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Ahhhh hello Stefania and welcome!

Lesson 7... I imagine it refers to the lesson on syncopation and offbeat from the music theory course... Well, the topic has already been covered, I am sending you the link to the discussion...

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Welcome....with a musical accent!!!!

@Everyone, except azA: please don't blame me, I'm just trying to help someone!

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Dearest enthusiast azA,

first of all, a compliment on the activity undertaken!

Your question is a vast world and, unfortunately, I cannot understand where you are stuck.

But, pretending that you are stuck right at the beginning, allow me to make a (hopefully) simple model to help you.

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Let's start walking down the street and for every step we write 'pa' if we place our foot lightly, and 'zum' if we place it with force.

We call this 'zum' an accent, and it is easy to understand why.

For example, imagine (but you can also try!) walking down the street, with your right foot on the sidewalk and your left on the road, and that when you place the right one, you stomp it, while you place the left one lightly.

Then whoever is beside you hears:

zum pa - zum pa - zum pa - zum pa - ......

Now, instead, when I place the right foot, once I stomp it, and once I place it lightly. We will hear:

zum pa pa pa - zum pa pa pa - zum pa pa pa ........

I can stomp the right foot every three times, and then I will have:

zum pa pa pa pa pa - zum pa pa pa pa pa - zum pa pa pa pa pa - zum pa pa pa pa pa - ......

Every four and I have:

zum pa pa pa pa pa pa pa - zum pa pa pa pa pa pa pa - zum pa pa pa pa pa pa pa - ......

So far, however, I have always stomped the right! (Am I a conservative?)

Why must the right foot always win? What if we made noise with the left instead? Let's try.

We will then have, respectively:

pa zum - pa zum - pa zum - pa zum - ..............., or pa zum pa pa - pa zum pa pa - pa zum pa pa - , etc.

Now the thing is starting to please me and I'm saying a swear word! But why do I always stomp the right or the left in the first pair of steps? Now, I feel like stomping on the second!

I could then obtain things like:

pa pa zum pa - pa pa zum pa - ......., or pa pa pa zum - pa pa pa zum - ......

I don't want to bore you further; rather, I invite you to have fun and invent it yourself, and you will see how pleasant it is!

So, so far I have spoken to you about accents.

Now I want to have even more fun and I say:

Why must I necessarily take a step with the left after a step with the right?

What if after a step with one foot, I remained on that same foot, dragging it (I indicate this with the _ sign and in italics) and only afterwards returned to placing the other foot? (imagine here that, instead, whoever is beside you continues to walk regularly, with those monotonous sequences we saw before!).

Then He would hear: zum pa_a pa - zum pa_a pa - ......., but, by stomping and dragging the left, you could even do pa zu_u'm pa - pa zu_u'm pa - .......... And nothing (not even God!) prevents you from doing pa pa_a zum - pa pa_a zum -......, or pa_a_a zum - pa_a_a zum - pa_a_a zum -... and so on!!!

And not only that! While he goes with the right, You go with the left and vice versa! Or, while he walks, you walk and/or drag.

In short, You have fun walking with your imagination (limp, run, jump, drag, surprise,.......), while He walks tiredly!

Now, syncopation is what your neighbor feels when they hear you stomp this foot suddenly, while they are just placing one of their feet. Syncopation—perhaps because these strange things cause them anxiety and cause a syncope (fainting)!!!!

For example, listen to Scott Joplin and his Ragtime.

Here you find your tired friend who imitates you a little and does this while You, beside him, play; then you hear it coming:

Him: zu_u'm pa_a - zu_u'm pa_a - zu_u'm pa_a - ...........

You: pa zu_u'm pa - pa zu_'m pa - zu'm pa_a pa - ...........

If I have been helpful, feel free to go back to Simone's lesson, otherwise feel free to write!