Most likely, you don't have any problems with coming up with a basic idea for a beat, melody or some chords. What may happen is that you might not know how to go from there and consequently turn those ideas into a full fledged song. What you need to know is that even the … Continue reading How to Develop Your Musical Ideas
Rhythm and melody go hand in hand as it creates movement, tension and contributes to the emotional value in the development of your musical ideas - learn how by using polyrhythms, different meters, accents, metric modulation and other techniques:
Tempo can also be modulated just as you can modulate to a different tonality. That can be achieved by simply performing a given musical passage in a faster or slower tempo, or even gradually change the tempo (Ritardando or Accelerando). This is called a metric modulation, because tempo is altered in the course of the … Continue reading Metric Modulation
In this post I will be mentioning two ways you can influence the listener in how a given rhythmic part or groove is perceived. In some cases you can even use the same rhythmic cell that you have been using for that effect and that can be achieved when you displace the notes accents. … Continue reading Rhythmic Accent and Polymeters
Polyrhythms are a way of introducing some freshness and novelty in the way you combine different rhythms played by different or a single instrument. Also referred to as cross-rhythm, a polyrhythm is essentially a combination of two or more different rhythms that follow the same basic pulse reference but subdivide it in different ways. When … Continue reading Polyrhythms
There is much more to say about rhythm than what I will be exposing in this post. However, I am assuming that you already know enough about rhythm figures, meter and pulse, to follow along. Depending on certain music genres, rhythm can be one of the most defining characteristics of that genre – see Blues, … Continue reading Rhythm and Music Expression
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