>> ^zomgunicorns:

Here is my comment on this as a music hobbyist:
At first it seems amazing, but really, the numbers are all placed on a scale, in this case the C scale. Scales are notes that sound musical and pleasing when played after each other. So even with Pi's set of numbers, in the musical sense, as long as it's within a scale, it will sound like music. If he were to exclude scales and place the numbers in a linear fashion on the piano, it would not sound like music. And by that, I mean, if the number 1 was C, number 2 was C#, number 3 was D, number 4 was D# and ect.


He also used the numerical circle of fifths on a couple of the instruments, like the guitar and the zither. So mostly this was an exercise in arranging.

If these videos have taught us anything it's stick with a winner. I think he's learned that well >> ^brycewi19:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the guy in this video seems to be the same guy as the keyboard player in the current video: http://videosift.com/video/A-Brief-History-of-Pop-Music-in-Four-Chords
...and it was posted 3 weeks before "The Pachelbel Rant".
Just sayin', if that's him, he's been on this "circle of fifths" thing for a while.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the guy in this video seems to be the same guy as the keyboard player in the current video: http://videosift.com/video/A-Brief-History-of-Pop-Music-in-Four-Chords

...and it was posted 3 weeks before "The Pachelbel Rant".

Just sayin', if that's him, he's been on this "circle of fifths" thing for a while.

Tags for this video have been changed from 'circle of fifths, very clever' to 'circle of fifths, chords, piano, pop, chord progression, vocal, similarity' - edited by Eklek