Unit quiz: Time you can feel: pulse, the click, syncopation, and moving the same music around the neck

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Question 1

A learner plays a four-chord loop, one chord per bar at 72 beats per minute, and places the final chord at the end of bar three, arguing that the loop is complete because all four chords have sounded. Using the metrical hierarchy from lesson 51, what is the accurate account?Four bars at 72 BPM form a 13.333-second hypermeasure, so ending in bar three interrupts hyperbeat four and the loop is heard as unfinishedThe loop is complete because every chord has sounded; the sense of incompleteness is a dynamic problem to be solved by playing the final chord more loudly

Question 2

At 60 beats per minute a learner sets a click on every sixteenth note, so that the reference falls on every event they play. Which change best trains an internal pulse, and what is the resulting reference interval?Keep the sixteenth-note click and raise its level, because a denser and louder reference is always easier to followMove the click to beats two and four, which leaves an unattended reference every 2.000 seconds so the player must supply beats one and three

Question 3

A player records a tresillo on a keyboard at 90 beats per minute and then quantises the part to straight sixteenths to tidy the timing. What has happened to the pattern, described in the vocabulary from lesson 53?The displacement has been removed: a profile of 0.500, 0.500 and 0.333 seconds becomes even sixteenths at 0.167 seconds, so the syncopation itself is goneThe pattern has been converted from grouping dissonance into displacement dissonance, which preserves the feel at a finer metric level

Question 4

A learner puts a capo on the second fret and plays an A shape and then a D shape. Using the fret arithmetic from lesson 54, which chords sound, and at which frequencies for the bass notes?The A shape sounds C at 130.81 hertz and the D shape sounds F at 174.61 hertz, because a capo on the second fret adds three semitonesThe A shape sounds B with its bass at 123.47 hertz, and the D shape sounds E with its bass at 164.81 hertz, since two frets above A2 is B2 and two frets above D3 is E3

Question 5

A learner completes a five-minute session of continuous six-string barre chords and reports tingling in the thumb that persists after stopping, and asks whether to extend the session tomorrow. What does the material cited in lesson 55 support?The tingling is a symptom requiring healthcare advice, and the plan should be rebuilt around a warm-up, short holds with genuine releases and partial barresThe tingling is a normal stage of adaptation, so the session should be extended to ten minutes so the hand adjusts more quickly

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