Rhythm and the Pulse

Feeling The Pulse Let’s start out at the beginning and identify the main pulse or heartbeat using a metronome and a few ‘get started’ exercises Home » Introduction to Rhythm & the Pulse » Lesson 2 Print Notation Lesson 2 Play Along Track your progress 0% 1 Exercise 1 2 Exercise 2 3 Exercise 3 Your…

Gettin’ Into Some Basic Rhythms Let’s explore a few basic rhythms to get us more comfortable with how we construct rhythms. Home » Introduction to Rhythm & the Pulse » Lesson 3 Print Notation Lesson 3 Play Along Track your progress 0% 1 Exercise 1 2 Exercise 2 3 Exercise 3 Your Personal Lesson Notes Your…

Getting Deeper Into Rhythm Here we ‘zoom’ into the bar to reveal eighth beats and explore how to use these to create slightly more complex rhythms. Home » Introduction to Rhythm & the Pulse » Lesson 4 Print Notation Lesson 4 Play Along Track your progress 0% 1 Exercise 1 – Getting used to the new…

Exercise – Creating your own rhythms Time for a pen and some paper. Learn how to write out hundreds of rhythms so you can create, learn then throw away. Home » Introduction to Rhythm & the Pulse » Lesson 5 Track your progress 0% 1 A recap on the rhythmic grid 2 Simplifying the grid to…

Feeling For The Pulse In Music Let’s sit down together, listen to some music and see if we can hear and clap along to the pulse / heartbeat of music. Home » Introduction to Rhythm & the Pulse » Lesson 6 Track your progress 0% 1 Teenage Dream 2 These Days 3 Invisible Touch 4 You…

Fun Exercise – Detecting Rhythms In Music Arrangements How to detect rhythm in music and copy these rhythms to gain a deeper understanding of rhythm and the role rhythm plays in music. Home » Introduction to Rhythm & the Pulse » Lesson 7 Track your progress 0% 1 Teenage Dream 2 These Days 3 You Can…

[Further Study] – A Few Complex Rhythms For The Brave! Let’s speed things up and spread our rhythms over two bars to create more complex rhythms. We will use the same methods as before. Home » Introduction to Rhythm & the Pulse » Lesson 8 Print Notation Further Study Play Along Track your progress 0% 1…

Visualising rhythm using the ‘grid’ Let’s start out by looking at how to conceptualise and visualise rhythm using a grid. This is how all of rhythm works. Home » Introduction to Rhythm & the Pulse » Lesson 1 Track your progress 0% 1 The Grid Method 2 Zooming into a bar 3 Going one layer deeper…