Discover the Most Common Note in Music

[joeisonyoutube]

What a great question that I've never heard anyone ask before. Thank you Robert!

[thomaswallace]

Thank you for answering my question!!!!

[TrinityDivineMozart]

That is an absolutely wonderous question. 🎼👏

[pianostudy]

Thanks Robert. So why are some instruments (trumpets, clarinets, etc.) in the orchestra not in concert pitch of the music score? 🎼 Is it because how the instruments evolved over time? Thanks

[kittyfruitloop]

WOW, I had no idea that other instruments are pitched differently, except for I knew that bagpipes are tuned to mixolydian. Thanks to you covering modes (and one of my teachers), I crashed course in modes and I memorized them so I can recognize them. I kept running into music written well before the Renaissance and couldn't figure out what key/scale they were in. Now I can figure it out! Also, on the pipe organ, I like to wow people by mimicking a bagpipe, It turns heads! Pull the right stops, keep a low root note drone and I play Amazing Grace in mixolydian... Anyway, I can mimic a bagpipe! Also, I play Amazing Grace in all 7 modes to demonstrate for people what modes are.. Lochrian is the most dreadful thing ever and I always apologize beforehand to warn people, lol!

[joemmac]

I owned a Roland digital piano for 30 years and the first note to wear out (needing repair) was the A above middle C. Therefore I submit this proof of A as the most common note. 🙂

[DeanHorak]

Off topic question if you don’t mind. Maybe a question to spur another future video.

I’m working on Beethoven’s Pathetique sonata first movement.

In the first measure, the last chord and bass note have a flag, indicating these are 8th notes. However, every interpretation I’ve seen has the pianist holding down the notes for two full beats. This does not seem to jive with the notation. I understand that since the notation calls for peddling, perhaps sonically it’s indistinguishable, but is it correct technically, or should the pianist lift the hands after an eighth beat? Also, if it’s indistinguishable sonically, why did Beethoven write it that way, rather than a simple half note?

Just curious, and I didn’t know where else to ask it. ChatGPT says it is the preference of the pianist how to play it.

Your thoughts?

[robertwwp]

Trombone Bb? Not really. Trombone is sometimes called Bb Trombone because its fundamental note is a Bb. However, a Bb in trombone music sounds a Bb. So, it is actually a C instrument like the flute and the oboe and others.

[TDS.Harper]

Apparently I had the same question as I am here. "A. Naturally..." 🤣

[velcroman]

Actually, E is the most common vowel and S is the most common consonant.

[GabrielVelasco]

I wonder if this conclusion holds up if you also consider non-Western music.

[alanclarkeau]

I saw the question, thought for 3 seconds and said to myself "Eb" (which is D# too I suppose).

Woops - I'm a semitone out. Flat.

[velcroman]

Yee gad!! A french horn?? Such a pity you didn’t learn the most beautiful sounding instrument there is. That being, the Euphonium. You can play an inspiring march or a moving, tear jerking love song on a Euphonium. A French Horn is really nothing more than a rolled up fanfare horn with valves that aspire to be a Euphonium. Can you imagine playing Horrible the love song from the Desert Song on a French Horn. 😱🤢🥴