Questions tagged [rhythm]
Movement or procedure with uniform or patterned recurrence of a beat, accent, or the like.
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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.
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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|
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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?
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How do you decide what kind of rhythm/time signature to use?
What would make you want to use 4/4 time compared to 3/4 time? Or 6/8 time over 3/4 time? I'm starting to get a grip on understanding different rhythms and how to read them etc. but I want to ...
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What are ways to emphasize a rhythm/time signatures without drums?
What are some ways a song without drums can indicate the rhythm/time signature through the melody or chord progression? It seems that when drums are involved, they play a certain beat over and over ...
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Why is the Proper Sarum mode notated differently than it sounds (in the Yattendon hymnal)?
For context, image 1 is where I found this tune in another hymnal, and it looks like a sort of free-flowing attempt at notating (in standard notation) how a choir or congregation would sing. Images 2 ...
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Adjusting the BPM for an odd rhythm (to render a MIDI)
Firstly, sorry if I'm missing something basic, but I'm new to standard notation.
I felt stuck because I'm doing a cover song @ 76 BPM, but I realized there's a lot note durations equal to 5 and 3 64th-...
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Swing rhythm vs straight rhythm
I am a beginner tap dancer and learning music. I don't understand the difference between swing rhythm and straight rhythm. Can someone elaborate the difference?
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Triplets in 4/4 or 12/8 (with dotted quarter notes as beats)?
I am writing a piece in 4/4 which has triplets all the way.
I insist it is not a "swing" feel, which I know how to notate (writing regular eight notes and adding the Swing decorator), but ...
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Is there a standard way to notate random-note stabs in a certain rhythm?
e.g. What the percussionist plays on the Cardiacs's Seaside album version of "Hope Day" at 4:15
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What meter is it when the accented beat is the fourth beat out of six? (one-two-three-FOUR-five-six)
In this song when the drum comes in, the accented pulse is the 4th beat out of 6 in a measure. 6/8 has the accented beats on the 1st and 4th beat, but there is no accent on the 1st beat in this song. ...
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Where does this specific rhythm that everybody knows come from? [duplicate]
Whenever a person gets the chance to hit a drum or make rhythmic noises in any other way, there is a high chance they will play this exact phrase:
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I have ...
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Is there a "rhythmic/groove center", just like there is a "tonal center"?
In tonal harmony, we found that listeners often have a clear senes of tonal center and want to go back to it.
Does the same exist for rhythm? Can a composer mess around with rhythm (going off standard ...
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How do I add drums to an already written rap?
I spent a lot of my free time over the last year working on a diss track and practicing so I can rap at a decent pace, and I'd like to actually record it at some point. Problem is, I'm struggling to ...
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Does this rhythm have a name?
Does the following rhythm have a recognised name or composer?
It is a rhythm you would typically hear at Soccer matched with the crowd clapping in time with each other. At an England match you would ...
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Rests in 10/16 time
I am confused about a solution to a question in my music theory exercise book. The answer is shown in an image below (the one in 10/16 time). From what I understand, the rests should fit into the ...
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For an arbitrary time signature, where do the beats go?
4/4 gets 1 and 3 as strong. 3/4 gets 1. 6/8 gets 1, and 4 is strong but less so. I don’t know what 7/4 is supposed to be, but 1, 2, and 5 sounds good. 9/8 and 12/8 are really just 3 and 4 triplets, ...
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Rhythmic/Metric Stress Patterns
The attached images are a page from Jack Perricone's Melody in Songwriting. I am familiar with the concept of stress patterns in music, but, honestly, have no idea what the hell he's on about here.
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Problem with Tempo in the Adagio from Violin Sonata No.1 in G minor, BWV 1001 from Bach
I'm starting to studying the Adagio from Violin Sonata No.1 in G minor, BWV 1001.
Normally I have some rhythm problems, and in this case I don't feel the pulse, my teacher has told me to study with 16 ...
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What is the name of this notation in this example by Couperin?
Consider following excerpt from the beginning of the 2nd leçon of Couperin's Leçon des ténèbres pour le mercredi saint:
As you see, it uses a rather strange notation where, for instance, a bar of 3/2 ...
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Why do notes not add up to the bar in this example by Couperin?
Consider following excerpt from the beginning of Couperin's Leçon des ténèbres pour le mercredi saint:
I noticed that the note values don't always add up in a bar.
Cases (indicated in the figure):
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how to count 16th note triplets
When you count in 4/4 time, to get 16th notes you normally say something like:
1 ee and ah two ee and ah 3 ee and ah 4 ee and ah
When you count 8th note triplets you normally say something like
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How to practice this kind of complex tuplet structures appeared in Scriabin's Poem Op.32 and his Etude Op.42 No.2?
Recently, I have put a lot of efforts in practicing Scriabin's Poem Op.32 No.1 and his Etude Op.42 No.2. But I've found it really hard to master the complex rhythm structures.
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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? [duplicate]
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 ...
