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Music
Rhythm
Exercises
PDF
Internalize
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Rhythmic Patterns
Through Practice
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The Music Rhythm Training
Exercise helps you internalize all
major rhythmic patterns through
reading practices. Being able to
read rhythm notation and to
internalize rhythmic patterns is
essential for every composer,
musician and even for electronic
music producers and here is why:

! Working through these

rhythm exercises you will
learn to read rhythmic music
notation by which you will
internalise rhythmic patterns

! Once internalized, patterns

can be utilized in your music
creation more freely and
consciously

! You will develop a better feel

 for rhythm, which is extremely
valuable when it comes to
composing and improvisation

! See these exercises as

learning rhythmic
vocabularies

! The more rhythmic

vocabularies you learn the
better can you express
yourself musically

! These exercises are also a

valuable resource for music
school preparation

Back in 2009 when I prepared for

my music school admission I
practiced reading rhythm notation
on a regular basis. What I found,
was that my rhythmic guitar playing
improved signi!cantly as I became
more aware of rhythmic structure
in general.
The Basics of
Rhythmic Notation
Let’s ram through the basic as I
assume that you know most of it
or, intelligent as you are, can
logically deduce it from the context.

Here are the note lengths in

comparison:

! A whole note equals two half

 notes

! A half note equals two quarter

notes

! A quarter note equals two

eighth notes

! An eighth note equals two

sixteenth notes

! A sixteenth note equals two

thirty-second notes

" A half note equals a quarter

note triplet

" A quarter note equals a eights

note triplet
What it all means is simply that the
duration of for e.g. whole note is
twice as long as the duration of a
half note. How long the duration of
a whole note is depend on the
tempo.

Beat and
Metronome
The beat or pulse de!nes tempo by
dividing time into pieces with equal
duration. In most popular and
modern-day music the beat
represents quarter notes as most
popular pieces are in either 4/4 or
sometimes 3/4 which stands for
“four quarters per bar” or “three-
quarters per bar”.

A metronome functions as an
auditive signal that communicates
the pace of the beat. For the Music
Rhythm Training Exercises it is
important that you use a
metronome because it forces you
to read music notation under real
circumstances rather than you
following your imaginary beat that
is just as fast or slow as you need it
to be 😉

The Secrets to
Reading Rhytmic
Music Notation
When reading rhythmic music
notation there are some tricks that
will help you get going.

1. Count the quarters:

Start out the “easy” exercise by

counting the quarter notes in
unison with your metronome like
this, “1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4″. In the
medium exercise as eighth notes
are introduced count “1 and 2 and
3 and 4 and … ” or just the quarter
notes. Experiment with what helps
you best. You shouldn’t always be
counting but in the beginning it
makes you aware of where you are
in the bar and where the quarter
notes lie.

2. Read notes in chunks instead

of notes in isolation:

This is probably the most valuable

tip when it comes to reading
rhythmic music notation. When you
read a text you don’t read every l-e-
t-t-e-r s-e-p-a-r-a-t-l-y but you
recognize words as a whole
because you have seen them
before. Same holds true for
rhythmic patterns. Learn to
recognize them and hear them in
your head before clapping, playing
or singing them. Let me illustrate.
# Rather than reading every
single note recognize the bar
as a whole so that you hear
“da da da da” in your head
even before you start clapping

# A common pattern that

appears everywhere in music
internalize it as “da dada”
# The same pattern with a
di#erent duration relative to
the beat “da dada”

Look out for other patterns that

reoccur and save ’em up!

3. Always hear the grid

In situations where you don’t use a

metronome and don’t count try to
hear the beat or rhythmical grid in
your head or just feel it.

Music Rhythm
Training Course
Index
1. Rhythm Exercise Easy 4/4 –
whole, half and quarter notes
2. Rhythm Exercise Easy 3/4 –
whole, half and quarter notes
3. Rhythm Exercise Medium 4/4 –
whole, half, quarter and eighth
notes
4. Rhythm Exercise Medium 3/4 –
whole, half, quarter and eighth
notes
5. Rhythm Exercise Di$cult 4/4 –
whole, half, quarter, eighth
and sixteenth notes
6. Rhythm Exercise Di$cult 3/4 –
whole, half, quarter, eighth
and sixteenth notes

Music Rhythm
Exercise Easy 4/4
Music Rhythm
Exercise Easy 3/4
Music Rhythm
Exercise Medium
4/4
Music Rhythm
Exercise Medium
3/4

Music Rhythm
Exercise Hard 4/4
Music Rhythm
Exercise Hard 3/4
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