The Easy Rhythm Method

The Easy Rhythm Method is designed to help you learn how to count printed rhythms better, and how to have a steadier internal pulse with your music. As you go through these lessons, you will:

• improve sight-reading of printed music
• be able to play with other musicians more easily
• understand how to figure out complicated rhythms
• know how to read many diverse time signatures
• understand many unusual printed rhythms and rests
• feel much more confident with your own "natural" (which means "learned") sense of rhythm.

Here are some of the specific rhythms that are covered in this course:

Every Lesson has some detailed rhythm patterns to practise and learn. There is also a specific pulse training lesson to help you play with steadier rhythm. In addition to that, here are the new concepts that are introduced in each lesson:

Lesson 1 

• Introduction to The Language of Rhythm, and Pulse
• How to Use A Metronome
• Quarter notes and rests
• Half notes and rests
• 4/4 time

Lesson 2

• 3/4 and 2/4 time
• ties
• dotted half notes

Lesson 3

• Eighth notes
• Dotted quarter notes
• Many eighth note patterns 

Lesson 4

• Eighth rests
• Syncopated patterns
• Many 4/4, 3/4 and 2/4 patterns

Lesson 5

• More syncopation
• Off beats
• Sixteenth notes

Lesson 6

• All 4/4 combinations of 2 sixteenth and 1 eighth note in 1 beat

Lesson 7

• 5/4 time
• Major introduction to 6/8 time
• Triplets

Lesson 8

• Many 6/8 patterns
• Sixteenth notes in 6/8 time
• Quarter and eighth rests in 6/8 time

Lesson 9

• Dotted eighth note-sixteenth note combinations
• Multiple bars rest
• More sixteenth patterns in 6/8 time

Lesson 10

• Introduction to Cut Time - 2/2
• Half notes and half rests in cut time
• Quarter notes and quarter rests in cut time
• Eighth notes in cut time
• Dotted patterns in cut time

Lesson 11

• Introduction to Mixed Meter Time Signatures
• 5/8 time
• 7/8 time
• How to count beats with 2 eighth notes alongside beats with 3 eighth notes when all eighths are equal length

Lesson 12

• More combinations of Mixed Meter Time Signatures
• 8/8 time
• 11/8 time
• Many dotted combinations and rests in mixed meters

Lesson 13

• Quarter note triplets
• more mixed meter times, like 8/8

Lesson 14

• 32nd notes and 64th notes (that's a lot of black lines)
• sextuplets
• double-dotted eighth notes

Lesson 15 - Swing Rhythms - learn some of the basics of jazz rhythms

Bonus Tips and Tricks for Improving Your Rhythm!

• Clap Along With These and Other Songs
• Check Out This Groove
• You Be The Judge
• Really Handy Online Tools
• Grab Your Pencil
• Rhythm Patterns Up A Scale
• The Walking, Rhythmic Body

Reference Section To Other Resources To Help You Improve