Questions tagged [rhythm]
Movement or procedure with uniform or patterned recurrence of a beat, accent, or the like.
648
questions
4
votes
5answers
273 views
How do rhythm and melody compete and cooperate to define the horizontal space of music?
I have some conceptual trouble understanding the differences between rhythm and melody.
I get that harmony is the vertical dimension of music (thinking in terms of sheet music or a piano roll view in ...
5
votes
3answers
350 views
What is the name of this rhythm? (embedded 4:3 polyrhythm)
What's the name of this rhythm? There's an embedded 4:3 polyrhythm, where the two voices will arrive together on beats 1 and 4 of each bar. It reminds me of a clave (2:3), but it's not.
5
votes
3answers
103 views
I'm a singer struggling with tempo and time
I'm a singer with a decent voice and technique, I also used to play the violin so I can read classical sheet music and sight-read pretty well. However, I've always struggled with counting.
I have no ...
4
votes
3answers
113 views
What's it called when you play the same exact melody with a different rhythm?
As an example, here is the original iconic melodic phrase that's used throughout the Trails Sky games:
https://youtube.com/embed/3GB-xej4GFc?start=66&end=85
But here in this next piece, the exact ...
4
votes
1answer
84 views
what difference beat value makes in time signature [duplicate]
I am trying to understand the intuition behind the time signature. My confusion is as below :
My first confusion was why in general every metronome beat is considered a quarter beat, but what I ...
6
votes
4answers
1k views
Is there a name for this simple drum pattern/fill?
I had meant to ask this question for some time. This question triggered the thought to ask.
I am a drummer of many decades. I feel I am competent, but have never bothered to learn how to read. And ...
4
votes
3answers
95 views
Electronic music and layering of rhythms
A very common (indeed ubiquitous) technique in electronic music involves the layering of loops of different lengths on top of each other.
Consider the following DnB track:
https://www.beatport.com/...
26
votes
2answers
4k views
Is there a name for this famous “memeish” rhythm?
I wonder if there’s a name for the famous rhythm heard many times around the web. I’d like to know its origins but I can’t google it without a name. I wrote it down but I can’t describe anyway ...
2
votes
2answers
75 views
Is accentuation of the off-beat in most pop and rock also used for the voice/lead instrument?
Time ago I learned about the backbeat used in most present-day pieces of popular styles such as pop and rock, and indeed it was quite obvious to me it's used for the accompaniment instruments (mostly ...
5
votes
2answers
479 views
How would you describe this not-quite-a-triplet rhythm? [duplicate]
Sounds like a triplet but not quite since it's not all even.
Is there a name for this?
9
votes
2answers
3k views
“Nothing Else Matters” measure contains too many notes for 6/8 time signature
How is this a 6/8? The notes can’t fit
The measure comes from Metallica "Nothing Else Matters" guitar solo.
0
votes
0answers
19 views
How to play this in 6/8 [duplicate]
I saw this notation written in 6/8. What I don’t get is how the last two notes can be dotted as they are already 1/8 notes
8
votes
3answers
349 views
Fracanapa tango meter and how to write it
This is the first measure of the accordion part of Fracanapa, a Tango from Astor Piazzolla (you can easily find it on YouTube).
In the first 19 measures the meter of the accordion part is 3,3,2 and ...
9
votes
1answer
1k views
What does 'fingered' mean with regard to accompaniment on an electronic keyboard?
I have those strange buttons in my keyboard so I was wondering what are they for ? When I press on one of them, the leftmost notes output weird sounds whenever I play them I can't understand ??
18
votes
8answers
4k views
Can music be arrhythmic?
The question is in the subject. Can music be arrhythmic(metrically) by the meaning of classical music theory?
2
votes
4answers
394 views
Can someone tell me what this is?
So a couple of things: first is how, at the start of the measure, after the third note, like what beat is it? Is it 16, 8, ( triplet ) 16, 16, 16? And what is the line below the top measure?
3
votes
1answer
46 views
How do i keep track of the rhythm and read the note at the same time? and reading both the treble and bass clef? [closed]
I have 2 beginner questions with sub questions for (sight) reading.
The first question (this might be a rather dumb question), but i've been struggling with this for a while now.
How do I count the ...
28
votes
5answers
4k views
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 ...
7
votes
6answers
1k views
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 ...
2
votes
2answers
47 views
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 ...
9
votes
3answers
819 views
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 ...
5
votes
5answers
183 views
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 ...
8
votes
2answers
2k views
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"....
0
votes
1answer
102 views
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 ...
1
vote
2answers
117 views
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 ...
0
votes
1answer
54 views
Wagner Parsifal ouverture, non fitting rhythyms
(click to enlarge image)
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 ...
1
vote
2answers
120 views
How do you count the 1st 4 bars of Beethoven's Pathétique, Op. 13, 1st movement?
There are two counting problems in the opening of Beethoven's Pathétique, Op. 13, 1st movement.
How do the subdivisions of the beat work here?
The tempo is very slow, so it can be hard to keep a ...
2
votes
1answer
73 views
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 ...
1
vote
4answers
105 views
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.
...
3
votes
6answers
163 views
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 ...
7
votes
6answers
650 views
How do I count the syncopation in this example?
How do I count this example in syncopation?
I am having a hard time understanding.
1
vote
2answers
89 views
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: ...
2
votes
1answer
90 views
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.
5
votes
5answers
106 views
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, ...
3
votes
3answers
409 views
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) ...
2
votes
1answer
60 views
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?
2
votes
1answer
75 views
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?
5
votes
4answers
458 views
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 ...
0
votes
3answers
97 views
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,...
2
votes
1answer
83 views
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/...
3
votes
1answer
56 views
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 ...
14
votes
3answers
296 views
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 ...
7
votes
4answers
588 views
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 ...
5
votes
2answers
89 views
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 ...
6
votes
5answers
909 views
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+...
3
votes
1answer
65 views
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. ...
1
vote
1answer
50 views
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 ...
0
votes
1answer
51 views
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.
1
vote
1answer
62 views
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?
1
vote
1answer
61 views
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)....
