Pi Day 2022 - Chromatic Piano

Hey everyone, happy Pi Day! We made it to another one! I gotta do my duty and remind you about merch, so here’s some more details about shiny things, available here: store.dftba.com/collections/vi-hart 1. Pi Day 2022 Piano Composition: Sheet Music and MP3: store.dftba.com/products/piano-sheet-music-digital… I’ve had requests for sheet music for previous work, so this time I thought I’d do it right and make it available at the start. Could I have maybe picked an easier piece to play and to notate? Well, this is the piece Pi wanted to be this year. I don’t make the rules. I plan to followup with a video with more on how to play it, but be forewarned this piano composition has some subtle difficulties even if it isn’t like, fast and full of fancy stuff. 2. Chromatic Challenge Coin and Challenge Sheetmusic: store.dftba.com/products/pi-chromatic-challenge-me… Reading through 314 digits of chromatic pi is an experience, and I couldn’t resist the idea of creating a challenge coin so that you can commemorate the moment with a small shiny token of chromatic success. You don’t need to be perfect to earn the coin, you just need to challenge yourself to do some note reading outside your comfort zone. When you order this item a popup should allow you to check off the clefs you want to download. Guitar tabs are also an option. We know that hard work doesn’t always translate into literal money, but I can live out the fantasy that it does, by creating a non-monetary challenge coin that values hard musical work at Pi triangle dollars, by the authority of a triangle who loves us all. 3. We’re restocking the Triangle Pins! store.dftba.com/collections/vi-hart/products/trian… Speaking of the triangle who loves us all: when I first had triangle pins made years ago, I was skeptical about how they would come out given that my triangle logo is a bit… like something a child would draw, and also, it has thin parts. But they came out amazing and I love them. Other people apparently did too, so they sold out a while back. But we’re doing another order. 4. Pi Day 2022 Exclusive Shirt: Cryptic Edition store.dftba.com/products/pi-day-2022-exclusive-shi… This shirt is designed to be a puzzle for the mathemusically inclined. Y’all already know that it’s a Pi Day shirt, but for those who don’t, it’s a puzzle to figure out that this graphic represents the digits of Pi in musical form. There’s no text or hints, except that the design is circular. This is printed using a metallic copper ink on a maroon shirt, to match the moody serious tone of the piano piece in this year’s Pi Day video. We’ve got 2 options for cut, both in sizes XS - 4XL. We’re doing one round of preorders and then this shirt will never be sold again, because that’s the nature of an exclusive 2022 design. 5. Pi Day 2022 Exclusive Shirt: Shiny Edition store.dftba.com/products/pi-day-2022-exclusive-shi… If the Cryptic Edition is subtle, this version is designed for MAXIMUM SHINY. I hadn’t planned to do two shirt designs, but when DFTBA showed me the holographic foil options I could not resist. The foil is rainbow colored on a macro scale, and then holographically shiny within each color. So this shirt needed to happen, but I also didn’t want to sacrifice the proper moodiness and lower price point I could get with the other design, so we ended up doing both. This is also an exclusive 2022 design where we’ll do preorders this month and never again. 6. Become a patron: www.patreon.com/vihart Becoming a patron is a thing you can do if you want. I am not really sure what the value proposition is, but people do it anyway so I suppose I’ve just learned to trust their judgement that there’s something worthwhile here.

I can't help but notice that this hinges on Base 10. PI doesn't have to be Base 10, one could, for example, do the same exercise but with PI in base 12, or base 88, or any other base. I think that might be an interesting exercise.

My favorite part of pi is where it's exactly Chopin's Prelude in A flat Major, but with the iconic opening riff from Smoke on the Water inserted after the sixteenth measure. It doesn't occur until quite a long way into pi, though. 🤔

Love how this video isn't gonna be here for 2 days and there's already hype for it. Goes to show just how high quality your stuff is, Mathamusician

This will be my 6th Vihart Pi Day video that I watch, and probably one of my favorite one's I've seen since. Doesn't need a rant on why Pi sucks. Why Pi is good. Making a pie. Making a pizza pie. Just some soothing, sometimes grim, mostly mysterious digits of Pi played on a piano. Cheers to another Pi day. π

Pi Day is special because it's how I found you, Vi! Every year without fail, I've made a little baked tau in celebration. Thanks for all the years of this channel :)

Omg she’s actually gonna upload 😱

Your writing is beyond beautiful. Even after 10 years of watching your channel, you have continued to teach me not just about math itself, but how to love math and appreciate its beauty. Now that I am finishing my Master's degree in math, I am still filled with that same sense of wonder that I had when I was just a kid finding your channel for the first time. Thank you for teaching me how to love math.

I remember watching your videos and thinking you were the coolest. I went to school and showed everyone how to make a hexaflexagon and doodled in my notebook in very mathematic ways, hoping someone would notice and ask me about it. I always played music with candy buttons and thought of you every time i saw a quesadilla. Thank you for many memories and happiness growing up. Good to see you again. :)

Oh wow. I've been reading the comments while listening to the composition, and I read Vihart's "We made it to another one!", and that's a really, really powerful phrase to relisten to the piece with. We made it to another one, everyone. We made it.

There are so many little points where it sounds like it’s about to become a happy, uplifting tune, before the Pi spider reminds you of the Faustian bargain you made in 1873 to become a mathemusician and it becomes dark again

this is the most beautiful piece of music ive heard all year. its sad yet uncomfortable in a way where its like you want to leave but you cant because its filling you hope yet its all falling apart and somehow its still perfectly balanced.

Watching these videos is always a unique experience. Sometimes I feel like you make them just for me. But frankly, you’ve been doing these long enough that I’ve really just become the person I am largely because of your videos. So it feels like these videos are made just for me, but really I made myself into a person based on them. Isn’t that kind of beautiful?

Man.... I didn't quite understand anything here, but it's really precious that she is still doing these videos <3

Funny story about math and music: I used to have a math teacher who, funnily enough, doesn't like math all that much. Which is funny, because I LOVE math, so I always found it funny that I would be the one interested in the maths while my teacher would sigh tiredly. One day I found out that he also plays the guitar like me. I got excited, and I blurted out that there's a lot of math involved in music, forgetting that he doesn't like math. He just looked down and gave me a defeated sigh and said "yeah..." and it sounded so sad, I kinda felt bad for reminding him lmao. He was a great teacher though, and I'm sure he makes his students feel understood because of his demeanor to math.

hey! when i was younger i watched your videos and i really looked up to you. seeing someone passionate about math helped a younger me understand it better. i would make hexaflexagons and give them to all my friends at lunch, and teach them how to make them too. i loved your pi videos as well. i’m a freshman in high school now, and struggling in math, but i hope to one day be passionate about something as strongly as you are about math. thanks for everything.

7m6s: "Let us grieve the notes we will never hear." All your videos seem to have at least one comment, obvious in retrospect, that I never expected. Even on subjects I thought I knew well, like hexaflexagons. Thank you for still being here.

If you made a video of just the pi song I would listen to it on repeat for like a week straight! It’s so beautiful! Happy Pi Day everyone!! 🎉🎉🥧

As someone who never learned how to read notes but has been playing piano for over a decade now, i absolutely love this.

This is lovely and mysterious and glassy like the strange surface of something on a cloudy day just before it starts to rain but with more richness and warmth than you would expect for that, there's something gently sinister about it to and a troubled yet poetic melancholy. It reminds me of radiohead's pyramid song a little. Also the Arr. Vi Hart on the sheet music makes me think of the composer Arvo Pärt. My favorite moment is probably 11:02.5 for 8 to 10 notes, it sounds a little familiar. Carving music out of that much randomness is not at all easy, it's like if you printed out a grid of random black and white pixels and managed to find a way of blurring and coloring and resizing them that made them look like an piano! (hmmm maybe I should try that, that might be fun). All in all, 5 stellar objects out of 5.