Syncopation is the art of landing where the listener does not expect you to land. In a normally accented rhythm, the heaviest emphasis falls on the beat itself…
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Two eighth notes look identical on a page. But how they are played — and how they feel — depends entirely on the style of music and the instructions (explicit…
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At the beginning of a piece of music — just after the clef, before the first note — sits a fraction that is not quite a fraction.
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Every sound has a beginning and a length. Those two facts — when a sound starts and how long it lasts — are the raw material of rhythm.
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Here is the most stripped-down definition of music you will ever encounter, and also the most durable: music is sound and silence in time.
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