Sound and Hearing
Why can two instruments play the same note and remain easy to tell apart? Why does a close interval beat, and why can a missing bass frequency still produce a low pitch? Follow the path from vibration to perception, then test each idea with a sound you can trigger.
Begin with a sound and build it up.
Add harmonics one at a time, then use the rest of this section to separate spectrum, tuning, roughness and perception.
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How sound works
the physics, made audible
How hearing works
what your ear does with it
The building blocks
names for what you are hearing
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The other sections
Everything on this site sits in one of these, in the order they are meant to be learned.
The building blocks
How music works