Rhythm in sentence

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With a steady beat as a foundation, we can add rhythm to our pitches, and that's when music really starts to happen.

It's the most basic unit of rhythm, and it's worth one beat.

Let's add another instrument with its own pitch and rhythm.

We usually think of rhythm as an element of music, but it's actually found everywhere in the world around us, from the ocean tides to our own heartbeats, rhythm is essentially an event repeating regularly over time.

Even the ticking of a clock itself is a sort of rhythm.

But for musical rhythm, a steady string of repeating single beats is not enough.

In standard notation, rhythm is indicated on a musical bar line, but there are other ways.

Just as its round face can trace the linear passage of time, the flow of rhythm can be traced in a circle.

The continuity of a wheel can be a more intuitive way to visualize rhythm than a linear score that requires moving back and forth along the page.

Here is a basic two beat rhythm with a main beat and an opposing off beat.

Or a three beat rhythm with a main beat, an off beat, and a secondary beat.

For example, we can combine a basic two beat rhythm with off beats to get a four beat system.

Or we can combine a two beat rhythm with a three beat one.

Eliminating the extra main beat and rotating the inner wheel leaves us with a rhythm whose underlying feel is three-four.

In an eight beat system, we have three layered circles, each rhythm played by a different instrument.

Now let's remove everything except for this combined rhythm and the basic two beat on top.

In all of these examples, the underlying rhythm reinforces the basic one-two, but in different ways depending on arrangement and cultural context.

By freeing us from the tyranny of the bar line, we can visualize rhythm in terms of time, and a simple turn of the wheel can take us on a musical journey around the world.

Similarly, the electric shock from a defibrillator doesn't jump-start an inanimate heart, but resynchronizes the muscle cells in an abnormally beating heart so they regain their normal rhythm.

Instead, we use sound to listen for features like pitch and tone and rhythm and volume to infer a story behind the sounds.

The injured muscle may not be able to pump blood as well, and its rhythm might be thrown off.

So without even realizing it, my solution was to take the muffled sound I heard, that was the beat, and turn it into a rhythm and place it with the lips I read.

Years later, someone commented that my writing had a rhythm to it.

Now, juggling can be a lot of fun; play with skill and play with space, play with rhythm.

So, visual music: rhythm and complexity.

OK, if you keep them in their assigned paths you get parallel lines of different heights, but then hopefully even rhythm.

You can change the rhythm, if you get out of the lights.

OK? Change the rhythm, so it's even.

And you could play with the rhythm.

Now, it's dependent on rhythm, and keeping a center of balance.

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