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Mnemonics for internalising rhythms
- Thread starter RCMJ Bass
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Thanks for all the replies chaps,
I really didn't consider we'd be talking about triplet quintuplets and the like, FWIW I was moved to start making some YouTube videos after teaching a few students who really struggled with counting and rhythms, sometimes I could help, sometimes not, but it always occurred to me that some things were so simple that a lot of people brush over them...just focusing on one rhythmic pattern over and over can reinforce it to the extent you don't have to think about it anymore....its like Sesame Street were you'd have A Q and 7 and 5 for the whole show.....anyway here's "To The Woods" (or "quarantine" or even "1 - an a")
I really didn't consider we'd be talking about triplet quintuplets and the like, FWIW I was moved to start making some YouTube videos after teaching a few students who really struggled with counting and rhythms, sometimes I could help, sometimes not, but it always occurred to me that some things were so simple that a lot of people brush over them...just focusing on one rhythmic pattern over and over can reinforce it to the extent you don't have to think about it anymore....its like Sesame Street were you'd have A Q and 7 and 5 for the whole show.....anyway here's "To The Woods" (or "quarantine" or even "1 - an a")
"rhythmic solfege" is another search term go use if you want to read up on this stuff.
My kid's school music teacher uses Edwin Gordon's system (where sixteenths are Du-Ta-De-Ta, for example).
I think as with solfege it can be helpful to associate basic musical elements with syllables as a way to break them down and remember them.
I've never really used anything beyond the "1-e-and-a-2-e-and-a..." stuff I was taught as a kid.
My kid's school music teacher uses Edwin Gordon's system (where sixteenths are Du-Ta-De-Ta, for example).
I think as with solfege it can be helpful to associate basic musical elements with syllables as a way to break them down and remember them.
I've never really used anything beyond the "1-e-and-a-2-e-and-a..." stuff I was taught as a kid.
OK I am resurrecting this thread babies I have a new practice video out today, the rhythmic figure of one 16th one 8th and the a 16th..(or semiquaver, quaver, semiquaver) if you're from the same side of the pond as me....I couldn't think of a suitable mnemonic for this one...any ideas?
