In this first part of the Bossa Nova piano series, we dive into the rhythmic foundation that defines the style. Drawing from ...

Good news if you can't hold a beat: An app called Steve Reich’s Clapping Music might be able to fix you. Clapping Music, from the British app shop Touchpress, is a gamified lesson in tempo. It plays ...

Identifying how the animal sounds in Verses 1 and 2 for Snake and Lion are the same length and the same pitch. Practising singing loudly the ‘Crash! Bang!’ in the Chorus. Clapping in the rest before ...

Scientists have developed an app to understand why some rhythms are more difficult to perform than others. Scientists at Queen Mary University of London have developed an app to understand why some ...

Bobbing your head, tapping your heel, or clapping along with the music is a natural response for most people, but what about those who can’t keep a beat? Researchers have discovered that beat-deafness ...

They collected and analysed a huge dataset of more than 100,000 people and found that changing rhythm is more difficult than playing a complex individual rhythm. The app challenges users to play ...