downwithpants wrote:specific musical or sound-specific elements you could synch to:
loudness:
crescendos, diminuendos
accented notes
pauses (of silence) (example:
The Wasteland)
tempo:
accelerandos, ritards
rubatos, cadenzas
rhythm:
meter, beats, notes
downbeats vs. upbeats
syncopated notes
polyrhythms
timbre:
instrumentation, percussion, synthesized sounds, sound effects, or other sound imitation
instrument production (plucking vs. bowing, dampening, muting)
articulation, amplitude modulation, frequency modulation (vibrato)
pitch contour:
ascending vs. descending, step motion vs. skip motion, neigboring motion vs. passing motion
arpeggios, glissandos, turns, trills
tonal structures:
repeating motives (or riffs), phrases
motive variation, phrase variation
cadences
melody vs. harmony
chords, keys:
dissonant vs. consonant chords, major vs. minor chords
key changes
scale changes
sound processing:
reverb
stereo (binaural disparities)
performance cues:
number of instruments playing
solos
improvisation
note onset asynchronies