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Speaking the language of music: Vocabulary, part 3

Speaking the language of music: Vocabulary, part 3

From the course: Singing Lessons: 1 Fundamentals

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Speaking the language of music: Vocabulary, part 3

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- We are going to round out our definitions of the vocabulary that we're going to be using a lot here with the last two terms that have to do with beat, rhythm, not pitch-related, not frequency-related, but beat-related, and we're going to start with the word meter. Meter is the pattern of stresses and accents that provide what we perceive as the beat, or the pulse. We all intuitively know how to make a beat. We feel it, again, it's one of those primal, instinctual human abilities. Before we could ever talk to each other, we were communicating with beats, with drums. Indigenous cultures across the planet always have used drums to communicate and beats to communicate, so this is stuff that comes really naturally to human beings. We're going to start with the word meter, and we're going to demonstrate it by creating a beat at a particular beats per minute. So how many beats happen in a unit of time. All of these vocabulary words that we're using in this section all have to do with time.…

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