Composing a Rhythm

David Mann demonstrates a fool proof way to compose a memorable rhythm every time using nothing but a coin.

[martinh]

A real musician would not think like this. He would be interested in the coin.

[PatrickStefan]

Will use this for teaching kids! Thanks

[kappabravomusic]

Pretty interesting way. Thanks for sharing this idea.

[peskyfervid]

You don't even need the coin. Just put a dot in any square you want. Any combination of on and off can become a rhythm. Flipping the coin is just another way of deciding.

[jz]

Thank-you. Fascinating.

Fyi, the sound level is quite low.

[mccrabby]

This is awesome! I’ve been looking for a more official way to describe the process of building out songs and love the idea of randomizing with a coin

[wendyrbielski]

Oh Thank You! I am having so much fun with your given method and so looking forward to where this takes me, know will be continued fun, Thank You 👏🌟

[clasesdepercusion]

Cool, look for the book of movements too!

[XXIII_]

This is a fun tool to use while writing!

[rebusd]

I started watching to learn just what the heck 'vaviesly' was. All kidding aside, thank you for the lesson and insight

[jasondaniels]

Thanks for this video. I have been having problems with composing rhythms. I have a couple of questions. How do I transfer what's in my head(in terms of rhytm) into my composition. I often have problems knowing what specific note lengths are in my head onto the paper. I'm not sure how to do that. Thank you.

[subjektivenoise]

I just spent 2 hours trying to make an interesting melodic loop for a song... nothing! It kept getting worse, to the point of nothing making sense anymore and the inittial motivation and inspiration for the song completely vanished.

[strangerting]

This is so good! Other than AABA and AABC are there any useful patterns?

[thejcquartet]

Damn, Mozart must have spun a lot of coins. But I only use cards now so I'm buggered. Seriously, creating rhythms in a random way is always valid and can be useful, but we do that just mentally anyway, especially when prompted by a lyric or just a sentence. Personally, I instantly think of different rhythms by simply looking at something to hand and saying what I see, which then creates a word rhythm e.g. 'my laptop... is getting old'. This sentence can be said differently of course, but that is not the point. The point is that it creates something we didn't consciously aim for, like with the coin method. It's a great method for instant, off-the-cuff rhythms especially when performing and improvising. And my laptop is actually pretty damn old.

[jeroenfigee]

oooops ... we got a little problem here, if we wanna
do rhythms with 16th notes 🙂
I think there was also some stuff out there on
writing music with dice.
A sort of random-generated-music.
I am a composer but never tried that....
[ let's give it a spin ;-p ]

[iliadisgeorge]

Ok i see your point! but what you show us regarding rhythm, is the rhythm of the melody, the molodic phrasing. Your video is not about composing a Rhythm, but composing a meloding phrasing.

[PiyaChoudhari]

Initially I felt what nonsense is this with the coin 🪙 what time pass then I realised the weird combination turned into a rhythmic nice pattern, it's easy to remember things when set into rhythm and when it's a beautiful melody accompanies with beautiful broken arpeggios patterns in different types it's just awesome