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Descant / Tenor Recorder Grade 1 - Topic 1
The Pulse
The Pulse in Music
In order to understand the beat and meter, we first need to understand pulse.
The pulse is a series of undifferentiated, regularly occuring sounds.
Think of the ticking of a clock or an old fashioned mechanical metronome - every sound identical and all happening at a predictable interval of time.
Listen to Example 1 Audio. This demonstrates a series of pulses.
| Example 1 Audio | |
| Instructions | Click the play button and clap along in time to the pulse. Repeat as often as you need to in order to clap in time. |
The pulse can be represented on the musical score as a series of notes as shown in Example 2 below.
| Example 2 | The Pulse represented on the musical score |
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