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!
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