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Flexes in the video:
She does more than one video per day
She can read Bass Clef
She is not intimidated by low brass
She plays fretless Bass
She has a music degree
She's a composer
She plays Viola and knows theres an Alto clef made for it (I was today yrs old)
Same as above for Tenor clef and Voice
She owns a Bosendorfer!!!
There's a merch store
Vi, i have been following you for almost 10 years now, and every PI day i jump on to check your video because honestly you pi day videos now are one of the things I can count on in my life!
Just tried a WHOLE-TONE SCALE treatment of pi to 95 decimal places, and I like it. 1=C, 2=D, 3=E, 4=F#, 5=G#, 6=A#, 7=C (octave up from 1), 8=D (sim.), 9=E (sim.). 0= REST. All quarter notes and quarter rests except the first E, which I made a half note (basically because I mentally sing the syllables "three point" as two beats before I start reciting the decimals).
Try it – you might like the effect. I never noticed that it takes a while for 0 to come up for the first time in the sequence of pi digits, so the first "phrase" is a long one. Then we get a few shorter phrases, including some reasonably tonal ones.
And speaking of tonality – I'm a fan. I'll take Ravel over Webern any day. The whole-tone pi gives us a fair number of tritones, but also lots of major thirds and some nice jumping (octaves, major ninths, major tenths) here and there.
I'll play around with some canonic treatment & report back. Vi Hart, thanks for getting me started on this! Maybe next Pi Day can be a whole-tone challenge, with counterpoint.
I may have missed both opportunities for Pi day this year, but I'm just now seeing the video. Since my instrument only has 9 notes in mixolydian mode, I may have to try this with Octal Pi, instead. So far, I see it just out to 101 digits, though….
digits in base 10? or written/rendered in base 12 for each chromatic step?
lololol omg I want to know how you managed to get access to a Bösendorfer! Please don't tell me that is yours…only because I will be so jelly!
Omg, my favorite math youtuber also knows about music???
You sang really pretty
lmao, you might get cramps playing the bass like that.
:^)
I'm doing it on drums…
There are twelve notes. How do you determine 10, 11, and 12?
Treble Clef: 😊😊
Bass Clef: 😊
Alto Clef: 😢
Tenor Clef: 😢😢
i like math, is that what this is?
I would say cello uses tenor clef
Oh no… It's nearly time again, and I have all these instruments in my house. But no … I'm going into a school to deliver a workshop on coding and music. No pi in sight. Phew!
I feel like the real hard mode would've been "play these notes, by any means to make it sound 'good'"
fiddling with rhythm mid-song and maybe grouping multiple upcoming notes into "chords" in an attempt to make something recognised as music
can someone link me to her whole piece? those vocals are great
this would make for a killer horror game ost ngl
Bassoon for tenor clef
It would take me many lifetimes to be on your level
Death metal musicians, when not using (Super)Locrian, be like
As a bassist, lmao yeah. I love fretless bass (my primary bass is fretless) but it's really hard to learn. Once you get it down though, it sounds so good
Tenor clef is associated with cello. You should have no trouble transferring your viola skills to the cello – same tuning, different clef
Maybe start on a bass thats not fretless!
if u don’t want to post a picture can u at least tell us if u are hot?
tab? (kidding)
Tenor clef hype!
wait you're a professional composer? How awesome is that! Viola is an awesome insrument and pizzicato viola+harpsichord is a thing of dreams
Awesomely surprised that playing pi digits comes out so expressive. Didn't expect it to lie on a minor scale (does it actually? It just sounds so dramatic but I'm no musician)
It was already apoplectically difficult, and then you added a C clef sigh
So goth
This is so cool! I have a guqin and I feel like it would fair quite well in the drama factor, it’s got open notes, pressed notes, slides, and harp notes so I feel like if I had the skill I could make an interesting piece. I’ve always loved the correlation of math and music despite me hating math haha
VIOLA REP 🗣️🔥‼️
Fretless is goddamn impossible, even for experienced bassists, that might be why bass was so difficult
Im trying to learn bass and feel well out of my deapth
That's a very neat bass <3