There are times when, on initial hearings, the playing does seem rather deadpan, due partly to the acoustic and partly to the tempi.
Greek folk rhythms can be energetic, but are generally not fast; tempi are mostly moderate or slow.
These mainly concern activities as segmentation, separation of hands, and varying tempi.
The selection also presents music in a range of tempi, structures and pieces which use a variety of musical devices.
The last movement is a grinding palindromic movement which has sudden and drastic, if not violent, contrasts of tempi and texture.
As a result, teachers adopted strategies to minimise boredom such as mixing up the running orders or playing the pieces at different tempi.
Both continuity and discontinuity can move in a more or less periodic-aperiodic erratic manner, with internal fluctuations in tempi.
The popcorn generates a very specific sound, and moreover, they have to look at a screen, while chewing within prescribed tempi!
