Chord complexity: Difference between revisions

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From a psychoacoustic standpoint, there are several things happening.

First, the ~~presents~~ of simpler subdyads means the first chord exhibits less psychoacoustic roughness than the second, so we should look at those.

First, the presence of simpler subdyads means the first chord exhibits less psychoacoustic roughness than the second, so we should look at those.

Second, while the basic premise that the brain attempts to fit sounds to the harmonic series is fairly sound in some sense, in real life the brain does not literally attempt to fit the entire auditory signal into the perception of being one note. Rather, there are several pitched sound sources taking place at the same time, and the brain is attempting to sparsely locate several different pitched sounds at once. This is probably relevant to the perception of what are sometimes called "[[Wikipedia:Upper_structure|upper structure triads]]" in jazz, or upper structure subchords in general.

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 From a psychoacoustic standpoint, there are several things happening.
-First, the presents of simpler subdyads means the first chord exhibits less psychoacoustic roughness than the second, so we should look at those.
+First, the presence of simpler subdyads means the first chord exhibits less psychoacoustic roughness than the second, so we should look at those.
 Second, while the basic premise that the brain attempts to fit sounds to the harmonic series is fairly sound in some sense, in real life the brain does not literally attempt to fit the entire auditory signal into the perception of being one note. Rather, there are several pitched sound sources taking place at the same time, and the brain is attempting to sparsely locate several different pitched sounds at once. This is probably relevant to the perception of what are sometimes called "[[Wikipedia:Upper_structure|upper structure triads]]" in jazz, or upper structure subchords in general.