God, I hate syncopation. Why? Imagine a metronome. Count the beats. Normally, in 4/4, you are accenting 1 and 3 with a slight accent on 2 and 4. Now, when you have eighth notes, it goes:
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +
With accents on 1, 2, 3, and 4 as the beat. Syncopation is where you accent the 'and's (the plus signs. The and of 1 is halfway between beats 1 and 2.) So you have:
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +
My current assignment from my teacher is to practice clapping syncopation, which essentially means clapping after the metronome beeps. Which is quite frustrating.
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hang in there, you'll get it eventually. syncopation is hard, until you get it.
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