A good video that's actually incorrect: the average length of pieces of music BEFORE Edison and Marconi (the inventors of the record and radio) were even born was - yes - 3 to 5 minutes. Consider Handel’s “Messiah.” A full performance of this oratorio weighs in at just over 3 hours. But saying that is a bit deceptive - “Messiah” is not a 3-hour piece of music…it’s an ”album” of 53 individual pieces that total 3 hours. That averages just over 3 minutes for each piece. The reason has to do with selective hearing: hearings job is to detect the lion or bear we can't see, smell or feel and hearing doesn't have free reign with your brains processing power. It has to share. So when you hear something you'll concentrate on it for a period of time and if it is determined to not be a threat your hearing will stop processing it and get on looking for other sounds. This is why people can live downtown or next to freeways - they stop hearing the droning noise. So there's a timer in your brain for sound and that timer is about 3 minutes if a sound hasn't killed you in 3 minutes, your brain determines it's not a threat and tells your hearing to move on to something else. To reset that timer in music, you need to have a key change, otherwise after around three minutes a song will tend to become boring, uninteresting or even annoying.
Found your channel just now when YT recommended your Laufey video. These are really well-made and straight to the point. A true hidden gem on youtube. Hope you keep at this man! ♥
Without looking at the video: the 3:30 length dates from the inception of the gramophone record, the flat shellac disk (78s). The maximum length of a 10 inch 78 rpm record was in fact just 3 minutes and 30 seconds, with the majority of 78s ending at approximately 3 minutes. So with the mass commodification of 78s came a standardization of song lengths (since, of course, songs were soon created under the assumption that they would eventually be recorded and distributed on 78s).
hey some guy named Corey Campbell mentioned you in his video and your content seemed cool so I checked it out and it is really really cool I love this stuff so I know you probably aren't gonna come back to making content but this is amazing and I wish there were more videos for me to binge
This video felt much longer than 3:30, there's so much information packed into it!
This is a fantastic video! Felt like a video essay compressed into 3:30
Great job man!
i love that he made the video 3:30
Funny I think TH-cam rounded up 630 milliseconds so it shows 3:31 :(
can you crop it to 629 or so@@theviggy
@@theviggy It shows 3:30 for me
@@emifro me too
@@theviggy shows 3:29 for me
I like music allowed to breathe than be shortened down all the time.
laughs in listens to classical symphonies
Your channel is the thing we really needed all this time !!!!!!!!
A good video that's actually incorrect: the average length of pieces of music BEFORE Edison and Marconi (the inventors of the record and radio) were even born was - yes - 3 to 5 minutes.
Consider Handel’s “Messiah.” A full performance of this oratorio weighs in at just over 3 hours. But saying that is a bit deceptive - “Messiah” is not a 3-hour piece of music…it’s an ”album” of 53 individual pieces that total 3 hours. That averages just over 3 minutes for each piece.
The reason has to do with selective hearing: hearings job is to detect the lion or bear we can't see, smell or feel and hearing doesn't have free reign with your brains processing power. It has to share. So when you hear something you'll concentrate on it for a period of time and if it is determined to not be a threat your hearing will stop processing it and get on looking for other sounds.
This is why people can live downtown or next to freeways - they stop hearing the droning noise.
So there's a timer in your brain for sound and that timer is about 3 minutes if a sound hasn't killed you in 3 minutes, your brain determines it's not a threat and tells your hearing to move on to something else.
To reset that timer in music, you need to have a key change, otherwise after around three minutes a song will tend to become boring, uninteresting or even annoying.
Wow this is an awesome video.
Found your channel just now when YT recommended your Laufey video. These are really well-made and straight to the point. A true hidden gem on youtube. Hope you keep at this man! ♥
Without looking at the video: the 3:30 length dates from the inception of the gramophone record, the flat shellac disk (78s). The maximum length of a 10 inch 78 rpm record was in fact just 3 minutes and 30 seconds, with the majority of 78s ending at approximately 3 minutes. So with the mass commodification of 78s came a standardization of song lengths (since, of course, songs were soon created under the assumption that they would eventually be recorded and distributed on 78s).
hey some guy named Corey Campbell mentioned you in his video and your content seemed cool so I checked it out and it is really really cool I love this stuff so I know you probably aren't gonna come back to making content but this is amazing and I wish there were more videos for me to binge
I thought my TH-cam was broken when I scrolled to the comments and only saw a few - hopefully this gets the hundred thousands of views it deserves!
bro you a small youtuber but I have a feeling you could be on your way to being a bigger one! Awesome video
This is amazingly edited! Great job!
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