Questions tagged [rhythm]
Movement or procedure with uniform or patterned recurrence of a beat, accent, or the like.
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Practical steps to "play in 2/4"?
Playing a sax piece written in 4/4 at 120 bpm
I was told it would sound better in 2/4
sound smoother
the "longer beat would sound better" and make it easier for me to up the tempo.
But I ...
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too many 16th notes! [closed]
There is 30 16th notes in this bar of the Chopin ballade no 1 which translates to 7.5 beats but its in 6/4, what I assume is that you play the notes that are beamed all in the same amount of time as a ...
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Is this a Waltz music?
I am starting to playing a piano and I am new to a aclassical dance.
I was googling some Waltz songs, that I could play on a piano. I found Beuty and the Beast song, that was marked as a Waltz. But I ...
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How does one transcribe a fast rhythm from memory?
There is a song I know from childhood, and I'm in the process of transcribing it from memory. I can write down the pitches (I use numbered notation), and I can transcribe the rhythms except when the ...
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Does a song become sadder when transposed to a minor key from a major key? [duplicate]
I was looking at songs that had exciting rhythms, thick texture, and objectively happy harmony. I decided to transpose these songs into minor keys to see whenever or not the song would be sadder or ...
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Name of this rhythm? [duplicate]
Is there a name for this rhythm? I usually hear it used as a rhythmic cadence at the end of a metal song, usually at the end of a chorus. Seen it appear lots of times but have never been able to find ...
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How Do I Play and Understand the Note Structure in Jimbo's Lullaby, Debussy (Bar 9 Piano)
How Do I Play This Section of Jimbo's Lullaby (Piano)?
Novice (Self Studying) Music Theory and Piano
In the segment of the piece shown below (measures 9–13), which notes and dyads do I play on which ...
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Can you put one demisemiquaver rest inside a group of 4 demisemiquavers?
I did a picture with 2 examples so you guys can see what I mean. Please can you tell me if blue or red is better?
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playing boogie woogie triplets with 8th notes. timing
If the 8ths are swing, would not 2 8ths on the left hand be played at the exact time as triplets on the right hand?
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Original manuscripts of 16th century composers [closed]
TL;DR - Where can I find manuscripts by Renaissance composers?
I'm studying 16th Century counterpoint and the shift in rhythmic notation from "longer" note values to "shorter" ...
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What is it called when a sequence of notes lands on a different beat every measure?
Meshuggah does this a lot, where they will have say a 5 note sequence in 4/4. It will look like this if each note is given a number:
1234|5123|4512|3451|2345|1..
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Rolled chords: how much flexibility in the rhythm?
Best way to illustrate this question is by example, looking at Liszt's transcription of Beethoven's 6th symphony, movement 2. Compare 9:30 in:
to the very start of:
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two hands playing different things - how do you feel or hear or pronounce it?
I'm playing djembe for 4 years, and now trying to play dun-duns. Basically, it's two sticks and two drums or a bell+drum for now.
I'm trying to learn some rhythm in which the bell on the left hand and ...
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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 ...
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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.
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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/...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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?
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"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.
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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
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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 ...
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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 ??
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Can music be arrhythmic?
The question is in the subject. Can music be arrhythmic(metrically) by the meaning of classical music theory?
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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?
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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 ...
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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 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 ...
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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?
