Rhythm exercise 4-6s

Featured figure

Name	Symbols	Duration
One sixteenth note rest, one eighth note, one sixteenth note		¼ of a beat, ½ a beat, ¼ of a beat
x tied to one sixteenth note, one eighth note, one sixteenth note		¼ of a beat, ½ a beat, ¼ of a beat

Graphic
representation

This figure
compared
to the
master
figure

Usage
of this
figure

This figure is probably the hardest to feel of all.
It only contains the two weakest elements of a beat, giving it a gliding sensation.
Humans have generally started feeling this figure since the rhythm revolution of the 1975-85 period, but few people could repeat it, even nowadays.

This figure marks the end of the long evolution of rhythms based on the division by four.
The history of sixteenth note rhythms started more than a thousand years ago with the appearance of the master figure which resulted from the resubdivision of the binary division.
Two new notes had been added between the existing two.

Now in the twenty-first century, we are able to feel and play all sixteen possibilities ensuing from this division.
The figure studied here represents the outcome of this system, since we find in it the simple eighth note rhythm, but this time shifted by one quarter of a beat.