The Importance of REPETITION

Repetition has a huge affect on our minds. It helps to make things more familiar, more comfortable, more accessible.

Let's think about this another way. When we first start learning something new, whether it's Math, or Cooking, or Music, we practice the basics to learn how to do something correctly.

There's that old saying that "Practice make perfect," but what if you were practicing something the wrong way? Instead we should be saying that "Practice makes Permanent."

Repetition has such an important role in music that it has it's own term: Ostinato.

If you listen carefully you may notice that this song is in Pop Form.

After watching you should be able to easily and automatically be able to say that: "An Ostinato is..." You may even respond in song.

That is the influence of repetition in music.

Before moving on from the idea of repetition, it is important to note that there are sometimes different words to describe the same thing, even among musicians.

Since the focus of this lesson is Electronic Music, it is important to know that Ostinati are usually called Loops in this genre.