A Heart's Beat

[David Morris]

Tick Tock, Tick Tock.  That is the heartbeat.  "Tick" is the up-beat.
"Tock" is the down-beat. With the heart, the dominant beat is the up-beat.
It is the push, and it lasts a little longer than the down-beat. "Tock" is
a release of the up-beat pressure. It is like the "ahh" of relief.

Why is it that in Western music the dominance roles of these beats are
reversed?  The up-beat is almost silent. The down-beat is assertive.  This
music beat seems a reversal of our heart's beat dominance.  The heart beat
feels like Ska.

It also seems to me, as I feel my heart beat, that the up-beat starts on
the left side and moves over to the right side to release. Is this how most
hearts work? from left to right?  Again, this left/right inside dominance
seems the reverse of "normal" externally expressed left/right physical
dominance. Might this be related to the left/right brain mirror of inside
versus outside expression?

David Morris