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It's not really a Markov chain, because Markov chains are random. It could be a degenerate Markov chain where probabilities are either 1 or 0, so that the same
by mtdewcmu 9y ago
It's not really a Markov chain, because Markov chains are random. It could be a degenerate Markov chain where probabilities are either 1 or 0, so that the same pattern repeats over and over.
The pattern can change, say, every 4 bars. Then you are manipulating the chain.
- the_cat_kittles 9y agono i mean you are not making sense to me, mostly because i dont know what it is about rhythm you are explaining.
- mtdewcmu 9y agoI wrote the comment with the expectation that the reader would have enough musical background to understand it. I can easily picture a rhythm as it would appear in sheet music (well, maybe not easily), because I used to play drums and I had to be able to read music. Playing drums is probably the ideal background to be able to follow along with what I wrote. The idea is kind of hard to explain to begin with.
- the_cat_kittles 9y agowell i play music professionally, and went to a conservatory of music, so i definitely have the background
- mtdewcmu 9y agoSorry to imply that you don't know music. When someone just says "i don't understand that" it's impossible to know what's preventing them from understanding.
- the_cat_kittles 9y agothats ok, you dont have any way of knowing. your post does kind of make me think you are someone who doesn't know what you dont know, but thats ok since im that person often too. i dont understand what about rhythm you are trying to explain. like, what is the question you are answering. that the moeller stroke / hard soft eighth notes (or swung, the two seem to kind of do the same thing in alot of cases) is imitating an echo? i guess it can sound a bit similar? i think it has more to do with establishing a hierarchy of beats, or creating a kind of forward motion. if you dont create a hierachy of beats, just like you do with bars, sections etc, you can lose some form, which gives you less shape to the piece. its also a product of the way some instruments are played, like guitar, where upstrokes are naturally weaker than downstrokes. i do not understand what you mean about causality. i dont hear it that way. i guess in most cases, to keep it simple, i hear it as tension and release, same as harmony or melody.
- comex 9y agoI believe the parent was comparing your post to the output of a Markov chain, not rhythms themselves. Though I didn’t have any problem making sense of it…
- mtdewcmu 9y agoOh! Gotcha. Thanks for the vote of confidence.