I’ll Follow the Graph... Way back in time on March 8, 2009, I posted the blog article Note Frequencies in Jimmy Buffet’s Come Monday. In that article I computed and determined the average note frequency in Jimmy’s song Come Monday. By average note frequency I mean the average frequency in string vibrations measured in Hertz...

The Harmonic Series in Music and Mathema... For years I have wondered if there is a connection between the harmonic series in music theory and the harmonic series in mathematics. Here is what I know so far, music first, mathematics second. The Harmonic Series in Music Much of what I know about harmonic series in music comes from the many guitar...

Note Frequencies in Come Monday – Lis... One of my favorite songs of all times is Jimmy Buffett’s Come Monday. Here is visual proof that I like it. Denny's shoes As I suspect you have, I too have been curious about the mathematics of the songs I like. A few weeks ago I looked into some of the mathematics of Come Monday. On February 22, 2009,...

Vibration Frequencies of Notes in Jimmy ... A few weeks ago I started wondering if the collection of notes in the songs of songwriters had about the same mean (average) vibration frequency from song to song. I decided to find out and chose Jimmy Buffett’s “Come Monday” as the first song I would sample. When plucked, a guitar string oscillates...

Patterns, Scales, Pythagoras, and Lead G... Thirty some years ago my brother taught me some basic chords on the guitar. He showed me the basic open chords, A, C, D, E, Am, Em, and the bar chord for F. Those chords served me pretty well for the next thirty years. I was able to play tunes with my friends (who also knew those chords) as well as make...