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Movement or procedure with uniform or patterned recurrence of a beat, accent, or the like.

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Common drum rhythm index

As Zajn mentioned, Vic Firth does have an extensive education resource section. The 40 essential snare drum rudiments are probably less applicable here, but you can find 12 "Essential Grooves" plus si …
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Understanding the rhythmic structure of a song

There are a few different levels here. One of the things you can practice are "Grooves", for example, those included with the Vic Firth Groove Essentials packages. That will give you some starting pla …
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How can I teach a student who seems to have no rhythm?

It sounds like your student is at the point where you'll need to work on the absolute basics of rhythm. … You've got to use this to "bootstrap", essentially, his musical rhythm. …
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physiological responses to different rhythms

Well, the tiny hairlike structures in your cochlea transmit impulses through the vestibocochlear cranial nerve to your cerebral cortex, then some stuff happens that we don't fully understand yet, but …
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Metric modulation, ordering of the notes around the equals sign

I can't recall a time I've seen the opposite in print (not to say I haven't forgotten), but what I prefer to read (and what I would write myself) would be old on the left, new on the right for the fol …
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What's this rhythm called?

However, in this case I'd just call it a rhythm, closely related to a 2+3 clave, making use of dotted-eighth-note syncopation. …
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Counting off anacruses (pick up measures)

In all styles of music, you want to do two things when counting off an anacrusis: Keep the pickup rhythm in the context of the meter Cue Really, this applies to all countoffs, not just those with anacruses …
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How much time, in crotchet beats, does a crotchet triplet take up?

A triplet figure is assumed to have a 2:3 ratio of metric duration to notated duration under the triplet. Remember that you can derive many of these rhythmic rules yourself by examining real music. A …
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How do I figure out whether rhythms have beats with 2/3-1/3 splits or 3/4-1/4 splits?

This style of rhythm is right out of jazz music, and the matching notation is rarely explicit about the triplet subdivision that is implied in swing rhythms. …
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How do you compose tuplets against straight notes?

When overlapping, the overall rhythm you will hear is "quarter eighth eighth quarter" in a quarter note triplet. (Short version: any 2v3 -> Carol of the Bells.) …
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Rhythm/Drum exercises without drums

Instrumental students will often practice clapping and counting rhythms using these syllables, using one foot to tap the beats, the hands to clap the rhythm, and the syllables to process the notation and … (parentheses used to indicate a non-clapped beat) Every rhythm is contextualized because a number is always used to indicate something on the beat, the 'and' always indicates an upbeat or syncopation, …
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Keeping a drummer in time with my keyboard

If there's a lot of electronics going on that the drummer needs to always be in time with, then a click track on an earpiece is really the only option. This is pretty standard for professionals to use …
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Compound meter( 6/8) beat subdivisions?

6 | V ^ ^ v ^ ^ | 8 | 1 2 3 4 5 6 | 6/8 compound time can be thought of as duple meter consisting of two beats to the measure, where the dotted quarter note gets the beat. 6/8 is just a notational si …
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Rhythms notes for didgeridoo

notation: http://blog.didgeridoobreath.com/info-education/didgeridoo-notation-sheet-music/ In light of that, I think you might want to try using a line of "lyrics" underneath your traditional staff or rhythm
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Basic Punk Rhythm Guitar--Snare Feels Like Down Beat

Since punk music uses that 8th note rhythm pattern at a very fast tempo, when you are lining up with the snare, you are phasing yourself by an 8th note. … You can do this in many ways--I might improvise over chord changes, or alter the rhythm of a standard tune, or just play scales. …
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