HOW TO READ ANY RHYTHM

hey everybody I'm Rick Beato on today's everything music I'm going to teach you how to read any rhythm what we're going to need to do is we're going to memorize six different rhythms that I call sight rhythms there are two elements to rhythm reading one is notes and the other arrests we're going to start with notes first how many sixteenth notes to demonstrate these six patterns but we can easily use eighth notes for quarter notes I'll show you that as well the first pattern you're going to memorize is for sixteenth notes we're going to subdivide it like most people do which is the beat number one E and AH the e is the second sixteenth note the end is the third sixteenth note and the odd is the fourth sixteenth note so it will go one E and a two E and A three E and a four E and uh here's pattern 1 1 2 3 4 and E and AH two and AH three and AH four things and I just want to go over something real quickly when we're counting this out the 1e and the plus sounds like and that's how people typically say it so one E and two E and uh here are eighth notes represented so if your account Athens you go one and two and so those ends line up with these ends here's pattern two one two three four one two and AH three and AH and here's pattern three one two three four one and two and three and four and here's pattern 4 1 2 3 4 1 D 2 D 3 anytime you have a fourth sixteenth note in a grouping it always belongs to the next set of sixteen so case would be one E and a two but two so you want to make these this is going to belong to the next one this is going to belong to three ok so you always want to think of them da-da-da-da-da so remember da da two three four gotta set that said betta so to pick up to the next grouping here's pattern five one two three four one two three and the last pattern number six goes like this 1 2 3 4 1 D 2 D 3 e okay next I'd like to talk about equivalent rhythms all of these rhythms sound the same if you look at the bpms this rhythm at fifty BPMS sounds identical to this rhythm at under bpms and it sounds identical to this rhythm at 200 BPMS so all you need to do is know how to read these patterns and know that they are rhythmic equivalents so this pattern three-and four-and sad sad the stop rhythm is the same if I go 1 2 3 4 guys at the Fed sad pathetic that would be the same in eighths and quarters and the same thing here if I did twice the rhythm which is really too fast to clap ok so let's talk about rests next now with rest many of these patterns son identical to the other ones just the sixteenth note is shorter for example this pattern is first pattern that the debt debt that one en1 ye and ok it sounds like this it would be a short eighth note which you could write it either way and you'll see rhythms written this way many many times where you could have an eighth note with the dot on it and it would be the same thing this however is a unique rhythm that's why I had this star here rested that the rest of the respective de Bresse E and E and E and E and E and D anda number three would simply be debt debt debt debt it sounds like too short eighth notes but it's really six names and so it's one E and so one and then and so that that DEP DEP DEP they're just short so if you wanted something to play articulate it short if you're playing a trumpet bar for example this rhythm you would see played commonly now I wrote it this way with a bean because it's more of a modern way to write it instead of writing a sixteenth note sixteenth Reds another 60 another 16 threads rest typically you would see that in orchestrating you'll see this as a shortcut this is a unique rhythm so it'd be one E and AH one E and up three four Oh number five you could have written as an eighth note with a dot on it so short but it'd be like one and two and three and seven that that that that's not unique number six here is unique rest up rest up so one key Anthon one E and a one E and uh number seven since the sixteenth note lies on a B it's not unique because it comes on and number eight is a unique rhythm because we have the sixteenth note on the last so it would be one E and AH three four one E and AH two E and AH one E and AH one E and up okay number nine and number ten sound identical actually if you went now this is a eight an eighth note rest sixteenth note and this is sixteenth rest rest sixteenth but you could say it's that that that that that that that this would be dad that that this would be that that that that that that's that all you need to do is memorize these ten patterns with the rests combine them with the six patterns from before and you have all the possible combinations of four sixteenth notes or if you make them eighth notes it's the same thing change everything here two eighth notes and then you know how to perform these same rhythms as eighth notes okay the last thing we're going to talk about our triplets now I did the same thing with these triplet equivalents triplet sixteenth notes at fifty BPMS are going to sound the same as eighth note triplets on a hundred BPM which are going to sound the same as quarter note triplets at 200 bpm s but in reality the way that these would work is this if we put these all against a quarter note the triplet sixteenth would sound like this peg Linda Linda Linda Linda the eighth note triplet would sound like this three for peasant SS deficit with the downbeats on both of those falling on strong beats but with the quarter note triplet it's a little bit different you get this three against to feel or hemiola which would be this a pattern like this three four ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba so every half note you fall on a downbeat three four five five five five five that's a three against two pattern or a hemiola any of you that watch any of my jazz videos will know that we use triplets a lot on the second beat in bebop because that's kind of a Charlie Parker thing or really be bad thing rest but over the data didn't that do that moobot okay now this isn't tied note but really is playing da da da da da da da da da da da okay in jazz we play swinging notes see these aids are played played as triplets from the triplet feel this it's called a swing feel these are called swing eighths so three four but didn't it bother you that do that do that okay let's take a look at a real world example this is John Williams Superman theme let's take a look at this rhythm [Music] that's all for now please subscribe here to my everything music YouTube channel and if you're interested in the Beato book you can write the Arabia Oh number one at gmail.com don't forget to hit the subscribe button and the notification button thanks for watching amarak Beato

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Length: 8min 26sec (506 seconds)

Published: Wed May 31 2017