In jazz the term means using note values twice as fast as previously but without changing the pace of the chord progressions. It is often used during improvised solos.[1]
"Double time [is] doubling a rhythm pattern within its original bar structure.":[2]
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Rhythm pattern characteristic of much popular music including rock, quarter-note (crotchet) or "regular" time playⓘDouble-time: notice the snare moves to the "&" beats while the hi-hat begins to subdivide sixteenth notes (semiquavers).Playⓘ Note also, for example, that the eighth notes (quavers) 'sound like' quarter notes (crotchets) in two tiny measures (bars).
Double-, common, and half- time offbeats at the same tempo. Playⓘ
Double-, common, and half- time offbeats at equivalent tempos. Playⓘ
^Randel, Don Michael (2003). Harvard dictionary of music, fourth edition, p. 253. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-01163-5.
^Gray, Acia (1998). The Souls of Your Feet: A Tap Dance Guidebook for Rhythm Explorers, p.?. ISBN 0-9667445-0-0.
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