Week 12 – Rhythm and Displacement

Last week we looked at Augmenting and Diminishing Rhythms.

This week we will look at altering Rhythms more drastically to create a greater change from the original composition.

Rhythm

Displacement is the process of taking a melody and moving it to a different beat.

For example:

In the following example I have moved the melody of Come As You Are to the second beat in the bar when it repeats….

Displacement

That example was a simple was of moving a melody, but you could make a more complex version.

If you Diminished the melody to half lengths (making the first note a quaver) and then moved it to the off-beat it would have a more syncopated feel.

Which would look like this:

Rhythmic Displacement

Add in an example of Rhythmic Displacement to your arrangements.

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