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Nine things to fiddle with. Every one of them is a piece of maths you are doing at school right now — fractions, graphs, coordinates, counting patterns, rates, percentages — and every one of them makes a noise. Nothing to get wrong; just push things and listen.
Stack blocks until they fill one bar. ¼ + ¼ + ½ = 1 — then hit play and hear it.
Play itThere are 56 different rhythms that fill 4 beats. How many can you find?
Play itDraw a line graph with your finger, press play, and the graph sings back.
Play itPlot points on graph paper — except the graph paper is a stave and the points make sound.
Play itSkip round a clock of twelve notes: 2, 2, 1, 2, 2, 2, 1 — and you have built a major scale.
Play itSplit 8 into 3 + 3 + 2 and the drum starts to dance. Same total, different feel.
Play it3/4 and 6/8 last exactly the same time — and sound nothing alike. Hear why.
Play itSlide the metronome and watch 60 ÷ BPM do the work. Then tap your own tempo.
Play it3 hits out of 8 slots = ⅜ = 0.375 = 37.5% of the bar. Toggle them and listen.
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