Questions tagged [rhythm]
Movement or procedure with uniform or patterned recurrence of a beat, accent, or the like.
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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?
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 ...
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Melody Phrases Starting 3th or 4th Beat
I'm Bahadir from Turkey. I'm a lead guitarist in a band and I have rhythmic problems, a lot. Trying to fix them, and this is the biggest one.
I can't enter my soloes which starts in 3th or 4th beats....
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What is a country song? [closed]
Etta James said (in a live recorded album Red Hot and Blue from 1982) that "I'd rather go blind" is a country and western song. What makes it a country song ? what classifies a song as country in ...
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How can I learn to play fills and licks without losing track of the time signature?
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"How to master counting while playing?"
What I am trying to achieve is the following:
For example, when playing a blues pattern with my guitar I want to play variations or fills. I find it ...
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Is this melody aligned with this drum beat? If so/not - why (not)? [closed]
I wasn't entirely sure how to ask this question, so I'll use visual references.
Please look at this piano roll picture: the green "blocks" represent the notes of a melody, the purple ones - the hits ...
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What are the Rudimental Rhythms?
In practical music exams, as well as performing prepared pieces there's also a section on scales and arpeggios. In the lower brass grades for example you might have to prepare two or three major ...
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Is it hopeless in terms of becoming decent musicians, if they can't count beats?
My flesh-n-blood guitar teacher has tried to get me to count beats (verbally or at minimum in my mind), and I think that I've tried reasonably hard in doing so for few months now. However I've come to ...
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How does 'meter' differ from 'rhythm' in music?
The following introductory books' definitions don't distinguish meter from rhythm. Please see the titled question. I asked this on Music Fans, but I still don't understand. Please expound more plainly?...
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Why don't we have third notes?
why isn't there a third note It could be use in 3/2 or 3/4,and others that divide the measure with 3,what more of a question it can be formed too. If there was a third not it would work well in 3/2 or ...
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4/4 vs 3/4 time signatures
I'm new to music theory so I'm sorry if my question is trivial.
Is it correct to say that, in practice, the only difference between 4/4 vs. 3/4 time signatures is where the accents are located? To me,...
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Unifying/Formalizing the ideas of cross-rhythm, polyrhythm and hypermeter
I am interested in the notions of polyrhythm, cross-rhythm and hypermeter, including acquiring more mathematically based concepts that can aid in quality music production. I have done extensive ...
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Are there situations where a time signature is unknown?
My understanding is that a time signature like 4/4 time is known because certain beats are emphasized, for example: ONE, two, three, four. But let's say someone created a song with tempo alone (ie ...
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Is the metronome the closest thing to a mechanical drum?
I noticed there's a lot of drum machines out there, but they're all electrical. Is the metronome the closest thing to a mechanical drum? and by mechanical I mean, there's no batteries/electricity ...
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How to find counter rhythms for vocal melodies over dominant rhythms?
Most of the music theory I have learnt/encountered was focusing on chords and notes of melodies, but not on interplay of melody and backbeat, hence I'm asking this question.
We are working on a song ...
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How to interpret the '3' notation underneath the first two quavers?
I'm trying to adapt a guitar piece to the piano. The piece, shown here, is in 3/4.
I've never seen this bit of notation before and I initially thought it was the indicator telling you to play 3 notes ...
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How can a metronome with a bell help with my practice?
I ordered a pretty standard mechanical Wittner metronome, the cheapest I could find plastic/no bell. But after I ordered it I realized there are metronomes that have a bell, so it got me thinking ...
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Is there a term for songs that have a “surprise change” in their rhythm? [duplicate]
There are many songs that begin with a repeating beat/instrumental that implies a certain rhythm (let’s call it “Rhythm A”), but then when a later instrument enters the song, it turns out that the ...
