The simplest form of rhythm can be described in the way our heart beats. If you place your ear against your friend’s chest, you will be able to hear his heart beat. It beats in a certain kind of regular time. This time is almost very even. When the person is active like after walking up the stairs, you will hear it beat faster, but as the heart beats faster, it is still in an almost regular speed. That is rhythm. That is a simple example of how rhythm affects our lives directly.
In continuing from the last post, if you had looked around you, you would have found lots of things that could make sounds like drums. Some of them would be your parents' kitchen simple stuff like a frying pan, wok, a cooking pot and even your school lunch box. Besides these items, others would be an empty shoe box, a dustbin and even empty plastic buckets. All these items can be used to make sounds like drums although not exactly with the same sound as an actual drum but still it is a sound.
You can also make sounds with other stuff like beating a pair of chopsticks together, spoons and other stuff that is hard. When you hit these stuff to make a sound in a regular pattern, you have a rhythm. In this post, I have included a music clip which contains the sound of tribal drums. Tribal drums look something like this.
Listen to the clip. You can use two pencils or a pair of chopsticks to hit each on a shoe box to make a sound. Hit them together and try to follow along with the audio.
Now in the next clip, you have some sounds made with a set of modern drums. Modern drums look like this.
You will find a lot of these modern drums when you see bands playing. Now listen to this and you can hear quite a lot of difference between tribal drums and modern drums.
Assignment:
After listening to the above two clips, can you spot at least three differences between tribal drums and modern drums?
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