BookatlasPiano Rabbit Hole: Improvisation Theory & Practice
6541 / 18210 · Workshop 48 — “Actual Proof”: Metric Illusion, Superimposed Groupings, Advanced Syncopation, and Staying Relaxed When the Rhythm Sounds Like It Changed Meter← prev⊞ allnext →

48.4What happens mathematically?

Bar length:

16 sixteenths.

Motif length:

They realign after:

LCM(16,3) = 48 sixteenths.

That equals:

3 full bars of 4/4.

Same three-bar super-cycle we encountered with three-eighth cells, but now on a finer grid.