In summary, pitch is about the perceived frequency of a sound, note is a symbol representing both pitch and duration in music notation, and tone is a broader term referring to the quality or character of a sound, including aspects beyond pitch and duration.

I was raised by a musician, and learned piano at very early age before changing to violin, until I was about 15 when I gave up on music. I'm an applied mathematician now, and always told myself I should revisit my study of music theory, of which I forgot almost everything by now, and see it through the lens of the math and physics of it... So, I found your video on chance and loved your approach! I'll be watching a whole lot more of your videos. Thanks!

The last summarizing sentence is a delightful satisfying cherry on top that was being subtlety teased at us throughout the well-worded and easily consumable music theory Sundae!

Pitch: what you sing
Note: how you sing it
Tone: how it sounds

Another way to put it is that pitch is what note you sing; note is how the pitch is written; tone is how it sounds when you sing it. Thus, pitch is a concept; a note is a symbol that tells you how to realize that pitch; tone is how that realization sounds.

I can’t get over how good you are at visualizing and teaching these concepts it’s unreal, gonna binge the rest of this playlist now

Criminal that you don't have more subscribers, excellent and clear explanations in the few videos I've watched so far! Well done!

I took 4 years of choir in high school, and this video explained this concept to me better than it ever has been. Thank you 🙏

For my music class. Just what i needed!!

Accidental musician who was studing Engineering

Commenting to get this series in my algo.

7:04 is the answer guys

This video is mostly very well done and nicely illustrated but I see two major problems:
1. A note does not rigidly correspond to a frequency. I can use for example 430 Hz to mean A4 and tune all other notes according to it. There are also different temperaments where even if you use 440 Hz to mean A4, you get different frequencies for different notes.
2. Saying a note HAS to include the length of it is also too rigid. It may be true for a specifically written note but I can tell someone to play a C, which is note, and they can play it, without asking for the duration. I mean look at instruments: Every position on a guitar's fretboard is a note. Every key on the piano plays a note. And it's completely independent from the duration.

Thanks for the excellent tutorial!

so nice at the beginning I just thought it was another video more , but then I realized a lot of information you cover in a few time , pretty well edited the video and very educative , thank you for sharing

Now your speaking my language! I hardly know a thing about playing instruments. The synopsis helped a lot too

Thank you. This is the perfect way to teach i think, start from the absolute basics and show examples to the learner, nothing abstract.

One of the most clearest explaination on this hard subject i have seen, thanks you keep up the good work !!

I am loving the visualisations, especially the waves and frequency spectrums. It allows you to logically break down the what you are sensing in your ears.

Could be one of the most consice yet informative videos on the subject. Thank you!

This was great, I watched a bunch of videos that just kept describing timbre as color (or types of apples for some dumb reason). Why didn't anyone just say it's the sum of all the harmonics that comes with playing the intended pitch.