David A. Tanzer, October 2023. Unit: Brazilian Music – All Posts – Next Post

In these posts, we will introduce specific Brazilian rhythms. Articles here have been reviewed by Fabiano Salek.

To set up a language for describing rhythms, we’ll first talk about the syllables for counting rhythms, and then introduce some notation.

We’ll start with samba as an example. But this will lead us to the tools needed for … Read more

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Here is the 3-2 form:

1 e & a 2 e & a 3 e & a 4 e & a
* _ _ * _ _ * _ _ _ * _ _ * _ _

Here is the 2-3 form:

1 e & a 2 e & a 3 e 

David A. Tanzer, October 2023. Unit: Time in Music – All Posts – Prev Post

1 e & a 2 e & a 3 e & a 4 e & a
_ * _ * _ * * _ * _ * _ * * _ *