he didnt do it on a whim. he decided to challenge himself as a teenager to d0 that polyrythm on one hand. its a coincidence that it is a major chord. its astonishing attributed to evolution
This is my favorite thing about music in its entirety. This is my favorite piece of knowledge from music school. Because this means something huge. Pitch and intervals are just sped up rhythms, and therefore music is made up entirely of rhythms only
Forgot to mention even different timbres (that means tone but i hate even saying that. Think more of what creates unique sounds like a bassoon sounds different from a tuba playing the same note) also are just a result of crazy mathematical polyrhythms. Then Theres meter. Also just simple polyrhythms.
@@LSFord People always bring up that notes are a sped up rhythm, but they never mention that it also means that timbre, which is, as far as I understand, how the overtone series of that sound is constructed, is just a bunch of simultanious sine wave pitches relating to each’s frequencies other thru harmonic series ratios, which are polyrhythms. sry for the run-on sentence lol
@@kreeperkiller4423 no need to apologize you’re absolutely correct! But not just single polyrhythms. Lots happening at the same time. The simpler they are the more they resonate and the louder they get due to positive interference though. Simple polyrhythms make intervals though, which is awesome to hear. A professor of mine in college made a software to speed up polyrhythms and create different intervals. I love this stuff
I mean rhythms are frequencies; the difference is semantic for practical reasons. When we say ‘rhythm’, we are really discussing things with frequencies in the realm of less than a second, whilst the frequencies of notes are in the orders of 100’s of Hz. It’s cool, but I think all he’s doing is tapping at different frequencies with each finger which are a certain ratio of one another, then speeding it up so the frequencies of the taps correspond to specific notes.
@@knut7362 some people aren’t just born into the culture n have to be trained if they didn’t develop a diverse sound palate Ie indians can do polyrhythms n microtone easily
I can. A dimension is a measurable quantity. Our macroscopic universe has 3 spatial and one time dimension. You mean to say he's from a parallel universe. (this is a minor plot point in a universe-hopping VR game I never made)
Can someone explain???? This is like the least impressive thing jacob collier has ever done (besides playing the polyrhythm with his fingers, that part is pretty difficult)
So, if all rhythms are slowed down harmony, and everything we do, by nature of intervals of time, is there for a rhythm, are we not collectively creating a very slow symphony?
@@ireallyhatemakingupnamesfo1758 maths only conjectures very basic stuff, such that a major chord sounds good because it's made out of simple ratios. It doesn't explain why I like simple ratios of frequencies and not noise, nor does it explain why a particular melody or chord progression makes me cry or leaves me indifferent
If musical notes are sound waves then they peek consistently. So the next highest note the crest hits more frequently. So every musical chord can be expressed as a Polyrhythm
Technically only 3 fingers are required for the major chord (as 2 &4 and 3 & 6 are in octaves) but with 2 free fingers, might as well round out the harmonics!
@@felipequintino3244 have you gone to the cinema and seen a Dolby Atmos equipped theatre next to the regular cinema? It’s basically an older form of that sound’s enhanced audio. So it sounded like the intro to the surround sound company.
Justly intonated intervals of the major third and perfect fifth are in intervals of 3/2 (5th) and 5/4 (3rd). IF you would imagine a plucked string, and divide that string into a ratio of 3:2, plucking both sides would create a perfectly tuned fifth interval, since the vibrations are limited at that same ratio. The polyrhythm, 1:2:3:4:5, has both a 5:4 and a 3:2, so when sped up over the 1:1 (root) it creates a major chord. Using this logic you could create just about any triad with the right polyrhythm and you could still use 5 fingers! (more chords with more than 5 fingers) It would just get progressively harder to track once it becomes 29:17 or something.
Sound is just air particles moving a certain way. So, you can just speed up the sound waves of the tapping, and that gets you a note. Let's say you speed up your tapping poly rhythm by 1,000x, everything moves up at the same pace BUT, because there are long pauses between the different beats, their soundwaves are wider, giving you a different sound. That is absolutely insane and I have no idea why anyone even thought about this
The fact that the chord sounded so harmonious shows how incredibly consistent his rhythm was. Edit: I rewatched it and it was not his fingers being played back faster, but a recreation with metronome clicks, lol.
When the god designed Jacob «Hmmm… let’s see… the eternal young look and…» «excuse me Chief, the musical ability tank is leaking» «yes, yes. Very good» «But, Chief. It’s flooded the production floor» «Just pump it all in here! It’ll work out» «That’s what you said about the dinosaurs, but okay…» *Procedes to completely massacre the known boundries of musical ability*
On each finger, he seems to be tapping at a certain consistent tempo so when you speed it up, it forms several notes (the chord). This is how you make a tone (via sine wave, square wave, triangle wave, sawtooth, etc.) on a synthesizer. What he's doing here is making his own oscillations at really low frequencies so when he speeds them all up, he increases the frequency and therefore the pitch of each vibration. Cool shit man, it helps me better understand the physics involved in synthesizers, communication devices, or generally anything which applies oscillation in that regard.
When I teach young children the idea of high and low notes. This means I am actually not being accurate. A high note is just a really fast note. Our distinction between tone and pulse is just speed.
@@klhx Well its a fact that a tone is just a fast pulse. Our perception is limited to how fast we perceive life. Heartbeat.. walking speed.. and so forth.
Pitch is just how fast a soundwave is, you could technically tune a note into another note by playing the same note over and over again at a higher speed
I really want this to be true for the Andy Kaufmann comedic value, but sadly that guitar appears left handed and so unless Jacob is then this is a mirror.
So imagine the 2 representing a C, the 3 will be a G then, the 4 a C (1 octave higher), the 5 an E, and the 6 a G (1 octave higher), so adding a 7.5 would create a B, which would make a nice chord, or adding a 9 would add a D, would be nice too, or a Bb (7.1111...)! Also changing the 5 to a 4.8 would make it a minor chord, but good luck with that..
This is so interesting! If you think of the 2:3:4:5:6 rythmic ratios in terms of the frequency space (such as plotting the fourier transform of the polyrythm), then speeding it all up together is like translating the shape of that fourier transform rightward until you get to the human-audible area of frequencies, so the various peaks of the transform become the notes you hear in the major chord
Adam Neely did a neat video on this (I think the video was titled Harmonic Polyrhythms), was one of the things that got me into studying this kinda stuff!
Okay guys ! Jacob is amazing, because he shares this knowledge. But don´t overdo it with "he is a god" and oh how mighty he is. He is just a person in the end, a very special one and very much appreciated. Most people who study music and learn deeply abot music theory know that stuff.. it´s not like he is making this up in his own head. And don´t underrestimate your own potential of being creative ! :)
I like that you also made this comment into one of encouragement! I hope this positivity finds its way to someone that’s doubtful of themselves right now.
One of the few people I think may qualify as an actual prodigy (despite the fact that the internet thinks anyone who shows an ounce of unique talent is a prodigy, it's never just hard work and perseverance 🙄), but yeah, he's still just a person.
Satan in heaven created a symphony and tried to elevate himself above God, But God cast him down to earth. We are all sinners in need of a savior, deserving God’s wrath. We elevate our egos and ourselves above God. We need a savior, and there’s a free gift which is Gods sin, Jesus who came and died for our sins and take on all the wrath of God. You can’t earn your way back to heaven, we must rely on Christ alone. But we must do two things, repent of those sins and I really mean repent and keep repenting and trust in Jesus Christ who dies for us while we were yet sinners. The fact that all these things work the way they do is just proof of a creator and the word of God in the Bible is the only truth we can rely on because our minds and ideas twist and distort what is good and true, Our Holy God and what He did to save us. Let the reader understand.
@@jamiesonjones that's usually how it goes, I do some research, think out a problem solve it, and then some internet wizard pops out of nowhere and corrects me without even needing to think
That's also how i did it with easier polyrhythms. I guess with something as complex as this i'd rather try programming it with variable speed and simply try to match the generated clicks for some time until i have it memorized. That way i dont have to count to 60 in my head over and over :D
They all have a common factor of 1 if you have the ratio 2:3:4:5:6. So hypothetically speaking, speeding it up 100x together, you get pitches with a frequency of 200, 300, 400, 500 and 600 Hz. And all those pitches are the harmonics (1st-5th partials) of the fundamental pitch with a frequency of 100Hz. Which naturally, yes will produce a major chord. It's built into nature.
Theres a Ted talk on this phenomenom. It basically explains how rhythm is just slowed down notes. Very interesting stuff. Its all about frequencies at the end of the day and frequency is how much something happens in "X' amount of time, which is also how rhythm is made. But seeing it like this is so mind blowing. Edit: It is not from Ted Talk. It is from the official Ableton channel. It is called New Horizons in Music: Polyrhythm.
@@soulvin Sure. Heres the short version. YOu should watch his whole talk czcams.com/video/-tRAkWaeepg/video.html and my bad... its from Ableton. Not Ted.... "New Horizons in Music: Polyrhytm ...
I love this maniac! The more I learn about frequency modulation and harmonic series I'm starting to realize that sound, light, objects, people... we're connected, our perception is all that separates us.
That feeling when you actually did know that the polyrhythm was a major chord because of Adam Neely's talk he did on this B) it really is cool tho, rhythm and pitch are the same stuff, just due to the difference in tempo, our brain processes those things differently, wild
I really want to see this done with an actual recording of him tapping. If his rhythm is precise enough to make a reasonably intonated chord that would be even more impressive.
Maths, -at the core of everything. And it takes someone like Jacob to have pointed this out to me once more, with his ingenious left-hand rhythm demo there, linking it to a major chord….too easy, right? Mind boggled….
Brilliant. He’s doing the same things other people do sometimes, but taking them much further - and finding ways to dramatically demonstrate really brilliant connections (as in modulating a half step, for example-or this). There’s always a dramatic summary of his thought-through connections. I saw Adam Neely speed up a rhythm to form a tone… but for Jacob to A. Make the connection that multiple rhythms in set relationship speed up to harmonies, B. Think through what those are (specific poly-rhythms) C. Perform those (what???) on one hand D. Have the high-level savvy to figure out how to demonstrate it dramatically in a short video. He’s untouchable. What else can you say? Love you JC. Less related, I’ve decided after some thought, that one of the things Jacob is trying to do harmonically is to progress _smoothly_ (via voice leading and common extensions) through a series of modulations at the same rate that a (diatonic) harmonic progression typically progresses. That’s an identifiable, high level innovation (necessitating the technical solutions that are so often explored). He (like others before him) wants all of the drama that a shift in tonal centre provides with none of the sea-sickness of too-frequent modulations. I think, even if it’s not what he does consistently t’s not a bad summary of his harmonic motivations-turning the Jazz Kaleidoscope and moving smoothly through worlds. It reminds me of the scene in Guardians of the Galaxy where Rocket goes through too many ‘jump points’-that technical problem of how to move smoothly through so many places that are complexly ‘other’. Colour by colour by colour.
That isn’t specific to polyrhythms though, is it? I imagine you could speed up pretty much anything and inevitably at some frequency you’d get something resembling a chord
@@TjMoon91 but what does the frequency ratio of the intervals have to do with the nature of the initial rhythm? I must be missing something super obvious here
@@boomclapplayltd5088 Notice that when the clicks get sped up there’s a certain point where you stop hearing it as individual clicks and start hearing a pitch. Past that point, the faster you speed it up, the higher the pitch gets. If you double the speed of the clicks (a ratio of 2:1) then it will result in a pitch an octave higher.
@@TjMoon91 I understand how intervals are tied to frequency ratios, and how short sounds can produce tones once they're being triggered above perceptual audio rate. What I think is being implied, is that the rhythmical spacing is somehow producing separate intervals? But I can hear different pitches on those percussive elements when it's super slow at the start, so to me they're just being played so fast that there is no audible space between the notes ie it's playing a chord instead of a broken arpeggio. The global pitch/playback speed seems irrelevant to me.
@@boomclapplayltd5088 Those different pitches of the clicks are just so you can hear the different speed of clicks being played at the same time. They’re not the pitches you are hearing when it gets sped up, otherwise you wouldn’t hear the pitch rising as it sped up. As Jacob says, the rhythm he’s playing is 2:3:4:5:6 2:3 produces a perfect 5th. 4:6 is that same ratio, but twice as fast, so the same perfect 5th, but an octave higher. 4:5 produces the major third. Edit: Just to be clear, the pitches you’re hearing when the clicks are being played slow are irrelevant. If you changed the pitches of all those clicks you’d still get the same chord when sped up. It’s the rhythm causing the chord you hear.
Omg I remember when I realised this when I was high and it blew my mind. I was just like holy shit. Harmony and rhythm are the same!!!!! Harmony is microscopic rhythm. I wondered if you matched tempo to key it would sound better? I also intended to do this exact experiment. Now I don't have to aha
@@mikey180211 Nono I believe he was being serious, bc if you think ab it rhythm is just how often those microscopic harmonies communicate with one another
@@braydontomak what microscopic harmonies? There's no such thing. there are beats that when heard slowly are interpreted by the brain in terms of rhythm. As it speeds up the brain starts to recognise the relationship in a new way. As pitch. And the ratios between those frequencies is recognised as harmony. Therefore harmony is the way we experience microscopic rhythm
Think about this, a waveform is made up of an amplitude over time, with troughs/empty space and peaks/crests, think of the peaks as every time he hits the pad, think of the troughs as the space where he doesn't hit the pad, when you speed that up you have a waveform that can eventually become detectable pitch, everything has a pitch or pitches in it if you can find the sweet spot where it's most audible
This is also why bass notes if you go too low become "tapping-like" sounds; can't figure out a better word to describe it but the lower you go the harder it is to detect an actual pitch out of it, and it starts to sound like pops, and this is just the waveform being spread out over a longer amount of time, and when you go higher this is the waveform speeding up and those pops go so fast together that it makes a detectable note
@@ProdDJD Yeah but it still doesn’t give me the answer I’m looking for, how does he know how to do it? Any idea? I can’t think of how one would figure it out or “reverse engineer” by listening to the frequency back and forth by trial and error.
@@MetalizedButt if you slow a chord down enough, you'll hear the rhythm of the sound wave, so you can repeat that rhythm with your own sounds and speed it up to get that result. they also probably teach this concept in music school or something, but even if they didn't, someone was bound to figure it out and it's been known for a very long while that this is what happens, just not common knowledge.
This dude really played the THX theme at 400x slower speed with his left hand
You just made him transcribe the THX theme good job
He's a liar and a fraud.... he played tgis with his right hand.
@@daultonm9650 dude, the camera is mirrored.
did I say yall's trigger word on accident? I apologize
@@daultonm9650 no, you were wrong and people corrected you.
“Drummers can’t play chords”
Drummers: hold my B major
In fact, war pigs the black sabatts's song only drum, are actually chords
B₋₅ major
it's E major actually in case you wanted to know; I know saying B major is for the joke
@@noahtuelI thought it was Eb major… idk it might be in between
@@LilMacMusic actually it’s closer to in between E and F major than E and Eb major.
The most impressive part of this is his ability to tap that polyrhythm on a whim
he didnt do it on a whim. he decided to challenge himself as a teenager to d0 that polyrythm on one hand. its a coincidence that it is a major chord. its astonishing attributed to evolution
Jacob is just next level
Working on getting 5 against 7 and 3 against 2 and 4 on one hand right now it's interesting 💀
@@MrUrechit’s not a coincidence but you can choose to believe that I suppose
@@jonbarron8049explain how it isn’t a coincidence then
This is my favorite thing about music in its entirety. This is my favorite piece of knowledge from music school. Because this means something huge. Pitch and intervals are just sped up rhythms, and therefore music is made up entirely of rhythms only
Forgot to mention even different timbres (that means tone but i hate even saying that. Think more of what creates unique sounds like a bassoon sounds different from a tuba playing the same note) also are just a result of crazy mathematical polyrhythms. Then Theres meter. Also just simple polyrhythms.
@@LSFord People always bring up that notes are a sped up rhythm, but they never mention that it also means that timbre, which is, as far as I understand, how the overtone series of that sound is constructed, is just a bunch of simultanious sine wave pitches relating to each’s frequencies other thru harmonic series ratios, which are polyrhythms.
sry for the run-on sentence lol
@@kreeperkiller4423 no need to apologize you’re absolutely correct! But not just single polyrhythms. Lots happening at the same time. The simpler they are the more they resonate and the louder they get due to positive interference though. Simple polyrhythms make intervals though, which is awesome to hear. A professor of mine in college made a software to speed up polyrhythms and create different intervals. I love this stuff
I mean rhythms are frequencies; the difference is semantic for practical reasons. When we say ‘rhythm’, we are really discussing things with frequencies in the realm of less than a second, whilst the frequencies of notes are in the orders of 100’s of Hz.
It’s cool, but I think all he’s doing is tapping at different frequencies with each finger which are a certain ratio of one another, then speeding it up so the frequencies of the taps correspond to specific notes.
"If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration."
"Are you more into complex polyrhythms or simple harmonies?"
"Yes"
Ah, one of these that actually makes sense. Very clever.
In other words: "Por que no los dos!"
@@noahmay7708 Thanks!
@@noahmay7708 por qué*.
I despise all 6.9k people who understand what you meant.
Being able to do that that rytm with one hand severely messes with my head. That's crazy!
You'd have it down after two 30 minute practice sessions, sleeping in between
@@kzeich bullshit, lifelong drummers would take weeks to learn that
@@dinospumoni5611 bro, you're massively overestimating what it takes to play polyrhythms
This is really elementary... on his home planet.
@@knut7362 some people aren’t just born into the culture n have to be trained if they didn’t develop a diverse sound palate
Ie indians can do polyrhythms n microtone easily
Earthquake hits
Jacob Collier: I know exactly the pitch, Its on Cb and its in chromatic scale🗿
yeah and it’s tuned 50.314159265358979323846264338327950 cents above that or approximately a quarter tone
@@kakahtukatomfg u dont need to yap in microtonal like that
Cb haha! Very nice.
Bro really started his car
Yes
Fuck it. This man is a wizard from another dimension. You can't change my mind about it.
I can. A dimension is a measurable quantity. Our macroscopic universe has 3 spatial and one time dimension. You mean to say he's from a parallel universe. (this is a minor plot point in a universe-hopping VR game I never made)
It's really not that crazy.. you just have to have an interest in these things and you'll learn fun stuff like this.
Honestlt
Can someone explain???? This is like the least impressive thing jacob collier has ever done (besides playing the polyrhythm with his fingers, that part is pretty difficult)
@@BaronVonQuiplyyou damn sure changed my mind, I wasn't even convinced to begin with.
my grandpa who was a war veteran woke up and told me to seek shelter.
😂😂😂
Underrated comment
Hahahahaha
Then went back to the cemetery?
Bruv⚰️dead!!
i for some reason began laughing uncontrollably after watching this
Same!
Adam Neely's polyrhythym speech for ableton live on this was amazing
Came here from.watching that -- amazing!!!
Rhythm -> pitch -> light 😮
So, if all rhythms are slowed down harmony, and everything we do, by nature of intervals of time, is there for a rhythm, are we not collectively creating a very slow symphony?
Actually yes we are
@@briankuzmaguitar Brian please don't force me to confiscate your phone again
woahhhh dudeeee
Correct
Brian Kuzma Yes amen. Let music be for the glory of God, not ourselves
This is really cool, as it demonstrates how music is just maths, and how the same maths underpins rhythms and harmony.
Sort of
@@BiggyJimbo all the components of music are reducible to math, and you can express music as math, but you can’t create music with just math
And also timbre
@@user-xu4xw6jm7d timbre is just the specific combination of frequencies hitting your ear - the pattern of overtones
@@ireallyhatemakingupnamesfo1758 maths only conjectures very basic stuff, such that a major chord sounds good because it's made out of simple ratios.
It doesn't explain why I like simple ratios of frequencies and not noise, nor does it explain why a particular melody or chord progression makes me cry or leaves me indifferent
Not only that, it’s a major chord tuned in JUST INTONATION! so beautiful
You'd have to offset the polyrhythms all wonky to get equal temper
Jacob: Which I will now demonstrate on my left hand.
*Uses right hand*
He's probably using the front camera of his phone, which is mirrored
Gotta lay off on those cheesepuffs my guy
😁
"some witchcraft that they’ll never understand."
But it is.
It makes me scared and angry. He is clearly a witch.
@@viceshark musical magic
Subject has become self aware
@@jameswyl lmaoooo
The increasing pitch and volume just sounds like the increasing proximity of impeding doom signaled by the local air raid sirens
A video of finger tapping made me laugh like I'd just discovered a secret of the universe.
If musical notes are sound waves then they peek consistently. So the next highest note the crest hits more frequently. So every musical chord can be expressed as a Polyrhythm
At this point i'll just accept whatever he makes and believe it's magic
666 like omfg
Technically only 3 fingers are required for the major chord (as 2 &4 and 3 & 6 are in octaves) but with 2 free fingers, might as well round out the harmonics!
Sounds like G major
@@LLifts3598 the chord played at the end is approx. Dx major (D-double-sharp), i think
(i did this by ear so take it with a grain of salt)
You just *know* that Jacob sees the duck and the rabbit simultaneously... it's a vase AND it's two faces to Jacob.
*slowly makes me feel like I'm about to watch a movie*
Wtf that is insane my brain just gave up. Holy shit Jacob collier is a genius
“Don’t get like that”
This has been known for decades before Jacob Collier was even born, he’s simply demonstrating it. I think genius is definitely overstating it.
That's basically the THX sound
i was wondering where i knew this sound😅😅
What is THX?
@@felipequintino3244 It's an entertainment company whose signature sound was very similar to that sped up major scale sound
@@felipequintino3244 have you gone to the cinema and seen a Dolby Atmos equipped theatre next to the regular cinema? It’s basically an older form of that sound’s enhanced audio. So it sounded like the intro to the surround sound company.
Of this Siren Warnring
Justly intonated intervals of the major third and perfect fifth are in intervals of 3/2 (5th) and 5/4 (3rd). IF you would imagine a plucked string, and divide that string into a ratio of 3:2, plucking both sides would create a perfectly tuned fifth interval, since the vibrations are limited at that same ratio. The polyrhythm, 1:2:3:4:5, has both a 5:4 and a 3:2, so when sped up over the 1:1 (root) it creates a major chord. Using this logic you could create just about any triad with the right polyrhythm and you could still use 5 fingers! (more chords with more than 5 fingers) It would just get progressively harder to track once it becomes 29:17 or something.
Sound is just air particles moving a certain way. So, you can just speed up the sound waves of the tapping, and that gets you a note. Let's say you speed up your tapping poly rhythm by 1,000x, everything moves up at the same pace BUT, because there are long pauses between the different beats, their soundwaves are wider, giving you a different sound.
That is absolutely insane and I have no idea why anyone even thought about this
The fact that the chord sounded so harmonious shows how incredibly consistent his rhythm was.
Edit: I rewatched it and it was not his fingers being played back faster, but a recreation with metronome clicks, lol.
It sounds like metronome clicks to me rather than Jacob's rhythm...considering they're different pitches.
Oh, shoot. I wasn’t paying attention. Would’ve been cool, though, to see how his finger tapping would sound.
@@ethanbehr723 and tamber
James Welckle timbre
@@vari1535 tomohto
When the god designed Jacob
«Hmmm… let’s see… the eternal young look and…»
«excuse me Chief, the musical ability tank is leaking»
«yes, yes. Very good»
«But, Chief. It’s flooded the production floor»
«Just pump it all in here! It’ll work out»
«That’s what you said about the dinosaurs, but okay…»
*Procedes to completely massacre the known boundries of musical ability*
“The dinosaurs” lmao. Yeah them t rexes sure could play the trombone
@@lolsup9817 was more the "it'll work out part" that was aimed at there, but the t rexes played MAD trombone solos!!! Wish I got to hear them
@@lolsup9817 the t in T-Rex actually stood for trombone. Trombone-Rex the jazziest of all dinosaurs
@@Edentical101 hold on -- 😱
This is also how we got the likes of Jimi Hendrix, Jeff Buckley, Stevie Wonder, Beethoven, Mozart, and Orpheus.
DONT GET LIKE THAT! Hahah this dude is too genius for this timeline
Jacob has more rhythm in one hand than I do in my whole body
Adam Neely did a talk about this a few years ago. It was fascinating.
Happen to have a link?? I love Adam
@@J_Lusional czcams.com/video/-tRAkWaeepg/video.html Polyrhythm is Pitch. He goes in depth about the relationships and provides multiple examples.
@@free187s DAMN!
@@J_LusionalLook up "Musical fractals" :)
On each finger, he seems to be tapping at a certain consistent tempo so when you speed it up, it forms several notes (the chord).
This is how you make a tone (via sine wave, square wave, triangle wave, sawtooth, etc.) on a synthesizer. What he's doing here is making his own oscillations at really low frequencies so when he speeds them all up, he increases the frequency and therefore the pitch of each vibration.
Cool shit man, it helps me better understand the physics involved in synthesizers, communication devices, or generally anything which applies oscillation in that regard.
Thank you for explaining!
This was incredibly helpful.
@@romeohio19 you clicked on a video with Jacob Collier NOT expecting see nerdy music theory?? lol
Thank you for this lol
@@seenochasm7101 thanks
Jacob collier: explains more technical concepts
Fans: HES A GOD AMONGST MEN
I wish I could be reincarnated as someone who’s able to understand music theory in any capacity
When I teach young children the idea of high and low notes. This means I am actually not being accurate. A high note is just a really fast note. Our distinction between tone and pulse is just speed.
I think it’s a little more complicated than that, but I understand where you’re coming from
@@klhx Well its a fact that a tone is just a fast pulse. Our perception is limited to how fast we perceive life. Heartbeat.. walking speed.. and so forth.
Pitch is just how fast a soundwave is, you could technically tune a note into another note by playing the same note over and over again at a higher speed
@@klhx i mean, is it tho? Care to explain?
@@4rtiphi5hal19 No, pitch is NOT speed/velocity, it's frequency/wavelength. Velocity is an entirely seperate wave function
'I will now demonstrate on the fingers of my left hand'
*proceeds to demonstrate on the fingers of his right hand*
It's a reversed/mirrored image....
I really want this to be true for the Andy Kaufmann comedic value, but sadly that guitar appears left handed and so unless Jacob is then this is a mirror.
@@pelerincso he was playing a five part polyrhythm with his NON dominant hand?
@@pelerinc pepperoni
He’s possibly the best musician in not only our lifetime but possibly ever he’s just so talented
My music teacher struggled with 2 on 3 for each separate hand.
Then theres this guy, doing 2 to 6 flawlessly
his extensive knowledge of music is just insane.
Pretty sure i read his parents teach music or something along the lines.
Now if he could just write a great song..
@@omnipop4936 he can ...
So imagine the 2 representing a C, the 3 will be a G then, the 4 a C (1 octave higher), the 5 an E, and the 6 a G (1 octave higher), so adding a 7.5 would create a B, which would make a nice chord, or adding a 9 would add a D, would be nice too, or a Bb (7.1111...)! Also changing the 5 to a 4.8 would make it a minor chord, but good luck with that..
how tf did u figure this out lol
@@doanhnguyen6765 Acoustics my dude
@@doanhnguyen6765 I know the basic ratio's between frequencies
@@SynysterGatesNo2 math too
The same notes in the harmonic series (excluding 1, which is basically a C 1 octave lower), brilliant.
This is so interesting! If you think of the 2:3:4:5:6 rythmic ratios in terms of the frequency space (such as plotting the fourier transform of the polyrythm), then speeding it all up together is like translating the shape of that fourier transform rightward until you get to the human-audible area of frequencies, so the various peaks of the transform become the notes you hear in the major chord
Adam Neely did a neat video on this (I think the video was titled Harmonic Polyrhythms), was one of the things that got me into studying this kinda stuff!
What the heck how does a human do this it's not fair
Hey, I think Adam Neely had a video about this 'Harmonic Polyrhythms'
I know that is really cool but what I find more impressive is that he can do that complex polyrhythm on his fingers
When tapping turns into a motorcycle into an d# major chord
Okay guys ! Jacob is amazing, because he shares this knowledge. But don´t overdo it with "he is a god" and oh how mighty he is. He is just a person in the end, a very special one and very much appreciated. Most people who study music and learn deeply abot music theory know that stuff.. it´s not like he is making this up in his own head. And don´t underrestimate your own potential of being creative ! :)
I like that you also made this comment into one of encouragement! I hope this positivity finds its way to someone that’s doubtful of themselves right now.
Perfect way of wording this, and a wonderful sentiment
One of the few people I think may qualify as an actual prodigy (despite the fact that the internet thinks anyone who shows an ounce of unique talent is a prodigy, it's never just hard work and perseverance 🙄), but yeah, he's still just a person.
Satan in heaven created a symphony and tried to elevate himself above God, But God cast him down to earth. We are all sinners in need of a savior, deserving God’s wrath. We elevate our egos and ourselves above God. We need a savior, and there’s a free gift which is Gods sin, Jesus who came and died for our sins and take on all the wrath of God. You can’t earn your way back to heaven, we must rely on Christ alone. But we must do two things, repent of those sins and I really mean repent and keep repenting and trust in Jesus Christ who dies for us while we were yet sinners. The fact that all these things work the way they do is just proof of a creator and the word of God in the Bible is the only truth we can rely on because our minds and ideas twist and distort what is good and true, Our Holy God and what He did to save us. Let the reader understand.
He's more impressive than any so called "god" I'm aware of.
60 tics
finger 1 hits at tics 30,60
finger 2 hits at tics 20,40,60
finger 3 hits at tics 15,30,45,60
finger 4 hits at tics 12,24,36,48,60
finger 5 hits at tics 10,20,30,40,50,60
right?
Practice repeat accelerate
More like 30 (L.C.M.)
@Daniel Orts unless I’m being completely stupid, is it not still 60? If they were all divisible by two then lcm could be 30 but 15 doesn’t fit.
@@jamiesonjones that's usually how it goes, I do some research, think out a problem solve it, and then some internet wizard pops out of nowhere and corrects me without even needing to think
That's also how i did it with easier polyrhythms. I guess with something as complex as this i'd rather try programming it with variable speed and simply try to match the generated clicks for some time until i have it memorized. That way i dont have to count to 60 in my head over and over :D
@@jamiesonjones It's 60! He forgot to take the "4" into account.
"Hey look at this poly rhythm i edited"
*begins playing hypertone*
They all have a common factor of 1 if you have the ratio 2:3:4:5:6. So hypothetically speaking, speeding it up 100x together, you get pitches with a frequency of 200, 300, 400, 500 and 600 Hz. And all those pitches are the harmonics (1st-5th partials) of the fundamental pitch with a frequency of 100Hz. Which naturally, yes will produce a major chord. It's built into nature.
Theres a Ted talk on this phenomenom. It basically explains how rhythm is just slowed down notes. Very interesting stuff. Its all about frequencies at the end of the day and frequency is how much something happens in "X' amount of time, which is also how rhythm is made. But seeing it like this is so mind blowing.
Edit: It is not from Ted Talk. It is from the official Ableton channel. It is called New Horizons in Music: Polyrhythm.
Can you give me the link to the actual Ted talk please? I couldn't find it
@@soulvin Sure. Heres the short version. YOu should watch his whole talk czcams.com/video/-tRAkWaeepg/video.html and my bad... its from Ableton. Not Ted.... "New Horizons in Music: Polyrhytm ...
This dude operates in a superior mind level
Bro that was literally one of the best things I’ve seen on how our world works since getting out of college over 10 years ago. Thank you so much.
I am a music lover and by no means am I competent in any music theory but this guy is just so entertaining to watch.
I love this maniac! The more I learn about frequency modulation and harmonic series I'm starting to realize that sound, light, objects, people... we're connected, our perception is all that separates us.
That feeling when you actually did know that the polyrhythm was a major chord because of Adam Neely's talk he did on this B)
it really is cool tho, rhythm and pitch are the same stuff, just due to the difference in tempo, our brain processes those things differently, wild
“On my left hand”
*plays it on the right*
William Moser did some examples of engine layouts (and I think firing orders too) and how their harmonics line up against others
Well. I pooped a little.
My heart skipped a beat.
I've got beads of sweat dripping down my face.
What just happened.
Adam Neely did a great video on this subject. He also showed me Jacob
I really want to see this done with an actual recording of him tapping. If his rhythm is precise enough to make a reasonably intonated chord that would be even more impressive.
Oooh good point!
My favourite Jacob Collier video
the end of the sound got me feeling AAAUUUUGGGHHH
i saw this live and thought that time, “well at this point he’s just messing with us”.. well hot damn.. this just destroyed me.. 😆😂😆
Man really played a turbocharger with his fingers
So true ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
This guys on another level. He’s left orbit, smiling down on all of us.
Maths, -at the core of everything. And it takes someone like Jacob to have pointed this out to me once more, with his ingenious left-hand rhythm demo there, linking it to a major chord….too easy, right? Mind boggled….
My god, I was about to have a heart attack, thinking I was going to get bamboozled by a rickroll. 😭
Blud just got a power up in cod zombies💀
Nobody can parody Jacob Collier since he is already a parody of himself.
lmao i just did my high school project/thesis on this shit. i love jacob
this guy is the next evolution of man
Brilliant. He’s doing the same things other people do sometimes, but taking them much further - and finding ways to dramatically demonstrate really brilliant connections (as in modulating a half step, for example-or this). There’s always a dramatic summary of his thought-through connections.
I saw Adam Neely speed up a rhythm to form a tone… but for Jacob to A. Make the connection that multiple rhythms in set relationship speed up to harmonies, B. Think through what those are (specific poly-rhythms) C. Perform those (what???) on one hand D. Have the high-level savvy to figure out how to demonstrate it dramatically in a short video.
He’s untouchable.
What else can you say? Love you JC.
Less related, I’ve decided after some thought, that one of the things Jacob is trying to do harmonically is to progress _smoothly_ (via voice leading and common extensions) through a series of modulations at the same rate that a (diatonic) harmonic progression typically progresses. That’s an identifiable, high level innovation (necessitating the technical solutions that are so often explored).
He (like others before him) wants all of the drama that a shift in tonal centre provides with none of the sea-sickness of too-frequent modulations. I think, even if it’s not what he does consistently t’s not a bad summary of his harmonic motivations-turning the Jazz Kaleidoscope and moving smoothly through worlds.
It reminds me of the scene in Guardians of the Galaxy where Rocket goes through too many ‘jump points’-that technical problem of how to move smoothly through so many places that are complexly ‘other’. Colour by colour by colour.
Excellent! Road Fighter NES. Awesome JOB🙌🏼
Ah, so this is how they made the THX theme…
why is no one talking about the fact this guy sounds exactly like elon
What the fuck have you done?
When you think about it, it makes sense
"now don't get like that" is the funniest thing ever
That isn’t specific to polyrhythms though, is it? I imagine you could speed up pretty much anything and inevitably at some frequency you’d get something resembling a chord
Correct, but the simpler ratio, the less dissonant that chord will be. Eg.
Octave = 2:1
Perfect 5th = 3:2
Major 7th = 15:8
@@TjMoon91 but what does the frequency ratio of the intervals have to do with the nature of the initial rhythm? I must be missing something super obvious here
@@boomclapplayltd5088 Notice that when the clicks get sped up there’s a certain point where you stop hearing it as individual clicks and start hearing a pitch. Past that point, the faster you speed it up, the higher the pitch gets.
If you double the speed of the clicks (a ratio of 2:1) then it will result in a pitch an octave higher.
@@TjMoon91 I understand how intervals are tied to frequency ratios, and how short sounds can produce tones once they're being triggered above perceptual audio rate.
What I think is being implied, is that the rhythmical spacing is somehow producing separate intervals? But I can hear different pitches on those percussive elements when it's super slow at the start, so to me they're just being played so fast that there is no audible space between the notes ie it's playing a chord instead of a broken arpeggio. The global pitch/playback speed seems irrelevant to me.
@@boomclapplayltd5088 Those different pitches of the clicks are just so you can hear the different speed of clicks being played at the same time. They’re not the pitches you are hearing when it gets sped up, otherwise you wouldn’t hear the pitch rising as it sped up.
As Jacob says, the rhythm he’s playing is 2:3:4:5:6
2:3 produces a perfect 5th.
4:6 is that same ratio, but twice as fast, so the same perfect 5th, but an octave higher.
4:5 produces the major third.
Edit: Just to be clear, the pitches you’re hearing when the clicks are being played slow are irrelevant. If you changed the pitches of all those clicks you’d still get the same chord when sped up. It’s the rhythm causing the chord you hear.
there is no way anyone can convince me jacob is human
Mind blown. Seriously is there anything this dude doesn't know about music. The Einstein of Music. In love with you ❤
When it sped up it sounded like an old WWII air raid siren lol
He makes me feel like I’ve never heard music. Wonder what he hears when he hears sounds.
Omg I remember when I realised this when I was high and it blew my mind. I was just like holy shit. Harmony and rhythm are the same!!!!! Harmony is microscopic rhythm. I wondered if you matched tempo to key it would sound better? I also intended to do this exact experiment. Now I don't have to aha
You got it backwards :P
Rhythm is microscopic harmony
@@mgmg116 I'm not sure if you're fucking with me or you're serious....
@@mikey180211 Nono I believe he was being serious, bc if you think ab it rhythm is just how often those microscopic harmonies communicate with one another
@@braydontomak what microscopic harmonies? There's no such thing. there are beats that when heard slowly are interpreted by the brain in terms of rhythm. As it speeds up the brain starts to recognise the relationship in a new way. As pitch. And the ratios between those frequencies is recognised as harmony. Therefore harmony is the way we experience microscopic rhythm
@@mikey180211 oooh yeah that’s a good point my guy. Agreed👌🏼
This is the loudest fucking sound imaginable at 3am
THE AUDIENCE IS LISTENING 🔥🔥🔥🔥💯💯💯💯🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🥶🥶🥶🦅🥶
This guy is the musical equivalent of a homeless man that is a genius no one understands.
So like Moondog?
How does that even work and how does he know the arrangements of how to tap his fingers to create which pitches?
Think about this, a waveform is made up of an amplitude over time, with troughs/empty space and peaks/crests, think of the peaks as every time he hits the pad, think of the troughs as the space where he doesn't hit the pad, when you speed that up you have a waveform that can eventually become detectable pitch, everything has a pitch or pitches in it if you can find the sweet spot where it's most audible
This is also why bass notes if you go too low become "tapping-like" sounds; can't figure out a better word to describe it but the lower you go the harder it is to detect an actual pitch out of it, and it starts to sound like pops, and this is just the waveform being spread out over a longer amount of time, and when you go higher this is the waveform speeding up and those pops go so fast together that it makes a detectable note
@@ProdDJD Yeah but it still doesn’t give me the answer I’m looking for, how does he know how to do it? Any idea? I can’t think of how one would figure it out or “reverse engineer” by listening to the frequency back and forth by trial and error.
@@MetalizedButt if you slow a chord down enough, you'll hear the rhythm of the sound wave, so you can repeat that rhythm with your own sounds and speed it up to get that result. they also probably teach this concept in music school or something, but even if they didn't, someone was bound to figure it out and it's been known for a very long while that this is what happens, just not common knowledge.
@@MetalizedButt It's explained by physics, speeding up a steady tapped beat turns it into a vibration (# of taps per second is the pitch in Hz)....
I did a video on my tiktok a while back on how to do this polyrhythm yourself. I use it as a fidget sometimes now
My favorite polyrhythm is 76 against 23 against 5 against 86 against 4728 ❤❤
Get back to me when Jacob Collier can write a fugue like Bach.
I believe that he could.
@@pelerinc but he wont cuz he is incapable to making good music
@@namahshrestha3226nice bait
anyone else really feel turned off by jacob collier? his attitude and general smugness, just cannot get into his music or vibe.
Every time jacob is on screen my world's horizon gets bigger
Sound design is awesome.
This guy may be a musical genius but his music is legit terrible
his moon river has some good moments. but all his original stuff yeah
@@Zack-xz1ph hjanga is pretty good
"Took a walk somewhere!" 🙋♀️ Here after Djesse 4, it's living rent free in my head 😂
not even jacob collier can distinguish his left from his right.💀
I’m convinced….that you are a genius who has applied his wisdom allllllllllll the way down the rabbit hole. And we are all the better for it.