Sometimes I somewhat come back to music theory and almost always end up ramming into stuff I totally fail to understand and almost hate. Weirdly, it often covers the basics, which explains why my relationship with it is such... problematic.
I think I mentioned before how I'm not happy with time signature stuff, but now I want to focus on weak and strong notes.. beats... whatever they are called.
When watching/reading about rhythm composition, you always meet that stuff. And I'm really struggling with it.
What the hell actually makes strong one strong?
In childhood I was being told that strong note is just played loudly (or you assign louder volume via velocity if stepseq or daw), but then what cases when all notes have same volume?
Sometimes I was told that strong note is the one accented with something (like vibrato, bend, whatever), but then again what about cases when it's not?
Sometimes I was told that strong note is just the first one in beat, but then I was told that often it's 2nd or 3rd note instead.. How the hell you recognize that?
And if strong one is lengthier (4th instead of 8th) then what about all those lines where all notes same length... are each 2nd note is different length from previous.
Bonus question: before coming to synthesizers and daws, I used to make music with guitar, and of course I knew which note was first in my melody line and which was last, but how does human brain recognizes that?
I tried watching all those explanatory videos on youtube about strong/weak, but I come to conclusion that it's something people agreed on with and I fail to see the logic behind, especially if it's such blurred in terms of "why".
Anyone could explain me like i'm 5? please...
P.S.
While typing this post, I was "drumming" with my fingers on the surface of table to check out some reflections, and I've end up with something like "TA ta ta ta ta ta ta ta ta ta ta ta ta ta ta ta ta... ". By that logic, first impact was "strong" and every other was "weak" - the problem is that I was continuing to keep those weak ones into eternety before my finger got tired. Damn, this whole thing feels so meaningless. And when I try to do some trip-hop/breakbeat style rhythms, is that "snare" part that is supposedly strong? it kinda feels like that... "bd skip bd SN bd skip bd bd SN". But in that case, why we have rights to say that one voice can be strong (sn) but other can be weak (bd), shouldn't we assign both weak and strong to each voice, so in beat you have several bd sounds and several sn sounds, and among each there should be a moment of strong?![:hmm:]( "hmmm.....")
I think I mentioned before how I'm not happy with time signature stuff, but now I want to focus on weak and strong notes.. beats... whatever they are called.
When watching/reading about rhythm composition, you always meet that stuff. And I'm really struggling with it.
What the hell actually makes strong one strong?
In childhood I was being told that strong note is just played loudly (or you assign louder volume via velocity if stepseq or daw), but then what cases when all notes have same volume?
Sometimes I was told that strong note is the one accented with something (like vibrato, bend, whatever), but then again what about cases when it's not?
Sometimes I was told that strong note is just the first one in beat, but then I was told that often it's 2nd or 3rd note instead.. How the hell you recognize that?
And if strong one is lengthier (4th instead of 8th) then what about all those lines where all notes same length... are each 2nd note is different length from previous.
Bonus question: before coming to synthesizers and daws, I used to make music with guitar, and of course I knew which note was first in my melody line and which was last, but how does human brain recognizes that?
I tried watching all those explanatory videos on youtube about strong/weak, but I come to conclusion that it's something people agreed on with and I fail to see the logic behind, especially if it's such blurred in terms of "why".
Anyone could explain me like i'm 5? please...
P.S.
While typing this post, I was "drumming" with my fingers on the surface of table to check out some reflections, and I've end up with something like "TA ta ta ta ta ta ta ta ta ta ta ta ta ta ta ta ta... ". By that logic, first impact was "strong" and every other was "weak" - the problem is that I was continuing to keep those weak ones into eternety before my finger got tired. Damn, this whole thing feels so meaningless. And when I try to do some trip-hop/breakbeat style rhythms, is that "snare" part that is supposedly strong? it kinda feels like that... "bd skip bd SN bd skip bd bd SN". But in that case, why we have rights to say that one voice can be strong (sn) but other can be weak (bd), shouldn't we assign both weak and strong to each voice, so in beat you have several bd sounds and several sn sounds, and among each there should be a moment of strong?
Statistics: Posted by rec.Koner — Tue Jan 07, 2025 9:10 am — Replies 14 — Views 197