Lesson 4.11 - Musical Instruments

VIDEO LESSON (37:11 min)

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PRINCIPLE


STRING


VIDEO: Vibrations of Strings on a digital camera  (3:15 min)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9L9AOPxhZwY

CLOSED AIR COLUMN

OPEN AIR COLUMN


MEMBRANE WITH FIXED BOUNDRY (DRUM)



VIDEO: Drum Head Vibration (1:27 min)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4ELxKKT5Rw

MEMBRANE WITH FREE BOUNDRY (AND FIXED CENTRE)



VIDEO: Cymbal Slow-Mo Video (0:57 min)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_w8YqdGpahU

NOTES



SEMITONES




TIMBRE



VIDEO: Spectrograms and Instruments Explained (2:40 min)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9Kozlt0tTg

VIDEO: Spectrograms of Instruments (2:05 min)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRAXK4QKJ1Q

VIDEO: Crash Course on the Physics of Music (10:34 min)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDsk6tZX55g

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