Questions tagged [rhythm]
Movement or procedure with uniform or patterned recurrence of a beat, accent, or the like.
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How do I know when the next note starts in sheet music?
I can't understand the note duration notation very well.
In the image below, the highlighted A in the second measure seems to start half a beat between the first and the second beat. But shouldn't we ...
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What is the difference between a triplet and a dotted-quaver/dotted-quaver/quaver rhythm?
I am aware of how in theory these two are different, that the triplet are three notes with same length and the dotted-quaver/dotted-quaver/quaver have the third notes slightly shorter in tempo. But I ...
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App doesn't swing 8th and dotted quarter, but does swing dotted quarter + 8th
I've started to learn swing 8th rhythm and I think I understand the idea when it comes to pairs of 8th. But how to read the pairs of "dotted quarter + 8th".
I'm using the app to insert and ...
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Making Sense of 5/4 Time Signature
I'm doing a composition with time signatures that alternate between 3/4 and 2/4. At first, the meter is a steady 2/4, before suddenly switching to 3/4. From that point on, the piece alternates between ...
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How can I represent this quarter note triplet based section in a time signature, so I can have it sync with a metronome?
I have a song that starts with a time signature of 3/4 in 110 bpm.
Then there's a quarter note triplet based section that goes like this:
123 123 123 123 123 1 | 123 123 123 123 123 1 | etc
where 123 ...
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How “hard” to read is this rhythm? A rhythmic comparison
I've recently heard a rhythm that sounded like this
It seems slightly tricky to play it perfectly, so I wonder if I could somehow improve this writing to make it more natural and "readable"....
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Help! How would you write this rhythm (audio linked below)? [closed]
The audio source can be found here. I'm interested in the section highlighted in blue.
There is naturally some freedom in the artist's interpretation, but I would like to transcribe it in a relatively ...
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Name for this common rhythm in Latin music?
This rhythm is one or two set of triplets (maybe it can go up to 3 but I don't think I have heard 3 before) that I see appear fairly frequently in Latin music. Example is at 1:34 in María by Ricky ...
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Wagner Parsifal ouverture, non fitting rhythyms
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As a studying method I am making a reduction of Wagner's Parsifal ouverture.
In bar 3, the rhythm does not fit. The quarter, dotted eight, sixteenth and half note take up a ...
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How do you begin a 16th note triplet on the last third of an eighth note triplet?
My piece has a 16th note triplet motif. In the B section, the theme is slower and is based on eighth note triplets. I would like to begin the 16th triplet motif again on the last eighth note of an ...
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Music construction kit from some great mind
Quite some years ago in school, a teacher told us about a music construction kit.
The kit is a set of cards.
If you put some cards together, something musically / esthetically sound is the result.
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How to play in sync with background track?
I have always wondered how flute players play in sync with a background track. Is it more common to record the flute piece first and then add a background track to it later?
For example in this video ...
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How do I count the syncopation in this example?
How do I count this example in syncopation?
I am having a hard time understanding.
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How do I notate this rhythm? [closed]
I've written this riff and cannot for the life of me figure out how to notate the rhythm. I need to know the subdivisions to set up DAW and write drum track for it.
Here's the riff, played twice: ...
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how to count a measure with dotted and triplet rhythms
This is the Hungarian Sonata by Richard Clayderman. I don't know how to count this measure.
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Can an offbeat note be loudest when playing Bach?
My primitive understanding of Bach's music tells me that an offbeat note cannot be the most accented or the most important note in a phrase. But in the last gesture of the ubiquitous C major prelude, ...
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What is the optimal (and computationally simplest) way to calculate the “largest common duration”?
Edit: To clarify, I am interested in dealing with multiple simultaneous tempos (polytempo). Pieces where all voices are in the same tempo at any given time (with exceptions to account for polyrhythms) ...
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How to play Ending (1-bar) using keyboard?
What does Ending (1-bar) mean? How to interpret and play this in an electronic keyboard? Does that mean the when the ending button is pressed, the default ending music should complete within a bar?
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Help with same note next to each other but different values? [duplicate]
For the Treble Clef: Is The "D" played only once and at which value? What is the purpose of this notation?
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Rhythm notation syncopation over the third beat
I found this copy of Sloop John B online...
I wanted different line breaks so re-notated it.
But I changed the rhythm notation to use ties to the third beat...
What is the right way to notate these ...
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Exercises to get beter at rhythm (piano)
I am 26 years old and am learning the piano on my own. I haven't started to learn sheet music yet. The way I practice is by looking at videos of other people teaching how to play piano songs.
At first,...
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Best techniques for hihat foot independence
I am self taught regarding drum set and have neglected training hihat foot independence. I can keep with a metronome alright so the sense of timing is not much of an issue, but when I try to open/...
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Questions on note grouping and beaming for 3+3+2 rhythm
EDIT: The questions below still apply, but here is an updated edit that I think looks a lot cleaner. Any thoughts?
Regarding this piece with a 3+3+2 rhythm, I have a few more questions regarding ...
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Just how specific is the term “hemiola”?
In Name and structure of staggering beat in Ramones' “Merry Christmas,” the rhythm in the second measure of the following example is described as a hemiola:
But to me, these are just triplets and not ...
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Is 7/8 an example of measured rhythm or metrical rhythm?
Wikipedia provides the following definitions:
Metrical rhythm, by far the most common class in Western music, is where each time value is a multiple or fraction of a fixed unit (beat, see paragraph ...
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Name and structure of staggering beat in Ramones' “Merry Christmas”
Towards the end of The Ramones' "Merry Christmas (I Don't Want to Fight)", the beat takes on a staggering quality when Joey sings "don't want to" in the chorus. In the following ...
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Best way to notate 3+3+2 syncopated rhythm
I'm arranging a piece in 4/4 with a syncopated 3+3+2 Latin rhythm throughout, and am wondering which (if either) would be the better way to notate. Here's the first notation, which emphasizes these 3+...
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Do we have any better/richer framework for understanding rhythm and timbre?
A large chunk of music has been made in the last 50+ years that largely cannot be analysed (in any meaningful way) via notes, focused instead on variations on repetition/timbre/rhythm/dynamics/etc. ...
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Pauses between notes
I am trying to make a microcontroller play simple "Christmas" melody and studying notes grammar just with this goal.
I got about notes durations, but handbook doesn't shed much light on ...
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How should left and right hand by synchronized in Chopin Nocturne in C# Minor [duplicate]
I have a question about which notes on the right-hand match with which notes on the left hand.
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Question about note speed in Chopin C# minor Nocturne
This is from Chopin, Nocturne in C sharp minor sheet music, Is 1 e slower than the triplet?
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What types of feels are there for drumming?
Playing as strictly a metal or hard rock drummer, I am only aware of a swing feel (accenting every other hi-hat note), or a straight feel (this would be more of a flat, driving beat. More monotonous)....
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What note is this and How many counts does this note get in 2/4 time?
What note is this and how many counts does this note get in 2/4 time?
How do you count this rhythm?
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Are the correct Takadimi syllables notated in these exercises?
Did I put write in the correct takadimi syllables for these two exercises? Some of the syllables I wasn’t sure.
Exercise 350:
And this one number 371:
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Is there a rule for the different sounds of time signatures X/2, X/4, X/8 etc not just defined on a case-by-case basis?
The other day I saw this question here:
I don't understand the bottom number in a time signature
I got really excited, as this has been bugging me for many years now. I started reading the answers,...
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Why does “Modern Man” from “The Suburbs (2010)” have missing beats?
I used to feel "Modern Man" from "The Suburbs (2010)" by Arcade Fire had an interesting "beat skip effect". But now when I really count the beat, there are indeed missing ...
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Ella Fitzgerald's rendition of A Night in Tunisia
I'd like to satisfy this little curiosity I've been entertaining in my brain. I've recently been really into Ella's songs, especially her renditions of classic jazz standards. Her version of A Night ...
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“Rubato sufficiently repeated turns into a feature of the rhythm.” Please critique
I was thinking about the very idea of rubato the other day and was wondering if repeated rubato truly defeats its purpose.
Rubato sufficiently repeated turns into a feature of the rhythm.
I don't ...
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How Can I Make A Chord Progression Sound Less Rhythmically Lame? [duplicate]
When I'm playing piano as an accompaniment to singing, I pull up chord charts for the song and wing it. But I can't seem to figure out how to make the piano sound interesting.
For example, the song I'...
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Are there examples of explicitly-notated, precise, nontrivial polytempo before Ives and Nancarrow?
Polytempo refers to the simultaneous use of two or more distinct tempi in a piece of
music. Polyrhythm can be viewed as a special case of polytempo; any polyrhythm can be written as a temporary tempo ...
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Analyze the progression and mark the harmonic rhythm using ( S W s w )
basically this question requires me to mark the harmonic ryhtymn using
taking it as 2 beats per chord
S very strong s strong W weak w very weak
Ab7 F7|Bb7 Eb7 | F-7 c-7| Dbmaj7 F7|
S W| s w| S W | s w ...
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Is there a name for a 3-3-2-2-2 rhythm?
I have a 12/8 rhythm that has beats on the x's below:
1 + + 2 + + 3 + + 4 + +
x x x x x
I vaguely remember hearing a name for this years ago. Is it some kind of clave? Is there a name for ...
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Time Signature Issue
I've been having an issue with this composition. Is it supposed to be 4/4 or would it become a different time signature? I know that 4/4 is 4/4 often because each note contains 4 beats- but often I ...
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I don't understand this rhythm notation
From the bass clef I think the downbeat count is obvious, but on the treble clef is the 1st downbeat on the eighth note? It looks like it, since it is right over the chord. But then why isn't it ...
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Name and origin of this alternative rock drumbeat
Does anyone know the name and origin of this drumbeat? It's widely used in alternative rock, and although I think people would tend to describe it as "funky," it isn't a textbook funk beat ...
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What is the difference between isometer and homorhythm?
Wikipedia gives a complicated answer with no examples. Could someone explain in proper English?
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How can I read these cross staff notes?
I'm aware of notes crossing clefs, but I've never seen it being used like this before. For the record, the song is in 4/4.
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Could you help me identify this rhythm by name?
I know how people refer to this rhythm in a language other than English, but I couldn't find a translation, which makes it difficult to search for it.
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What is rhythmic counterpoint?
Apparently, poly-meter creates "rhythmic" counterpoint. What does this mean? Nothing online shows anything. What are other effects of poly-meter?
