What is the difference between beat and rhythm? What is an example of both in music?
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I am no expert at all, but this is my best explanation of this from what I know.
The first way I use the word beat, is one note in a measure. So if I used it in a sentence I would say “There are four beats in this measure”, 1, 2, 3, 4.
Either way a beat is normally known as one individual occurance of a sound.
If you mean the word as used in the phrase, “hey! Give me a beat”, is usually just a slang term for having someone give you a drum pattern or cadence or something along those lines.
Rhythm is defined as a repeated occurrence of a beat, melody, or riff (as in a guitar riff in a song.) So if you played a drum beat repeatedly in a song, that could be the rhythm of the song.
*again, I’m no expert but I hope this helped!
The beat is the steady pulse that you feel in the tune, like a clock’s tick. It’s the beat you’d naturally clap along to, or tap your foot to. The rhythm is the actual sound or time value of the notes, which in a song would also be the same as the words.
The very one example is to listen a basic drum line. The constant hi hat stroke is the beat and a complete drum pattern is a rhythm you would groove along with
Music is broken down into beats per measure (a measure is basically a short segment of music) and different pieces of music have different numbers of beats per measure. Although the number of beats per measure can change within a piece of music, for explanations’ sake, let’s assume that the entire song has four beats per measure for the entire piece. Beats in this song will always the same no matter what the tune or rhythm is. When a crowd claps their hands along to a piece of bouncy music, they are clapping along with the beat (either every beat or every other beat).
Rhythm is how many notes you play per beat, and how you vary your note lengths. So you could play one note evenly per beat (dum dum dum dum), or you could play two notes for some beats, where those two notes have to take up the same amount of time as one regular beat, so they are twice as fast (dum-dum dum-dum dum-dum dum-dum), or you could play one note for every two beats, so each note would have to be twice as slow as a regular beat (duum duum), and so on and so forth for increasingly complex rhythms. In each of these examples, you are playing four beats, but each is a different rhythm with a different number of notes per beat.
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