Using Drumbeats to Theorize Meter in Quintuple and Septuple Grooves

Hanenberg, Scott

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“…In the development of music teaching, both in China and abroad, a series of teaching methods have been derived from the characteristics and processes of their respective civilizations, among which, the systematic and theoretical "four major music pedagogies" have been produced in foreign countries, and even more effective music teaching methods have been extended, which have had a wide influence [1][2][3]. In the practice of music education in China, the "tradition" of "teaching by heart and mouth" has been formed for a long time, and since the music and songs in the school, foreign music culture has entered the country on a large scale, and this "tradition" has also been rapidly changed into the foreign pedagogical theories and teaching methods.…”

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Reform Method of Music Teaching Theory System in Colleges and Universities Based on Deep Learning Analysis Technology

Man

2024

Applied Mathematics and Nonlinear Sciences

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The traditional music teaching theory system is usually based on test scores as the only evaluation index, which is difficult to reflect the learning dynamics of students in real-time, thus making it difficult for teachers to strengthen the teaching of students’ weak knowledge points in real-time. To address this problem, this paper uses the DKVMN knowledge tracking model, combined with the recommendation algorithm to design a music theory analysis and recommendation model for college students based on deep learning analysis technology. In it, the Softmax function is utilized as the activation function of the output layer of the LSTM network, and the weight vector is increased to enhance the recurrence probability of students’ unfamiliar knowledge points. After the model design was completed, it was used in the music program of a teacher training school, and the overall effect of the use, the students’ personalized diagnostic reports, and the operation of the model were analyzed and explored separately. From 54.51% during the first test to a maximum of 81.42%, the accuracy rate progressed gradually. For the 7th time after the music theory knowledge level test, the experimental group of students scored 81.23, which was significantly higher than the score of the control group of students 74.25. The p-value tested was 0.004, which indicates a significant difference between the levels of the two groups.

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Reform Method of Music Teaching Theory System in Colleges and Universities Based on Deep Learning Analysis Technology

Man

2024

Applied Mathematics and Nonlinear Sciences

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“…Interpretive multiplicity has been used to analyze music with dissonant, ambiguous, or changing meters where there are multiple and competing interpretations for the perceived beat. (10) Butler (2006; adopts the term explicitly when analyzing electronic dance music, but other popular music scholars apply the same approach to analyze changing meters (Osborn 2017;Biamonte 2014;Osborn 2010), asymmetrical meters (Hanenberg 2020;Osborn 2017;Osborn 2010), and ambiguous meters, especially at song beginnings (Capuzzo 2018;Biamonte 2014;London 2006;Zbikowski 2004). The consistent characteristic of interpretive multiplicity is that the perceived beat's multiple interpretations emerge because of a song's metric instability.…”

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Analyzing the Beat in Metrically Consonant Popular Songs

Geary

2022

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The beat is regularly defined as a song’s primary pulse layer and as a requirement for metric formation. Despite the beat’s familiarity, however, its precise characterization and analytical application is inconsistent in scholarship. In this article, I present a new approach to analyze the beat in popular songs with a consonant, clear, and unchanging quadruple simple meter. At bottom, I take the traditional view of the beat as a singular entity and reframe it a multifaceted phenomenon where different aspects of music can simultaneously, and at times variably, create a sense of metric primacy. My analytical system has three parts: the drum pattern layer, the absolute time layer, and the preferred pulse layer. Further, I introduce the term “interpretive flexibility,” a spin on interpretive multiplicity, to refer to metrically consonant popular songs with multiple options for the perceived beat. In the second half of the article, I apply the three-part system and interpretive flexibility to analyze the beat in popular songs with multiple drum feels and layered drum feels. The evolving sense of metric primacy in these songs is experientially engaging, helps express musical form, and parallels extramusical narratives.

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Bang your Head: Construing Beat through Familiar Drum Patterns in Metal Music

Hudson¹

2021

Music Theory Spectrum

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This article presents a theoretical framework for understanding headbanging to metal music as an embodied practice of perception and offers several analyses to demonstrate how specific patterns serve as a common core of rhythmic patterning in the genre. Listeners express metal’s flexible rhythmic style through headbanging, creating experiences of heaviness and community. This motion brings felt beats into existence, guided by what I call “metering constructions,” familiar rhythmic/motional patterns that are both schematic knowledge of music and embodied practices of perception. I define metering constructions through theories of embodied meter and cognitive linguistics. Two constructions, the backbeat and the phrase-ending 332, are used throughout rock, but distinguished in metal by characteristic drum patterns and motional qualities. Headbangers thus create and perform their own beat interpretation, what I call a “patchwork quilt of recognized rhythms” stitched together in various orders and combinations—sometimes resembling regular isochronous meter, sometimes not.

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Using Drumbeats to Theorize Meter in Quintuple and Septuple Grooves

Cited by 5 publications

References 18 publications

Reform Method of Music Teaching Theory System in Colleges and Universities Based on Deep Learning Analysis Technology

Reform Method of Music Teaching Theory System in Colleges and Universities Based on Deep Learning Analysis Technology

Analyzing the Beat in Metrically Consonant Popular Songs

Bang your Head: Construing Beat through Familiar Drum Patterns in Metal Music

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