18 Rhythms you should know

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rhythms

by name is really valuable when communicating with other musicians. So today we will look at 18 different

rhythms

starting with the son key to key is a concept of AFR huban music where there is effectively a master rhythm, a key rhythm that acts as a template upon which all the other rhythmic parts and the key will be built. de son is one of the most common types of key. and it sounds like this and here are a couple of songs that put the s key to work.

This is actually a three-two-sound key because it has three notes in the first measure and two notes in the second measure, but you can reverse it to get both. three son key that sounds like this and here are some examples of songs that use a two three son key now the son key is indeed a Latin music concept, but this rhythm also appears in North American and European music, but here it is called B diddly beat. because it was used by Bo diddly in his song Bo diddly Bly did indeed popularize the beat in the 1950s and then many other songs continued to use this in that music, you

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, he talked and talked and I heard him say that she had well, I guess which would be nice if I could woohoo woohoo so this rhythm can be called the 3-2 solar key or the bow rhythm, but if we take just the first measure of this rhythm, we actually get another common rhythm called trao traco.

Spanish for triplet, but this is not a triplet rhythm, it is a rhythm that we will talk about later, although it is very similar to a triplet rhythm and we can see that it still has three almost evenly spaced beats, you can think of this rhythm. so long, long, short or 332 when we consider the 8 e notes of the measure and how they have been divided and this rhythm, this traco rhythm was particularly common in 2010 pop music tonight by the water, she is gone just not It's right for you and you I have to get mad at all my honesty, come on, turn on the radio, it's the right night and I won, why would I do it without your smart mouth drawing me a song that you can actually consider to have a trao beat?

Watches by Coldplay here the rhythm is effectively constant ethical notes, but because of the accents that fall on this rhythm, this rhythm and this rhythm because of where the arpeggio resets, we end up with that 332 long, long, short Trac pattern, let's go out like this a moment ago. We were talking about son clav, but the Sun key is not the only type of key, another very common type of key is the Roomba key. The Roomba Claf is this rhythm that is actually quite similar to the Son Claf rhythm, the only difference between the S Claf and RBA. key is that this rhythm occurs one e note later in the Roomba CL, just like with the s key, we can have the 32 variation where we have three beats in the first measure and two beats in the second measure or we can have the opposite of that . 23 Clave R now, although nowadays the clave is associated with Latin American and Cuban music.

These rhythmic ideas ultimately originate in Africa, in sub-Saharan Africa, which brings us to our next current rhythm, the standard African Bale pattern or what is sometimes called the Bembe pattern now similarly. to how clefs were traditionally played on the clav instrument to effectively set the rhythm of the music the standard african bell pattern the bmbe pattern would have been played on a bell or similar instrument to once again keep the rhythm tied to keep this rhythm consistent continuous, although it is sometimes thought to be in 68 or even 44 beats 128 is the typical way of playing and thinking about this rhythm now for Western listeners 128 probably reminds them of a shuffle rhythm and, in fact, of this standard African bell pattern It's most likely where American Music got its classic Shuffle the Rhythm, which is at the heart of jazz and blues and, later, rock music as well.

Shuffles can come in different shapes and sizes, but they are actually a 128 rhythm where we emphasize the first and third notes. on each beat as with anything on 128, you can also conceptualize this as on four, four but with triplets on each beat of the measure, although shuffles are most closely associated with blues and jazz, you can also find them in many pop songs and different rock. no, I don't even

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your name, understanding how to read rhythm, how to read sheet music can be quite a challenge, that's why in this video I have also shown other ways to understand rhythm beyond notation and this is the same philosophy. shared by today's HD piano sponsor, which is a fantastic resource for learning to play the piano.

HD piano offers really easy to follow tutorials on a ton of classic songs and they never use notation, they never use sheet music if you've never played the piano before. I highly recommend trying the HD piano by following the link below. A shuffle is effectively a type of swing in general terms, a swing is any time where the eighth notes in the music are not evenly spaced, but rather the first is longer than the second, but in fact, we can get a few different types of swing rhythm and are best described using what we call swing ratios, where we describe the ratio between the long and short eighth notes.

The swing ratio we have on screen right now is what we would use. describe it as 3:1 because the long note is three times longer than the short note a shuffle has a swing ratio of 2:1 because the first note is twice as long as the second note, it is important to remember that when musicians They really swing when playing swing rhythms, they don't consciously think about how much the rhythm swings and in practice the amount of swing the rhythm will vary and will not necessarily be precise, so swing is when the first of the two notes of the rhythm sounds. long and the second is short but we could have a rhythm that was the opposite of this we could have first the short note and then the long one and this is what is called scotch snap or it can also be called Lombard rhythm the name Scotch snap comes from its use in traditional Scottish music and the name Lombard is more associated with barck music, for example this piece here by Henry Pel, but we can also hear this rhythm in modern music and as Adam Neely points out in his excellent video on the subject there is a lot of R&B and hip-hop music at the moment using this Lombard Scottish rhythm.

Can I offer you something between you and if I'm shining, you'll all shine? I was born this way, I don't even have to try. For our next beat, let's go back to Latin America and talk about bosan NOA bosan NOA is a Brazilian style of music that emerged in the 50s and 60s, it uses various syncopated rhythms, but there is one rhythm in particular that you can consider the archetypal one. Bosanova Rhythm and this is it. I like to think of it as 33433, although you won't find it on all NOA bossons, you can often hear this rhythm played on the snare in boss andova songs and occasionally you can also hear the NOA boson influencing other music.

For example, we can hear very clearly the rhythm of the NOA boson in Break On Through. This rhythm is known as Charleston. Charleston was originally a song written for the Charleston dance that was popularized by the Broadway musical. Char's song prominently features this The rhythm is effectively the first two notes of a tracho rhythm or a key. The rhythm of a waltz is a very common three-four rhythm, a simple pattern of three beats, one strong and two weak, producing a kind of rhythm. Wales was originally written, of course, for dancing, but very soon, composers began to use the style and sound of the Walts for music that was not actually intended to be danced to, for example, Chopan used the Walts as the basis of many of his pieces, but they were never written to be danced.

Also, it has never gone out of fashion, although today it is less common, we can find many examples of the Walts rhythm, that 34 oapa rhythm in popular music composed is all G oh M. Below we have what we could call the 54 keys , this is a common key. Rhythm that you can use when you play in the odd measure 54, you will notice that although we are in 54 and we have five quarter notes in this measure, this key, this rhythm only features four notes, two long and two short, this is a popular rhythm that can be use to block that sound 54, perhaps the most famous example of this CL is the mission that is possible for them now.

I mentioned the triplets before. Triplets are when we hit three notes in the space where there would normally only be two notes, sometimes people remember. the sound of triplets going to triplet triplet for three hits triplets are a form of what we call tlets a tolet is any time when we have to place a different number of notes in a space than would normally go there in the particular time signature we're in, so it could have Quinn tuplets or sep tuplets. When we use tuplets, for example triplets, it means that we could effectively have two different measures on top of each other at the same time, two different rhythmic schemes giving us what we can. call a poly rhythm, for example, a triplet, like I said a second ago, it's when we fit three notes in the space where normally we would have two, but what if we had both at the same time, one part played all three, the triplet and other? part was to play both well, we would end up with a 3 over 2 poly rhythm.

This particular 3 over 2 poly rhythm can be called a hemiola, but it can also be called a good cup of tea because a good cup of T gives us the sound of the compound 3 over 2 rhythm good cup of tea good cup of tea good cup of tea good cup of tea a great example of this good cup of tea hemiola rhythm is on Daydreaming by radio head the right hand of the piano is playing triplets of three notes on the left hand of the piano playing two notes now with polyrhythms, technically we could have any polyrhythm of any two numbers 5 over 4 7 over 11, but in practice there are only two common ones that you see used.

I have had 3 over 2, which is the first common, a good cup of tea and the other common is 4 over three, which we could name with the useful phrase pass the damn butter because that phrase naturally gives us the compound rhythm of that pass 4 over 3. damn butter pass damn butter a great example of this damn butter pass 4 over 3 three poly rhythm in action is the song Fake Empire from the national in this song we can see that the left hand is playing three beats for every four times the right hand plays like an Englishman, this next rhythm is what I would call the football clap or the England chant and anyone in England knows that what you are supposed to do on the last two strokes of that rhythm is say England now.

First of all, I'm really intrigued to know if anyone from other countries thinks this rhythm has to do with soccer or if they know it with a different connotation, maybe in a different sport, in a different environment. I don't know, there are some songs they've used. it the older being let go of the Roes come on and we can hear it in the self-preservation society of The Italian Job and our final rhythm today is what we can call shaving and haircut two bits the two bits here for the way it refers to quarter slang in the US, so it says a shaved haircut costs a quarter.

It is not particularly clear where this rhythm came from and how it became popular, but cases of it have been recorded as far back as 1899. What is really interesting about this rhythm, however, is that we can feel the rhythmic call and response, even if only It's played rhythmically like this, we know you need those two bits to resolve the rhythm, otherwise it's unsatisfying, so of course a musician's classic joke is to shave your hair, but I don't give you the two bits as we can hear , for example, at the end of this Dexter Gordon track, so that's 18 rhythms you

should

know, the names of things are with rhythms, unlike chords or scales, not all rhythms have a recognized name.

In fact, I would say that most rhythms don't have a recognized name, those that do have a particular prevalence or history that makes it useful to be able to refer to them by a consistent name, so if you can think of other rhythms that have a set name, let me know in the comments below