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Solving James Brown's rhythmic puzzle (Patreon)

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2021-11-24 18:18:44

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It's been a moment, hasn't it? I've been busy with some behind-the-scenes stuff, some non YouTube music stuff, and in general life away from the screen, so sorry uploads haven't been as frequent. But hopefully this one was worth some of the wait! A little video essay on a rhythmic puzzle in James Brown's I Got You. This was a fun one to make, covering linguistic stress, metric stress, and how syncopation can screw up perception of both.

Or rather...how syncopation defies metric stress as defined by the musical intuition of Western European traditions.

Hope you enjoy!

Adam

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Solving James Brown's rhythmic puzzle

This puzzle broke my brain. Hopefully it doesn't break yours too. Get CuriosityStream and Nebula for less than $15 per year (26% off) https://curiositystream.com/adamneely Listen to I Got You- https://youtu.be/iSLwVaebsJg David Temperley’s syncopation paper - https://www.jstor.org/stable/853567 Many ideas came from this Twitter thread https://twitter.com/its_adamneely/status/1460707004952031235?s=20 Musics of Many Cultures: An Introduction 0:00 Intro 0:54 Language is stressful 2:53 Metric stress is a whole thing 6:19 Stress + Syncopation 9:25 okay…so it’s even more complicated (⌐■_■) ⦿ Adam Neely T-shirts! ⦿ https://teespring.com/stores/adam-neely-merchandise ⦿ SUPPORT ME ON PATREON ⦿ http://www.patreon.com/adamneely ⦿ FOLLOW ME ON THE INTERNETS ⦿ http://www.facebook.com/adamneely http://www.instagram.com/its_adamneely ⦿ Check out some of my music ⦿ http://sungazermusic.bandcamp.com http://insideoutsidemusic.bandcamp.com http://adamneelymusic.bandcamp.com Peace, Adam