Rhythm Book
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Rhythm Exercises...
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By Jonathan M. Peske
How to practice these drills: Practice each measure individually first. o Then work on the entire line. o Then try to do more than one line. o How far can you play without making a mistake? Use a metronome! Each drill has a metronome marking. If that feels too fast, you can always go slower. Use the online metronome, or one of your own. Your goal is to be extremely precise. Don’t just get it “close,” get it perfectly right. Try for 3 times in a row perfectly correct. Perfect practice makes perfect. Write in counting for the rhythms—where are counts 1, 2, 3, 4? Practice counting and clapping the rhythms. Listen to the exercises performed by the computer online at www.sisbands.org/Rhythm.htm Be sure to hold notes for full value and count carefully through rests. Once you feel you really know it, move the metronome to a faster tempo—can you still play it perfectly? Try playing the rhythm on the page, but with changing notes. This is a way to improvise. Can you pick notes so that the line of rhythm sounds like a logical melody? With a friend: Each person picks a different line and you both play your lines at the same time. Can you play yours right when you hear other rhythms? Spend a few minutes every day working on rhythm—it will make you a better player!
Rhythm Drills
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Quarter Notes and Quarter Rests q=100 Set a metronome so that you play with a steady beat.
A 1
B 5
C 9
D 13
E 17
2
6
10
14
3
7
15
19
11
18
4
8
12
16
20
F 21
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Quarter Notes, Two Eighths, Quarter Rests q=100
A Set a metronome so that you play with a steady beat. 1 2 3
B 5 6
C 9
D 13
E 17
10
14
18
7
8
11
4
15
19
12
16
20
F 21
22
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Mixed Quarter, Half, Whole notes, Ties, Rests q=100
A Count carefully! 1
B 5
Be sure to hold notes full value. 2
3
4
6
7
C 9
10
E 17
D 13
16
19
12
18
8
15
11
14
20
F 21
22
23
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2/4, 3/4, 5/4 time signatures
A 1
q=100 Watch out for time signature changes! 2
1
4
2
B 5
6
C
7
9
2
+
E 17
11
15
18
F
16
19
21
1 + 2
12
3
14
8
10
1
D 13
3
22
20
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Dotted Quarter Notes q=100
A Set a metronome so that you play with a steady beat. 1 2 3 1
2
B 5
C 9
D 13
+
3
4
12
6
10
14
+
3
4
7
F Notice the meter change. 21 22
19
+
15
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+ 34
12
16
20
23
3
8
11
E Count the ties carefully. 17 18
12
4
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Eighth notes on and off the beat You need to look very carefully at where each beat is. Does the note fall ON the beat, or OFF the beat? q=80
A 1 2 3 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +
1
2
3
4
B 5 6 +
+
+
+
1
2
3
1
7
2
3
4
4
1
2
8
3
4
4
Careful!
C 10 11 12 9
D 13 14 15
E 17
18
F
21
22
19
23
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Basic Syncopation
A q=90 Set a metronome so that you play with a steady beat. 1 2 3 B 5
6
C 9 D 13 1 +2
+
3
7
11
14
12
15
4
8
16
19
20
Careful!
21
G 25
10
E 17 18 F
4
22
26
27
23
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Review q=100
A Set a metronome so that you play with a steady beat. 2 3 1
B 5
C 9
6
7
18
F 21
11
D Notice the time signature change. 14 13
E 17
8
10
22
4
12
Watch out for another one.... 15
16
19
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Triplets q=75 Set a metronome so that you play with a steady beat.
A 3 1 1
tri po let 3
B 5
3
2
3
3 4
4
6
7
3
3
8
3
3
3
C 9 10 11 3
3
3 12
3
Notice the ties.
D 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 13 14 15 16
that 2 eighth notes equal one quarter note. E Remember 3 3 3 3 3 17 18 3 3 3 19 3 3 3 3 20 3 3
F 21
3
3
3
3
3 22
3
3
3
3 23
3
3
3
3
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Cut Time h=80
A In cut time, the half note gets the beat and there are two beats in the measure. 1 2 3 4 1
2
1
B 5
C 9
2
6
7
11
14
18
16
20
12
19
8
15
10
D 13
E 17
+
F 21
22
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Rhythm Drills 6/8 time q.=65 In 6/8, the eighth note gets the number, but the beats are subdivided in groups of three, so it feels like triplets.
A 1 1
2
3
4
5
6
B 5 C 9
E 17
18
123
456
3
4
7
10
6
D 13
F
2
11
14
19
8
12
15
16
20
Careful!
21
22
G 25
26
23
27
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Basic Sixteenth Note patterns q=70 Set a metronome so that you play with a steady beat.
A 1 1
2
3
4
2e+a3
B 5 1 + a 2
7
8
3 + a 4
C 9 1 e + 2
6
10
11 12
3 e + 4
D Careful! 13 14 15
E 17 18 19
16
20
F 21
22
23
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The Dotted Eighth-Sixteenth Note Pattern
Give the dotted rhythm energy by putting a small space before the sixteenth. Make sure there is a difference between the dotted eighth notes and the straight eighth notes.
A q=80 1 1
2
2
3
4
a 3
B 5 6 7 8
C 9 10
D 13
14
11
15
E Here is the pattern reversed: 17 18 19 1
F 21
2 e
3
12
16
20
4 e
Be very careful! 22
23
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Mixed Review q=85
A Count carefully! Set a metronome so that you play with a steady beat. 1 2 3 4 3
B 5
6
7
C 9 10
D Watch out for time changes. 13 14
11
15
F
22
23
12
E Keep the tempo the same through the meter changes. 17 18 19
21
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Cut Time h=85 Remember that the half note gets the beat.
A 1
B 5
C 9
3
6
7
14
8
18
22
16
19
12
20
F 21
15
11
4
10
D 13
E 17
2
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6/8 time; 3/8 time Sometimes, you actually do count in 6. Try these exercises counting in slow 6. e=120
A 1
B 5
6
2
3
7
8
4
C An eighth note can still be split into two sixteenth notes. Try these in slow 6, then fast 6. 9 10 11 12 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 +
D 13
14
15
16
E 3/8 time just has less beats per measure. 17 18 19
F 21
22
20
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Sixteenth note patterns q=70 Set a metronome so that you play with a steady beat.
A 1 2 3 4
B 5
6
7
8
C 9 10 11
12
D 13 14 15 16
E 17 18 19 20
F 21
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Rhythm Drills Compound Meter In compound meter, the eighth notes get grouped in groups of 2s and 3s.
A e=180 Here is 3+2+2: 1 2
3
B Here is 2+2+3: 6 7 5
8
C Sometimes, the pattern will change back and forth: 9 10 11
D Sometimes, the time signature will change too: 14 15 13
4
12
16
E 18 19 17
F 20
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