this video is brought to you by curiosity stream and my streaming service nebula i said when i woke up this morning i heard a disturbing sound so if you speak a language natively you grow up intimately familiar with its rhythm the natural push and pull of its internal cadence what sounds need to happen when that's why in english the name of the show is south park and not south park i knew somebody in high school who said it the second way we were not friends stress can sometimes be defined by the lengths of sounds shorts and longs that's how it's done in romance languages and in traditional arabic and other languages from around the world but in english it's a little bit more complicated because things like pitch will affect stress as well as relative loudness of syllables and the timbre of your voice if you look at the audio of me saying south park in multiple ways you can see that the first syllable is a little bit louder than the second if i'm stressing it south park south park so maybe we take a look at the audio of james brown singing i feel good to see which syllable is the loudest well they all look the same so that's not very helpful here one of the core features of stress patterns is we can subtly change meaning depending on which word is stressed within a sentence so if we stress the i and i feel good it's answering the question who here is feeling good i feel good stress feel and it can seem like you're doubting whether or not you're good i feel good alternatively stressing feel can be a rejoinder to the compliment you look good i feel good stress good and it can be the answer to the question how do you feel i feel good the context here gives meaning and can influence our perception of stress within the words themselves with that in mind let's listen to james brown saying i feel good one more time okay so probably the stress here is coming either on feel or good or maybe it's both of them but it's still kind of hard to say i don't know part of the confusion that i have is that this is not spoken language this is music and when we talk about musical stress things get a lot more complicated and they can conflict with ideas of linguistic stress so when we talk about musical stress i guess more technically speaking it's metric stress what we're doing is we're relating a rhythm to its underlying pulse when we do that we alternate strong weak strong weak so in a measure of NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN the first beat is strong the second beat is weak the third beat is strong maybe not as strong as the first and the fourth beat is also weak we can take each of those beats and break them down into subdivisions two each of which gets a stronger a week so the first eighth note is strong the downbeat and the second eighth note is weak the upbeat now what about groups of three you might ask well in a measure of three four traditionally the first beat is strong and the second two beats are weak now when we say strong and weak what we're really doing is we're talking about the relationship of the music to our own internal pulse which is it's very interesting check out this little melody for example nothing's going to change in the audio like what changed when we listened to the difference between south park and south park instead the stress pattern is going
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