Good news if you can't hold a beat: An app called Steve Reich’s Clapping Music might be able to fix you. Clapping Music, from the British app shop Touchpress, is a gamified lesson in tempo. It plays ...

Here’s your chance to perform Reich’s minimalist work like a pro percussionist – if you’ve got an iPhone and the rhythmic chops … Here’s a brilliant – and infuriatingly addictive – way to lose a few ...

Please put your hands together and give a round of applause for the cheapest and most widely used rhythmic device in music What is it? To paraphrase an ancient proverb, it is the sound of two hands ...

They collected and analysed a huge dataset of more than 100,000 people and found that changing rhythm is more difficult than playing a complex individual rhythm. The app challenges users to play ...

Good news for those who struggle to bop to the beat, clap at the wrong time and bump into everyone on the dance floor: You may have an excuse. Researchers are working on defining a new kind of sensory ...

Clapping is a universal gesture used across cultures to celebrate, protest, worship, or perform—but a new study shows it's not just social, it's also deeply scientific. Researchers from Cornell ...

People who can't clap on the beat drive comedian Aaron Michael King crazy, especially one group in particular. He devoted a whole YouTube sketch to ... some white people he knows. "This needs to stop, ...