What Is a Musical Pitch? | Music Facts | Music Facts For Kids | Learn About Music | Musical Pitches Pop over to https://learningmole.com/pricing/ to subscribe and access over 550 fabulous educational videos AND we are offering the first 6 months subscription for just £1.99 p/m on all our student and teacher plans. Today we’re embarking on a melodic adventure to discover the secret behind musical pitches and how they create the enchanting tunes we love to hear and play! 🎹🎻 Buckle in and let’s hit the high (and low) notes together! What is a Musical Pitch? 🤔🎶 Imagine singing with your friends - some of you might sing high notes like “Tweeeet” 🐦, while others might sing low notes like “Roooar” 🦁. The highness or lowness of a sound is called the pitch! High pitches, like a bird’s chirp, have a high frequency, while low pitches, like a lion’s roar, have a low frequency. 📊🎵 Journey Through the Musical Notes: When you hear music, you’re listening to a series of pitches, strung together to create melody! 🎵🎤 Instruments, voices, and even objects like glasses filled with water, can create different pitches. 🥤🎶 Musical Instruments: Instruments like pianos, violins, and drums can play different pitches. 🎹🥁🎻 Voice: Singers can change pitch with their voices, creating melodies that soar high and dive low. 🎤🎶 Nature’s Melodies: Birds, whales, and other animals create their own pitches in their calls and songs! 🐦🐋 8 Fun Facts About Pitch and Music: 🎉🎵 Pitch Perfect: Some people have perfect pitch, meaning they can identify a note without hearing any reference! 🎶👂 Piano Power: A piano has 88 keys, each representing a different pitch. 🎹🎼 String Science: The thickness, length, and tightness of a string on string instruments like guitars affect the pitch! 🎸🔬 Gargantuan Gongs: Some gongs, used in orchestras, are so big and create such low pitches that you can feel the vibrations! 🎶🕰️ Whale Songs: Whales communicate using pitches too, singing deep, beautiful songs across the oceans. 🐋🎵 Bird Bards: Canaries are known for their melodious chirps, each bird singing with unique pitches and rhythms! 🐦🎤 Sound Waves: Pitches are created by sound waves, which travel through the air to our ears, letting us hear different sounds. 🌊👂 First Flute: The oldest known musical instrument is a flute made from a bird’s bone, created over 40,000 years ago! 🦴🎶 Why is Musical Pitch Important? 🧐🎵 Pitches help us create melodies and harmonies, turning simple sounds into beautiful music that can make us dance 💃, feel happy 😃, or even a bit sad 😢. Music can tell stories, inspire us, and connect people from all over the world! 🌎🤝🎶 Let’s Create a Water Xylophone! 🎵🥤 Want to explore pitches at home? Let’s make a simple water xylophone! Gather some glasses and fill them with different amounts of water. 💦🥛 Gently tap them with a spoon and listen to the different pitches! 🥄🎵 Arrange the glasses from low to high pitch and try playing a melody! 🎶👏 If you enjoyed our melodious journey and want to discover more exciting facts about the world around us, give a thumbs up, share this video with your music buddies, and subscribe for more fun adventures! 🚀📹👍 We can't wait to explore more wonderful worlds with you! 🌈 Until next time, keep listening, playing, and enjoying the incredible sounds around us! 🎵👋💖 -------- ✔️ Subscribe to our channel for more exciting adventures, and don't forget to hit the bell icon to get notified of new videos. 👍 If you like our content, please give us a thumbs up, share with your friends, and drop a comment below about your favourite part of the video or what you want to learn about next. #factsforkids