It’s like listening to several different songs in a row. The tempo shifts in “Suite: Judy Blue Eyes” (Crosby, Stills & Nash) are nice, and by now we can all easily follow them, but the point is, it’s a suite. How, then, could you shift tempo in a way that felt exactly right? And-to make the challenge even harder-how could it be done without a transitional acceleration or deceleration? But tempo is more fundamental than anything else in determining what feels right in a piece of music. ![]() Why would you want to do that? Well, for experiment’s sake, or for variety’s sake, or maybe to make an expressive point. ![]() You can add interest to a song by changing the rhythmic figures in it, but if you mess with the very bottom of the groove, the tempo, in midstream, you ask your audience to make a difficult adjustment.
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