ABSTRACT
Rhythm is easy to experience but difficult to describe. Rhythm is per-ceived in three different ways: we hear it, we see it, and we feel it. We’re most familiar with rhythm we can hear, so we will define rhythm’s subcomponents using the sound from a musician’s metronome. A metronome’s
ticking sound creates beats that we recognize as rhythm. Every rhythm is made
up of three subcomponents: alternation, repetition, and tempo.
