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- What are the On and Off beats? - Music: Practice Theory Stack Exchange
I'm very new to music theory and I've seen this taught two ways: The On beat is on every 1 and 3 beat while the Off beat is every 2 and 4 (in 4 4 time) The On beat is on every Strong Secondary Stro
- Fast quarters or slow eighths? - Music: Practice Theory Stack Exchange
1 So I'm thinking about I'm Still Standing by Elton John It's basically fast quarter notes in the left hand and you sort of chase the beat with the offbeat in the right hand Thing is I'm still not toally sure why it's one bar of fast quarters and not half a bar of slow eighths
- theory - Stressing the third beat more than the first in 4 4: is it . . .
4 The definitions of syncopation I've come across generally talk about stressing the offbeat (see, for example, Wikipedia) where "offbeat" sometimes refers to placing the accent in between beats (on the "and") and in other cases it's about emphasising the weak beats (such as beats 2 and 4 in 4 4 or beats 2 and 3 in 3 4)
- theory - Is there a difference between playing off the beat and . . .
The answers show that different people unterstand “playing off the beat” in quite widely different ways If this exam question was graded expecting a single specific “correct” answer, then it was a bad question (though less unreasonable if the exam was following a specific course or textbook that had used one particular meaning of the phrase) On the other hand, as @AlbrechtHügli
- performing - Music: Practice Theory Stack Exchange
This is something which I have found is performed much more by European artists than American After many years performing, artists start to modify their songs Speeding up some beats, and stretching
- What do we call music which is not played on the beat?
The second and fourth are weaker - the "off-beats" So, when you don't play on the 'strong' beats of the measure, but on the weak ones, you play off beat or a simpler Offbeat, originally a music term meaning "not following the standard beat", which has also become a general synonym for "unconventional" or "unusual"
- rhythm - Music: Practice Theory Stack Exchange
The point of putting the rhythm group on the back-beat is letting the lead stand out on the beat, giving its lyric stresses and leading consonants (for a vocal lead) breathing room and giving it the lead in harmonic changes If you put the lead on the back-beat as well, there is nothing but back-beat and it becomes indistinguishable from on-beat
- On-beats vs off-beats in guitar - Music: Practice Theory Stack Exchange
One possible source of confusion: sometimes people use the term "offbeat" in a colloquial way to refer to what might more properly be called "weak beats": beats 2 and 4 in a basic 4 4 Most diatribes about "clapping on the offbeat" really mean beats 2 and 4; to clap on "offbeats" that were in fact between every beat would only apply to a hoedown-like "stomp clap stomp clap" situation
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