You’ve heard of rhyme schemes, the various ways you can arrange sounds to link lines and create sequences of motion. In this article, I want to look at rhythm’s ability to do the same thing: sometimes ...

Some hit songs—“Louie Louie,” “Whole Lotta Love,” “Bad Guy,” for example—aim to induce dance fever via a heavy beat and a whole lotta repetition. At the opposite end of the spectrum, we find ...