What Music Means to Me
Veteran music educator and composer shares his thoughts on the intersection of music and living.
Sunday, Oct 21, 2007
Episode 6: The Thing About Rhythm
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Of all the so-called "Elements of Music", find out why Dr. Watson feels Rhythm is king! In this episode, Watson painlessly explains what is so primal about rhythm using demonstrations from the world of acoustics and sound synthesis.
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The Thing About Rhythm, was interesting
it was nice to put a voice with Your face Dr. Watson. Even though this was just about ten minutes long it was packed with information. Melody is pitch and rhythm together and rhythm and pitch are really the same wnen pitch is fast. I am not going
to comment on tone color right now.The rhythm is the duration of the music or element I guess I could say. Is the song at the end The Little Drummer Boy? Wade Carpenter.
I found the thing about rhythm very interesting. I had never put together the idea that rhythm can produce the pitch by speeding it up. We use vibration technology to trouble shoot mechanical problems at work which is very interesting. I had never put the two together.