Music is like a math equation

i know how many people say that if you are smart in music, you will be better at math. But sometimes i forget how true that can be.

I have a new style for writing music, where i use memory and equations to help me remember a song. For instance, i would put A(4) -> B(4) -> A(4) -> C(2) -> B(2) -> A(4). the letter, being the the chord sequnce i would be using, and the number, being the number of times i would play it.

Its exactly like algebra...and its freaking me out.

 

Thats weird, i wish i could think like that. But i am listening to music and it seems in my heada like one big giant fucking sum to work.out
i am like so stoned so it doenst matter

 

haha umm thats pretty.. simple algebra..

maths got me interested in music.

its more that maths is meant to help your music. i think. but at any rate, the maths you view and feel in music are at a much lower level than what youd be studying at school... i mean you dont go find the integral of Cminor(3)^3 + Dmajor(5)^15 dx or something when doing your music. the maths comes in more i think when understanding what music and harmonics and chords are and how it all fits together

 

Yeah, like some of the great symphonies by, say, Bethoven or Mozart, are thought to be composed according to The Golden Mean (look it up). Math is going to come in also, as Bill said, with harmonics and chords, and also with timing, which is absolutely essential to a coherent bit of music. It works visually too, with things like fractals, or even just really good paintings. Fractals are just a visual representation of an formula, but paintings are subtler and more complex.

I look at math as the abstraction, made up by us humans, while reality just is. I guess to some the rules (laws of physics, math, whatever) are beautiful, and surely they are interesting, but not nearly as interesting as the reality they describe...in my opinion, anyways.

 

i know my example is just simple algerbra, but when i was creating my music, i didnt even realize i was using thoughs skills to create music. I really should of payed more attention in my math classes, instead of sliding by with D's every year...not that i was bad at math, just didnt care to do the work.

 

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