Meter and Tuplets

This video presents a survey of theoretical concepts relating to meter and tuplets, and provides my own method for handling difficult problems. I began developing this method in early 2018 during a theory course. The goal of this video is to enable the viewer to notate a given rhythm within a given metric framework.

This was a short break from music videos—I wanted to try something different. This video contains 800+ hand-drawn images, 250+ audio files, and is my longest fully-edited video. Now that this is completed, I’ve got several new music videos coming for you guys! Stay tuned!

00:17 - Segments
00:46 - Items
01:43 - Dots
02:40 - Ties
03:18 - Meter
04:15 - Analysis
07:25 - Splits
09:16 - Pulses and beats
09:42 - Simple meter
10:37 - Compound meter
12:13 - Irregular meter
13:12 - Additive meter
13:50 - Mixed meter
14:39 - Fractional meter
14:44 - Irrational meter
15:45 - Beat strength
16:24 - Beat notation
17:18 - Tuplets
19:52 - Notating unusual lengths
21:10 - Tuplet example
24:55 - Using tuplets
25:43 - Abbreviated tuplets
29:19 - Incomplete tuplets
34:00 - Quantified tuplets
35:48 - Combined tuplets
36:17 - Nested tuplets
37:28 - Collapsed tuplets
38:51 - Implied tuplets
40:43 - Irrational example

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[overbeckmusic]

This was amazing to watch. On paper everything makes sense but in practice I was wondering how does one go by playing such unusual notated rhythms? I wouldn't even know where to start with clapping some of these rhythms to a metronome.

[chessematics]

This video was a treat for math people.

[chessematics]

2:35 Infinite series and calculus jumps in.