Hup, Two, Three, Four

Pacing is movement, and movement has rhythm. Some rhythms are fast, staccato beats, rat-tat-tat-tat; some are slow, leisurely swells; and some are a steady heartbeat. One thing is true for all of them:  in order to have a beat, in order to have rhythm, there must be sound and then silence. A single continuous blast of a foghorn has no rhythm; neither does complete silence. It's only when you get the foghorn in multiple blasts that a rhythm can develop.

But there's more to rhythm than...

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Published on July 28, 2010 09:09
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Megan Thank you! Brilliantly put!


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