I’ve been upset by this demonstration of rhythm turning into pitch and back again. It just would not fit into my brain! I could not relate music to this.
Then I realized that a beat is not the same as a rhythm. Isn’t a rhythm a certain pattern created around a beat, with specific emphasis on certain beats? If you sped up a waltz or a Latin rhythm on the electronic device, what would it turn into? And there are more complex rhythms. Maybe it doesn’t matter. Maybe I need to go back to school. :-)
Imagine a guitar or piano string being played. It’s a tone, a pitch, but if we record that sound and slow it way down, it becomes individual beats of the string moving one way and then the other. The tone becomes a beat and the beat is part of a “rhythm”. When slowing a tone down it becomes a beat. When speeding a beat up it becomes a tone. I hope that makes sense…. in my head it does. :-)
“music can be spine-tingling even after listening to the same piece, over and over again! How can music have this effect, when we know exactly what will happen next?”
I’ve been upset by this demonstration of rhythm turning into pitch and back again. It just would not fit into my brain! I could not relate music to this.
Then I realized that a beat is not the same as a rhythm. Isn’t a rhythm a certain pattern created around a beat, with specific emphasis on certain beats? If you sped up a waltz or a Latin rhythm on the electronic device, what would it turn into? And there are more complex rhythms. Maybe it doesn’t matter. Maybe I need to go back to school. :-)
Imagine a guitar or piano string being played. It’s a tone, a pitch, but if we record that sound and slow it way down, it becomes individual beats of the string moving one way and then the other. The tone becomes a beat and the beat is part of a “rhythm”. When slowing a tone down it becomes a beat. When speeding a beat up it becomes a tone. I hope that makes sense…. in my head it does. :-)
“music can be spine-tingling even after listening to the same piece, over and over again! How can music have this effect, when we know exactly what will happen next?”