Pitch

In the previous post, A Fresh Start: Experience Harmony, we focused on the sensations of combining pitches together. Before we delve deeper into understanding these sensations, we need to gather some experience and knowledge of pitch. Harmony, after all, is about combining two or more pitches simultaneously. What is pitch? I find it rather difficult … Read more

In Harmonics: the Building Blocks of Pitch, we saw how tones with a pitch are comprised of harmonics which follow a particular pattern called the Harmonic Series. But where does the Harmonic Series come from? What causes it? The Ideal String To get a feel for this, let’s consider a string* (such as on a … Read more