
Goal
- Convey knowledge and understanding of basic rhythm patterns.
Examples
- Abby’s post
- Cassy’s post
- Maddy’s post
- Spencer’s post
- Rhys’ post
- Michael’s post
- Hannah’s post
- Ian’s post
- Phoenix’s post
- Jake’s post
- John’s post
- Riley’s post
- Phillip’s post
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Rhythm Terms
Rhythm – A strong, regular, repeated pattern of sound.
Beat – The beat or PULSE in a piece of music is the regular rhythmic pattern. Like the beating of your heart; heartbeat.
Tempo – The SPEED at which a piece of music is to be played.
Accent – The STRESS given to a musical note.
Duration – The period of TIME during which a musical note is HELD OUT.
Meter – A specific rhythm determined by the NUMBER of beats AND the TIME VALUE assigned to each note.
Duple – When the meter of a piece of music consists of TWO BEATS per measure/bar.
Triple – When the meter of a piece of music consists of THREE BEATS per measure/bar.
Quadruple – When the meter of a piece of music consists of FOUR BEATS per measure/bar.
Syncopation – The musical rhythms in a piece of music that accents a normally WEAK BEAT (off-beat/up-beat).
Cross Rhythm – A rhythm used simultaneously with another rhythm or rhythms. The use of two or more rhythms simultaneously.
Accelerando – A gradual increase of tempo in a section of music.
Ritardando – A gradual decrease of tempo in a section of music.
Rubato – A flexible tempo in a section of music.
Product
Create a blog post with embedded media from SoundCloud and Flickr of your composition
4/4 Time Signature with F and C Notes
Steps
- Day 1
- Create a blog post titled, Making Beats
- Create headings
- Summary
- Rhythm Terms
- Copyright Criminals Notes
- My Beat
- What I Learned
- Copy and paste the terms under the Rhythm Terms heading
- Play with the terms at Quizlet.com
- Listen to Superstition by Stevie Wonder
- Listen for the rhythm hook at the beginning of the song
- Analyze and explore the rhythmic pattern at funklet.com
- Play with funklet.com
- Explore other great drum patterns
- Examine Led Zeppelin’s Heartbreaker (MIDI)
- Create the heading Copyright Criminals Notes
- Start Copyright Criminals
- Take notes
- Funky Drummer– Clyde Stubblefield
- Funky Drummer from Copyright Criminals
- Resampled so so so many times
- EXAMPLE: Sinéad O’connor – I am Stretched on your Grave
- Day 2
- Finish Copyright Criminals
- Explore free MIDI files midiworld.com/files/
- Download this simple duple and quadruple meter MIDI file as a starting point
- Pick a MIDI beat and/or music notation editors
- html5drummachine.com – can save WAV files but not MIDI files
- onlinesequencer.net
- It is only a MIDI editor with notation but a good place to start
- You can export the file as a MIDI file and import in one of the programs below
- Drumbot – Mr. Le Duc’s favorite ( you can export a WAV file for SoundCloud)
- BeatLab
- Splice
- SoundTrap
- AudioTool
- flat.io – online and can save WAV or MP3 files
- noteflight.com – online and can save WAV or MP3 files
- MuseScore downloadable program and can save WAV or MP3 files
- Compose a simple drum pattern for 8 measures
- You may use whatever time signature you want
- Make sure there is a nice driving, forward movement
- Does the listener want to tap their foot?
- Does it make the listener want to dance?
- Day 3
- Finish composition
- Export as an WAV or MP3 file
- Upload to SoundCloud.com
- Take a screenshot of the beat structure / music notation
- Upload the beat structure / notation screenshot to Flickr
- Under the My Beat heading
- Embed your SoundCloud beat into the blog post
- Embed the notation screenshot into the blog post
- Place a link to your onlinesequencer.net creation
- Write what you learned under the What I Learned heading
- Explain in your blog post how you composed your beat using rhythm terms
- Remember you are writing for an audience that was not in the class, so explain what the project was and what you did for it
- Explain in your blog post how you composed your beat using rhythm terms
- Write the summary under the Summary heading
Tools
- Beat Generator
- html5drummachine.com – online – can save WAV files for SoundCloud but not MIDI files
- Beat and Notation Editors
- onlinesequencer.net – online
- It is only a MIDI editor with notation but a good place to start
- You can export the file as a MIDI file and import in one of the programs below
- Drumbot – You can export a WAV file for SoundCloud
- BeatLab – online
- Splice – online
- SoundTrap – online
- AudioTool – online
- flat.io – online
- noteflight.com – online
- MuseScore – downloadable program
- onlinesequencer.net – online
- GarageBand
- SoundCloud
- Flickr
Resources
- Rhythm Terms
- Drum Skills
- Drum School App (Video Overview)