![]() ![]() You're supposed to listen quietly to Chopin with your complete attention while seated and motionless. The problem with judging pop music using the same criteria you use for classical music is that they don't have the same goals and purposes. ![]() Well, a lot of music at least! Here is the locus classicus: But it is so ubiquitous now, that it is like a rigid Procrustean bed that all music is forced to lie on. This is a kind of syncopation in that it places the accents in an unexpected place. In rock, the 2nd and 4th beats are stressed instead. Normally the first beat is stressed, which helps to define the package. What's a backbeat? Nearly all popular music these days, certainly all that derives from rock, is in 4/4 meter, meaning that beats come in 4 beat packages. If you combine a little metronomic beat with the tyranny of the barline and add in a characteristic accentuation that comes from rock n' roll, then you get a structure that underlies an amazing amount of the music we hear every day. Daniel Gregory Mason The Tyranny of the Bar-Line Alas, it seems that skirmish, at least in some areas, is long lost. It may therefore be suggested, in conclusion, that the use of the metronome, even to determine the average rate of speed, is dangerous. A keen musical instinct revolts at playing even a single measure with the metronome: mathematical exactitude gives us a dead body in place of the living musical organism with its ebb and flow of rhythmical energy. It is notorious that to play with the metronome is to play mechanically - the reason being, of course, that we are then playing by the measure, or rather by the beat, instead of by the phrase. One writer wrote:Ī good performance is so full of these minute retardations and accelerations that hardly two measures will occupy exactly the same time. A related complaint was directed against the indiscriminate use of the metronome leading to a rigid sense of the beat. When the barline, or rather the beat associated with the downbeat, or first beat of the bar, became all-controlling, then it started to be called the "tyranny of the barline". Not your stereotypical rock star, Zoro is a positive role model whose example of hard work and clean living has served as an inspiration to generations.People used to talk about the tyranny of the barline which came from the very useful invention of the barline to organize ensemble music. He has been described as tenacious, dedicated, and passionate – qualities that stand out to anyone who crosses his path. The “Minister of Groove” has been the subject of dozens of print, radio and television stories for more than two decades. The author of several books, his current work-in-progress is destined to provide inspiration to readers of all ages for the fulfillment of dreams. ![]() He is consistently voted “#1 R&B Drummer & Educator” in Modern Drummer, Drum! and Rhythm Magazines. Zoro’s worldwide appeal is evident from his numerous awards and accolades. One of the world’s most renowned and respected drummers, he has toured and recorded with Lenny Kravitz, Bobby Brown, Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, The New Edition, Jody Watley, Sean Lennon, Philip Bailey, Lisa Marie Presley, among many others. Zoro is an internationally known rock star and the consummate definition of the rare man who marches to the beat of a different drum. ![]()
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