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Rhythm is a vital element of any music, but the foundation of African music.
Find out about the careful combinations of rhythms in Tunde Jegede’s song Moving Away – how rhythms are shared and how they work together.
The backing singers sing with the same rhythm, but where does the rhythm from?
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Explore how Tunde Jegede alters the chorus rhythms in the initial and final choruses of 'Moving Away', and how this helps the music to build.
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How does the music for the kora in 'Moving Away' combine two rhythms from different places?
Tunde Jegede explains how he went about creating an entire song from one simple rhythm in 'Moving Away'.
Eugene Skeef’s udu music in the song 'Moving Away' combines numerous different rhythms. The first two are the traditional ‘kuku’ and the SoundJunction seed rhythm ...
Explore how the two guitars and udu share the same rhythms in the song 'Moving Away'.
Use the Explorer tool to find out what's going on inside the song Moving Away, by Tunde Jegede
