How Music Works 2 - Rhythm - Part 4

[KloppingJ]

Stravinsky was not a classical composer, asshole.

[alexandergreenb]

I'd really like to see an episode of this on noise

[yogisadventures]

mmmm... hot, steamy, and... musical

[Dynamik5]

I remember the The Message from Grandmaster Flash from GTA VIce CIty woot. Good times haha

[raultejedor]

I´d trade my suma cum laude degree in macro economics + my Merceces Benz for that son sense of rythm.

[mussman717word]

Nobody will ever convince me that "Twista" or whatever the fuck his name is will ever be half, or even one eighth, as rhythmically mature as Elvin Jones.

[crazypianolady]

I've never seen such a clear, simple and interesting documentary as this one!

[PeeteyP]

@crazypianolady cry out loud, yeah, dude(what's his name) BREAKS-IT-DOWN!

[ltbmuse]

Is there anyone else alive that has such a comprehensive understanding and appreciation of so many different styles of music and is able to communicate it so effectively?

[tovstenko]

Wow I understood most of these things subconsciously, seems like everything falls into place after watching this video

[antiFoolishness]

this is so cool that I'm about to cry...!!!

[mdinka]

I think the pushing or preemptive beat as he called it, is just one of many basic clave patterns found on Cuba. And they again are based on one of the oldest and widest known rhythms in west- and northafrica. The real action in son happens between the rather solemn or melancholic melody line that's constantly trying to hold back the music and the strongly forward pushing clave beat. It is if one could not decide whether life is beautiful or sad.

[demoneyeza]

hot steamy and musical lol

[mdinka]

haha they went bananas. that reminds me of

Rowan Atkinson Live: Rowan Atkinson Live - Amazing Jesus 

[JLJorgenson18]

I love it when he says "Twista," hilarious with a proper British accent

[fabianidhesona]

stravinsky was too extreme.

[Rodztar13]

8:18 no puede cojer el son ni por la madre que lo pario jejeje

[admentlore]

I love Latin music!

[Blixzit]

So in a way, all the different rhythms of music can be charted on a spectrum. Like the 3 runners... Swing at the (s)low end, and Son at the high (fast) end. Brilliant!

[MrLesWhite]

TWIGGY TWISTA!

Dude is an enigma!!

[varunjewalikar]

"when classical composers did finally start to play around with layered cross rhythms they went bananas like someone discovering sex for the first time aged sixty"

lol! almost fell off my chair

[ashbash986]

1.22 i thought howard was going to tantalize us...

[whizkidforte]

Gotta love that presentation, Howard, especially with the runners and the occasional maraca! =D

[PeterInglisGuitar]

Rap music. Analyses "Hope" by Twista and Faith Evans. "Rite of Spring" (1912) by Igor Stravinsky. Uses Cuban music as an example of complex and popular dance music which fuses African rhythms with European harmony and local percussion instruments.

Looks at anticipation, using multiple runners and "En Guantanamo".