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Mixed Meters and Additive Metronome
Intro - Screen Shot - What it sounds like - Adjusting the rhythm - Examples - Music with additive rhythms
Intro
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Rhythms like this are common in Bulgarian music, Indian Tala, African music etc. You can use this metronome to practice any additive rhythms from the simpler ones such as 2 + 3 (i.e. 5/4 divided into two beats followed by 3 beats) or 3 + 2 + 3 etc. up to complex cycles of dozens of rhythms one after another
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Screen Shot (doesn't play notes)
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As with the Basic Metronome, you can accent or unaccent beats with RIGHT CLICK, skip beats with LEFT CLICK, adjust beat volumes with MIDDLE CLICK or SHIFT + LEFT CLICK. For details see the page about the Basic metronome.
You can also play your rhythm with swing, or practice with a gradually changing tempo, or add a lilt to the bar timings. For more about this see the page about the Pro metronome.
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What it sounds like
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Here is what it sounds like: 3 + 2 + 3 / 4 - additive rhythm preset.
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Adjusting the rhythm
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As with the Basic Metronome, you can accent or unaccent beats with RIGHT CLICK, skip beats with LEFT CLICK, adjust beat volumes with MIDDLE CLICK or SHIFT + LEFT CLICK. For details see the page about the Basic metronome.
You can also swing beats, make syncopated rhythms and so on.
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Examples
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Here is the same additive rhythm 3 + 2 + 3 / 4 with a medium swing and syncopation.
Here is what it sounds like: 3 + 2 + 3 / 4 - additive rhythm syncopated with medium swing
Then again, this time played with the quarter notes (crotchets) divided into eighth notes (quavers) which are then swung:
Here is what it sounds like: 3 + 2 + 3 / 4 - additive rhythm with two sub-beats syncopated with medium swing
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Music with additive rhythms
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Rhythms like this, and more elaborate ones, are used in Bulgarian, Indian Tala, African music etc...
See Mastering Odd, Complex Time Signatures And Rhythms
for many examples of more complex additive rhythms to try out (with audio clips of music using the rhythms)
For the Bulgarian music see: Music of Bulgaria - Folk Dances (Wikipedia)
For the Indian music see: Tala (Wikipedia)
For an example of complex African additive type rhythms (with other complications) see Ewe Music
In Western classical music, Bartok is an example of a composer who used rhythms like this, influenced by Bulgarian music.
See Additive Rhythm (Wikipedia)
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