xkcd: Musical Scales
xkcd: Musical Scales
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"In the Hall of the Mountain King was accidentally composed on log/log paper."
And thus the spectrogram was born
1 0 ReplyHahahahahaha. I get this joke. It is very funny. You should probably explain it for the other people who are not so smart as me who is smart.
1 0 ReplyOn a normal scale, the ticks go 1..2..3..4...
on a log scale, ticks go 1..10..100...1000...
Sound and frequency, weirdly, is always in a log scale, you just dont notice it
Time however, usually shouldnt be 😂
3 0 ReplyThanks. I guess I never realized notes were on a log scale.
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I think there's a website called "xkcd explained", or something.
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You have to know music and math to appreciate this, true.
If you need an explanation I'd say read the intro for log scale https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logarithmic_scale
And then listen to https://youtu.be/4nMUr8Rt2AI
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