Vin(Diesel) Posted March 25, 2022 Posted March 25, 2022 The rhythms of the singers are clearly not like European rhythms. European rhythms are little more than two or three beats, evenly spaced. The rhythmic patterns of classical music and most other European-based music are pretty much all either DA-da or DA-da-da, repeating over and over again. Technically, you have several common meters based on this (3/4 time, 4/4 time, 6/8 time, and maybe 2/2 and 2/4 time), but at their core, they are all basically two or three beats. For example, 4/4 time is DA-da-DA-da, so its 4 beats are basically just two beats repeated twice. Even if you say the third beat isn’t supposed to be quite as strong as the first and say 4/4 is it’s own 4-beat rhythm, there are still not nearly as many common rhythms available in this kind of music as are needed to represent of the rhythms of the singers. Africa has rhythms that work differently. There are repeating patterns of beats not evenly spaced, and the patterns can be much longer and more complex. The singer rhythms must be more like this, as this kind of rhythm allows for far more distinct rhythms than European-style music. I imagine Honor’s rhythm, simple and straightforward, as being 4/4 time, 3/4 time (DA-da-da, the “waltz” rhythm) or maybe 6/8 time (a rapid DA-da-da-DA-da-da) One of the basic rhythms of the types of music that developed in Europe and from European music. Combining a simple, rhythm with beats of equal length and a complex rhythm is what African-American people did when they invented jazz. I don’t really have any point, other than that maybe the singers rhythms that are of Honor, and not of Odium, sound jazzy. I don’t know what the Odium-based rhythms sounds like because I don’t know what Odium’s rhythm is like. 1
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