Easy for 2 3 and 4 beats. In most styles of music, more than that is treated as a compound of 2 and 3 beats. So 5 is 1-2-1-2-3 1-2-1-2-3 or 1-2-3-1-2 1-2-3-1-2. There is one Middle Eastern 9/8 rhythm which is 1-2-1-2-1-2-1-2-3. There is the obvious and symmetric 9/8 that Irish trad enthusiasts are familiar with: 1-2-3-1-2-3-1-2-3.
By treating things as compound rhythms, you never have to remember where the one is. One is one. You just have to remember how many beats there are this time around.
I think this comes from the way humans walk. Since we are bipedal, we naturally fall into gaits with 2 or 3 beats. (Skipping is based on 3. Waltz step is another one based on 3. Since we have two legs, we have to repeat on one foot to get 3. 4 is really just a smoothed over 1-2-1-2.)
A browser for music, isn't that what Songbird was supposed to do? The idea was that it was a web browser / RSS reader optimized for acquiring linked media files. A similar attempt to break out of the iTunes walled garden.
Although Zed seems to be talking about making some internet-friendly format for describing the band and their albums and other works. That's an interesting idea, although such formats don't seem to take off in practice.
Interesting--I read it as being a new concept that people didn't immediately get. I felt that way the first time I heard about the Smalltalk IDE. It wasn't until I tried it that I understood it. I had no previous frame of reference for it.
Easy for 2 3 and 4 beats. In most styles of music, more than that is treated as a compound of 2 and 3 beats. So 5 is 1-2-1-2-3 1-2-1-2-3 or 1-2-3-1-2 1-2-3-1-2. There is one Middle Eastern 9/8 rhythm which is 1-2-1-2-1-2-1-2-3. There is the obvious and symmetric 9/8 that Irish trad enthusiasts are familiar with: 1-2-3-1-2-3-1-2-3.
By treating things as compound rhythms, you never have to remember where the one is. One is one. You just have to remember how many beats there are this time around.
I think this comes from the way humans walk. Since we are bipedal, we naturally fall into gaits with 2 or 3 beats. (Skipping is based on 3. Waltz step is another one based on 3. Since we have two legs, we have to repeat on one foot to get 3. 4 is really just a smoothed over 1-2-1-2.)