18 Rhythms you should know
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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.
It’s hard to beat
😂
I learned “pass the chocolate pudding” that’s 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 can’t resist and comes out of hiding to sing, “Two bits!”
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
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
You sound like Mumbo Jumbo
True
Woah, you’re right!
Mixed with half asleep Chris
@@stevecarter8810 yea
Mumbo Jumbo has appeared in one of David's videos! He was analysing the music from the Minecraft soundtrack
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's😂 (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?
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
You’re right! I knew it sounded familiar but I couldn’t 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 “England” 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"
David Bennet just consistently churning out some absolute gems
Football clap in French : " qui c'est - les plus forts - évidemment - c'est nous " Shouted in rythm by supporters in any sport / game, clapping hands on the two last
C’est les bleus ~
Translation for the English speakers “Whos the fiercest- it’s clearly us!”
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 “Bo Diddley” on his Live Bullets album. Worth a listen!
Thank you!! Oh what torture I couldn’t think of the name!
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 Porcaro’s “Rosanna” groove is both a 12/8 shuffle AND the Bo Diddley beat, put together.
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.
The last one is crazy because it shows that there are not only unresolved chords but also but also rythms. So cool
Agreed!!
I once heard two seagulls crying(? is that the word for what seagulls do?) in a 4:3 polyrhythm. That was a fun day.
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!
Inspired by the Bay City Rollers "S-A-T-U-R-D-A-Y Night"
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
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!"
Let’s go team name! *drum, drum, drum drum drum*
@@beat_avenger The way I remember it, those two phrases are swapped!
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 😊
@@DavidBennettPiano Loved it.
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
😀😀
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
Gonna crack out a polyrhythm when I’m asking for the butter
From what i know the last rythem is used to knock on doors when you are excited or just having a good time
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
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"
@ 16:47 There was a Swedish pop show in the sixties called Drop In. They used Let’s 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. They’re even participating with hand claps in the “Drop In” outro. So that’s my reference🎶
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.
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.
bo diddley naming a song after himself is pretty goated
Thank you! I have been wanting this video for years and would love your perspective on even more rhythms. ❤
David, your channel is such a wealth of knowledge. Your should be proud of what you've created, love your vids dude
As a kid in rural Canada, when we went to the rink to watch hockey, we’d hang over the boards and bang the “football clap”.
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.
Excellent idea and execution. Your past couple of videos (inc the KG&LW) have been fabulous!
This is absolute gold! Thank you so so so much David, your channel is one of THE BEST out there!❤❤❤
Thank you!!
@@DavidBennettPiano What rhythm did the Beatles use in their early years?
World, folk, classical, jazz and pop all referenced. Love it.
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!)
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
This is such an amazing video. You never stop delivering.
Great video! I’m here for more rhythm theory! Why should chords get all the love?! 😁
There's an anarchist chant on the football clap, "Li-Li- Liberta, anarchia totale"
I’m assuming there’s an extra note at the end for the “e” in “totale”?
@@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 that’s brilliant to know, thank you! I’ve always wondered where so many of the syllables go in Spanish-language music lol
fabulous topic... thank you as always!
Lovely! Explains alot. I have been trying to write out a such rhythm, yet didn't know this. Thank you. 🧡
The football chant is also used in Centerfield by John Fogerty, so it’s 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
13:25 is objectively the best part of this video. no bias trust me :)
Excellent teaching. Very informative. Thank you, David.
Really beautiful lesson, thank you very much for taking your time and making this amazing and helpful lesson.
Great video, as always! But, along with Bossanova, Brazil is also known for the legendary Samba rhythm!
I was wondering which is more popular
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.
love that you made this about more than pop (and western) music. rhythms are such an underthought of treasure for music...
Thanks David.....May never be able to Thank you enough for what you do for us!
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!
With the football clap, for me it’s just instinctual to complete the rhythm when someone does the first part XD
Thankyou. I struggle with timing issues in music and this has been really informative .
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.
Amazing. I finally understand how to read tuple notation. Thank you!
Glad it helped!
Now ... check out "The Black Page" by Frank Zappa. 8-)
Thanks David...your vids never fail to rekindle my interest in music!
This was such a great video, David. Thank you very much!
Glad you liked it!
Simply, an amazing video. Thanks!!!
Good stuff! Volume 2 please!
Fantastic vid. 🇬🇷 here, football ⚽ clap? Absolutely!
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!
Yet again, just the sort of thing I was looking for. Thank you.
you should do more videos about rhythm
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It's seems that I'm using football clap as a door knocking rhythm for like 20 years without ever knowing what it is...😅
I use shave and a haircut
I noticed how a bunch of the rhythms all feel very similar but so distinct at the same time, you could hear a bit of "Son Clave" in "Shave and a haircut, two bits", "Rumba clave", and "Tresillo", and also hear a bit of "Tresillo" in "The Charleston" and "5/4 Clave".
Bravo! Informative and great fun! Thank you from Texas.
Nice cup of tea is the most funny thing i've heard today
If you want to inspire a crowd, simple can be extremely effective. We Will Rock You -- Queen
Brilliant tutorial. Well thought out, well explained with great examples
that "shuffle supercut" made me chuckle. I never knew what was going to come next but it flowed so well
I would love to see a video on Flamenco rhythms ! Good work.
The football chant is used in Czechia too!
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?
Great compilation of rhythms, more videos like this please.
"Shave and a Hair Cut" has a WHOLE different connotation in Mexico xD (hint: don't even whistle it at someone). The rhythm itself, even without the words, works as a very traditional but offensive insult.
I'm curious, what's the meaning and where does it come from?
Care to elaborate?
It means "chinga tu madre" (f*** your mother), and the last two notes add "cabrón" (a**hole). You also hear it a lot played by car horns in traffic jams, when a driver gets mad at another one. The first driver plays the first five notes with the horn, the other one sometimes answers with the other two. Other common use of the rhythm is whistling it at matches, generally football (soccer), when the audience disagrees with a decision from the referee (as if whistling the insult to the referee himself).
More examples of: 0:21 (3:2 Bo Diddley) "Family Madrigal" (at double-time) Theme from "Bluey" (also double-time) 1:15 (2:3 Bo Diddley) New (2010s-era) "Annie": clap rhythm #2 in her "essay" on FDR 10:34 I think you've pointed out that "Pyramid Song" uses this! 11:37 12tone points out that "Hungry Like The Wolf" (almost) uses a reversed variation of this! 13:32 Another (twice as long, L=2 and S=1) 5/4 rhythm is more complicated (but David, you'll recognize this: its structure is related!) L S LL L S LL LL SS (also broken up further to emphasize the relatedness) 16:50 We (I'm American) usually do one of the following: either quote the Routers' song directly, or compromise by doing the first 5 strokes (bar 1) and turning bar 2 into straight quarters (for a 4-syllable term, possibly "let's go [2-syllable team/location]), and no, we don't associate it exclusively with soccer! Examples of the pure form: "Ridiculous" from Descendants 1 and "On Top of the World" by Imagine Dragons One more bonus rhythm: (L:M = M:S = 2:1- most famous example of this has L~120/min) MM SSM MM L | MM MM MM L (broken into quarter notes; the pipeline is a bar break) I'll leave it as a surprise, but the goal of this is to get faster and faster! Comment below if you figure it out!
Excellent video and explanations. Once again. Thanks
Thanks 😊
Dude... you are amazing! Thank you!
Nice one David!!
Many thanks!
In Russia "The Football Clap" is wildly spread as a chant for some teams. Sometimes it's just the first bar, sometimes both
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!
Thank u so much for giving several notes and countings. Even I'm a western teacher from India, chennai 🙏🙏🙏
I don´t know what it´s called, but one rhythm that I think of right away is the gallopping Barracuda rhythm. Iron Maiden uses it a lot.
You mean the Achilles Last Stand rhythm?
"Barracuda" by Heart?
@@wyattstevens8574 Exactly, that is the song I refer to.
@@ragnarviews Absolutely!
It's called a "gallop," especially when it plays exactly once at a time like every bar in Under Pressure (in the bass strokes 3-5, or all space from beat 2 up to but not including beat 3)
American Football and Baseball use that rhythm for chants but usually "Let's Go!" or (for American football) "First down!" is said because it'd be weird if we said England there. 🙂
I just remembered "Let's Go" (1979) by the Cars - "I like the nightlife baby / She says (football clap) / Let's go!"
Thank you. A very informative and useful video.
A really interesting, informative and useful lesson. De-mystified a lot of things for me struggling to understand complex rhythms. 👌👍
Venezuelan here. Glad to see you feature some Latin-American and African rhythms, it does feel like something the channel was previously lacking
After 10 years of guitar, I am ready for piano. Starting in September. ❤
Excellent 😊
Gracias por su clase! 🇨🇱
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!
The Viennese waltz isn't three equal quavers. One of the beats is slightly displaced. I think the second beat is usually regarded as coming slightly early. Also, although the waltz is conventionally thought of three beats in a bar, what's often required is for a waltz to have a one-in-the-bar feel (that is, the second and third beats are only lightly accented).
That was great! Do that again! but you know, with other rhythms.
I’m going to be honest I’m bad of rythems it’s always a enemy I don’t let that get me I have to practice a lot
Amazingly explained. Thank you very much!
Thanks 😊
Isn't the football clap also "Saturday Night" by the Bay City Rollers?
It's also basically the backbone rhythm of "I Get Around" by the Beach Boys- I mean, listen to the rhythm they use to say "round, round, get around, I get around!"
Two common rhythms you should know: reggae and calypso. Both easily mnemonically characterized: "this is reggae, this is reggae" and "this is calypso, this is calypso". Reggae in 2/4 and Calypso in 3/4.
THIS IS A SUPER ULTRA HELPFUL VIDEO! GREAT JOB SIR! You deserve more subs!
Thank you!!!
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