with the beat

“I went in and was just kind of freestyling, like the way I used to. I was playing with the beat and the melodies. I would even do 10 or 20 takes,” he said.

Keeping time with the beat in my socks, a scant six feet from the looming media cabinet in our cramped living room.

It started with the beat, Heidi White said.

Each male first chooses a stage of entangled vines, then in performance he shakes the vines as part of his courtship footwork, synchronizing each shake with the beat of his striking song.

Analysis shows the lyrebird's footwork is synchronized with the beat of the rhythmic gronking song.