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Re: Counting Time

Author: Sean.Perrin
Date: 2016-06-28 09:23

I find for students it can be very helpful at first to look at rhythms like words.

Do not work on dotted rhythms until you can do all of the following with ease:

quarter, eights, triplets, sixteenths.

I like to use the following words because they form coherent sentences:

For quarter say "pie"

For eight say "Ap-ple" (make sure it's even!)

Triplets replace two notes with three. That's it.

For triplets say "straw-ber-ry"

And sixteenths are exactly twice as fast as eights.

For sixteenths say "huck-le-ber-ry"

What's great about this system is suddenly you can even say something rather complex, like a quintuplet. Just pick a 5 syllable word (I use "sas-ka-toon-ber-ry"... but this is an obscure local fruit, so something else might be better.)

Anyways, work on this a lot until you can say and clap any basic musical phrase WHILE TAPPING YOUR FOOT. This last part is very important since the foot is giving the beat or pulse. You will have to practice this a little bit every day, it won't come without practice.

Then, try to play the patterns by tonguing an open note, hearing the words in your head.

After the words are easy, you can try it with "proper" counting later.

Have fun!

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