Polyrhythm
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A section of music featuring two independent pulses of different speeds playing against each other within the same time frame. For instance, a quarter note [triplet] in 4/4 meter is a simple polyrhythm in which 3 notes [betas] take the same time and space of 2 quarter notes of the 4/4 value. Not to be confused with [hemiola].
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