What is the difference between beat and rhythm? What is an example of both in music?

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What is the difference between beat and rhythm? What is an example of both in music?

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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

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