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That's a good question, and it's one of MANY ways a songwriter can express creativity, using both rhythm AND melody. The instinct is to usually start a lyric on the downbeat of a measure, but that is too obvious sometimes. You don't want ALL of your lyrics to start on the beat. The best thing to do is to start to hear this is the music you listen to. Where is the downbeat, and where are the lyrics starting? You'll start to gain more rhythmic acumen as you listen for these sort of things. Thanks for watching!
Thanks brother! Been to plenty of sites with the same topic, but yours is the best!! I'll have to go through my list of songs and see how I was doing.I'm playing the guitar now and I pick a beat in Garageband and add the string sections. Played drums in a rock band back in the late 60's and early 70's, but never really learned anything. I just had a natural rhythm and I pretty much just counted 1,2,3,4. Again thanks! This time I'll sound better for sure...🎸
Beautifully explained brother. This was one topic that I was unable to understand but today all the queries have been answered. Thanks a lot once again.
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Excellent explanation. Just trying to understand how downbeats translate to James Brown's music and its uniqueness. I'm also thinking of "Billie Jean."
@MPam1619 I'm glad you enjoyed it! Music is all about setting up expectations, and then either fulfilling them or denying them. You expect music to happen on the beat, so by varying that and putting it on the upbeat you can make it more interesting. I hope that addresses what you were speaking to. 😁
Great Video. I was watching a drumming video where they were describing the downbeat as on the 1 and 3. They were saying you could think of the downbeat as accented as compared to unaccented. This was confusing to me because I was of the impression that the downbeat was as you said in this video, both on the first beat of a measure OR on beats 1, 2, 3, and 4 of a 4 beat bar. So it confused me. What are your opinions on that?
Great questions! As usual in music, there are multiple right answers! If you think about each number being a downbeat on a zoomed in level, and the downbeat of the measure being on a zoomed out level, the one on the three are sort of like downbeats in between those two levels. I've never really heard them called downbeats before, but in 4/4 time they are traditionally thought of as strong beats. A 4/4 measure usually goes like this: SWsw, where the S is a strong beat and the W is a weak beat, and the capital letters are slightly stronger than the small letters, if that makes sense. So beat 1 is the strongest, followed by beat 3, then beat two, then beat four. I hope this serves to clarify rather than to confuse!😂 Let me know if you have other questions.
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This was very helpful. Thank you!!
I'm so glad to hear it! Stumbling over terms in music can be frustrating and confusing. Thanks for watching!😎
This helped me so much thank you!!
Glad to hear it! Everything is easy once you can see it. 😁
Please talk about which is best to start a lyric.
That's a good question, and it's one of MANY ways a songwriter can express creativity, using both rhythm AND melody. The instinct is to usually start a lyric on the downbeat of a measure, but that is too obvious sometimes. You don't want ALL of your lyrics to start on the beat. The best thing to do is to start to hear this is the music you listen to. Where is the downbeat, and where are the lyrics starting? You'll start to gain more rhythmic acumen as you listen for these sort of things. Thanks for watching!
Many thanks
Glad I could be of help! Thanks so much for watching.
Thanks brother! Been to plenty of sites with the same topic, but yours is the best!! I'll have to go through my list of songs and see how I was doing.I'm playing the guitar now and I pick a beat in Garageband and add the string sections. Played drums in a rock band back in the late 60's and early 70's, but never really learned anything. I just had a natural rhythm and I pretty much just counted 1,2,3,4. Again thanks! This time I'll sound better for sure...🎸
Beautifully explained brother. This was one topic that I was unable to understand but today all the queries have been answered. Thanks a lot once again.
Glad to hear that!
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Great Video. You made me understand. Thanks.
Glad it helped!
Thanks!!
Thanks for watching!
Excellent explanation. Just trying to understand how downbeats translate to James Brown's music and its uniqueness. I'm also thinking of "Billie Jean."
@MPam1619
I'm glad you enjoyed it! Music is all about setting up expectations, and then either fulfilling them or denying them. You expect music to happen on the beat, so by varying that and putting it on the upbeat you can make it more interesting. I hope that addresses what you were speaking to. 😁
Great Video. I was watching a drumming video where they were describing the downbeat as on the 1 and 3. They were saying you could think of the downbeat as accented as compared to unaccented. This was confusing to me because I was of the impression that the downbeat was as you said in this video, both on the first beat of a measure OR on beats 1, 2, 3, and 4 of a 4 beat bar. So it confused me. What are your opinions on that?
Great questions! As usual in music, there are multiple right answers! If you think about each number being a downbeat on a zoomed in level, and the downbeat of the measure being on a zoomed out level, the one on the three are sort of like downbeats in between those two levels. I've never really heard them called downbeats before, but in 4/4 time they are traditionally thought of as strong beats. A 4/4 measure usually goes like this: SWsw, where the S is a strong beat and the W is a weak beat, and the capital letters are slightly stronger than the small letters, if that makes sense. So beat 1 is the strongest, followed by beat 3, then beat two, then beat four. I hope this serves to clarify rather than to confuse!😂 Let me know if you have other questions.
Raises the question, not begs. Begging the question is a type of logical fallacy.
Almost as if the question is BEGGING to be asked....Yeah, I think that work okay. Thanks for watching!