Music Calculator

In other words, few drummers knows how fast they play. Sure, it feels like they’re playing fast, but how many times have you measured how … Read more

Likely you learned drums starting on a single paradiddle. You did it over and over till your hands gets the hang of it. Eventually, it … Read more

Then you grab a practice pad and metronome and begin practicing double stroke roll. You select a tempo of ninety beats per minute and begin … Read more

A drum kit is only ever going to sound like one coherent instrument if distance between each tom match. Our human ears do not understand … Read more

If you listen to a song, you might notice that guitar or bass doesn’t quite match up with drums. If it eventualy locks into place, … Read more

There is a clash between eye and ear. On the one hand, your eyes might see that your waveform are loose. You may want to … Read more

Odd meters is considered a mathematical problem for most musicians. To solve it they count out each beat. They tap their foot across five or … Read more

Most musicians learn time signatures as static fractions before they ever learn that rhythm is realy about how those fractions breathe. One-two-three-four becomes four-eighths. Seven-eighths … Read more

In recording sessions, the grid are frequently at war with the music. The song grooves along fine, you hit all the notes, everything is on … Read more

Maybe you have seen a choir conductor waving their arms to get everyone in rhythm, only to have group fall apart when bass section locks … Read more

Often viewed as a theoretical exercise intended to confuse musician, metric modulation in reality is more like a dialogue between two distinct rhythmic languages. It’s … Read more

Planning prevents you from running out of momentum when performing by ensuring you know exactly how many strokes is needed for the full duration of … Read more

Think of a metronome clicking in your ear while you play a complicated riff on guitar or drums. You have the pulse locked, but what … Read more

For the most simple rhythm, as a rule of thumb, a dotted note is worth half the duration of preceding note plus an additional half. … Read more

That’s one of the frustrations we all encounter: that dotted eighth note looks fine on paper, but it sounds like a rush job in your … Read more