The Math Behind Music

All your favorite songs are just math. Seriously. Think of a beat. That's a quarter

note, worth one count. A half note is two counts. A whole note is

four. It’s just simple division. You can speed it up with eighth notes

or sixteenth notes, which are just fractions of that main beat. Then you just add pitch—making notes

high or low. Change the volume, that's dynamics. Layer a few instruments, that’s texture.

Every banger, every sad song, every anthem is just these simple elements combined

in different ways. It’s not magic, it’s a formula.