Questions tagged [rhythm]
Movement or procedure with uniform or patterned recurrence of a beat, accent, or the like.
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Dotted Rhythm in Dance
The Wikipedia article on Beethoven's 7th symphony talks about how "the work as a whole is known for its use of rhythmic devices suggestive of a dance, such as dotted rhythm" and "[the Vivace] is ...
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What is the rhythmic displacement I hear in the verse of Thriller?
I have long struggled to articulate why I always feel a sense of rhythmic surprise and unease when the verse of Thriller breaks in over the bassline vamp, roughly [0:50 - 1:06] in the song.
If you ...
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Is there a name for a beat/tempo that can be interpreted as being in two different times
I am not a musician, I don't read music and I don't actually play any instruments. However (and sorry if this sounds stupid) I'm a very good dancer and believe I have a good ear and feeling for tempo ...
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Benefits of using a drum backing track when practicing? [duplicate]
I've been practicing my oud and using the following backing track. I'm wondering if anyone has been using a rhythmic/drum backing track and what benefits have you seen versus not using one? (Doesn't ...
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What are some good techniques (tips and tricks) to practice Melodic and Rhythmic dictation that isn't really basic? [closed]
I find that a lot of the techniques I use to practice melodic and rhythmic dictation are good but often stay at a really basic level. I want to get better at it but it's hard to stay focused when you ...
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How to stay on beat [duplicate]
I've been told my beats are off beat.
How exactly do you stay on beat and how do you use the metronome to help you? I've been searching heaps but there's no videos or any sites that explain it ...
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what mathematical rules can we use to generate paradiddles? [closed]
What mathematical rules can we use to generate (single, double, triple) paradiddles? Perhaps even paradiddles with odd meters.
thanks! k
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Is it best to use a tie when using 8th notes off the beat?
I am notating my bongos in 4/4 and if you look at the last two bars, they are almost the same. Can you please help me by telling me if the 3rd or 4th bar would be more correct? It seems silly using a ...
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How should I play a measure where one of the voices doesn't add up to the time signature but the other does? [duplicate]
I'm sorry if the picture isn't clear. It is in 4/4 time and the two notes with downward facing stems (which I assume are a separate voice) are dotted quarter notes.
Edit: Attempt to clear the ...
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Why does the high e string on my electric guitar make a click when ever I play an upstrum [duplicate]
The high e string makes a click sound whenever I upstrum or pick it on my stratocaster, is this normal or am I doing something wrong the click goes away when i use both the middle and bridge pick up ...
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Is the beaming of this score following a vocal practice or it is just outdated and obscuring the beat?
The source is c.1770...
https://imslp.org/wiki/Scots_Songs_for_Voice_and_Harpsichord_(Bremner%2C_Robert)
...first book.
I can see that the beaming matches the words of the vocal part. But it ...
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What makes two dances that share the same meter and a similar tempo different?
Common practice music employs only a small handful of time signatures, but there is a multitude of different dances. The steps are different. But is there something other than meter and tempo that ...
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Scansion. Vocabulary
So I'm trying to get into poetry and using scansion to understand I guess the rhythm. MY question is what do you call it when you have a line with different stresses and unstressed syllables?
For ...
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Why are these two versions of the hymn different?
This is "A mighty fortress is our God". Two versions: The one with lyrics is taken from the 1939 Church of Sweden chorale book, the other from a book on how to play the organ.
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How can I count steady while also playing a non-steady rhythm?
I'm trying to arrange a song, but I'm running into trouble with figuring out the rhythm. I can tap out the rhythm perfectly fine but when I try tapping out the rhythm I can't count steady. I'm ...
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What was the shortest note length commonly used during baroque period?
Eighth and sixteenth notes were obviously common enough. I've also seen some examples of 1/32 and 1/64 (link). Were 1/32 and 1/64 used frequently? And what was the shortest note length commonly used ...
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What are these kinds of rhythms called? [duplicate]
I've noticed that these kinds of rhythms seem to be extremely common in popular music:
X: 1
M: 4/4
L: 1/16
K: C
c3c3c2 c3c3c2|c3c3c3c3c2c2|
The example in the first bar appears to be a 2 over 3 ...
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Rhythm or Laya in Bansuri
I am struggling with the concept of Rhythm or Laya in Bansuri
Right now, understand that Laya is the speed at which notes are played one after another.
But how do I read Bansuri notes such that I ...
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Is 1e&a2e&a3e&a4e&a timing notation commonly used and understood?
I've found "1e&a2e&a3e&a4e&a" notation is often used to describe ballroom step timing, but I've not found any authoritative source for it. It even looks like a recent invention for the ...
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Practice timing and general drumming skills
6-7 years ago, I started learning how to drum. However, I was a kid, and whenever I played or even had a lesson, it basically just ended in my trying to learn to play whatever rhythms of whatever ...
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Why use cross notes in sheet music for hip hop tracks?
This is an excerpt from the sheet music for a song by Eminem. What do the cross notes mean, and what is their purpose? Why not use normal notes? (I see this frequently in hip-hop sheet music.)
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Rhythm non-standard notation
I have read this paragraph a couple of times, but I haven't really had a light bulb moment.
My interpretation is that the upper example wants one to play
In bar 1: four beats of ones own choosing
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How to correct a shifted beat on the bandstand?
Had a potential train wreck happen at a dance performance last weekend.
The piece we were playing was 2/4 with the accented (strong) beat on 1 but with a lot of improvisation. It's a 5 piece band: ...
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Is there a catalog of different rhythms? [closed]
The melodies I've been writing have been good in terms of notes and chord progressions, but they lack interesting rhythms. Some examples of good rhythms that are interesting are DROELOE's Kintsugi ...
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Counting in 8 rather than 4/4
Why do modern dance schools sometimes count in eighths, as in 5 6 7 8 ?
My question is really whether they are translating 4/4 into 8/8?
Can a time signature be written
8 /8 ?
1 2 3 4 ...
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The metre/rhythm of classical guitar piece “Recuerdos de la Alhambra”
In all sheets I can find the famous piece "Recuerdos de la Alhambra" for classical guitar (see these search results) is written in 3/4. But in some way I hear it most of the time as a 4/4 with a 2/4; ...
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BWV 825 Bach Partita: how do you play this Gigue?
coming from answering the question:
How do I determine the time signature of a song?
I ask you to give some answers for beginners:
-how do you play the first bar? what time is this? 4/4? (we count ...
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how to line up these notes, the 4 over the 3 [duplicate]
I imagine the F and D would be played together but what about the others? (2 Cs and a B flat in the group of 4 and the A and C of the triplet).
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Is it wise to focus on putting odd beats on left when playing double bass drums?
I need to learn two double bass drum patterns:
The first one is just repeated over and over again. The second repeats the first measure and then repeats the second measure.
My question is about how ...
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What's this (flamenco?) rhythm called? (Tres Lagrimas)
This song by Guitarra Azul has a very distinctive rhythm that I have also heard in other songs. How is it called? Is it one of the classical flamenco rhythms?
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What is a clear way to write a bar that has an extra beat?
If I have a simple 4/4 piece and at some point, for some reason, I delay the rhythm by 1 beat. How do I notate that particular irregularity on the staff?
I think having a bar with 5/4 without writing ...
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how long are triplets? [duplicate]
If I'm not wrong this should be a swing rhythm, but how long are the triplets actually to fit in the 4/4 beat?
Do triplets have always a fixed length in the beat or does it depend on how you play them?...
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How can I switch up a four on the floor drum rhythm? [closed]
So I'm working on a song with a 4otF rhythm, but the beat gets rather boring after a while (it's a somewhat long song). I'm looking to switch up the drums but I'm not sure I know what pattern to use ...
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Configure 4-4 Tabla for Bansuri Practice
The video below (starting at 2:50) shows the Instructor turning on the 4-4 Tabla player.
How did he configure the Tabla player? He's a wonderful Instructor, but rather vague on these points.
In my ...
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Kinetic Rhythm in Pop Music
This is something I've noticed that I don't hear anyone really talking about...
Essentially it's the way that separate rhythmic elements of most pop songs interact in a kinetic way with one another. ...
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Tampura vs 4-4 Tabla Playing during Bansuri Practice
So far, I thought one should play Tampura when practicing Bansuri. The Tampura must be on Pa and on the same scale as the Bansuri.
Now this video says we must use 4-4 Tabla (which, of course can be ...
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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 [duplicate]
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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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 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 (...
