comprehensive rhythm and time exercises and tips thread

[mambo4]

every combination of eighth, sixteenth, triplet, quintuplet, sextuplet, septuplet, and thirty second notes. It will take the rest of my life to get through them all.

Some rhythms are just more useful to know than others.
80% of what you use is actually very small subset of the possible permutations.
That's why is is useful to practice reading your rhythms using actual music.

That is one problem with resources for learning rhythm: they present an impractical amount of information.

you either get the dictionary or the alphabet with no "words" or "phonemes"

I wish more rhythm resources used this approach:

 

[Spin Doctor]

I'm working through the book from advanced rhythm right now. The polyrhythmic stuff in it is sheer insanity! Things like 40:9 with some cool phrases are common. Weird time signatures are covered to. Best part is that there is a rhythmic solfege thing that made interpreting written rhythm patterns a lot easier for me.

Your link sent me on a fascinating web journey on South Indian music and rhythms. It's stuff like this that the internet is really for. I'd never have heard of R. K. Srikantan or known about his interesting life. Thank you!

 

[AndreasR]

Some rhythms are just more useful to know than others.
80% of what you use is actually very small subset of the possible permutations.
That's why is is useful to practice reading your rhythms using actual music.

That is one problem with resources for learning rhythm: they present an impractical amount of information.

you either get the dictionary or the alphabet with no "words" or "phonemes"

I wish more rhythm resources used this approach:

That's brilliant in its simplicity.

 

[Icemanaroonie]

Your link sent me on a fascinating web journey on South Indian music and rhythms. It's stuff like this that the internet is really for. I'd never have heard of R. K. Srikantan or known about his interesting life. Thank you!

You're welcome! I'm glad someone else finds this kind of stuff interesting. Learning about Carnatic rhythms has really made it easy for me to grasp and work with odd-meter and off the wall rhythmic stuff.