Questions tagged [rhythm]
Movement or procedure with uniform or patterned recurrence of a beat, accent, or the like.
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Aural perception of pulse, beat, tempo and bar [on hold]
Would you say that in 4/4 time, the first phrase in the piece below (0:00 - 0:05), would be 2 bars at around 80bpm or 4 bars at around 160bpm? I'd like to be able to justify one or the other in clear ...
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2/4 vs 4/4 time signature in Dixieland Jazz
I'm teaching on the IB Music Diploma Programme and am looking at an examiner's markscheme for a question about the Dixieland jazz piece "Tiger Rag" (similar to this version:
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Extra beats per measure on one staff
I'm new to stack exchange, so here goes...
How is this possible: Some sheet music I'm trying to use, written in 6/4 time, is written for piano, and, of course, includes both treble and bass staffs. ...
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Meaning of fr and sub in Logic Pro X timestamp
Logic Pro X shows me this:
1 second, 15 fr and 56 sub?
How do I convert that into seconds?
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What's the musical term for a repeated phrase with shifting emphasis?
For example, a riff/pattern that's three beats long played over 4/4 so that a different part of the phrase is emphasized on each repetition.
This happens briefly in The Killers "Somebody told me", ...
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Which voice(tone)/style(rhythm) is used in this song? [closed]
Here is a song played on an electronic keyboard. It's a dropbox link - it will ask you to login but you can skip that and play it.
I want to identify which voice(tone)/style(rhythm) is being used in ...
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Why is Bach's Cello Suite 1 written in 16th notes
I come from a blues/rock background and play some jazz too. Recently I started to learn Bach's cello suite 1 on bass guitar, and I am confused by the way I am supposed to feel the rhythm. If I were to ...
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Composition of Cowell's “rhythmic key changes”
I'm currently reading Henry Cowell's New Musical Resources and
On page 98, Section 6,(TEMPO) in part 2 (RHYTHM),
is a paragraph of for instances. Directly, I'm grappling with the SECOND FOR INSTANCE ....
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How to practice Saptak Rhythm in Bansuri using Tabla App
Here is video tutorial.
I understand few minutes before video where Teacher shows slow, medium, fast rhythm of Saptak, i.e. Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Dha Ni SA, by clapping his ...
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How to develop an internal intuition for note timings?
I have identified three main problems holding back my piano sight reading, and this is the last of them.
Although I can play notes with the right timing by very slowly counting it out aloud ("1-2-3-4,...
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How to create rhythm parts on piano?
I am trying to self learn piano. I can play some melody (right hand), can play some chords (left hand) and can play some melody with chords (right + left) with right doing all the complex finger ...
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Way to improve the ability to keep rhythm
I can count: "1-and 2-and 3-and 4-and ...", I can tap "one-two-three, one-two-three, ..."
But I find it difficult to actually play and count at the same time.
And the more difficult part is, ...
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How does an apparent 4/4 arise from 2 totally unrelated time signatures?
So I have been listening to Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition and I notice something that is unusual to me in his promenades. It has a 4/4 feel but it isn't written in 4/4 at all, instead it is ...
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what can we do when we're struggling with rhythmic notation? [closed]
How can a music teacher help his pupils who have no rhythm feeling at all, who are not able to count or speak in a rhythmical way? How can we improve rhythm reading? Is there a helping method for ...
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What is the 'and' called in 4/4 time?
"1 and 2 and 3 and 4."
If beats 1 and 3 are strong (aka on-beat) and 2 and 4 are weak (aka off-beat). What is the 'and' called? I'm wondering about the terminology.
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Guitar counting problem
I have a problem with counting. I can count well when there is something without the need of stopping like:
1 e and a / 2 e and a ...
(I hit the note every word I say)
but when there is something ...
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Words to describe this Dance Music texture/effect
So we always have like in dance music 4/4 and like 4 kicks in one bar with two claps or snares on every second beat going and let's say I add some bassline that plays totally different rhythm/pulse (...
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How can I count 17 against 3 polyrhythm?
Somewhat related to my earlier question: Phrase to help count 3 groups of 17?
How can I count a 17 against 3 polyrhythm (to help me play it)?
Here's a little sound file I made of it in FL Studio ...
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Phrase to help count 3 groups of 17?
I'm trying to learn to count 3 groups of 17.
For example, for 2 groups of 11, I came up with:
1-ap-ple-a-day-keeps-the-doc-tor-a-way
2-ap-ple(s)-a-day-keep-the-doc-tor-a-way
What's something ...
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Best sequence to learn about harmony, melody and rhythm? [closed]
I have basic knowledge about these but I want to learn in depth. So what could be the sequence to learn. Also tell where Form, and other elements will come.
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How to avoid following the rhythm while soloing or improvising melodies?
I'm enjoying improvising melodies over simple chord progressions. I record a simple strumming pattern and bass line with my loop station and just play. However, no matter how creative I find my notes, ...
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What are the On and Off beats?
I'm very new to music theory and I've seen this taught two ways:
The On beat is on every 1 and 3 beat while the Off beat is every 2 and 4 (in 4/4 time)
The On beat is on every Strong/Secondary Strong ...
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Timing of this slap guitar piece, is it right or wrong?
Several comments for this video remark that it is not in time. What do they mean? I can count a 4/4 beat to her playing, and for me it seems fine. So can someone point to me what is not in time here? (...
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Kruger Andante - What am I missing on how to play this dotted half note?
I'm in the process of learning to play the Piano and have some trouble figuring out how the part highlighted below in gray is supposed to be played (that is a Flowplay screenshot of this song:
As far ...
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Where can I use 9th Chords in a chord progression?
In terms of a major scale, I heard that the I and IV chords can be maj7, the V chord is dom7 and the ii, iii, and vi chords can be min7. Would the same logic apply for 9th chords?
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Pause in song versus bar length
I want to do this kind of thing in my song: In one moment, before a chorus tension raises significantly, then I want to mute all the sounds for a moment just to hit the listener with the chorus in all ...
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What are the main drum elements used in beatmaking?
What are the main types of drum samples used to create a hiphop beat? I've narrowed it down to three:
Kick
Snare
Hihat
Are there any more? I think there's also an 808 but I think it's a type of kick....
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Is this 4/4 or 6/8? [closed]
I never was much good at working this sort of thing out. Hopefully, a real musician can tell me. Thanks in advance. Please listen here.
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Good guitar to buy for blues style? [closed]
I love this sound, but don't want to buy a shovel :)
I am an absolute newbie when it comes to music but I would like to purchase an electric guitar to practise some ...
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How do I read this note and count it out loud?
I am struggling with understanding this pretty easy song "Una Mattina" which has this note:
Can someone explain me how do I count this out loud?
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What is the rhythm of this Herbie Hancock song, and why is it so weird?
I've always listened to a lot of jazz and heard some weird rhythms, but only this year did my high school offer music theory - and right now, we're learning about rhythm. All we've done so far is ...
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Rhythmic analysis examples by jack Perricone
My question refers to
PERRICONE, Jack. Melody in songwriting: tools and techniques for writing hit songs. Hal Leonard Corporation, 2000.
In chapter 3 Jack Perricone elaborates on rhythm and ...
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How to rewrite this rhythm from common time to 12/8 time?
How might one go about rewriting the following rhythm into a time signature of 12/8? I initially figured we could just notate each set of beamed eighth-notes with 4:6 above them to indicate that four ...
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Rewrite binary to shuffle
some years ago I made a pimped version of the christmas song "Tommorrow, Children, We´ll Rejoice" for my daughter (Cello). Now both of us made some progress in learning our instruments (I´m learning ...
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How to read and count this rhythm ?
http://www.sheetmusic1.com/winston/Thanksgiving.pdf
In bar 7 how would I count and when would I play those first two notes in the treble clef, the E and B? Also why is there a treble clef placed in ...
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What Kind of Rhythm Is This? [closed]
I downloaded a latin / reggae / edm template for Logic Pro. I really like the beat, but I'm trying to understand it better. The creator didn't tell me anything about the key or time signature, only ...
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Confusion about the rhythm I use
This might be a odd question but on guitar I have this lick where I would play 3 notes with the same distance to each other between the strokes and then I would play 4 notes slightly faster (with the ...
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Does anyone know if this is notated properly, or how to properly notate this rhythm?
I wrote this little melody/riff here:
And while it sounds correct, I'm not sure if it's notated properly, with the correct time signatures and all. Could both the first 3/4 bars and the 2/4 bar be ...
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Can't Keep Count Without Metronome
(Please bear with me; I don't know a lot of sheet music.)
When practicing a song that has 16 notes per bar (
), I can do it with the metronome and can count with it.
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How should this rhythm be notated? (syncopated 6/8 bar)
Although it looks like this rhythm would best be notated in 12/16, the drums play a straight 6/8 beat with accents on 3 and 6.
The first option is visually simpler, but it doesn’t represent the beat ...
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Rhythm question about piano sheet notation
This is a part of the song that I want to play, but I'm not sure how I should play the rhythm in the 19th and 20th segments.
I'm a bit confused over the sixteenth notes, at first I thought the ...
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Is there midi software that can show me if I'm hitting notes on the beat?
I'm practicing phrases with a metronome and I can tell that my fingers are sometimes not hitting the individual notes at the proper time, even if the overall phrase starts and ends at the right time.
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How would I play these triplets?
I’m finding it really hard to play these triplets. Also any tips on how to overall count these bars as I’m struggling to count it as a lot of the rhythm doesn’t fall on the beat and I get confused. It ...
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Trouble feeling rhythm in section
The song is in 4/4 but this section is giving me a hard time feeling the rhythm. Clearly it can be divided into 16ths, but the pattern feels like triplets after the first note. For example after the ...
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6/8 piano music with 4 dotted eighth notes
I have a song in 6/8 that has 4 dotted eighth notes in the treble clef with no rests. On what beat does each note play? I cannot figure this out for some reason.
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Feeling eighth note quintuplets
Many of my favorite really complicated songs have these quintuplets in them (5 equally-spaced notes in the space of a quarter note), yet I can't seem to "feel" these 5-note subdivisions. I have no ...
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Can the rhythm of any music with a consistent pulse be represented through a time signature?
I tried this with a lot of world music (I myself am an Indian) and majority of it, that followed a consistent pulse or a well timed rhythm, could be expressed neatly using time signatures.
Can this ...
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Limits of interpretation in timing in a Bach piece
This is a question about a short part in Bach's Partita for Violin (BWV 1004) as played and interpreted by several different artists/instruments,
which can be heard at 19:56 on this Youtube upload.
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Regarding the beginning of Gould's B minor fugue, WTC 1, performance
I've listened to Gould's performance of this piece many times, sometimes following the score, and I've noticed that maybe Gould plays this piece wrong at the beginning.
Unfortunately, I am unable to ...
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Problem with understanding differentiating meters and time signatures
I am currently trying to attempt to transcribe the fourth movement of scheherazade by Nikolai Korsakov-Rimsky and around bars 30+ there is a time signature change which says: 2/8(3/8 6/16). In the ...
