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Movement or procedure with uniform or patterned recurrence of a beat, accent, or the like.

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What is the clearest way to notate this rhythm?

It is useful to think of “levels” of metrical hierarchy when notating rhythm. …
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Trouble Understanding Triplets

He used a figure consisting of a duplet and a triplet quite often in his music, so much so that it's often called a "Bruckner rhythm" to this day. … For an example of this, you can't do much better than the opening of his Fourth Symphony: The Bruckner rhythm kicks in for the first time around the 2:06 mark in the above …
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Is a sixteenth note quintuplet worth 4 sixteenth notes? If so, why is this wrong?

In Behind Bars: The Definitive Guide to Music Notation, Elaine Gould says that there are two ways to choose note-values for tuplets (p. 203–4): Option 1 is to add extra notes to the beat until the ne …
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Would a tiny pulse of electricity sent through electric guitar strings affect the pickups en...

Time for some physics! A guitar pickup consists of two parts: a permanent magnet and a coil of wire. These can sense the motion of nearby ferric object (like a steel guitar string) by taking advant …
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