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Speaking the language of music: Vocabulary, part 4

Speaking the language of music: Vocabulary, part 4

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Speaking the language of music: Vocabulary, part 4

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- So we have established, we've heard, varying beats, 120 beats per minute, 60 beats per minute, 93 beats per minute and talked about how that creates a meter or a perception of a beat happening at regular intervals in time. The next term we're going to talk about is tempo. And that relates directly to how many beats per minute are we talking about. So the tempo is faster at 120 beats per minute, more beats per minute means faster tempo. It's twice as fast a tempo than 60 beats per minute. So when we talk about tempo, we're talking about how fast or how slow, specifically how many beats per minute. That's how we measure tempo, how many beats per minute are happening. 120 beats per minute would be a fast tempo, higher than 120 would be brisk. Like fast bluegrass. That would be a really brisk tempo. A ballad like somewhere over the rainbow. ♫ Somewhere over the rainbow Very slow tempo. So that's tempo. Now, rhythm, it's funny I was looking up what the actual definition of rhythm is and…

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