Graphic representation
This figure compared to the master figure
Mental description
The first two
Usage of this figure
This figure only appeared, in popular culture, during the twentieth centuty, but mostly at the end of the 1970s.
It is almost totally absent in classical music.
With its long note on the second sixteenth note, this is another musical anapaest.
It has long been considered an upside-down rhythm.
This figure, along with the one in exercise 4-6, contain syncopations.
A syncopation occurs when a note, played on a weak rhythmic position, is sustained over the following strong position.
The second and fourth sixteenth notes of each beat are rhythmically weak positions.
Any note that stats on the weak second or fourth sixteenth notes and is sustained over the following strong first or third sixteenth note will create a syncopation.
Sixteenth note syncopations
Sixteenth note syncopations
How to perform
this figure
A: Start by doing this rhythm, using the syllable "Ta".
B: Transform the third and fourth "Ta" into a "Tu".
C: Eliminate the "Tu".
Audio renditions
BELOW
STEREO FIELD
Beat your
foot!
RECOMMENDED
Exercise 4-5
Tempo 70 bpm
Exercise 4-5
Tempo 90 bpm
Exercise 4-5
Tempo 110 bpm
Exercise 4-5
Complete score
Tempo 70
Tempo 90
Tempo 110