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title: Pulse
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2024-05-02

Before melody, there was rhythm. One could produce a melody from a bunch of notes spaced in a particular way. And one can
also produce a different melody based on the same set of pitches. As my friend tells me "music is just painting hues of
sound and your canvas is time".

Sir suggested to give more focus on the rhythm instead of the pitch when trying to recover from mistakes. That way, the
mistake would still be of musical value, as differences in pitch are more apparent.

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The _rallentando_ marking is different from _ritardando_ in the way that the latter is a gradual continuous decrease of
tempo, while the former is a much more discrete decrease. One may perform _rallentando_ in a way that the tempo changes
happen per beat--the beat's tempo a relative decrease from the previous.

[Illustration of _rallentando_ and _ritardando_ here.]
