I'm interested to get better at rhythms, so I want suggestions of how to further push learning in this area apart from doing Rhythmania and Rhythmic Parrot exercises? I need some exercises that will be a bridge between these exercises in ToneGym and being able to detect rhythms, read rhythms in a real song. I'm perplexed at the complexity level Rhythmania got: I get 7/8, 7/4 time signatures, however I'm not any good at rhythms.
Are there apps that do it?
I found 2 amazing apps that do good in realm of Solfeggio: Ella, Chet. I actually found them by searching in ToneGym forum, however there are not much discussion about rhythms.
I wish I had a good answer for you @Question Toothbrush - you ask such amazing questions! One thing I am doing is looking at YouTube videos: Yoruba rhythms, Afro Cuban and other Latin music. Since drums are so important to those cultures, this music contains all sorts of interesting rhythms and rhythmic patterns. Let us know what you find!
for me, the best way to develop rhythm is to actually play with other people followed by practicing with a metronome. there are many different exercises you can work on with metronomes. doing exercises on here is a bit helpful but it doesn't really develop your 'feel' which is the main thing. you need your instrument for that
rhythm is a combination of many things that tonegym can't develop. it's a culmination of your technique on your instrument. good technique is 'effortless' and allows you to play with a loose feel which allows good rhythm
where exercises come into play is working on odd time signatures and polyrhythms. but the goal is just to get comfortable with the feeling of those rhythms.
in real settings with other players, i've literally never thought about 'reading' rhythms. i keep harping on 'feeling' because that is the essence of good rhythm (at least in my mind). loose playing with practiced technique will naturally lead to good rhythm.
It's in French but there's literally not a single word inside, just rythms. (maybe you can find a pdf?) I try to focus on a different page each week (going linearly) and master it completely before going to more difficult stuff
My comfortable shell of playing rhythm by feel or ear has recently been shaken. I play relatively advanced music on quite a few instruments, and got along by listening to/playing along with a version of the song if the rhythm was not too difficult. (I could do basic rhythms with quarter, eights, and 16th notes if they did not have very many long rests.) Then I realized that some songs do not exist on the internet and if I wanted to learn to play them by myself... I had some work to do.
Later beginners like myself (started music at 10) generally struggle with rhythm, seeing it as the primary, with rhythm as a thing to do after learning the melody, and if it was not perfect, who cares? Unfortunately this is not the case. Basically every accomplished musician I talk to says that the rhythm is your first priority(especially when sight reading), and really now that I think about it that is so true, if you hear a song with 60% right rhythm and 90% notes it is a lot harder to recognize than 90% rhythm and 60% notes.
Especially when you are sight reading, if you are playing all the right notes but most of them not at the right times, than you are essentially playing mostly wrong notes .
SUMMARY: Yea so now I realized that rhythm is primary, and melody is second, and have started trying to learn most of my songs (especially ones with more difficult rhythms like Mozart or other classical composers) entirely by counting out and playing with a metronome. Hopefully at some point rhythm is easier, but I realize now that I have to work to get there.
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