Let's Talk Tuning
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 ม.ค. 2025
- Intonation is one of the most discussed (and agonized over) topics in the string world. It's really hard to play a violin, viola, cello, or bass in tune. But there's a lot of fascinating science behind intonation that might help us understand some of our struggles and formulate practice strategies for being better players.
So in this video, we'll talk about the difference between just and equal temperament, the circle of fifths, the pythagorean comma, and how all of that relates to the way we should practice intonation.
LOVE this type of teaching video, Matt! Keep ‘em coming!
Matt!! I'm a retired Piano tuner and at 5:21 you hit the nail on the head when you said we are equally out of tune in every key...made me laugh at the accuracy of that statement ...love your content
using distortion and other pedal effects have helped a lot with intonation because of how much you can hear any small discrepancies - I have a song where I detune my G to F would be interesting to hear about how others may use alternate tunings - great video!
Knew the theory, but that distortion demo was illuminating. Thanks as always, Matt! Great video!
Great presentation and advice! 🎻🙏🏾
Awesome video! the Distortion tip was great :) I wish I knew all this long ago. Thanks for the video!
Im a cellist but also i play the piano, this video i liked because my cello teacher in the faculty told me that cello intonatinon in sharps and flats doesn't sound the same as in the piano specially the enharmonics and he told me that string players always use pythagorean and just intonation
This was very useful, thank you!
I now understand why G is "flat" on the tuner when tuning to 5ths by ear
Matt, great video; first time I ever saw this content with the distortion examples. For the mathematics behind the table of equal temperament, the first half step uses 1.05946 = 12th root of 2. Each next half step multiplies the prior by 1.0594630944. Note B = A440 x 1.12246, for example. A880 = A440 x 1.05946^12.
Yup. I wasn't sure how deep to go with the explanation. My audience IS musicians, afterall. lol!
Half of us went to music school because we were tired of math.
@@ElectricViolinShop yup, and many in the audience might be like me: amateurs at music and math, but pros at something completely different.
I came to like this channel bc I'm a violist. But I also play guitar (Classicaly trained) and I've quite recently started to tune with harmonics. Are there flaws that I should know about?
It's really the same as anything else. Just be aware that 4ths are not actually 4ths.
@@ElectricViolinShop Thanks. 😊
Hey! I really love your videos and I really want to get an electric violin in the future. Anyway, I have a question. So, my friends bought me an acoustic violin last year and I learned mostly from video lessons on TH-cam and other platforms. My goal is to be able to perform in front of my friends and family so they won't hear major differences between me and someone who's been learning the proper way. I dont want to play in an orchestra or be the best violinist, I just want to sound good. So the question is will I be able to achieve this only by practising on my own, or are there some things that only a qualified teacher can hear and teach you how to do them the proper way. For example, a year ago I could not tell by ear if the note is half a tone higher or lower than it should be, but now I can. So if I continue practising will I run into the wall and find out that my technique is wrong and I have to learn everything from scratch or I'll just get better with practice. I know violin is not a guitar. You can't just pick it up, learn a few chords and sound somewhat alright. But is it really necessary to hire a violin teacher or can you achieve similar results by practicing a lot just by yourself? Thanks!
It's possible, but a teacher will help you learn a whole lot faster - and safer.
th-cam.com/video/jvV_ga3X0Cs/w-d-xo.html Here`s a video explaining and demonstrating intermodulation with an electric guitar.