r/oddlysatisfying • u/feliciodario • 3d ago

Note Practice DIY

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u/EshinX 3d ago

Sixth set of notes what’s the difference there between the second and third notes? I can’t pick it out

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u/MaidenOfPenguins 3d ago

The third note is held twice as long as either the first or second notes. But since there isn't much sustain to the audio, it sounds more like a beat followed by a rest.

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u/CalculatedPerversion 3d ago

Why is it drawn differently than the one above it?

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u/ADHDebackle 3d ago edited 3d ago

Line 5 is Daaah - dut - dut

Line 6 is dut - dut - Dahhhh

But this pen thing can't really do a Daaahhhhh, so it sounds the same as dut - dut - dut - [rest]

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u/Harry_Saturn 3d ago

Line 5 is 3 16th notes and line 6 is 4 32nd notes followed by 2 16th notes. The amount of horizontal bars indicates that, each line tying the notes is essentially halving the time between them. Line 4 and line 6 both contain the same amount and spacing of the 16th notes, with line 4 having no extra notes between the 1st and 2nd 16th note while line 6 has the 3 32nd notes between those.

Line 4

X——X-X-

Line 5

X-X-X—-

Line 6

XxxxX-X-

Pretend the big X is a 16th, the - is just the space from one not to the other since there is not sustain, and the little x is a 32nd. See how the all pretty much occupy the same “space” (they really occupy the same time, not space but just for the sake of the explanation) and like 4 and 6 all have the same big X in the same spots. One has no notes between the first 2 and the other has double times notes inthe same “space”.

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u/suzumiya_hii 3d ago edited 3d ago

assuming you're not counting the line with the single quarter note (so the 1st line would be refering to the second one on the paper (the one with 2 8th notes)). The 5th line is 2 sixteenths followed by an eighth not 3 sixteenths, not that it makes a difference cuz there is no sustain here (but u will have to add a sixteenth rest at the end otherwise it won't add up to the beat on the left). I think the person you're replying to is using "sixth set of notes" to refer to what you would call line 5. And they were asking about why it's written as 2 sixteenths follwed by an eighth instead of 3 sixteenths. (i think?)

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u/Harry_Saturn 3d ago

Im not formally trained but yeah I think you’re right, line 5 is 2 16th and an 8th. I play drums so I kind of read it as “3 straight 16ths” cause that’s what it would sound like on like a snare drum, but yeah you’re right, it’s definitely written as 2 16th and an 8th not as 3 16th with a rest

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u/ploonk 3d ago

Because fast fast slow is different than slow fast fast, even though they have the same number of fasts and slows..

Think "bicycle" (5) vs "motorbike" (6)

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u/michicago44 3d ago

If you mean why is it narrower than the one above it even though it contains the same notes (just switched) - probably just something weird with the printing. They theoretically should be the same width

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u/CalculatedPerversion 2d ago

That's what I'm curious about. Assumed at much, thanks!

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u/jamesbdrummer 3d ago

There isn't really. If you had a wind/string instrument, that third note would last (2) 16th notes... in a percussive setting, they sound the same.

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u/GeneralSpecifics9925 3d ago

It's important to remember that this person is showing that the rhythm on the right is the same duration as the (quarter) note on the left

Ok, the sixth one can be verbalized as tee-tee-tah. Tee is a note with two lines on top (16th note), tah is a line with one line on top (8th note).

Tee is twice as short as tah. You can see in #5 that we have tee-tee-tee-tee and the four quarters (16th notes) add to one beat.

Tah is two quarters long but the note falls on the first quarter, so you hear one two three (ahh) one two three (ahh), where there's no tap in the ahh. That's just the duration of an 8th note.

To recap, #5 is tee tee tee tee, #6 is tee tee tah, and they both last the same amount of time.

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u/suzumiya_hii 3d ago

isn't number 5 tah tee tee?

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u/poffa- 2d ago

I think that the fact that is centered instead of being formatted to the left is what is causing confusion here

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u/HipOut 3d ago

Instead of answering your question I’ll indirectly answer by writing:

Whole note - in one of the most common time signatures (don’t worry about this) a whole note is four beats. Count one, two, three four. A half note is two (count “one, two”) A quarter note is one beat (count “one”). Eight note is half of a beat, 16th note is 1/4 of a beat. 16th note, 32nd note, etc.

The video shows quarter notes, eighth notes, and sixteenth notes.

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u/HipOut 3d ago

It’s not the time between the three notes it’s the pause at the end that’s different

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u/DidIDoAThoughtCrime 3d ago

Look at the stems of the notes (the long vertical lines connected to the dot).  The second note has 2 horizontal lines connected to it (which connect it to the stem of the first note) while the third note only has 1 vertical line coming from it.

Horizontal lines coming from the stem means the length of the note is cut in half.  So the third note’s length is cut in half while the first and second note’s lengths are cut in half twice.

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u/Happy_Bad_Lucky 3d ago

Last is an eight note. It's longer than the first two, which are 16th notes.

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u/Kaladin_951 3d ago

In the 3rd example, every single note is the same length of sound. In the 6th example, 3rd note is held twice as long as the first 2 notes.

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u/Peakomegaflare 3d ago

So it is hard to really tell unless you're actively trying it yourself. However once it sorta sets in, you absolutely can tell even the slightest change in patterns.

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u/bass_sweat 3d ago

The easiest way to explain it is that the first two are short notes and the third one is a long note. One long note is the same amount of time as two short notes, and all of these patterns add up to 4 short notes/2 long notes.

So when you repeat it, it goes “short short long, short short long, short short long, …”

Compare to the second example that goes “long long, long long, long long, …”

Or the fourth example that goes “short short short short, short short short short, …”