • @dandanthedandan7558
      @dandanthedandan7558 5 років тому +18

      Pretty sure it sounds good because of the creative liberty taken into the harmony and melody; only the main scale is based on the Fibonacci sequence.
      What works, works. Do not think about it.

  • @amart3632
    @amart3632 3 роки тому +12

    🎵 This is the song that never ends...
    Yes it goes on and on my friend... 🎵

  • @dorksauce6676
    @dorksauce6676 Рік тому +6

    Man the goosebumps I got when you began playing. It was BEAUTIFUL my dude. I know this comment is late by a few years, but excellent work nontheless.

  • @ernodios
    @ernodios 5 років тому +8750

    Sounds good but it wouldn't without the other hand playing around with harmonies

    • @BrnBear
      @BrnBear 5 років тому +609

      I disagree. I think it still would have been melodic if taken at the pace it was at.
      With the inflections of rests and the acelerando sections provide the tension.
      This is coming from someone who musics tho

    • @Naurder
      @Naurder 5 років тому +40

      I fully agree

    • @premoist2095
      @premoist2095 5 років тому +329

      Yeah as a musician you can tell he is compensating for the imperfections a lot. It could be performed musicly but not on its own.

    • @premoist2095
      @premoist2095 5 років тому +116

      @@BrnBear all music is melodic, a bad performance of a scale is still melodic whether you like it or not.

    • @Dabrar
      @Dabrar 5 років тому +188

      There isnt a right way to apply the sequence. The use is almost subjectve. There are many other approaches he could have used. The Fibonacci acts as a guidance, but not even nature follows it strictly.

  • @techstuf4637
    @techstuf4637 4 роки тому +854

    For my next act, I have discovered that the DNA in each of us is actually a celestial symphony and I invented a quantum microphone that can hear them....

  • @benjaminmckinney7246
    @benjaminmckinney7246 3 роки тому +10

    Man I wish I could like this video a million times, every time it bring about the most positive emotions inside me. Thank you so much for bringing this together❤️

  • @paul_109
    @paul_109 2 роки тому +10

    It's fascinating what role mathematical theories play in abstract, seemingly man-made concepts like music

    • @JackHagar
      @JackHagar 2 роки тому

      I’d argue music isn’t man made. We see musical Melodies in other animals like birds, and even non musical animals can react positively when listening to a pleasant melody. It’s possible that music is strictly animal based, but it’s definitely not only related to humans

    • @paul_109
      @paul_109 2 роки тому +1

      @@JackHagar that would mean that music is not created by a sense of "beauty", but by certain laws of Physics, Chemistry and Biology.
      That's even more fascinating

    • @psychicmane7636
      @psychicmane7636 2 роки тому

      @@paul_109 the universe is like a fractal repeating patterns infinitely collapsing in on itself chaos doesn’t exist life is a part of our universe and so the pattern of creation spirals into life

  • @PoisedGuitar417
    @PoisedGuitar417 5 років тому +684

    No one:
    Tool:
    NOW THIS LOOKS LIKE A JOB FOR ME

    • @zeldadevideos
      @zeldadevideos 5 років тому

      Miguel Ponce Ponce you should look into lateralus and fibo

    • @megatroid7083
      @megatroid7083 5 років тому +13

      @@zeldadevideos I think they commented _because_ they have already have knowledge of it

    • @weswhitbeck6645
      @weswhitbeck6645 5 років тому

      Lateralus

  • @houloudini
    @houloudini 4 роки тому +3826

    Imagine god composing the universe with this.

  • @Howzley
    @Howzley 2 роки тому +2

    It’s so nice to see that people find enjoyment in these aspects of math. I recently had to write a 4000 word essay for my high school and decided to base it off of the Fibonacci Sequence and the Golden Ratio derived from it. Although it was an interesting experience I don’t think it’s something I would ever do again as it was a gigantic pain in the ass.

  • @LetheMaghia
    @LetheMaghia 3 роки тому +5

    This is so great. It sounds so beautiful. It's always so intruiging to wonder how certain patterns would sound as music

  • @TheShadowless
    @TheShadowless 5 років тому +1657

    I never believed my teacher when she said “math is in everything”
    Oh boy how wrong I was 😂

    • @ifyoubelieveanythingmatter8924
      @ifyoubelieveanythingmatter8924 5 років тому +25

      Pythagoras said " All is number . "

    • @shiptadaharu1678
      @shiptadaharu1678 5 років тому +14

      Math is in regular music as well

    • @terjir.
      @terjir. 5 років тому +1

      I know same..

    • @qscott777
      @qscott777 5 років тому +31

      There's nothing mathematical about this because of the way he's doing it. He could to the same thing with literally any series of numbers because he's putting it to the notes in a scale.

    • @manischkreativ8868
      @manischkreativ8868 5 років тому +4

      My dad told me something similar, when I was seven.
      This was when I secretly started fearing life.

  • @yezsir715
    @yezsir715 5 років тому +533

    The music is so good that he got spawned in the forest out of nowhere

    • @jayv.1983
      @jayv.1983 5 років тому +8

      LMFAO

    • @Colonies_Dev
      @Colonies_Dev 5 років тому +12

      It's like in legend of Zelda

    • @BUCKETHEADache
      @BUCKETHEADache 5 років тому +1

      @@Colonies_Dev song of soaring 🤔

    • @Colonies_Dev
      @Colonies_Dev 5 років тому

      @@BUCKETHEADache I was thinking of the song you learn after forest temple in ocarina of Time xD

    • @Ying-yang6969
      @Ying-yang6969 5 років тому

      Lol

  • @teresablakley1855
    @teresablakley1855 4 місяці тому

    I appreciate the restart, it reminds us all How HE Loves us & gives us " Do overs" over & over.

  • @WhirledPublishing
    @WhirledPublishing Рік тому +1

    Your melody makes me cry - I'm an architectural designer - for decades - I designed a home based on the Fibonacci sequence - which makes me so happy.

  • @atinyknobofbutter9015
    @atinyknobofbutter9015 4 роки тому +628

    Me: im sleepy
    UA-cam: *w a n n a h e a r s o m e m a t h t u n e s ?*

  • @aSongScout
    @aSongScout  6 років тому +6892

    Thanks for watching! For those asking about a pi song - I've actually made one for pi as well: ua-cam.com/video/wM-x3pUcdeo/v-deo.html

    • @carlosrobbins9178
      @carlosrobbins9178 6 років тому +11

      I never heard of VidCon before. But I logged on, and it looks confusing. How do we find you?

    • @dunmill9632
      @dunmill9632 6 років тому +8

      How about left hand? Right hand can work on Fibonacci sequence, while I have no clue about left hand

    • @souny1372
      @souny1372 6 років тому

      Nope

    • @Tiaggus
      @Tiaggus 6 років тому +7

      Could you play the golden number and pi sequences? Please

    • @anybodynoname8767
      @anybodynoname8767 6 років тому

      Geweldig, dit is echt ziek vet👍

  • @iwa3
    @iwa3 2 роки тому +4

    I feel mysterious beauty from this tune. Harmony of the universe. The sound of heaven. I always come back to this place. The universe welcomes us back.

  • @Uwukat07
    @Uwukat07 Рік тому +3

    This is the song of maths starts boring and ends up giving you wild euphoria. The song of life

  • @sharperd2
    @sharperd2 4 роки тому +2130

    “Mathematics is the alphabet with which God has written the universe”
    -Galileo Galilei.

    • @everytopicoftopicandthings2860
      @everytopicoftopicandthings2860 4 роки тому +39

      I'm glad someone else has mentioned him.

    • @Arev1978
      @Arev1978 4 роки тому +56

      Yes God is the MASTER PHYSICIST

    • @kurniasormin806
      @kurniasormin806 4 роки тому +10

      how come ?, if Galileo was burn in order to proving science to the churches ?

    • @ExTorvo
      @ExTorvo 4 роки тому +10

      @@kurniasormin806 dude please it wasn't burned. Second, there were several trials where he tried to prove his theory. It wasn't like that back then. newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/the-truth-about-galileo-and-his-conflict-with-the-catholic-church

    • @martinholland8558
      @martinholland8558 4 роки тому +18

      God is best explanation of this. Why else would such structure exist in a seemingly random universe?
      EDIT: I realize that the design argument is weak when presented like the way I did. I apologize.

  • @LilDeuceDeuce
    @LilDeuceDeuce 6 років тому +7160

    Incredible, incredible work...you have an amazingly creative mind

    • @aSongScout
      @aSongScout  6 років тому +74

      Thank you!

    • @dash_R
      @dash_R 6 років тому +14

      From LDD himself, what an honor

    • @djtrackyard1833
      @djtrackyard1833 6 років тому +4

      LilDeuceDeuce woahhh what a surprise ... lildeucedeuce dude love ur music

    • @ciscobriano
      @ciscobriano 6 років тому +2

      LilDeuceDeuce How can you start this on C? It seams like it can be easier to play

    • @peppelocura185
      @peppelocura185 6 років тому +5

      I wanna listen with the number pi π or the number e sequence

  • @evankazmierczak8388
    @evankazmierczak8388 3 роки тому +1

    I think this is the first ever song to be discovered, not written. Amazing.

  • @pknf4855
    @pknf4855 Рік тому

    I came back here many years ago just to hear it once again. It seems to me that this sound is probably the background sound when creating the universe and all. This is fascinating.

  • @benjaminwalter2258
    @benjaminwalter2258 4 роки тому +573

    Scrolled the comments
    Glanced back up He’s in a field now

    • @CollinBoerema
      @CollinBoerema 4 роки тому +26

      Reading your comment
      Glanced back up because of it
      Indeed he's in a field now

    • @lotvs7056
      @lotvs7056 4 роки тому +4

      Scrolled the comment
      glanced back up he‘s in a field now
      read your comment

    • @demolitionwilliams7419
      @demolitionwilliams7419 4 роки тому

      Dad the same thing while reading your comment haha

    • @matthewguard3661
      @matthewguard3661 4 роки тому +1

      @@demolitionwilliams7419 thanks dad

    • @adrena7321
      @adrena7321 4 роки тому

      same lol

  • @borisvandruff7532
    @borisvandruff7532 5 років тому +2334

    Very impressive...
    But can you play pi-ano? Harmonizing the digits of pi?

    • @vbgvbg1133
      @vbgvbg1133 5 років тому +73

      He did that already

    • @ModernMozartMC
      @ModernMozartMC 5 років тому +22

      he already did

    • @goofyknight_9693
      @goofyknight_9693 5 років тому +13

      He did

    • @switzerlandful
      @switzerlandful 4 роки тому +5

      Take 987 of the Fibonacci sequence and get the square root of it and it's first 4 digits are the same as the first 4 of pi.

    • @martinvannostrand8488
      @martinvannostrand8488 4 роки тому +16

      What is this, davie504’s channel?

  • @thelomi01loicmilandou44
    @thelomi01loicmilandou44 4 роки тому +3

    Another way to understand the wonderfull things in this world.
    Powerfull song!

  • @oracle_2010
    @oracle_2010 3 роки тому +2

    I sense the grandeur of everything that grows in this music

  • @quantumstate4796
    @quantumstate4796 4 роки тому +941

    Me:Uses calculator for calculation.
    Him:Uses piano for calculation.

    • @zoltano_cortez
      @zoltano_cortez 4 роки тому +5

      ashib thapa i bet there is a system one could devise to actually do math on piano, sort of like an abacus but nothing like an abacus.

    • @gurudattahh3345
      @gurudattahh3345 4 роки тому +1

      And someone used calculator to play music😂

  • @momonjaa
    @momonjaa 5 років тому +1259

    Now play prime numbers

    • @primalelement8785
      @primalelement8785 5 років тому +4

      Great idea

    •  5 років тому +6

      I'm pretty sure it'll sound better than Schoenberg.

    • @elgamer3003
      @elgamer3003 5 років тому +8

      Pucci approves this

    • @stronkmug1911
      @stronkmug1911 5 років тому +1

      @@elgamer3003 I was hoping to find a reference to steel ball run but I guess this is ok

    • @lydialaughing9126
      @lydialaughing9126 5 років тому +1

      Okay but actually do this

  • @mayleespann4552
    @mayleespann4552 2 роки тому

    I’ve been here before, but a friend brought me back, and I’m glad to see this video again.

  • @NextStageDrumming
    @NextStageDrumming 3 роки тому +8

    I think your interpretation is beautiful! Thanks for sharing!

  • @ltrizzle12
    @ltrizzle12 4 роки тому +1153

    There’s something so unnatural about a guy playing a digital piano in a field.

    • @aSongScout
      @aSongScout  4 роки тому +122

      I wish I had ThePianoGuys' budget and resources to get a grand piano out there haha! Maybe someday

    • @CrazyCowboyBuilds
      @CrazyCowboyBuilds 4 роки тому +3

      ltrizzle12 ‘Mercia 😁

    • @GryphonFilmsVids
      @GryphonFilmsVids 4 роки тому +9

      I thought that part was supposed to be funny. Oh, it wasn’t supposed to be funny? *____*

    • @Zuhaa567
      @Zuhaa567 4 роки тому +1

      Thats the gist of it

    • @diegoescudero6994
      @diegoescudero6994 4 роки тому +2

      Nah, it's dope

  • @emmanuelwinston8817
    @emmanuelwinston8817 5 років тому +802

    I see so many people disliking this man. Now come on! He did something creative. At least give him credit for that!

    • @User-ju9rv
      @User-ju9rv 5 років тому +9

      Emmanuel Winston except it's not creative! There are much better ways this could've been done!

    • @sdivine13
      @sdivine13 5 років тому +3

      James maynard keenan did it first and did it better

    • @businessbuilder92
      @businessbuilder92 5 років тому +2

      I think mentioning Fibonacci attracts detractors, though i could be wrong

    • @supernovasightseeing4133
      @supernovasightseeing4133 5 років тому +4

      No, he didnt do anything creative. He tried to apply math to music. All he did was to prove that science these days has become a "religion", trying to smear math over everything they come across. :P

    • @RyanRenteria
      @RyanRenteria 5 років тому +8

      its really not that creative. certainly not creative enough to warrant making a youtube video about it. its just a random number generator in e major. been done a million times before

  • @souleaterboss2246
    @souleaterboss2246 3 роки тому +12

    They: wow nice
    Other:it's freaking lovely
    Me:that's a big calculator

    • @rusticcloud3325
      @rusticcloud3325 3 роки тому

      I actually memorise this song to help me memorise the sequence lol

  • @TheFakeyCakeMaker
    @TheFakeyCakeMaker 3 місяці тому

    Absolutely beautiful especially the change of scenery.

  • @xandermijares342
    @xandermijares342 5 років тому +1049

    Fibonacci has been waiting for someone to discover this.

  • @tnuoccaeht
    @tnuoccaeht 6 років тому +212

    I remember when I first saw your pi video, my life circumstances were just like now. I feel like we’ve all come full circle.

    • @RennieAsh
      @RennieAsh 6 років тому +1

      Couldn't stop at one slice of the pi, you had to have the whole thing ;)

    • @Angel-rq3pi
      @Angel-rq3pi 6 років тому

      Rennie Ash "and Bring me done pie! I loves me some pie." Dean, to Sam

    • @floppydisk4500
      @floppydisk4500 6 років тому +1

      Then I guess that means you should be ready for it to spiral out of control 😉

  • @jatinreddy1677
    @jatinreddy1677 3 роки тому +5

    when a nerd and a musical genius come together.

  • @simba_neko
    @simba_neko Рік тому +3

    Also interesting is playing the fibonacchi as a rythm. Yu-Peng Chen for example used it for a rythm in a Sumeru theme. (If you want to hear it then just search in youtube for fibonacchi sequence in yu-peng chen sumeru theme)

  • @artofdylan2356
    @artofdylan2356 6 років тому +355

    I love how you transported into the garden haha

  • @j.m.mariano6654
    @j.m.mariano6654 4 роки тому +1816

    I am sure most of us didn't search for this video.

    • @PangestuRatnoKumoro
      @PangestuRatnoKumoro 4 роки тому +14

      I found this video on my yt recommendation, before i clicked it, my browser I use suddenly reloaded. So I search this video

    • @jixster1566
      @jixster1566 4 роки тому +3

      I did

    • @feminico2613
      @feminico2613 4 роки тому +3

      I did lol

    • @awesomestevie27
      @awesomestevie27 4 роки тому +1

      J.M. Mariano I created the intention to learn about the golden ratio thru music so here it was for me

    • @NaveenDewangan
      @NaveenDewangan 4 роки тому

      I searched yesterday what is Fibonacci series... Now this was recommended to me

  • @patriciajrs46
    @patriciajrs46 3 роки тому

    OMG!! This is the most beautiful etude, symphony, something, whatever you would call this piece. It is wonderful. I am blown away.

  • @jinayat8538
    @jinayat8538 3 роки тому

    Fibonocci sequence is such a beautiful art in all its forms. Pure light

  • @jeffreycfmok
    @jeffreycfmok 5 років тому +960

    More impressive is how you got your electric keyboard to work outside in the park

    • @djteejay87
      @djteejay87 5 років тому +45

      On battery?

    • @svedge42
      @svedge42 5 років тому +6

      or maybe playback? ;/

    • @dionyates2482
      @dionyates2482 5 років тому +125

      USB trees - they're a thing now.

    • @niaurina98
      @niaurina98 5 років тому +19

      My keyboard has battery 😂

    • @reinortega23
      @reinortega23 5 років тому +22

      Have you heard about something called the battery...

  • @joaomatheus6222
    @joaomatheus6222 4 роки тому +103

    SPIRAL OUT
    KEEP
    GOING

  • @neuraaquaria
    @neuraaquaria 2 роки тому +1

    Excellent. The fingerprint of the Lord lies on your fingertips, and you expressed His story through a scale of frequencies.

  • @danisyx5804
    @danisyx5804 3 роки тому +6

    And here I am thinking wait till this guy hears tool, lateralus.

  • @HerpDerp
    @HerpDerp 5 років тому +81

    10% of comments "this is great"
    1% of comments "this is really great, have you heard of >this piece< by >this band

  • @duVillage
    @duVillage 6 років тому +566

    Amazing how well an unplugged electrical piano still plays!
    5 stars per banana!

    • @breakdownwolf4423
      @breakdownwolf4423 6 років тому +61

      Ron 'duVillage' van Dorp some electric pianos can use batteries too

    • @duVillage
      @duVillage 6 років тому +28

      Breakdown Wolf Good thing it has no speakers either then ^_^

    • @duality4y
      @duality4y 6 років тому +3

      Yea what is that about

    • @mikaeljeanpierre7570
      @mikaeljeanpierre7570 6 років тому +36

      its got wifi

    • @castiello_008
      @castiello_008 6 років тому +3

      Some electric keyboards operate on batteries, and sound the same.

  • @JasonToddRoberts
    @JasonToddRoberts 3 роки тому

    Wow, Thanks Mind Blown!!! I spend two years run an attic applying mathematics to music but never thought of incorporating the Fibonacci sequence. This will keep me busy for a couple years.

  • @ivehadtoomuchtodrinktonight
    @ivehadtoomuchtodrinktonight 2 роки тому +1

    HE IS THE BLUEPRINT FOR ALL PIANISTS ‼️

  • @snailboat9687
    @snailboat9687 5 років тому +3546

    “So what’s your favorite music genre?”
    “Math”
    Thanks for all the likes! Never got this many.

    • @weegee_47
      @weegee_47 5 років тому +36

      I mean, Math Rock is a legitimate genre

    • @snailboat9687
      @snailboat9687 5 років тому +4

      Victor Munoz oh wow. I have to check that out

    • @enabler2456
      @enabler2456 5 років тому +3

      How do youtube likes make you feel?

    • @snailboat9687
      @snailboat9687 5 років тому

      Enabler I feel meh. I’m thankful and happy I made that many people happy but tbh I don’t really care.

    • @DukeOfEarl88
      @DukeOfEarl88 5 років тому +2

      There’s not much which is more lame than thanking people for likes on a UA-cam comment.

  • @victorhenrique9212
    @victorhenrique9212 6 років тому +133

    The music "Lateralus" from tool was writen based on the Fibonacci sequence.

    • @colbybeltz8836
      @colbybeltz8836 6 років тому +5

      Victor Henrique W A T C H I T B E N D

    • @nikitasavenged9374
      @nikitasavenged9374 6 років тому +1

      Well, the lyrics. Not the music itself, IIRC

    • @victorhenrique9212
      @victorhenrique9212 6 років тому +2

      Nikitas Avenged The music too, watch the drum beat time.

    • @NatalyaPlaysPiano
      @NatalyaPlaysPiano 6 років тому +2

      Victor Henrique 😮 I didn't know that! Big TOOL fan!

    • @violetblazes
      @violetblazes 6 років тому +2

      There's a video on it. ❤
      ua-cam.com/video/wS7CZIJVxFY/v-deo.html

  • @sylviakruger5000
    @sylviakruger5000 5 місяців тому

    Thanks for this video! Mathematics was my poorest and least liked subject in school. I am especially fond of music and nature. It's intriguing that this Fibonacci principle seems to appear in everything!

  • @thenerfnerd6659
    @thenerfnerd6659 Рік тому

    It sounds familiar but original in so many ways. It gives me nostalgia but brings new memories. It's strange, but a good strange.

  • @TiagoIanuck
    @TiagoIanuck 4 роки тому +1192

    Oh, com'on, this is just an E7+ improvisation, any sequence will sound nice.

    • @AboveAllNations
      @AboveAllNations 4 роки тому +89

      There should be a Fibonacci sequence challenge where people assign numbers to complimentary items and film the results. Like, how about a Fibonacci cooking challenge using Italian ingredients like garlic, olive oil, Parmesan cheese, basil, tomatoes, and pasta. IMAGINE THE COMBINATIONS, WOW MATH IS AMAZING!!!

    • @witri9
      @witri9 4 роки тому +25

      Arthur I fell for it. Tell me how it’s a trick.

    • @Erg893
      @Erg893 4 роки тому +13

      @@witri9 do your research or start practising music

    • @XxQueenChristinaxX
      @XxQueenChristinaxX 4 роки тому +20

      Doesn't this work for any key too?

    • @michaelseminatore6148
      @michaelseminatore6148 4 роки тому +46

      Exactly, and actually, if you concentrate on just the "melody" itself, it just sounds like random notes in the scale he chose, which it kind of is.

  • @feuwn00256
    @feuwn00256 5 років тому +1584

    I Guess Fibonacci also told you to pick E Major scale 😉

    • @pumpknhd
      @pumpknhd 5 років тому +158

      Right? Because Fibonacceeeeeee!

    • @holly3520
      @holly3520 5 років тому +70

      He probably tested a lot of different ways before he found E Major.

    • @feuwn00256
      @feuwn00256 5 років тому +35

      @@holly3520 You're right he's a genius D Major wouldn't be exactly the same at all 👍🏻

    • @feuwn00256
      @feuwn00256 5 років тому +11

      @@holly3520 Then Fibonaccd does not sound that great 😂

    • @aa5284
      @aa5284 5 років тому +3

      @@feuwn00256 hi I love you

  • @shelbebotha1411
    @shelbebotha1411 2 місяці тому +1

    Still amazed and inspired by this 💚

  • @audreydoyle5268
    @audreydoyle5268 9 місяців тому

    This is literally the song of life. It made me tear up. Beautiful

  • @solargreg1
    @solargreg1 4 роки тому +37

    This is a beautiful piece of music, but I agree with other commenters who have said it only sounds good because it started with a major scale, which is already pre-selected to contain notes that harmonize. It has half-steps and whole-steps, so the proportionality of pitches and intervals is not the same as for natural numbers. You've assigned the distance from 0 to 1 is a half-step, but your distance from 1 to 2 is a whole step. So the relationship of pitch intervals to each other is not proportional to a Fibonacci sequence.
    To hear what a Fibonacci sequence sounds like in the audio domain, you need to use a full chromatic scale. Assign each half-step to equal the quantity of 1. Start a Fibonacci sequence in a very low octave, because you'll need a lot of high notes. On a piano, you'll only be able to explore the sequence up to the number 88.
    The first several numbers fit inside the first octave (0 1 1 2 3 5 8) , then you have 13 21 in the second octave, 34 in the third octave, 55 is in the 5th octave, and 89 (frustratingly) wont even fit on the piano, unless you have some kind of digital programmable thing. The next one, 144, im not sure, but i think is out of the range Given that human hearing is only about 9 or 10 octaves wide, the sequence will rapidly expand beyond human hearing.
    I tried this sequence on a guitar, and it produces a mildly consonant series at first, increasingly dissonant above 13. However, I think it should be possible for someone more creative than me to compose a piece that sounds interesting using this kind of scale.
    If you ever try this, I'd be very interested to hear what you come up with.

    • @ThisReckless
      @ThisReckless 3 роки тому +1

      But how do you solve the 0+0=1

    • @solargreg1
      @solargreg1 3 роки тому +3

      @@ThisReckless Good question. A sequence does not necessarily have to start from 0, it can have some pre-defined starting point. The classic Fibonacci sequence is arbitrarily defined to start from O and 1. Otherwise, if it started from 0 and 0, it would simply repeat zero's forever, which is not very interesting. You can also create Fibonacci sequences starting with any two numbers you want, and see what the sequence produces. Try negative numbers, fractions, or irrationals. This is not necessarily musical, its just fun math.

  • @aldozulfikar54
    @aldozulfikar54 5 років тому +1324

    Can you play 10÷3 ?

    • @logantaylor1606
      @logantaylor1606 5 років тому +20

      I Just Looking For a Warm hahahahaha this is great

    • @w.tibbsclemens636
      @w.tibbsclemens636 5 років тому +39

      Actually you could... It depends on how you would apply it.. you could apply it to the tuning ratio of the strings on the piano keys.. or rhythmically, or chordal or intervallic ratios too. Actually whatever number you can think of even imaginary ones , they can all b represented with music in some way

    • @cruz.c
      @cruz.c 5 років тому +3

      yea just tune the 10th a 0.1 reapeating down and there ya go

    • @flint6753
      @flint6753 5 років тому +5

      Just replay 0:53 as much as you'd like

    • @melodymate8978
      @melodymate8978 5 років тому

      I'm pretty sure it's gonna be boring lul

  • @davidarundel6187
    @davidarundel6187 3 роки тому

    This came up in the feed - about 16 years to late, similarly with the sound of Phi, & the sound of Tau.
    All three musical adaptations, are worth the effort, of listening to - after all, each is a part of Us.
    Namaste 🙏 💟