Rhythm

A rhythm is a fundamental piece to Famuz. The rhythm is used with notes and chords to create harmony and melody. They are built to be interchangeable and produce wildly different sequences with minimal effort (that's the goal anyways).

In Famuz a rhythm can be written as @2 9~-- 4-3~

@2 expresses the duration of each character. The integer is a negative power to the base of 2. So @2 equates to 1/4 thus each character that follows is a quarter note.

After the duration has been defined a series of hits are then added. A hit can either be a rest written as '-' or it will be a written as [0-9] with zero to many '~' characters. The number represents the intensity of the hit and the option tildes will extend the hit.