Beats of all times About the earliest music of all time, musicologists can only guess. There are no scores, there are no written sources, and with archaeological finds it is often unclear in what way objects could have had a function as musical instruments. So we do not know for sure what the first music might have sounded like, but we do know that music was always made. One of the most primary ways of making sound is by tapping or rubbing objects against each other, which today we would call percussion. Once there are two consecutive sounds, we can speak of rhythm and tempo. If the time interval between several rhythmic impulses is stable, there is a ‘beat’, a heartbeat in the same way that our heart pulses at a more or less constant speed.
