Questions tagged [rhythm]
Movement or procedure with uniform or patterned recurrence of a beat, accent, or the like.
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Creating complicated metronome/rhythm track? [closed]
So I need to create a complicated rhythm track. Example script:
M=74 2/4 1 bar
M=50 3/4 2 bar
M=68 4/4 1 bar
M=84 3/4 16 bars
(etc)
I can do it in Audacity by creating every piece separately. ...
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How do i hold a steady rhythm while singing a song in my head?
I'm learning to improvise and have been assigned the following task.
[The highlighted text shows the part of the task I'm having difficulties with.]
My normal approach to achieving a steady chord ...
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Is it necessary to practice staying in time while improvising?
I've beatboxed for about 10 years and never thought about staying in time while improvising, and it sounds great. I can just make a beat and it sounds great without having any clue if what i just ...
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How should I play six-against-four rhythm on the piano?
The left and right hand notes do not line up together, so is it safe to say that I should play them separately and not together? The piece in question is called Musique pour la tristesse de xion.
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Question on rhythmic interpretation of Chopin's Prelude Op 28 No 1 : Performance differs from score?
most of the bars in this short prelude have a clear rhythmic marking: Its all sextuplets and the right hand is clearly aligned with the left as the score indicates, where the right hand melody starts ...
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How to count this rhythm notation? [duplicate]
This is bar 3 of an arrangement of Clair de Lune in 9/8. What is the meaning of the 2 above the beam? The first C is played on beat 4, so the 4 remaining notes in the bar need to cover 6 beats. Which ...
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Different way of “grouping” eighth notes
I’m new to music theory so some of my descriptions might not be completely technical, but I’ll try to be as clear as possible
I’ve noticed that most songs put emphasis on the 1,2,3, and 4 beats and ...
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Music theory - minim over beats 2 and 3 in 4/4 [duplicate]
When writing the rhythm crotchet - minim - crotchet in 4/4, is this ok or should it be 4 crotchets with the 2nd and 3rd tied together? I know that you can't write a minim rest over beats 2 and 3 in 4/...
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How to practice unstable “wonky” beats on guitar without drums
Lately I've been getting into "wonky" music,
a subgenre of electronic music known primarily for its off-kilter or “unstable” beats, as well as its eclectic blend of genres including hip hop, ...
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How can I improve the agogic qualities of my midi playback?
In my quest for ever more realistic midi modelling, I keep coming up against questions and issues relating to the subtle rhythmic and tempo changes involved in good musical phrasing. After quite a ...
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Delay pedal without tap tempo, but time in ms can be known exactly. Assuming known bpm, how do you get common intervals?
Say I have a delay that doesn't let you tap tempo, but you know what tempo you will be playing at for a song and don't intend to change tempo (at least while the pedal's on). You also know to the ...
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Dotted bar lines of different height
I’m studying many scores and have come across a ‘dotted bar line’. The first time I have encountered this.
After some initial research I do see their purpose. To make the music clearer to understand,...
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Triplets and sixteenth notes
How to count triplets, sixteenth notes and quarter dotted in this measure?
Thanks
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12 bar blues notation
I'm trying to put a 12 bar blues to paper but the notes don't add up. It will be C/F/G and I have the rhythm like so (just the C here):
but something isn't right (and what's more, my baby done left ...
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Leggierissimo line
The 3rd bar on the top has a run. They're written as 8th notes, but that doesn't make any sense to me. Why are they written as 8th notes? Or does it actually rhythmically make sense?
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How to notate staccato on notes tied across a barline?
I'm a bit stuck on how I feel it's most appropriate to place staccato in a piece I'm writing.
The excerpt below is not from the piece I'm working on -- I just wrote up a phrase to show how this ...
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What is a musical pattern and how do you use it in style?
In music theory what is a music pattern as it relates to style? Here is a quote I got from this website to help one get my question about style... and the use of "musical pattern. " "Style refers to ...
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why 3/8 is not a compound time signature? [duplicate]
If compound time signatures are the result of the following operation
comp. ts = simple ts x 3/2 (for ex. 6/8 = 2/4 x 3/2)
why 3/8 , that can be the result of 1/4 x 3/2 , is said to be simple ...
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Playing a steady beat consistently on drums
I've been self-learning to play drums over the last month and my metronome has been the most useful tool in helping me learn to play things that feel difficult to me. I managed to learn how to play ...
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Staccato quarter note versus an eighth note
Well on my piano piece, my right hand needs to play a staccato quarter note and at the same time my left hand plays an eighth note... so which one would you play longer?
right hand is playing 4 ...
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time signatures: what's the difference between 3/8 and 3/4? [duplicate]
I know the differences in the structure of these 2 time signatures, but what are the differences about the auditory perception, aside from the fact that 3/8 may seem faster?
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Exercises for reducing dependency on metronome
On this site, we often tell intermediate musicians to slow things down and practice with a metronome to establish a good sense of time. I have the opposite problem. I spent my college years practicing ...
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Piano: How to Internalize a Beat in One Hand?
I am learning an to play this accompaniment while I sing "Counting Stars". I am having trouble internalizing the beat in one section, and as such I keep losing rhythm. Not just for this song, it is a ...
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Understanding Rhythm with Time Signatures
Trying to follow the rules, yes I am trying to learn my instrument, watching YouTube videos, and trying to learn from looking at sheet music...
It seems I "learn" about something it feels like it ...
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Question about beaming in 6/4 and irregular beaming
In 6/4 can I beam by 2/4 + 2/4 + 2/4 or is it strictly 3/4 + 3/4?
And also I didn't find a good explanation of irregular beaming in cases where time signature constantly changing from bar to bar (not ...
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Jazz comping rhythms for piano
I am a piano player but am new to jazz; I am classically trained. I have recently began playing jazz however and was curious as to what rhythms to use for comping. I know the rhythms are on off beats ...
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Unable to find BPM for a specific song
I'm trying to find the BPM for the song Erotomania - Dream Theater, but I can't. This is what I did:
Opened the song in a DAW and then count exactly how much milliseconds are between measures 5 to 8. ...
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How do you count this in 3/4 time?
What are the counts/beats for this measure?
Plz tell me so I can know how to do it.
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How many beats/counts does this note get in 3/4 time?
image link down below
please tell me the counts so I can know how to do it
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How many beats does a quarter rest get in 3/4 time, and how do you count it?
How many beats does a quarter rest get in 3/4 time, and how do you count it?
I think it would be 1/2 beat. I also wanted to know what note this is and how many beats does it get in 3/4 time.
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Having trouble playing a polymetric rhythm
I have had difficulty with this polymetric keyboard line at 1:55. I don't know if I'd call it polymetric or just a phasing ostinato, but regardless I am having a tough time playing it. The section is (...
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How does an orchestra hold groove?
I am used to symphonic orchestras playing classical music which does not take a rhythm as a constant, but rather as a variable which could be adjusted based on stylistic demands of the context (I ...
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Recording rhythm pauses that throw off the count
I'm quite new to recording and best practices. At the moment I'm enjoying learning through recording existing songs I'm playing myself.
One song is in 8/4 (in my opinion) but has an extra (loose) ...
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What instrument(s) lend themselves to playing different dynamics rapidly? [closed]
I'm a composer. What instrument(s) would it be easiest to play parts like this on? Thinking along the lines of unpitched percussion, but I'm open to anything. For example:
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How can I count this unusual rhythm?
I want to be able to play this rhythm below. Here are my best attempts at notating it:
My best attempt at a mnemonic (after trying all day, and going a little crazy) is:
TAY-(toom) d-da-toom Tay-...
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I'm struggling with changing my chords in time
I have learning guitar for about 2 months now and I learned my chords at the same time concentrating with my fingerstyle. I'm quite good at fingerstyle now even when changing notes. But I found it ...
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Shuffle style in the time signature/tempo
Thanks to the covid, I have to take over some music teaching from my son's piano teacher. He's preparing a swing piece for ABRSM Grade 1, and plays each 2 quavers in 'shuffle' style 2/12+1/12 instead ...
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How to finish the bar with rests
Can you help me check these two bars? Did I finish the bars correctly? Or I should not have these dotted eighth- note?
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How to write a beat in a bar with 16th and 32nd notes?
I am trying to find the best way to write this bongo rhythm. I know bongo is usually written on two lines only, or even on one line sometimes, but my bongos are tuned to G so I just use normal music ...
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Using rhythmic solfege to count a dotted eighth - sixteenth rhythm
I'm looking for a way to show the dotted eighth - sixteenth rhythm using a system of rhythmic symbols.
In standard notation, the rhythm looks like this:
In French, it is easy to teach this rhythm ...
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Thoughts on Tuplets vs. Subdivision?
This was a point of interest brought up in the comments to my answer on Help with analyzing sus and add chords in this progression.
In that question, the sheet music has a measure of 4/4 time written ...
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Stressing the third beat more than the first in 4/4: is it syncopation?
The definitions of syncopation I've come across generally talk about stressing the offbeat (see, for example, Wikipedia) where "offbeat" sometimes refers to placing the accent in between beats (on the ...
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Can Mozart's Lacrimosa Be Perceived As 3/4 Time
While this piece is 12/8 time I've noticed that it's possible to count 1&2&3&. Although it feels less flowing to me when I count in 3/4 like this, I was thinking that a student might find ...
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I am trying to learn Good Riddance by Green Day. Im not sure what BPM to play this at?
the sheet music I have says the BPM = 172 with a 4/4 time (which seems very fast for this song) but when i pull up sheet music online you see 94 bpm in one but 172 bpm in another...I have seen this in ...
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Comprehensive Music Font (text font) to generate musical symbols for use in word-processing software?
SOFTWARE USED IN PROJECT:
Mac OSX Mojave 10.14.6, Libreoffice 6.2.5.2]
QUESTION DESCRIPTION:
Hi all, just wondering if anyone (looking at you, music teachers!) knows of a comprehensive font (free or ...
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Feeling a new rhythm subdivision, eg triplets
I am practicing triplets on guitar. I can play them at a decent speed accurately and I emphasis (alternating up/down strokes) the first of each set on the beat and can feel them internally up to a ...
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How to interpret this two voice timing? It looks like there are only three notes in 4/4 measure
I am trying to play a song with two voices and something is not adding up in the time signature.
In the image below:
in the first measure, I see a half note rest (circled in red in the upper left) ...
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Rhythm notation confusion
This is getting me really confused. This bar is 4/4
Look at the picture above, shouldn't "0" be beat 4? instead it gets to beat 4 at the red arrow.
Why is that?
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A question about Gershwin interpretation
This is the start one of the famous trumpet tunes from An American in Paris by George Gershwin. Gershwin famously borrowed jazz styling and harmony within his compositions. But I wanted to ask about ...
