Four types of exercises

• Echo patterns

• Identify patterns

• Notate patterns

• Tap patterns​

 

Meter choices

• Duple

• Fast triple

• Slow triple

• Triple triple

• 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

• 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!).

• Merits

  • Based on audiation--how rhythms sound--rather than notation.​

  • Performable.

  • Accounts for enrhythmic notation; multiple ways to notate a given rhythm pattern.

  • Accommodates assymetric meters coherently.