In that fashion, one--It's playing eighth notes, one-and, two-and; it's subdividing the beat whereas the syncopation -it's there, and so on.

就是这种方式,一,它演奏八分音符,一大,二大,有切分音的地方,节拍被细分了,就像这样

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With syncopation the impulse can come suddenly off the beat, and it gives it a little snap or jazzy aspect to the music.

在切分音里,冲动会突然打乱节拍,让音乐听起来突兀,奔放

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So, we wanted to bang that syncopation and then, of course, there's no sound on the downbeat over here to make the syncopation work.

我们想要强调这个切分,然后,当然,在强拍的位置就不发声了,这才构成切分音

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Okay. Obviously, this is the bar of syncopation-- we did this in section last week-- but you can see this note is the syncopated note.

显然,这个小节里包含了切分节奏,上周的课我们提到过,我们看到这个音符是切分音符

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Okay. Now take your hand on a chair or your notebook, your computer or whatever, and do syncopation off of that according to this pattern.

好的,现在用手拍椅子,或者笔记本,电脑,随便什么,来按照这个模式做切分音

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Okay. So that's what syncopation is and it isn't much more difficult than that.

好了,这就是切分音,也并非很难理解

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So what syncopation is is simply the insertion of an impulse, a "Hit" If you will, at a metrical place that we do not expect it to be.

所以切分音就是插入的一个冲动,也可以说是一次"撞击",出现在一个我们意料之外的位置

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Now the master of syncopation, of course, in music was Scott Joplin, African American composer writing a lot around the area of St. Louis in the turn of the twentieth century.

说到使用切分音的大师,我们自然想到斯考特·乔普林,是位多产的美国黑人作曲家,二十世纪初居住在圣路易斯地区

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For syncopation, let's go to the board over here.

大家看白板上这里

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What's that a good example of? Syncopation, yeah.

那是个什么样的典型例子呢,非常好,切分音

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You know his music from pieces such as "The Entertainer, " so let's play just a little bit of "The Entertainer" Very slowly, and my question to you is: where is the syncopation?

你可能听过他的作品比如《艺人》,那么,我们慢慢地弹奏一小段《艺人》,你们的问题就是切分音在哪里

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The first is syncopation.

第一个是切分音

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Where's the syncopation?

切分音在哪里

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Syncopation.

切分法

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The term is on the board and it's a good example of syncopation sort of jumping in ahead of time cutting off the beat, getting in there ahead of time and throwing off the metrical balance for a very short period of time.

这个词已经写在白板上,这是个非常典型的切分音的例子,它提前跳入,切分节奏,提前介入,并在非常短的时间里,打破拍子的平衡

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I'll remember TJ Maxx forever because of this guy's little syncopation.

这让我一辈子都忘不了TJ Maxx,因为这个小小的切分音

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