What's the Deal With A = 440 Hz vs 432 Hz? Let's Talk!
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- This is by far the most frequent question I get asked so I finally decided to weigh in on it. I brought in 3 experts to weigh in as well. What are your thoughts?
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finally a succinct youtube video actually covering the topic without 3 minutes of intro, five minutes of fluff, and 2 minutes of actual content. cheers mate
But he doesn’t actually cover it very well… lots of sarcasm and no real opinion or analysis of 432 and how it sounds to him! Pft
This is the best video I’ve ever seen on A 432 versus A 440 comparison! I especially like the way that the experts weighed in right at the end. Brilliant Rick!
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Mr. Quail, are you out there? I'm a music theorist, and I've tried twice to relay a statement to you but each time, my very words were simplly, and somehow made to be gone. I"m trying make by wording more ambiguous in hopes of by-passing the you-know-what.
Wow, three experts featured in one video? Quality has really come a long way.
ZeroFunctional I felt I needed some other opinions. Haha! Only Dylan knew what I was talking about. He really is an expert because he can hear the difference.
Rick Beato Examples would have been good to hear the difference.
Sounding off with the Beato trio?
Very funny :D
Can he recognize chords in 432hz?
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Glad to know you take advice from a guy who stares at the sun
@@the-engneer kinda interesting that the guy who stares at the sun is right tho 🤔
@@touchgrassbro9889 right about what exactly?
@@the-engneer staring at the sun gives positive energy. It comes from the universe. It is similar to meditation
I absolutely love everything about how my guitar sounds and FEELS/RESPONDS; even through the amp, when tuned to my preferred Ab/Drop Db = 432Hz. However, considering nearly every piece of recorded music that i grew up listening to; and still do, was recorded using A = 440Hz(or some variation of it), so learning/jamming along with pre-recorded music or friends, is impractical. But my love of 432Hz has nothing to do with any mystical, cosmic, or devine theories. I can only say that when my guitar is tuned to Ab/Db = 432Hz, it just sounds, feels, and responds in a much more "relaxed" way. Not so tense/intense. If that makes any sense.
Ab means that E string is Eb? I think this is 415hz
I like half step flat alot on my classical because it's mellowed out and more rich sounding. I am also going to try A 432 and half step flat from there. I wonder if the strings will sound floppy. . .
@@micahmeneyerji you are just speculating on his behalf. singers strain voices singing lower notes in 440, than higher notes in 432.
432 is much more mathematically clean. 3 x 12 x 12 = 432. Generally, when I'm modding games, I like multiples of 12, because 12 is in common with both base 3 and base 2 and has crossovers with base 8. Idk, I just like base 12. It's a really nice number. In music, it probably doesn't matter. Most people don't even appreciate the instrumentation of a song, let alone are able to hear a 1.8% difference in pitch.
@@manictigerinteresting! Western music is divided into 12 notes.
So is time, clocks and calendars.
And we used to use the imperial measurement system 12inch = 1ft etc
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Sexagesimal second have 6.000 years. To discuss the seconds and the measurement of time and space based on the rounded seconds for the Hertz, before, we need to understand the sexagesimais origins of the second. Each turn of the clock has 43,200 slices, or seconds. And the number 60 is not a random choice. 60 is the smallest number with the largest number of connections: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 12, 15, 20, 30 and 60. We don't invent mathematics, we just discover the relationships between the quantities, and give them names. That's why I reaffirm that to understand the relationship between the number 432 and the sexagesimal mandala of 60, we need to understand its origins in mathematics, geometry and cosmology.
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I like A432 Hz because its not standard ( its part of my Oppositional defiant disorder....) ;-)
whatever is pleasing to the ear..what did Eddie Van Halen tune to? i heard he wasnt that particular,,as long as the guitar was in tune with itself
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432 is so much easier and natural for me to sing to , also 432 is very calming , I put it on before bed and during work commute traffic and within minutes I am calm relaxed and happy
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When I play Slayer I tune my piano to 666
the diabolical tuning of another dimension!
When I have sex I tune my "D" to 69
that is not a good idea unless you are using a toy piano. you should play slayer on two pianos, one for each hand and each foot and tune them to A 333 hz
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Who plays Slayer on a piano?
Rick, I love your videos and I was wondering if you could make a video explaining George Russell's lydian chromatic concept and its application in jazz composition. Thank you.
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I love this. Great video, Rick!
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I've listened to comparisons of the two (432 and 440), and for some reason the 432 does sound more calm and relaxing to me. I think it might just be because it's a slightly lower tone, thus sounds more mellow when set beside a 440 sample. Throughout school, I was a trumpet player, and we always tuned *A* to 440. We had a tuning machine that you would stand in front of and play an A, and it had little dials on it that would "freeze" when the note was just right - very much like the record player strobe light tuner on a turntable. In fact, it was the same color. But when put side by side, I do like the 432 better - again, I think, because it's just a slightly lower tone giving it a more "bass" sound.
I think it's because it's a natural set of frequencies when you can equally divide 12 from 432 (36). But when you do 440/12, it's an uneven calculation. I'd love to get my hands on an old flute that is actually tuned to 432. Some European orchestras actually do have recordings of Haydn & other classical symphonies on period instruments in 432 or 435 tuning.
@@rlopezflute I know there were so many thousand musicians who were trying to oppose a 440. I seem to remember middle C being tune to a 432 through the 80s. Then, it seem to me that C was changing into C sharp. Little by little by little, Noticed a 440 becoming more and more prevalent.
@@missyhilary8905 @Missy and Hilary Sisters it's weird, some orchestras here in the US even tune to 441. My piccolo & alto flutes are tuned to 442 because they were made in Germany & Japan, which tune their instruments higher. I have to pull the headjoints out more in ensemble, but not as much when I'm playing alone. I kind of prefer 442 to 440 because the airs comes out a little easier.
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It's exactly that, sounds warmer because it is lower. If you'll compare A 432 with for example A 420 - then A 420 will be warmer... And we can go on like this. No magic here :)
The 19th-Century composer Giuseppe Verdi reportedly liked 432-Hz tuning because his opera singers’ voices lasted a lot longer. Nothing mystical about that. 1/3 of 1/2 of a step lower than 440 Hz seems barely noticeable to the average ear, but I guess that somebody who pushes their vocal ability to its limits for a good length of time would consider it a gift. 👂🏼🎹
couldn't help but laugh about resampling all of your audio collection!
I don't know about y'all, but I tune everything to 420hz :)
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Just saw this - some 6 years later. Brilliant! What the people talking about a few cents either way don't seem to grasp is that music is not a single note, it is the resonance of harmonics. Shape of the room, even the moisture in the air can subtlety alter this. Let's tune the room, not the minutia! Go Rick!
Dear sir, this standardization issue is a bit of a "red herring" in that it supposes that the frequency that A is mapped to is really important, but as you point out for centuries (perhaps millennia) to exactly map a master tuning frequency to 440 Hz would have been impossible without modern science. So how did they tune at all? For guitarists this an important point and leads us to the 6th, and the difference between natural tuning and equal temperament and Das wohltemperierte Klavier (The well-tempered Clavier) by Bach and the differences in the fractions that make up Natural tuning (for instance tuning a guitar or piano to an open chord such as G Major or E Major versus Standard tuning. When tuned to the single Major Chord, as one goes around the Circle of Fifths, the 6ths begin to detune due to the fractions used in relation to the key center. Meanwhile in Standard or Equal Temperament, the division between half-steps is constant, and thus as one goes around the Circle of Fifths (no matter what key one is in), the "out-of-tuneness" is spread across all semitones as opposed to being solely centered on the 6th. If I am not mistaken, this also is the source of differences in notation on enharmonic notes, and the use of sharps when ascending and flats when descending for historical purposes. And finally, it took the three strings of a harpsichord or piano to really center in on equal temperament. Electronically, due to the fact that sine waves produced by electricity do not have inherent overtone artifacts unless they are deliberately designed in, we can have any mapping we desire, but it won't sound "as real" until the proper odd and even harmonics are added. Just my two cents. Great video
Dude, that's like at least 3 cents.
A very succinct reply.
This would explain as to why my open chord tuned guitars sound better tuned to A332 vs Standard tuned; then I just stick to the 'norm'.
I like to approximate 432 on acoustic guitar for a few reasons, mainly string tension on "long scale"(25.5") instruments. Tuning down a full half-step seems just a bit too flat, 432 just seems warmer to my ears...
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@@ThePhreakass Maybe what you call tone deaf is actually the better music but we've listened to 440 for so long we think it's vice versa. Just a thought, no use in acting like we have all the answers because the world would be perfect if we did. If you don't like 432 hz that's fine but there's no use in being evangelical about something we only know on the surface level.
432 is much better for meditation music and songwriting, I used to be sceptical but I have done a LOT of comparison and I don't think it's just a placebo and there could have been a conspiracy. I think Rick is being a bit glib with his dismissal here.
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Did you compare other frequencies besides 432. Or did you just test 440 vs 432?
What kills the 432 havinmg any sort of " spiritua;l " effect on a guitar is the equal temperment . You can adjust the fundamental tuning , however it still aint right !
Even if water reacts differently to 432 hz, tuning music down to that frequency will only effect water (or anything else) when that particular octave of A is played. Music changes chords, pitch, and tones constantly. Unless the entire song is just one long A note, it's not really going to realign your chakra or whatever.
We are 60% water
@@spacercake What about many types of protein in our body? What about DNA and RNA?
Good point. Not many songs out there that only use A . If a person wanted to try vibration or resonance therapy, maybe a difference, who knows?
@@spacercake I thought I was bugging🤣 the whole point is if it can do that to water it can do worse to us
In reference to your last words... you don't know that
I agree with Lennon. I moved to 432 Hz just because it seems a little richer in tone and seems to make slight intonation problems less noticeable. It's no big deal to me because all my gigs are solo. I keep a Strat tuned to 440 Hz, just in case you want to jam.
I like the Oldsmobile 442.
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I think cymatic experiments can offer some real insights into which frequencies are more in harmony with the nature of this realm. I first discovered cymatics by accident. Some time ago, I was painting in my studio listening to music, and I used my paint brush and turpentine metal cup to drum along to the music. Lo and behold, I started to see complex and perfect, geometric shapes appear in the turpentine within the cup! The geometry literally emerged from the waves in the liquid! Depending on how hard I hit the metal cup with my brush, different shapes would emerge in the liquid! Sometimes nothing, and sometimes perfect geometries in the circular metal cup! My mind was blown. Later, I found out and understood it to be what's known as cymatics. The vibrations that I was creating, by hitting the side of the tin, transferred to shapes in the turpentine liquid. Sometimes six pointed geometry, sometimes 12 pointed would appear, etc. And sometimes it looked to be in 3D. It would all happen in a flash. There was a certain bounce to the metal cup, which I think facilitated this wave creation and circular geometry. If you don't know, look into cymatics, frequencies, wave forms, etc. This stuff is serious.
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Ancient civilizations tuned to what they liked, so even before seconds, 432 could have been preferred -
it was standard for Verdi and shamanic/healing instruments use 432 too!
I had never heard of 432 vs 440 until somebody I hardly knew randomly sent me a video addressing it a year ago. It was an interesting video. A little bit new agey but interesting enough that I decided to try it. Lo and behold when I started singing it did seem like some ethereal static that I had subconsciously always fought against had been removed!
Last month I did my first gig in a while and definitely asked the band to all tune at 432 Hz.
Of course my mind was occupied with all the details of doing a show so I really forgot completely all about the fact that we had tuned down at 432. No question for the whole night I was kind of marveling over the way my vocals sat so comfortably on top of the mix!? That doesn’t happen a lot. Also the instruments were never fighting against each other. Each instrument seemed to have comfortable space. And we were not too loud. We were not un-loud But we were not too loud. I could see people still able to converse with each other even though we were playing at a decent volume. It was a few days before it occurred to me that it might’ve had something to do with us performing at 432HZ. I know there’s lots of snarkiness and mockers and scoffers around this idea. Lol… And may be 440 is/was more appropriate for our beloved rock ‘n’ roll era that was aggressive and harsh from the get-go. But as for me I love playing and singing at 432. My two cents! Great TH-cam channel Rick thank you!
Interesting post. I find that 440Hz- 442Hz makes the notes in the 12-TET scale sit rather high in resonance in the throat.. Move pitch down to 432Hz and most notes just seem to hover at my voices relaxed state.. And singing high in my upper middle register C4 to E4 becomes much more comftable.. In fact the passaggio E4 might be the most tricky note for my voice.. Move pitch down to 431Hz that E4 becomes so much easier to find the balance..
It sounds like your voice benefits from a lower tuning. But my guess is that it's not necessarily A=432. The same relaxation would probably come from tuning to A=434 or A=431. If it works for you though, go with it.
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I tried with many tunings.. I tried A4=430Hz and I find it a little too low when I hit my lower chest register.. The sweet-spot for my voice is around 434Hz..
There's also a ton of 70s songs that seem to be tuned to A=whatever the Bass player says it is, and it winds up between A=420 and A=448. Then you also have that huge collection of rock bands that use an Eb tuning, which I'm pretty sure is A=415.30. It might not matter though since you could still play a note at 440hz. And the guys who care about this really only care about being pedantic about frequencies.
If you want to get really weird you can look into all of those metal bans that tune to C standard. That would be A=261.63. That has to be better frequencies.
Also whatever the hell AC/DC spent that part of their career tuning to.
Fitz, I love your first notion of A=whatever the bass player says it is.
However, after that you seem to mix up the concept of transposing instruments, alternate tunings and reference pitches. Miles would read and call the base note on his trumpet a C, which actually sounds Bb in concert pitch (transposing instruments). SRV tuned to Eb, but would not call that E - alternate tuning.
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I’ve found it a bit easier to sing when tuned 432.
Cycles per second weren't specifically measured until the year 1834 when the Savart Wheel and the Tonometer where invented, but because the metric system came out in 1795, music was accurate; even more so, relatively, than most people today with tuners. They knew, then, the note range for any given length of tube for a horn or a pipe organ to get different notes for transposition. The earliest development known for the metric system is from John Wilkins.
In 1668, he proposed a coordinated system of units of measure for length, area, volume, and mass. This means that people knew what they were tuning and building their instruments to for more than half of the Baroque Era and all of the Classical Era. Things are generally accepted before they become standardized, but even if instrument makers didn't know the Hertz value, the metric system is defined as being derived from nature.
So, like I've explained, instrument makers, then, knew the acoustical output of instruments based on the shapes and sizes of natural objects through simple observation. They might not have had tuners, but Europeans knew how to trace and compare lengths precisely since before they came out of caves. Perception is rooted in nature and the observation of it consciously.
This is why your son sang a 33 and a third cent wide quarter tone. Let me explain; he had to hear when one note range started and the other one ended. 448 Hz tuning actually sounds 1/3 of a note flat, 440 Hz sounds 1/3 of a note sharp, and 432 Hz, being 40 octaves lower than the calibration of primary and secondary visual colors within a 12 tone system, sound balanced.
Stay with me, now. He sang the note up past 448 Hz tuning and touched 456 Hz tuning (the next note up from 432 Hz) and in doing so, he then brought it down to where the note would sound so flat that it couldn't be confused with being the same note compare to the commercial standard of tuning. Take a look at this repeating pattern rooted in the conscious awareness of the complete range of any "A" (Orange) that is 40 octaves lower than the THz range of the visible colors Red through Yellow:
•flat = 400 Hz = Ab = Raspberry-Red
+8 Hz
•in-tune = 408 Hz = Ab = Red
+8 Hz
•sharp = 416 Hz =Ab = Orange-Red
+ 8 Hz
•flat = 424 Hz = A = Red-Orange
+8 Hz
•in-tune = 432 Hz = A = Orange
+8 Hz
•sharp = 440 Hz = A = Yellow-Orange
+8 Hz
•flat = 448 Hz = A# = Orange-Yellow
+8 Hz
•in-tune = 456 Hz = A# = Yellow
+8 Hz
•sharp = 464 Hz = A# = Lime-Yellow
We are dealing with microtones, here, but compared to the World War tuning, in-tune is flat; flat is sharp (as the next note down); and, (as sharp as any note can be before it is in the next range of color) is in-tune.
Understanding this will have you realize that 440 Hz came about to make music sound sharp. It is better to sound sharp than out of tune, but that is just 440 Hz, not 442 Hz or 445 Hz.
I hope that this explains some of the weird theories that claim that 432 Hz can expand your awareness. It sure could help you to understand and develop perfect pitch. Thank you for taking the time to read all of this.
You won't convince all the new age nuts with facts, man!
Tell me about it, but for some reason, I can't stop being triggered by the fruitcakes.
Pythagoras has NOTHING to do with New Age, idiots!
@ please go listen to some Pythagorean tuned music, and I don't mean the ambient music, I mean music with somewhat complex harmony, it sounds like utter crap, no music where the ratio of the major third is 81/64 will sound good
@ Pythagoras has nothing to do with 432hz
432 is the best!! Stephen Dawson does Katie Perry’s teenage dream in 432 and it takes it to the next level
I tune everything to 1 then makes the strings 432 times shorter.
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I'm 4 years later, but i love this comment, lmao.
A=435hz will always be my favourite. It all comes alive
FINALLY SOME INTELLIGENT TRUTH ABOUT THIS ARGUMENT!
440hz throws off our vibration and disconnects us from source. Hence why they made it the standard in 1932. Just another example of how everything in life today is backwards from how it was meant to be.
By the way how does Dylan react to microtonal music? And also it would be interesting to hear your opinion on microtonal music composers, thanks!
killavenger he has said that he hears a kind of mixture of two tones, meaning A and A# simultaneously when hearing a sharper A, each note getting more noticeable the closer to the actual pitch they hold they are.
This whole discussion doesn't make sense at all. The main argument 432 Hz believers use is that this frequency resonates with... well, they mention different things, but basically it comes down resonating with a certain thing and 440 Hz doesn't. You see? That's all they got.
So nice. So now we play a tune in C# major that has no alterations in it at all, but with our instruments nicely tuned using A=432 Hz. However, in C# major, there won't be an A in the tune. No 440 Hz A, but no 432 Hz A either. It won't resonate with the universe, nor with the Egyptian pyramids, nor with with any of the other things brought up. Even if they play a piece in A, will they only play A's? Wow, that would make interesting music, wouldn't it?
And, what kind of tuning will they use to make it resonate with the green aliens living on Mars?
Did I mention the nazis? Didn't they dictate A to be 440 Hz, so they could control the people's minds? Yes, there are people who claim this. Godwin's law is always lurking around the corner to fabricate a point, whenever there are no valid arguments.
This whole 432 Hz thing is just sheer nonsense, made up by people who think they'll intellectually stand out by disagreeing with the majority. In fact, it only makes them look stupid.
If you play in C#-major with A4=432Hz using 12-TET you are actually playing the indian chant wovel OM at C#=136.1Hz. So eventhough playing in C#-major and not A of akey that utilize A4=432Hz you are still very much closer to a relaxed natural resonance of the human voice.
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Back in my days as a violin artiste , we would canvass our contemporaries if A-440 or, A-444 was better. Can you believe that?
Notes A3=216Hz (-31.77 cents) and G#3=204Hz (-30.7 cents),, just lay completely natural to my voice.. The ~ 30 cents lift from ~432Hz to 440Hz for A4 is not natural for my voice... MY voice relaxed resonance is around the tuning of A4 at 432Hz.. Singing high notes comes very natural when the guitar is tunes at 432Hz vs 440Hz.. The passaggio is shifted too high at 440Hz
Infact the highest pitch for my voice if I lay of a lot of weight (early transition) is ~438Hz (~8 cents). A4=440Hz is very difficult to find the balance in the throat.. In my world 440Hz excludes a lot of voices in music.. The previous european pitch at 435Hz is a better comprimise between a high (445Hz) and low pitch (425Hz).
A4=424-425Hz would be close to Mozats and Händels pitch as they used a forks at A4=421.6 and 422.5Hz but they were probably using a more "pure" tuning system like meantone or just intonation which was much more common which sets the A (major six. or La) note flatter relative to 12-TET in the C major scale. I think it was a piano tuning company from late 1800s that had their pianos tuned in Meantone at 433.5Hz for A4 and with 12-TET is was A4=436Hz. A difference of ~10 cents.
A tenor hitting the high notes to Händels halleluja to a piano tuned to 425Hz would be easy, nice and full.. At modern A4=442-443Hz which many like to tune their classical instruments at .. The tenor sounds bad... It is only the spinto tenors (very few individuals) that would sing the high part with ease...
We got it all wrong,, The previous pitch at 435Hz is as high the note of A4 should have gone to get the right classical division of fachs..
This is a fact...440Hz is a very "unnatural" singing pitch if I may use that word.
dansk björn 440 is unnatural to your body, and it is to mine as well - but my body is more comfortable around 450. The tiny bit of extra sharpness really helps me maintain consitant intonation. Conversely, I have an old bass trumpet that doesn't tune any higher than 430 - and I prefer to play it around 425. Every body and every instrument is different, and you gotta do what works best for you and for your equipment!
424-425/449-450hz as a nice spot i completely can relate to. it is another nice area together with the 432/457hz area. what is your vocal fach when singing..
the weirdest pitch area for my voice is 439-445hz. not low enough and not high enough
Western music in equal temperament uses 12 different frequencies, only one of which is a multiple of the frequency of A : the A itself.
A piece in Eb major tuned at 432Hz will contain no A at all, so no instance of a note vibrating at that 432Hz frequency.
This should be enough to debunk the 432 Hz bullshit.
The difference of 440Hz to 432Hz is 1.8 percent. If you play a cheap acoustiv guitar for some time, you will start at 440Hz and end at 432Hz. The BIG benefit of the cheap guitar: you get all cosmic tunes between 440Hz and 432Hz. Doing this, you may find the secret frequency of the universe!
since music frequencies are logarithmic you cannot compare them in prtcentage which is linear, for A4 at 432 vs 440 it is approximately 1/3 of a half tone, that 1/3 of a half tone increases in percentage as go move to higher frequencies 😊
While Hertz was only measured starting in the early 1800s, it's important to remember that it's just a measuring tool, just like radiocarbon dating would be used to determine the age of an object containing organic material. Instruments and tuning practices predating the Hertz measurement have been retroactively found to be A=432Hz, for instance, there were tuning forks found that corresponded with the frequency, or the simple fact that people swore by Pythagorean 5ths for tuning (who is also the person responsible for the monochord, which was historically in tune with 432Hz). I see people make this same moot point all the time, but it's a pretty obvious, hard-to-miss observation if you think about it.
A 432 for me. Not for spiritual reasons, but I do believe that it is the most natural of the three frequencies mentioned. I have perfect pitch, and I do notice that birds seem to sing in a 432. Humans naturally speak and a 432.
Wow! Way cool and wow :)
Black Hole Sun is A455 and it turned out pretty well. People seem to like it.
I think I have a negative effect to 440. Life somebody"ruffling my feathers".You made much more clear as to get people to understand these concepts. Physics was one of my favorite subjects in highschool but still how does this translate to practice, real life,how can I choose to tune my guitar to 432Hz?
My thoughts; no matter what science and history says about it, if you can hear and appreciate the difference, it makes a difference!
I heard years ago that 440a was made so we would be forced into a more discordant type vibration overall concerning the music. Just something I'd heard in past, kind of like fluoride and other things people claim were introduced to not help us. I'm sure others have heard the same thing. Rick I dig your videos, all of them! 🎸
We have the Rockefellers to thank for enforcing 440 Hz as standard. They also gave us the brutal American public school system and helped fund the rise of the Third Reich. Go figure.
Hitler did this in his country
How can we disagree with an authority of Dylan's calibre!
theres nothing special about the second, or a number based on the second
I found 432hz more enjoyable i can actually Feel the difference, i Feel kinda Bad when Rick mocks about chakras and spiritual energy But hey ,this channel is about music so i can understand why he is making fun. It doesnt really matters
Very good thank you !! I learned a bit about this subject playing with a french accordianist that had an old accordian instrument tuned in this way, A =435; You surely put more light on the subject with a few things i didn't know. Thank you Rick for the cool vids!!
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In terms of this subject i like 432hz i don't believe in the whole new age spiritual crap but it's certainly pleasant on the ears,though that's just because its tuned lower so its naturally mellowed not because its the frequency of mother earth or any of that stuff
I have a theory on these 2 tuning systems. I think if our tuning system had been in 432, the world would be a better place... it's a fascinating "what-if" thought that i often have, although it's impossible. It's still fun to hear comparisons. There's something different about 432 tuning that draws you in. And this is coming from someone who has perfect pitch in 440. It's taken a while to get used to 432.
One day has 86400 seconds... 432/864...
That´s in line / sync with everything - the whole cosmos.
That is why sensitive people feel that. But in our dumbed down society it´s all just nuts...
Mankind is ignorant like...
@@vectragt2310oh wow, I didn't know about the seconds of rhe day. I do know that 432/12 = 36, but what is interesting is 440/12 =36.666 🧐 No wonder so many musicians have anxiety &/or are depressed! And that includes myself. If we're constantly exposed to unequal frequencies, it's doing something to us physically & emotionally. I wish more research was done on this.
@@rlopezflute
432/8 = physical
432/9 = spiritual / Ether side
And yes, 440 was put in place on purpose...
Also, no further investigation needs to be done if people learn to follow their intuiton and heart/earth.
@@vectragt2310 One day has 85.984,091 seconds, we just rounded it down to 24 hours. Also, a day is not the same in the whole cosmos, only our Earth day is roughly 24 hours. Stop trying to be smart as if 432Hz is in tune with the universe or something, it isn't even in tune by your own standards.
@@RoderickVoordouw
Well, then I made an incorrect statement.
In line with earth and its frequency, as we ARE ON EARTH. And with 440 you are out of sync and it is not coincidence this became western standard.
There won´t be a direct effect from listening to 432, but over time when it would be all over the radio, etc. DNA and concioussness would change. As you surely know DNA is dynamic.
So stop trying to tell bs...
I like your videos (even though they often go over my head and make me cry like an infant at my own ineptitude, leaving me wanting to: 432 part quit to 440 part get on my instrument).
This was so informative and cheeky at the same time. It made a potentially dry subject fun to watch. This has been my favorite so far!
A = 432 Hz resonates with Schuman Resonance of the earth, which is Earth's heartbeat at 8 Hz. In the scale the C note lands on 8 Hz in the lowest octave. So the idea is it's supposed to be at a natural flowing vibration with the universe.
This discussion pops up a lot!The long list of pseudocience/spirituality stuff you reeled off makes me laugh for sure haha. It's clear there can't be a superior system in regards to anything like that, because resonances of physical bodies will never be consistent. Also, any significance of the number 432 is entirely arbitrary like you explained. Besides, that's just one single frequency of one single note whilst music contains the full spectrum!When people push such reasons in support of 432, they tend to show a fundamental misunderstanding of how sound works - throwing around words like resonance, harmonics, overtones, without realising that all these things remain consistent, just slightly lower. Their points could be used to argue for tuning systems like Just Intonation vs 12EDO, but 12EDO vs 12EDO slightly lower is really irrelevant. Tune to whatever :) As a rule of thumb lower will sound a bit calmer for sure. I liked Jacob Colliers modulation from 440 to 432 as it displays that effect very well.
A=440Hz works PERFECTLY for me.
I've just stumbled upon something truley interesting. People believed that 432hz was resonant with 8hz (which was considered the harmonic resonance of the earth) ... until.. we developed fine instruments to determin it was really 7.83 which would make the A frequency 430.65. I didn't care to much about all the nonsense until i actually listened to a piece of music in 430.65 and it actually created this unusual humming sensation in my body. The closest thing i can descride it as, is the feeling i would get if i smoked a hit off of a joint. Not to get too hippy-like but it really felt like love was pumping through my body. But when i went back to 440hz music, it seemed to slightly intensify a slight headache i had from earlier in the day. Weird stuff.
Hopefully nobody is blaming their own demise on tuning...truth is: You can be ANYTHING you want to be in spite of any "conspiracy".
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I had a guitar church gig with a piano player. The pastor previously told the piano player that he a very nice Yamaha electric keyboard on sight so no need to bring your gear. We showed up 30mins prior for a quick sound check. Unfortunately they had a prayer service going on before main service started. I was told to just set up my amp and guitar so we could immediately play after prayer. Long story short. I was in 440 and that keyboard was in who knows what. Lol, It was a mess and the piano player couldn't figer out how to change the pitch nor did we have time to stop mid song. I had to eventually stop playing while everyone was looking at me crazy. The moral of this story is bring your own gear because you never know what might happen.
I would add that the lovely people who insist on A=432, have no problem with the unnatural abomination that is equal temperament.
From my deep study of physic and ancient knowledge what we might call "SOUNDS BETTER I LIKE IT" is most certainly related to non destructive interference where the sound oscillations vibrate non destructive are phase conjugate and imbend n each vibration recursively. This is occurring where whatever you want to call tuning vibrates without resistance with the Shuman harmonic of the planet earth and is also divisible with planks distance. It the musical keysignature of the universe around. 618 x 10 to the negative 33 centimeters ie the smallest oscillation where the 11th dimension breaks down and becomes a compreshional wave.. but I like 432.;)
Coming soon "SOUNDING OFF with Dylan, Lennon and Layla" :)
That would be interesting.
The A 432 hertz argument, where it has attained some mystical and/or cosmic significance, is nonsense and here's why. At some point in history we decided to measure the passage of time more accurately and various timepieces were developed. A standard unit of time had to be decided upon. The reason we have divided the day into 24 hours, with 60 seconds in each of the 60 minutes that make up each hour, is purely due to the fact that these numbers are highly divisible. 24 is divisible by 2, 3, 4, 6, 8 and 12 whereas 60 is divisible by 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 12, 15, 20 and 30. Thus in this system it was easy to use fractions of an hour or day. For instance, we don't say 0.25 or 0.75 of an hour but 1/4 or 3/4 of an hour, respectively. Therefore the duration of a second, which 1/86400th of a day, is purely as a result of choosing how we divided the day up initially. Suppose we decide to go metric with our time and have 10 hours in a day, with 100 minutes in an hour and 100 seconds in a minute. This would give us 100,000 new seconds (ns) in a day as opposed to 86,400 seconds. The SI unit for a second, which is defined as the time taken for 9,192,631,770 vibrations (transitions between energy states) of caesium 133 atoms. Using our metric seconds the new SI definition would be corrected to 7,842,433,250 vibrations of caesium 133. As a result of this shortening of the second A 432 Hz would now be A 373.248 Hz. In conclusion, the duration of a second is the construct of man when we chose to divide the day into measurable units (i.e. 86,400s/day) . If we had chosen the system as outlined above (i.e. 100,000ns/day) the second would be shorter and therefore so would the cycles per second (hertz) of all of the tunings that are used in music. Simple.
PS. Using this the new definition of a second, 432Hz would have the same pitch equivalence as 500Hz in our existing definition. Try altering your instrument to this and see have relaxing, spiritual, etc., etc. it is. Frequency, amplitude and wavelength is dependant on your measurement system (i.e.. metres and seconds) which are defined by us. As I illustrated different standards and definitions yield different results. If we decided to base the second on how quickly Rick could say "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" (the Beato second) and the metre on 4 times the length of his, you know what (the Beato metre), the Beato Hertz would be completely different.
PPS. I don't know Rick so cannot shed any information of the equivalence of the Beato metre to the metre.
Before i discovered that there was a literal debate over this i first noticed when listening to some heavy metal/rock records that they sounded off when i tried to jam along to them and figured it must be like a 'quarter step down' using my ear and ended up with 430hz and have had my floyd rose set up in this particular tuning for a few years now. it sucks having to detune every single (almost) song i wanna jam to haha but you will find that lots of mechanical/electronic/harmonic tones you will hear in your day to day life will resonate with this tuning! i think that must be where the whole 'freq of the universe' stuff came from...
the earth's frequency is supposedly 8 hz, and 432 is divisible by 8 54 times. 5+4 = 9, and 9 +11 = NINE ELEVEN
After all I've read and heard about this issue, I agree with Rick, if tuning to 432 rocks your boat, do it. But IMHO, it what people play and their sound that takes great precedence over just it's pitch, when listening. Their choice of notes, as well as the relationship to each other, no matter what the pitch one's tuned to, is a greater factor in whether I feel the music is transcendent, calming, healing, or jarring, agitated, even violent. Playing crappy music can't be overcome simply by tuning to 432. And listening to music is so very subjective anyway, takes me back to saying just do what sounds best to you...
I like singing in A432 for the same reason I like tuning to Eb. It's easier to hit high notes. But it's a hassle tuning back and forth when I play with other people, recordings or TH-cam so I just play in A440 99.9% of the time.
Let's trow some physics into the mix. Dividing 1 by the Planck time (the shortest time possible calculated from the fundamental constants of the universe) yeilds the Planck frequency. Divide this frequency by 2 to get the same tone 1 octave lower. Do this 135 times an one arrives at 426Hz. This then is the fundamental tuning of the universe. Our year has 365.244 days instead of the ideal 360 so our days and seconds are a little short. Multiplying 432 by 360/365.244 also yields 426Hz. What happens if one uses 426Hz to play and compose music?
i was never convinced the 432 Hz was some miracle frequency so i thoroughly enjoyed this video - having said that, i still think the issue of energetic frequency in music is a profound subject - i would argue that the only so-called 'frequency' that truly matters would have to do with the unique character of the music itself
Love the experts! I love A-4-40-32
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Hey Rick,
I just LOVE 432 and 448 hertz tuning.
440 pitches sound really aggressive to me in comparison (did a lot of blind testing).
Coldplay, Melody Gardot and the Vienna Philharmonic have liked it too :)
Cheers
Whatever tuning system you use is a matter of preference, just don't go around telling people their music is bad because they didn't invest 4 hours of their life watching a "documentary" that claims your tuning system will cure cancer.
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great ... a huge thank u ... straight to the point without the usual dribble
When i first learned to play guitar, i spent alot of time at the city park, hangin' out with my Yamaha acoustic guitar, a couple doobies, and a pick. Nobody had a tuner, so we went with the player who's guitar sounded the best. I guess you could say that we were tuned to 420.
Thanks for the laugh! I’m sure a 420 was actually fun!
I like to play Mozart and Beethoven (and Bach, I guess) at a semitone lower than today's concert pitch, and Chopin a semitone higher. BUT there's more to it than that: it's of more importance to use a non-equal tuning, so the different chords have different sounds from each other. I love the way even my Yamaha digital piano comes to life by using Werckmeister - with the C chords sounding so different from the Bs, the Gs sounding so different from the Aflats etc
A semitone up or down either way doesn't really make that much difference to many people.
i'd like to hear A432 compared to other alternative tunings, like A420 or something like that.
My doubt is: is the relaxing effect due to just lowering frequency, or do 432 resonates better than higher and lower tunings?
A day has 86400 seconds...
The blind are leading the blind into darkness...
@@vectragt2310 things are looking up but falling down
I prefer A437,554,261,728,816.5