Musical Time: A Lesson in Continuity

An illuminating lesson in how the way we think about the meter profoundly influences our sense of rhythm…

A Lesson in Continuity (YouTube)

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A Lesson in Continuity Video Takeaways

1. Musical time is not a sequence of isolate digital events called beats.
2. Musical time is analog, not digital.
3. The musical way to think of meter is as continuous cycles, not separate precisely timed events.
4. Rhythm is not arithmetic. Rhythm is movement.
5. Rhythm cannot be fully understood by counting inside your head. Rhythm can only be fully understood by moving your body.
6. The way you think about the meter is going be the way you automatically express the meter with your body motions.
7. When you think about meter as a continuous flow rather than a sequence of numbers, something remarkable happens: Your body instinctually and naturally expresses that meter in a way that automatically looks, sounds, and feels musical.

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