Shimmy’s Rhythm Road
Round 1 of 8

Drive the beat!

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Selected note: C4 half-step · Shift + arrows whole-step
HKD Factor 50 Contour · Level 1wave + return
factor phase: rᵢ = (5i + 2L) mod 7 · interval palette = [0,+2,−1,+4,−3,+1,−2] · mean return pulls wide leaps toward C

Rhythm vocabulary: Ford = quarter · Honda = paired eighths · Pontiac = dotted-eighth + sixteenth · Maserati = four sixteenths. Later rounds combine the cells into syncopated drum-reading phrases.

Footprints Lab · 8 bars / 3-beat cells

Follow Shimmy’s moving cue while listening to the official Newport Jazz Festival performance. Count repeating three-beat cells across an eight-bar phrase; pause and echo the rhythm with the car words.