LESSON FOUR - RHYTHM
The recipe of pulse and duration
What will you learn in Lesson 4?
In this lesson you will learn:
- How to read and clap different rhythms
- To spot rests
- About triplets
- Why not all bars add up to what they should!
What is rhythm?
Rhythm (noun) = the movement with uniform or patterned recurrence of a
beat, accent or the like.
You can see from the above definition that is is difficult to describe rhythm
in words. This is the area of sheet music that MUST be learnt in a practical
way. It needs to be heard and played and that is what we are going to do in
this chapter.
You have both of the ingredients you need already - an understanding of
pulse (Chapter 2) and an understanding of duration (Chapter 3). Mix
these 2 together and you have the recipe to help you read and play rhythms.
The key to getting this right is doing the following exercises out loud.... As
I said, rhythm needs to be heard and felt, not just read.