How Music Works 2 - Rhythm - Part 3

Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzRGH-5yk-w

The development of Syncopation in Ragtime to Swing in Jazz. Uses Fats Waller piano rolls to demonstrate the evolution.

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[HymanKnajdl]

Scott Joplin? Fats Waller? Is that classical and Euro-centric?

[TheSophist2007]

swing is cool!

[piratesefff]

man at 2:15-2:20 it was exactly like sitting in jackson square watching revelers dancing down the street. love how new orleans culture preserves itself naturally without needing hoity toity societies and arts endowments, as if the city is actually expressing itself through its people no matter what century it is.

of course all the murdering and rape sucks lol :)

[jcostello69]

What's much more interesting is how rhythm affects people.....and theorizing about why and how.

[Sn4pDr4gon]

@hellobrowizard101 LoL. Thated be grate if fart then boner. LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL

[hellobrowizard101]

OMG I AM FEELING SO HORNY RIGHT NOW

[Trickdogg7]

@TheSophist2007 Yes it is very cool! Here's an example of how cool it can still be today, behold new school swing - Artist Chinese man. Song Artichaut. - Fucking love that song = )

[PeeteyP]

I lost the farm at 9:25

[PeeteyP]

The elastication of the syncopation swept the nation.

[Komputerism]

Ragtime is great if an Italian plumber being chased by lizards. 

[potchonk]

I think blues is the perfect combination of european knowledge of melody and african sense of rhtym, and it give the basic to the other good stuff (ragtime, jazz, rock n roll, progressive rock, etc). Classical music without getting influenced by african and latin rhytm evolving become weird and scary, but todays crap is.. just crap (stupid easy happy melody and sampling rhytm, nothing improvement here).

[jdenicholls]

@tserhey Rhythm usually refers to a current motion, not just events in time. While it is true that melodies often repeat themselves they certainly don't do it as much as your average drumbeat. You could use rhythm to refer to the timing of a melody, but it's more likely to mean the pulse, beat, tempo and accents of a piece of music.