There is less emphasis on keeping a constant rhythm with alternating down- and upstrokes, but you should be able to see how the rudiments laid out in the first two examples are being put to use.

When it comes to 20th- and 21st-century music, Professor of Music Theory Daphne Leong—along with her colleagues in the world of rhythm in music performance and scholarship—engages in intense research ...

In human music, rhythm is often thought of as a constant beat, like the one that opens “We Will Rock You” by Queen. But in birdsong, rhythm refers to patterns of notes, regardless of whether ...

Lemur calls have a rhythm that may explain how humans evolved singing and music, study finds A lemur species known as the indri makes peculiar sounds that have surprising implications for human ...

Scientists have discovered that rats are able to perceive the beat of music and bop their heads along to the rhythm – an attribute previously thought to exist only in humans.

Before language, there was sound. Before logic, there was rhythm. And before we understand what someone is saying, our nervous system is already listening—sorting the frequencies, decoding the ...

Despite the differences between chimpanzee and human drumming, chimps show some of the “core building blocks of human musical rhythm”, says team member Vesta Eleuteri at the University of ...

TV show 'Rhythm Kitchen' explores the way New Orleans food and music enhance each other with Tony Tocco, owner of Atchafalaya restaurant, chef Christopher Lynch and jazz musician Delfeayo Marsalis.