The Rhythmic Macadamia-Nuts

The Rhythmic Macadamia-nuts is a form of music used during marches and military engagements originating in The Cooperation of Umbras. The form guides musicians during improvised performances. A chanter recites nonsensical words and sounds. The melody has short phrases throughout the form. Only one pitch is ever played at a time. It is performed without preference for a scale. Throughout, when possible, performers are to make trills and play arpeggios.

• The chanter always does the main melody, should feel tender and is to become softer and softer.
• The Rhythmic Macadamia-nuts has the following structure: a brief verse and a chorus all repeated one times.
• The verse is fast. The chanter's voice stays in the low register. The passage is performed in the paciyq rhythm.
• The chorus is consistently slowing. The chanter's voice stays in the middle register. The passage is performed in the at rhythm.
• The paciyq rhythm is a single line with eight beats divided into two bars in a 4-4 pattern. The beat is stressed as follows:
• | - x x - | - X x x |
• where X marks an accented beat, x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.
• The at rhythm is a single line with three beats. The beat is stressed as follows:
• | - x x |
• where x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.

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