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Getting into the groove: What we will cover in Week 5

"Groove" is often used when describing music. But what is it, and how does it affect our experience of and movement to music?
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This week we will focus on the concept of groove in the theory track, and get to know concepts like “offbeat”, “upbeat”, “downbeat”.

In the terminology track you will learn more about gestures and the term coarticulation.

In the methods track you will get an overview of how it is possible to analyse motion from ordinary video recordings. Remember to use the dictionary.

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