Rhythm Assistant
Coming soon!
Features
Four types of exercises
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Echo patterns
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Identify patterns
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Notate patterns
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Tap patterns​
Meter choices
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Duple
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Fast triple
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Slow triple
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Triple triple
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Asymmetric (various)
Specify which rhythm functions are active at a given time: macro/microbeats, divisions, elongations, ties, rests.
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View subdivision scheme of current rhythm pattern.
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Adjust tempo.
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Rhythm syllable system is the beat function system of Edwin E. Gordon
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Basics: du, du-de-, du-ta-de-ta, du for duple meter; du, du-da-di-, du-ta-da-ta-di-ta, du for triple meter (and more!).
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Merits
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Based on audiation--how rhythms sound--rather than notation.​
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Performable.
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Accounts for enrhythmic notation; multiple ways to notate a given rhythm pattern.
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Accommodates assymetric meters coherently.
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View demo video:
Some screenshots
Duple pattern in 2/4

Same duple pattern notated "enrhythmically" in 2/2

Triple pattern in 6/8

Same triple pattern notated in 3/4; "waltz time"
