The syncopation pattern occurs at the quarter-note, eighth-note, and the 16th-note rhythmic levels (see example 1).

1 : a temporary displacement of the regular metrical accent in music caused typically by stressing the weak beat. 2 : a syncopated rhythm, passage, or dance step.

You can often find syncopation in musical styles like Latin music, Jazz music, and Funk. In fact, wherever there is rhythm, there is the potential for syncopation. Even in dance: the dancer can syncopate with a strong step on a weak beat.

Offbeat Syncopation Offbeat occurs when the stressed note falls between beats. For example, in a 4/4 measure, four quarter notes fill each of the four beats in a bar. With offbeat syncopation, you can introduce beats on eighth notes instead of on quarter notes. The beat remains the same.

Syncopation sentence example

1. To the offbeat syncopation Snyder is dancing like an indian around a totem pole.
2. He then sequenced his ideas on to the computer adapting the melody to reflect a Blues style, using syncopation .

As a component of musical rhythm, syncopation is a way to create metrical tension (Temperley, 1999), owing to the fact that it occurs only in contradiction with an established metrical pattern (Longuet-Higgins and Lee, 1984), thus breaking an existing expectation.

Syncopation is a musical term meaning a variety of rhythms played together to make a piece of music, making part or all of a tune or piece of music off-beat.

Syncopation occurs when short notes, ties, or rests displace the natural accents in a beat pattern. (Note, you should have a subwoofer or your headphones on to hear the bass drum that provides the downbeat in each of the examples.) No Syncopation. Beat accents fall on the first and third beats of each measure.

Igor Stravinsky

four sixteenth notes

In a compound meter, each beat can be divided into thirds. For example in 6/8 time, the eighth note represents one beat and there are six beats in each measure.

quarter note

1 beat: called a crotchet (quarter note) Half a beat: called a quaver (eighth note) Quarter of a beat: called a semiquaver (sixteenth note)

Eighth Note (Quaver) The eighth note is worth ½ of a Quarter note. It may also be considered as a one beat note in 3/8 and similar timings, the 8 on the bottom of the time signature giving the clue that you are counting in eighth notes. This is the first note in the rhythm tree to have a flag.

The first measure (4/4) contains four quarter notes. The first bar (4/4) contains four crotchets. The second measure (3/4) contains three quarter notes. The second bar (3/4) contains three crotchets.

one quater note

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An eighth note (American) or a quaver (British) is a musical note played for one eighth the duration of a whole note (semibreve), hence the name. This amounts to twice the value of the sixteenth note (semiquaver).

In music, a two hundred fifty-sixth note (or occasionally demisemihemidemisemiquaver) is a note played for ​1⁄256 of the duration of a whole note. It lasts half as long as a hundred twenty-eighth note and takes up one quarter of the length of a sixty-fourth note.

Notes are made up of up to three specific components: note head, stem, and flag. Every note has a head — it’s the round part of a note. A note stem is the vertical line attached to the note head. A note flag is the little line that comes off the top or bottom of the note stem.

Lubomyr Melnyk