18 Rhythms you should know
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- Äas pĆidĂĄn 1. 05. 2024
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Not every rhythm has a widely recognised name, but for those that do it will be because that rhythm has a particular cultural significance. So today we are going to look at 18 of these "named" rhythms so you can be familar with how they sound and where they come from.
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0:00 Introduction
0:11 Son Clave
1:30 Bo Diddley beat
2:42 Tresillo
4:32 Rumba Clave
5:30 Standard African Bell pattern
6:21 Shuffle
7:40 HDpiano
8:14 Swing
9:21 Scotch Snap
10:24 Bossa Nova
11:34 Charleston
12:09 Waltz
13:27 5/4 clave
14:00 Triplets
14:25 Tuplets
14:43 3:2 Polyrhythm
15:51 4:3 Polyrhythm
16:44 Football Clap
17:37 Shave and a haircut, two bits
18:34 Patreon
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"Pass the god damned butter" is a phrase that's going to be stuck in my head for a while.
Itâs hard to beat
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I learned âpass the chocolate puddingâ thatâs gonna be hard to explain to your guitar teacher
I watched that part three times and still haven't stopped laughing. I never thought I'd hear that phrase used so seriously.
I learned it as Pass The Peanut Butter
The musical joke of an incomplete Shave And A Haircut rhythm was used in the movie Who Framed Roger Rabbit. In it the judge (Christopher Lloyd) finds Roger by playing the first bar. Roger canât resist and comes out of hiding to sing, âTwo bits!â
Hey i didnt catch that way back when, thanks. I always thought in LA Story (Steve Martin, Sarah J. Parker). He knocking at her door for dinner date, she has to close the door to complete the "Two Bits" and the go to dinner. Wish i had David as a music teacher 35 yrs ago. Great content & comments.
Shave And A Haircut is also indispensable in circus music. And I think another incomplete rendition was part of that Big Bang Theory episode in which Amy tries to teach Sheldon a lesson by leaving lots of things unfinished.
Also the original source of the phrase very likely comes from the old American "Barbershop Quartets" who, unsurprisingly, sang outside barbershops as advertising for the shop and entertainment for the customers.
Definitely the best way to catch a toon.
Bruce Lee too used it in one of his films
The "football clap" is used in the opening handclaps of John Fogerty's "Centerfield" (a song about playing baseball). It's also used in the Bay City Rollers' "Saturday Night." It's really common as a stadium organ riff in the US (typically baseball and hockey teams will have an organist playing live music during breaks to pump the crowd up).
Let's not forget Do You Remember Rock 'n' Roll Radio by the Ramones
My after school club when I was 10 in 70s Israel used the football clap. The last two beats, we'd shout out the name of the club, which was two syllables.
Same here in Canada at hockey games. When the organist played it the fans would shout "Let's Go!" followed by clapping "clap clap clap clap clap clap clap" then back to shouting "Let's Go"!. Or at least in in 1980's/90'sđ (it's been awhile).
Fans of the Viennese soccer club Rapid use the football clap, at the end shouting of course "Rapid!" (not pronounced the English way)
Maybe someone should do a video of organ riffs played at stadiums?
Please do more videos on rhythm, specifically for piano playing
that's the beauty of rhythms, they don't really care what is the sound source, pure elegance
David Bennet just consistently churning out some absolute gems
Football clap in French : " qui c'est - les plus forts - Ă©videmment - c'est nous " Shouted in rythm by supporters in any sport / game, clapping hands on the two last
Câest les bleus ~
The last one is crazy because it shows that there are not only unresolved chords but also but also rythms. So cool
Agreed!!
Another well-known example for the Bo Diddley beat is "I Want Candy" by Bow Wow Wow (1982).
Originally a 60s song
Re-record, not fade fade away.
I am practically a fossil.
@@althealligator1467 Which is 10 times better than the 80s one
Bob Seeger did a great version called âBo Diddleyâ on his Live Bullets album. Worth a listen!
Thank you!! Oh what torture I couldnât think of the name!
I know the Football Clap as the signal for everyone to be quiet in school here in the U.S. It didn't always work ... but that's what I know it to be used for
Huh, here in Brazil it's the shave and a haircut rhythm
can attest for this, not sure which state youre from but in NY its also the "get the kids attention" thing the teachers use
@@lapsiluco same in Canada
Youâre right! I knew it sounded familiar but I couldnât place it. In elementary school teachers would clap the first part when they wanted our attention and the students were supposed to finish it by clapping the âEnglandâ part.
The way I know it as has the same first bar, but a different second bar
"one two three, eyes on me"
"One two, eyes on you"
Okay. I just had to pause this to comment. I am only 1/3 of the way through and have learned more about rhythm patterns in the last 6+ minutes than in 50+ years of living. This is exactly the hole I've been looking to fill in my knowledge. Thank you for making this video!
Not surprising. Rhythm is one part (if not THE part) of music that is often overlooked.
I once heard two seagulls crying(? is that the word for what seagulls do?) in a 4:3 polyrhythm. That was a fun day.
the "football clap" appears in American football, too, and other American sports. the last two beats are usually, "Let's go!"
The way I'm most familiar with that is: first 5 claps stay intact, then (and this is almost always F-D-F-D!) a 4-syllable phrase or "let's go [2-syllable phrase]" on straight quarters.
I can't believe that I can't find anyone mentioning Mickey by Toni Basil. "Oh, Mickey, you're so fine. You're so fine, you blow my mind. Hey Mickey!"
Letâs go team name! *drum, drum, drum drum drum*
@@beat_avenger The way I remember it, those two phrases are swapped!
As a bassist and a fan of Iron Maiden, the first rhythm that comes to mind is "the gallop", a simple eighth note paired with two sixteenth notes
That's also the riff to Heart's "Barracuda".
Jeff Porcaroâs âRosannaâ groove is both a 12/8 shuffle AND the Bo Diddley beat, put together.
As soon as I heard the Bo Diddley beat Faith popped into my head.
Family Madrigal/Bluey theme for me!
I went straight to "Hand Jive".
"Do You Remember Rock'N'Roll Radio?" by the Ramones also uses the football clap. Great video David!
In Australia we had a heap of ads for AAPT Smart Chat on TV (phone company), they used the Football Clap rhythm to make the jingle "A A AAP AAPT SMART CHAT"
Those ads were themed around tennis, too
@@Omegavision79 "We are yellow, we are blue. We are Swedish, who are you?"
Came here to say this lol
Gonna crack out a polyrhythm when Iâm asking for the butter
In New Zealand (and possibly Australia) the football clap was used to advertise Milo, a malted drink powder and the 'two bits" part was said Mi-Lo
ah yes i forgot that one.
you mean the "football" part?
two bits is from the other one.
@oliverdiamond6594 yeah that's the one.
Same here in Nigeria!
Go for another video on rhythms! This is amazing and very useful!
Glad you like it đ
The "shave and a haircut two bits" is SOOOOOOO popular in Argentina but not in music, but with knocking on doors, or with honking to a passing car or a friend, or ringing a doorbell, things like these.
yup, here in Brazil it's also pretty common, but with the added "PAM PARARAM PAM, PAM PAM" in a classroom to make everybody shut up
In parts of Mexico, "shave and a haircut," tapped out on a motor vehicle horn, is used to impute ..... um, maternal canine ancestry to another driver in close proximity to your car. Use it judiciously, if at all.
Thank you so much for outlining all of these rhythms from their origins, it gives so much more depth to everything that has been built from them, so cool
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Here in the U.S. many still use the Football Clap at sporting events.
Usually saying "lets go."
I.e. quoting the Routers directly!
Whenever Dude Perfect uses this, they (more often than not) turn the last two beats into "dead space" ("usually" because for Garrett bar 2 is his nickname, "pur-ple ho-ser," but for everyone else it's "let's go" and then 2 beats dead space) That's more like how I remember it (more like Garrett's variation, with bar 2 *normally* played on F-D-F-D!)
There's an anarchist chant on the football clap, "Li-Li- Liberta, anarchia totale"
Iâm assuming thereâs an extra note at the end for the âeâ in âtotaleâ?
â@@th.nd.r Its more like to - tal
@@th.nd.r Spanish and Italian don't really use feet (iambic etc) - you can just ignore non-accented syllables when you count out the rhythm or sing (you usually just talk about how many accented syllables there are in a line of poetry or a song, and ignore all the unaccented syllables.) So you can happily ignore the final, unaccented, 'e' in totale when counting the rhythm. To make the chant work, you have to put more stress on the 'to' in totale than you would in regular speech, and then minimize the e; but it totally works.
@@otsoko66 thatâs brilliant to know, thank you! Iâve always wondered where so many of the syllables go in Spanish-language music lol
Bossa Nova (or some variation of it) can be heard in 'Bela Lugosi's Dead' by Bauhaus. Which, according to their bassist, was the one of the few rhythms that the drummer knew at that time
As a kid in rural Canada, when we went to the rink to watch hockey, weâd hang over the boards and bang the âfootball clapâ.
This is such an amazing video. You never stop delivering.
David, your channel is such a wealth of knowledge. Your should be proud of what you've created, love your vids dude
fabulous topic... thank you as always!
World, folk, classical, jazz and pop all referenced. Love it.
With the football clap, for me itâs just instinctual to complete the rhythm when someone does the first part XD
In Finland the football clap is used in similar way at least in ice hockey where in the end we yell the name of the team.
And in the song "Poika saunoo" :D
The pure joy of having you explain something to me in that precise yet easy to follow kind of way you have, then recognizing for myself what you're talking about through the examples of songs you give... I can't begin to describe it. Glad I found your channel, I really appreciate your content.
Oh and the football clap is known as THE football clap in Germany as well.
It's seems that I'm using football clap as a door knocking rhythm for like 20 years without ever knowing what it is...đ
I use shave and a haircut
Excellent idea and execution. Your past couple of videos (inc the KG&LW) have been fabulous!
@ 16:47
There was a Swedish pop show in the sixties called Drop In.
They used Letâs Go as their intro/outro music.
There is a live 12 minute video of The Beatles playing at Drop In,
30th October 1963, on YT.
Theyâre even participating with hand claps in the âDrop Inâ outro.
So thatâs my referenceđ¶
This is absolute gold! Thank you so so so much David, your channel is one of THE BEST out there!â€â€â€
Thank you!!
I don't know why, but 16:22 had me laughing out loud. The rhythm seems so comical and the text on top of it, said in such a serious manner... but maybe the rhythm has been used in humorous situations a lot, so I instinctively associate it with something being funny?
same, it's so funny. He even sounds like he almost laughed right after.
13:25 is objectively the best part of this video. no bias trust me :)
I'm from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 76 years old.
Your video is EXCELLENT, both in content and approach and careful exemplification. Maybe it doesn't seem that way to those who haven't yet looked into the matter; but for me, who has toiled for years, alone, about the rhythmic particularities, so poorly addressed in the texts
"conventional", trying to understand how such peculiarities can appearing on so many and diverse "musical fronts", it makes me want to cry for being born so before that crazy time, but with such objective learning opportunities, like in your video.
Thanks.
Fred Pereira
In the Netherlands a variation of the football clap is infamously used as a provocative chant, where it is sung as "broek uit - op je hoofd" which means "take off your pants and put them on your head"
US origin. Shave and a haircut, 2 bits is the classic ending of songs sung by - wait for it - barbershop quartets, to advertise the barber's work to the men attracted by their music. Today we have Like, share, subscribe.
Thanks David.....May never be able to Thank you enough for what you do for us!
Great video, as always! But, along with Bossanova, Brazil is also known for the legendary Samba rhythm!
I was wondering which is more popular
This was such a great video, David. Thank you very much!
Glad you liked it!
that "shuffle supercut" made me chuckle. I never knew what was going to come next but it flowed so well
Great video! Iâm here for more rhythm theory! Why should chords get all the love?! đ
Simply, an amazing video. Thanks!!!
This overview of rhythms and styles with examples of each was very useful to get some ideas to expand horizons. Thanks for that. I did half expect for Meshuggah to show up somewhere near the end though. Maybe next time, in the advanced edition.
Iâve heard the football clap at many American sporting events, with âletâs go!â On the last two beats. I didnât know it was from a song.
Yet again, just the sort of thing I was looking for. Thank you.
Really beautiful lesson, thank you very much for taking your time and making this amazing and helpful lesson.
Thankyou. I struggle with timing issues in music and this has been really informative .
great rhythm tutorial David, thanx mate
Good stuff! Volume 2 please!
Gold. Thank you!
Excellent. Thank you.
Well done video. I think my brain melted very early on, but the san clave music examples served as a wonderful example of music I'd like to explore more of. And bossa nova being another I need to listen to more of. Wonderfully done video!
Bravo! Informative and great fun! Thank you from Texas.
Here in spain in the football clap ryhtmn instead of finishing saying england we finish saying "olé" or maybe "oé" (I cant distinguish if people pronounce the l most of the times)
As a Spaniard, you blew my mind with the tresillo. Because indeed for me a tresillo has been a triplet since I was taught those existed
Great compilation of rhythms, more videos like this please.
OMG I'm in rhythm heaven!! đ„ (Great video, David đ)
Thank you. A very informative and useful video.
The football chant is also used in Centerfield by John Fogerty, so itâs more of a baseball thing here in the US.
I was just gonna comment this! We even did it as a hype thing in little league baseball when I was a kid in the 00's. I remember one of my assistant coaches screwing it up every time and losing the rhythm on the last two claps. Couldn't be too mad at the guy since he was such a cool dude and a solid third-base coach lol
bo diddley naming a song after himself is pretty goated
Fantastic vid.
đŹđ· here, football ✠clap? Absolutely!
You sound like Mumbo Jumbo
True
Woah, youâre right!
Mixed with half asleep Chris
I always liked Tresillo in the bass... e.g. Madonna's Take a Bow, but there are tons of examples, and anytime I hear it, I like it. The next best thing for 3 steps besides the Waltz itself.
A lot of interesting rhythms, thanks for the video!
Great topic, superbly executed.
Thank you
Brilliant! Now I have to learn and remember all those names.
Excellent!
Awesome video! I'd love to see you continue branching out into rhythm now that you've got a video for basically every chord progression đ
THIS IS A SUPER ULTRA HELPFUL VIDEO! GREAT JOB SIR! You deserve more subs!
Thank you!!!
Amazing. I finally understand how to read tuple notation. Thank you!
Glad it helped!
Now ... check out "The Black Page" by Frank Zappa. 8-)
Amazingly explained. Thank you very much!
Thanks đ
4:02 FINALLY we can talk about this song! I always thought of the intro and bridge having a 3+3+2 8/8 rhythm.
Dude... you are amazing! Thank you!
Yes, the football clap is also used in American sports. But I'm a little disappointed you didn't include the "A Noose, A Tree, Hang the Referee" rhythm.
I find these videos very useful and entertaining. Not only do I enjoy learning new things and memorizing data, but I can also easily apply this knowledge to my own music compositions. Thank you, David.
P.S. Here in Czechia we also recognize the Football clap purely as a sport thing :D
Great video for the student! Thanks so much.
Great video!!!!!! You're the best pedagog!!!!
Fantastic. Saving this as a reference for learning and practice. It's amazing that so much music is based on just a small collection of basic rhythm patterns, but they do each have a unique character and lend themselves to pushing and pulling and stretching. I wonder if there is a name for the rhythm behind Queen's iconic "We Will Rock You"? Thanks!
Very nicely done as usual, and there were some new ones for me, thanks. Right now, I'm working on the polyrhythm 11 against 13. But this is a rhythm that no one needs to know, and perhaps should avoid. :)
cheers from sunny Vienna, Scott
I love this video so much.
I come from Spain and also know the "football clap" as a football clap. Many clubs in Spain use it, e.g. "... Madrid" (Real).
Excellent explanation!
Glad it was helpful!
Yo David. Incredible video as always.
I wonder if when discussing rhythms and jumping to different examples, it might be clearer to start every example with a quick clean 4/3 count. To set the tempo so the listener can really hear how the rhythms presented push and pull against the traditional pulse.
The best explanation with examples thank you so much sir very very useful â€â€â€â€â€â€â€
Thanks for the bit about 12/8 being like 4/4 with triplets.
I keep hearing itâs like 3,4
But when I tried transcribing a song in 12/8 to 3/4, it changed the feel
Doing it in 4/4 with triplets worked.
Just great! I was trying to identify the pattern tresillo used in many latin songs and even in the 'funk' here in Brazil, but never knew what was this from. So nice!
A great video! I think the Tresillo pattern is present in almost every non-shuffled song of the last hundred years. Very influential!
Now a challenge: can you write the Samba pattern?
Nice cup of tea is the most funny thing i've heard today
In our country, the Netherlands, the football rhythm is (or was) also a political slogan rhythm in demonstrations.
"Dit is het be-gin, wij gaan door met, de strijd."
Which says:"This is the start, we will fight on".
Great!
GREAT EPISODE !
Thanks!
videos like this are like reference books in the library
This is the music lesson I always wanted but could never articulate.
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Really nice.
Some Non western/common practice traditions have many named rhythmic patterns. In middle eastern / maqam you have stuff like mulfuf, Sami, saidi , maksim.. etc. the backbone of learning darbuka.
Often, like many clave, 2 bars long.