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All right in this segment we're going to talk a little bit more about
rhythm. We've had variety of different kinds of rhythms.
One of the things we like to do to change up rhythms
is by changing the emphasis. So if we
think about most children songs they're pretty straightforward
everything is on the beat, (plays piano)
you'll be sick and tired of twinkle - twinkle by the time we finish this class.
Everything is very straightforward kinda goes as you expected
but if everything was like that what would be the challenge
cause one of the things that's important about music he is creating
tension and then creating and releasing that tension and that's what makes
music satisfying for us.
So one of the ways we can create some tension is to do some rhythic things that
sort of throw us off. So the term for the kinda rhythmic stresses that I'm talking
about is
syncopation, syncopation. And you can think about that as
putting the emPHAsis on the wrong syllABLE. Thought about that for a minute,
but the emPHAsison the wrong syllABLE.
That your brain has to go huh, and fix that because
I didn't put things where you thought they should. Be that's what happens in
syncopation
you expect the notes to fall on the beat. You expect the strong beats to be on
the beginning in the measure
we have these expectations. In syncopation
we kick that around. So what happens in syncopation is that
you'll have sometimes along note, a stressed note
on what would normally be a weak beat. So instead of having 1-2,
1-2, you might have 1-----2,1-----2 that stretches it out puts in place you don't expect it to be.
If you're listening for the rhythmic patterns
one of the things you can listen for is a short long/short
pattern short long/short cause that's almost always going to be a syncopation.
Let's take an example again from
folk song
(plays piano)
Now if we had done that in a very straight kinda matter
it would be like this everything falls on be were expected.
(plays piano). Everything's
right on the beat. But Stephen Foster changes it up a little bit
(plays piano)
Cinco, Cinco (while playing) there's an extra note
so we had short - long, short - long
not the other short that comes behind it but that will often happen.
So listen for those kinda patterns you'll hear them all the time
in music. I mean even Sesame Street kinds of songs
they are full syncopation. They're not complicated, they are just different
so syncopation putting emphasis we don't expect it to be
listen for short - long, short - short - long,
those will help you find syncopation.