Musicians need to be armed with a wide range of skills and one of the most crucial is the ability to play a wide variety of rhythmic patterns. While this will come naturally for a select few, most of us have to work at it and that's what you'll do here.
Video
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2 videos, close to an hour each will have you slowly building simple rhythms, reading rhythmic notation and progressing on to complex rhythmic patterns.
Notes
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All of the exercises in the workshops are notated in the workshop notes.
Listen Up
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As well as exercises there are musical examples from rock, blues and New Orleans funk and second line.
Learn To Read
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Musical notation is a way to represent the sounds we hear in a printed form. Deciphering these relatively simple codes is a great way to better understand just how the whole thing works. Here we're only interested in the rhyhmic aspects of the notation.
The Exercises
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Over 100 rhythmic patterns cover everything from simple 4/4 patterns to complex 12/8 and 16th note patterns. You'll be finding new challenges here for years to come.
Integrated Content
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Many of these rhythmic patterns are discussed in the courses and in other workshops. Breaking them down in this level of detail will reinforce what you've learned elsewhere.