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Terminology for rhythmic "feel" is really hard to agree on
without
powerful standard
measuring devices like computers. As a result, rhythmic
compositions
are not named or commodified as regularly as melodic
and
chordal
compositions are. Now that we have powerful measuring
devices
like
computers, a standards body should get together and
initiate a
naming convention so that the spirit can be sucked out of
global
tribal rhythmic composition and it can be commodified
and placed
on the wall of Target and Wallmart and CVS so that cud-
chewing
Americans can use their collective capitalistic
discernment to take
over from the ancestors, the spiritual guidance of the
heartbeat of the world.
So I think they do this in Indian music but only as a
linguistic way
to more easily
memorize rhythms that are already easy to notate. This standard for beat naming would come up with
naming
conventions for the the "feel" of rhythms that are more
easily
measured by a computer and for which humans have not
come up
with a precisely descriptive naming convention already.
So there
would possibly be a distinction between a measure where
the
player
is swinging consistently at 27 percent of the beat and a
measure
where the player varies the swing from 24
percent
to 32 percent etc.
These
naming conventions could start out by being agreed on by
human intuition first and then measured with computers
to
increase
the precision of the language. Then later there could be
a filing
system so that tribal beats that fall into one or another
convention
can be sold to the highest bidder.
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Please link up youtube demonstrating some of these unnamed rhythmic compositions. I do not know what it means to be swinging consistently at 27% of the beat but maybe I will grok if I hear it. |
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More simply there would be a name for a 27 percent swing
and one for a 28 percent swing. But rather than just notate
the whole thing with a computer there could be worked out
language to precisely describe individual contributions to
schools of rhythmic flavor. |
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