Glad I found this I was so tired of "and, and, and" making me lose track constantly. I swear every single bar these days begins with a dotted quarter, 8th rest, or something similar that makes you count in "ands" for the rest of each measure. This helps
Thank you so much for the method! I think you freed me for certain way. I always get lost counting with the 1 e and 2 e and way. Then i count again, lost in different bars!! 😂😂😂 these Tikitiki thing is really easy and fun!!! Thankbyou so much!!!! A wonderful smart talent teacher!!!!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
I had done my Higher Local exam of the Trinity Colloge of music. Then medical college and post graduation happened and piano neglected. I practised my specialty for over 50 years and now having retited was longing to go back to piano! Now I have found my holy grail. Thank you, you are excellent!
Thank you very much. I had totally forgotten about the "ta ta ti ti ta" I had learned as a kid. And, then you added all the rest that I had never learned at all.
I am going to practice reading music with the rhythmic language; it is so much easier to keep track of where you are in the measures! Thanks so much, I have struggled with reading/playing rhythms accurately for years. This will help greatly!
Thank you so much for this. I have come back to piano after a 50 yr gap. (Now on Grade 5!) I said to my teacher that I learned the Ta, ti ti method for rhythm in the 1960’s. She said she had not heard of this, but instinctively it is a method I am drawn to. I had no idea it had a name. You have taken this much further than I originally learned and will def use this tool from now on.
Thank you so much Leah for this lesson. Until watching your video I had not realised the Kodaly method was another way of getting rhythm. I despair when having to count as I lose it by the second or third bar and have to resort to finding a UA-cam clip of someone playing to pick up the rhythm again. I have been teaching myself again after a 50 year gap and have become rather paranoid about rhythm. I won't even try a piece if I see a bunch of notes together!
Thank you so much for this, barely starting learning about music and sight reading! Extremely grateful to you for taking the time to share your knowledge
Oh that is SO liberating! Never have I felt the dawn break on an idea that pleased me more. My aversion to numbers was such a barrier for me to learn the timing and this is the best thing I’ve learnt this year. Thank you 👏
I've been a musician almost my entire life (I'm 35) and your "count each note individually" concept is so simple and immediately useful it's blowing my mind a little. Thanks for all of your videos!
I'm learning piano in Hungary (although I'm not Hungarian) and here I was recently taught the Kodaly method. We have a couple of differences however to what you say: on a 4/4 rythm for the half note we do not use Ta+2 but Ta+a, the dotted half note would be Ta+a+a and the whole note would be Ta+a+a+a. So no numbers needed. For the 16th note we would use Ti+ri+Ti+ri (although you did already mention they are some variations for this one).
I had never heard of the Kodali rhythm language, though I recently discovered ta ti ta ti, that was the extent of my knowledge. Thank you so much! Should be fun working with it.
She is Great!!! Not to many teachers break-down these Rhythm like her. She is giving so much Great. God bless you for giving lessons that others are not giving.
A good lesson for beginners, like myself, who have a bit of a hard time with time and rhythm. Believe it or not, I play the piano in a band, by ear mostly.
It’s even a great lesson for “beyond beginners”. I feel I have permission not to “count”! The ol 1-2-3-4 method really does take up too much brain space when slogging through a new piece!
This has been a revelation to me. I am actually a reasonable pianist but i play mostly by ear. I learned to read music and I can read music but my sight reading is not very good and I rely on playing by ear. Using the rhythm language is way better for me!
You’re absolutely awesome. I learned so much today even if I’ve been practicing sight reading for several months daily. Rhythm is always very challenging as music gets more complex. Thank you for explaining this.
That was super helpful! I'm 75 and recently returned to piano after slamming the lid dpwn at the age of 14 as a response to a bullying parent who turned me off piano. For years, I've wanted to find the time and motivation to get back into piano, and the Covid pandemic created the alone time I needed. I found an almost new, weighted, full-sized keyboard online for a mere $125 Canadian and have steadily made progress. Recalling music theory from 60 years ago has been an issue, but you are helping me tremendously. I'm also trying to learn jazz theory, and that's a whole other ball of wax😂 Thanks for sharing your knowledge 🎉❤
Thank you for the insight. I helped or listened to my daughter’ ten years of piano lessons and practice and am now in my sixth year of piano as an adult learner and it is the first time I hear of this approach to figuring out rhythm. I now have a fairly good intuitive understanding of rhythm as I see it in the score but every so often I get stumped and have to revert to the counting method. This rhythm language is like a revelation. Thank you for sharing and keep up the good work.
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Thanks so much. I have been playing by ear for years because I could never get an intuitive grasp of the rhythm. I now am going to start all over again , you have given me the confidence I never had as a child. I am now over 50. This is part therapy as I was never smart at school. So thank you so much. You changed my expectations of myself which I will in turn pass on to others. Wow you are not just a music teacher , you are therapist and one who opens up the world of what's now possible.
Hi @@senderoa, sorry to hear your workbook didn't arrive; can you email me at leah@lecheilemusic.com and I'll send it to you by return? To answer your question, you can use the same rhythm language in jazz; where there's syncopation, you're just offsetting the stronger beats but the same note values are being used so the same language works.
I never used these counting techniques with 1 and 2 and 3 and...but this blows my mind and makes it so much easier for now. Thank you so much for your knowledge.
I have been able to get to the bottom of understanding the rudiments of Music and its application.Thanks alot for fulfilling my dream and also being a good teacher and Musician.
I loved your video I am a beginner and this was very helpful ... to get use to a music sheet and not get scared looking at it ... Thank you you are an amazing Teacher 💫💕
Great content and great presentation, been playing piano a long time and rhythm has always been the hardest part for me. I will learn Kodaly counting, that's new for me. Looking forward to more from this channel
Finally a teacher who gets it. So nice to hear someone who respects their students like you. It is amazing that some insist on a method that doesn't work. I had the added challenge of counting in a non-native language. All of the teacher's insistence on counting with multiple numbers was to make me freeze with processing overload. Similar to asking anyone to sing, learn the alphabet, do gymnastics, and watch TV at the same time without missing a beat (no pun intended !) Gets even more challenging with the 1 e and e craziness ...
Great lesson! I found counting 1&2&3&...I'd keep going 6& and then it would mess up what I was doing when I realize. The method you used is wonderful. Thank you for your time and energy to put this out.
A little “cheat sheet” on all the ta, titi, and tiki tiki values and so on……. would have been nice for us to print up to use as a quick reference. Thank you so much for sharing your gift and making life better for us. 👍🏼
That's actually a great idea, thank you! I will definitely do that - it'll probably go out to my email list first so if you haven't signed up already, you can do that here (and get a practice workbook while you're at it 😄): mailchi.mp/bccb1e32807f/practice-workbook-giveaway
I had years of music lessons and still had a hard time counting complex rhythms until I was taught to count with the smallest notes for everything. I have practiced sight reading a lot in a choir and it has become much easier.
One variation I've found helpful is to count the smallest values in the measures where they occur. In other words, you may have several measures of just quarter and half notes and then a measure or two with eight notes followed by more measures of just quarter and half notes. However, while counting eight notes for every measure can be tiring, it does keep the rhythm steady and uniform throughout.
This woman is a SAINT! Long may she live!
i already do something like this but thought it was wrong, and came here to learn the right way :)
Lady this was exhausting! Respect
It was exhausting to make! 🤣
Thanks for resurrecting me back to piano. Your approach is amazing!
Yay! 🥳🥰
Excellent Thank you
Glad I found this I was so tired of "and, and, and" making me lose track constantly. I swear every single bar these days begins with a dotted quarter, 8th rest, or something similar that makes you count in "ands" for the rest of each measure. This helps
It’s simply the best rhythm lesson I learned from UA-cam. The Kodaly’s rhythm language is easier to follow than the traditional counting. Thank you.
Wonderful lesson. 😊
I like your thinking and your style. Quickly becoming my favorite piano channel on UA-cam.
Thanks so much 🥰
Fantastic!!! I'm the guy who needs to hear the piece before playing it from sheet music... Thank you!
This is so helpful, thank you!
This does really help with these harder rhythm counts. You explain it well and give options. Thanks.
You are Right, the dot notes, Different Eight notes. and the sixteen notes.
Thanks a lot.
Thank you so much for the method! I think you freed me for certain way. I always get lost counting with the 1 e and 2 e and way. Then i count again, lost in different bars!! 😂😂😂 these Tikitiki thing is really easy and fun!!!
Thankbyou so much!!!! A wonderful smart talent teacher!!!!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Your system has opened it up for me right away! I love the approach of using rhythm language. Thank you.
The counting alternative approaches are brilliant! 🙏
I had done my Higher Local exam of the Trinity Colloge of music. Then medical college and post graduation happened and piano neglected. I practised my specialty for over 50 years and now having retited was longing to go back to piano! Now I have found my holy grail. Thank you, you are excellent!
You’re very welcome, best of luck!
Thank you very much. I had totally forgotten about the "ta ta ti ti ta" I had learned as a kid. And, then you added all the rest that I had never learned at all.
I am going to practice reading music with the rhythmic language; it is so much easier to keep track of where you are in the measures!
Thanks so much, I have struggled with reading/playing rhythms accurately for years. This will help greatly!
Thank you so much for this. I have come back to piano after a 50 yr gap. (Now on Grade 5!) I said to my teacher that I learned the Ta, ti ti method for rhythm in the 1960’s. She said she had not heard of this, but instinctively it is a method I am drawn to. I had no idea it had a name. You have taken this much further than I originally learned and will def use this tool from now on.
That’s great to hear, welcome back to piano! 😊🎶
Thank you so much Leah for this lesson. Until watching your video I had not realised the Kodaly method was another way of getting rhythm. I despair when having to count as I lose it by the second or third bar and have to resort to finding a UA-cam clip of someone playing to pick up the rhythm again. I have been teaching myself again after a 50 year gap and have become rather paranoid about rhythm. I won't even try a piece if I see a bunch of notes together!
Thank you so much for this, barely starting learning about music and sight reading! Extremely grateful to you for taking the time to share your knowledge
I use avocado guacamole or watermelon depending on the song for 16th notes. Pineapple for triplets apple eighth notes
seed for quarter
I think you’re just hungry
13:02 stage 2
17:58 stage 3
21:46 stage 4
Thank you, you are such a blessing ❤️ such a valuable lesson in the basics
Oh that is SO liberating! Never have I felt the dawn break on an idea that pleased me more. My aversion to numbers was such a barrier for me to learn the timing and this is the best thing I’ve learnt this year. Thank you 👏
Thank you, this is proving useful in improving my playing but (and this is a huge bonus) is improving my ability to transcribe what I hear in my head.
Thank you, I always have struggled with counting, I think this is going really help me.
I've been a musician almost my entire life (I'm 35) and your "count each note individually" concept is so simple and immediately useful it's blowing my mind a little. Thanks for all of your videos!
Thanks Nate 😊
I'm learning piano in Hungary (although I'm not Hungarian) and here I was recently taught the Kodaly method. We have a couple of differences however to what you say: on a 4/4 rythm for the half note we do not use Ta+2 but Ta+a, the dotted half note would be Ta+a+a and the whole note would be Ta+a+a+a. So no numbers needed. For the 16th note we would use Ti+ri+Ti+ri (although you did already mention they are some variations for this one).
Thanks Mark!
I've also understood it that way -- works well.
Thank you for doing the rhythm language a lot of teacher don't teach
Thx for the useful lesson!
Thank you! This is so helpful. I am new singing in choir and this is perfect!
A well explained video. The rhythm language is a new concept to me, but seems to work. I have added it to my practice routine.
Perhaps the BEST music lesson on youtube. Absolute gold, thank you! I'm definitely going to try the rhythm language on my beginner students
Aww, thanks Lara 🥰
You have no idea how helpful of an epiphany this was to stumble upon. So simple and intuitive, thank you for sharing your knowledge!
I had never heard of the Kodali rhythm language, though I recently discovered ta ti ta ti, that was the extent of my knowledge. Thank you so much! Should be fun working with it.
Thanks for this. Was very helpful getting your perspective. 👍
She is Great!!! Not to many teachers break-down these Rhythm like her. She is giving so much Great. God bless you for giving lessons that others are not giving.
A good lesson for beginners, like myself, who have a bit of a hard time with time and rhythm. Believe it or not, I play the piano in a band, by ear mostly.
It’s even a great lesson for “beyond beginners”. I feel I have permission not to “count”! The ol 1-2-3-4 method really does take up too much brain space when slogging through a new piece!
Thank you for your lesson made easy.
🤯 I’d never heard of this method before. Definitely easier than the traditional system. Thank you for this.
this is life changing. thanks
Best advice I've ever had on rythms. Excellent teaching. 😊
This has been a revelation to me. I am actually a reasonable pianist but i play mostly by ear. I learned to read music and I can read music but my sight reading is not very good and I rely on playing by ear. Using the rhythm language is way better for me!
You’re absolutely awesome. I learned so much today even if I’ve been practicing sight reading for several months daily. Rhythm is always very challenging as music gets more complex. Thank you for explaining this.
Thanks
That was super helpful! I'm 75 and recently returned to piano after slamming the lid dpwn at the age of 14 as a response to a bullying parent who turned me off piano. For years, I've wanted to find the time and motivation to get back into piano, and the Covid pandemic created the alone time I needed. I found an almost new, weighted, full-sized keyboard online for a mere $125 Canadian and have steadily made progress. Recalling music theory from 60 years ago has been an issue, but you are helping me tremendously. I'm also trying to learn jazz theory, and that's a whole other ball of wax😂 Thanks for sharing your knowledge 🎉❤
This video helped me big big big time! Ty❤️❤️❤️
Thank you for the insight. I helped or listened to my daughter’ ten years of piano lessons and practice and am now in my sixth year of piano as an adult learner and it is the first time I hear of this approach to figuring out rhythm.
I now have a fairly good intuitive understanding of rhythm as I see it in the score but every so often I get stumped and have to revert to the counting method. This rhythm language is like a revelation. Thank you for sharing and keep up the good work.
Usefull? You've change my life in sight reading teacher!. Thank you a loooot! The written language is the best!
You are Amazing! Thank you so much! 🙏🙏🙏❤️❤️❤️
Why haven't I found this channel sooner? This is pure gold.
This is great, going to try this!
You are a blessing
Thank you madam for a wonderful presentation I will try ma best to apply in practice
One of the best lessons !
Great lesson Kodaly method fantastic for fast music particularly Irish and all Celtic melodies much appreciated so well explained
Thanks!
Thank you so much 🙏
Amazing lesson. Understood rhythms easily. Thank you for this lesson
This video has been really helpful, especially the quaver and semi quaver rhythms. Thanks for sharing
Marvellous...really enjoy your approach to rythm.😊
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Thanks so much. I have been playing by ear for years because I could never get an intuitive grasp of the rhythm.
I now am going to start all over again , you have given me the confidence I never had as a child. I am now over 50. This is part therapy as I was never smart at school.
So thank you so much. You changed my expectations of myself which I will in turn pass on to others.
Wow you are not just a music teacher , you are therapist and one who opens up the world of what's now possible.
Hi, tried to get workbook but I failed..one question: how do you use this system with ties and syncopation used a lot in jazz? thank you
Hi @@senderoa, sorry to hear your workbook didn't arrive; can you email me at leah@lecheilemusic.com and I'll send it to you by return? To answer your question, you can use the same rhythm language in jazz; where there's syncopation, you're just offsetting the stronger beats but the same note values are being used so the same language works.
Thank you! You’re brilliant. Best video I’ve seen in years, so useful and well explained
You’re welcome ☺️
Thank you so much, this help me out a lot!
I happened to find your channel and loves it. Thank you so much!!!
You are a great instructor helped me so much.....
This is great!
I never used these counting techniques with 1 and 2 and 3 and...but this blows my mind and makes it so much easier for now. Thank you so much for your knowledge.
Excellent lesson and so easy to understand. Thank you!! Off to practice rhythm language!
Merci for this. I started one month ago and tickled the ivory at first. Now I feel like a student.
Thank you for this video. Please uploads more videos like this. Absolutely wonderful lesson!
You’re very welcome and I will ☺️🎶
Great lesson, the titikaka language is very intuitive!
Great lesson. Focussed and clear !
Thanks teacher
I have been able to get to the bottom of understanding the rudiments of Music and its application.Thanks alot for fulfilling my dream and also being a good teacher and Musician.
I loved your video I am a beginner and this was very helpful ... to get use to a music sheet and not get scared looking at it ... Thank you you are an amazing Teacher 💫💕
Thank you! Glad it helped 😊🎶
Thanks so much for posting this! Great help!
My pleasure 😊🎶
Great methods for teaching rhythms!❤
Awesome! Thank you so much!!!!
Fantastic thank you
Great content and great presentation, been playing piano a long time and rhythm has always been the hardest part for me. I will learn Kodaly counting, that's new for me.
Looking forward to more from this channel
Glad it was helpful!
This is great! As a mostly ear player who's starting to develop sight reading this has really helped me
Thanks Michael 😊🎶
Thank you from Italy. Your lessons are very precious
Grazie, Floriana, mi fa grande piacere sentire questo 🥰
My singing teacher today said “you have no internal clock” in awe. She’s so right so here I am 😹
You'll get there! 😄
(S)he might just say that you need to improve. I dont think music teachers should use such dramatic statements.
Finally a teacher who gets it. So nice to hear someone who respects their students like you. It is amazing that some insist on a method that doesn't work. I had the added challenge of counting in a non-native language. All of the teacher's insistence on counting with multiple numbers was to make me freeze with processing overload. Similar to asking anyone to sing, learn the alphabet, do gymnastics, and watch TV at the same time without missing a beat (no pun intended !) Gets even more challenging with the 1 e and e craziness ...
Thank Ti A, it’s good to have some alternatives that work for you, glad this has helped. Best of luck with it! 😊🎶
this is some of the best information I've found on this. thank you so much !
Glad it was helpful!
This is such great lesson , Leah . Going over it and repeat leads to rhythm success I hope.
Thanks Padraigin, looking forward to going through it with you 😊
Thank you for sharing this amazing content! You are a truly great teacher!
I appreciate that!
Absolutely brilliant.
waov, you are amazing. you also literally reply every comment, you are a good person teaacher and i donno many more! I wish you the best of everythig
Awww thank you! 🙏
Thank youuuuuuu
You are the best teacher in the world.
Aww thanks! 😊🎶
Great lesson! I found counting 1&2&3&...I'd keep going 6& and then it would mess up what I was doing when I realize. The method you used is wonderful. Thank you for your time and energy to put this out.
This channel deserves so much more attention. Great work 🙏🙏🙏🙏💯✅🔥🥓❤️🙅🏻♂️✊
Thank you so much 😊
Thank you very much for that lesson. I am going to practice using what you showed us.
You're welcome!
Thank you so much for posting this. I found this very helpful as I have been struggling to get to grips with rythms.
You’re very welcome, glad to help 😊🎶
what a teacher.
A little “cheat sheet” on all the ta, titi, and tiki tiki values and so on……. would have been nice for us to print up to use as a quick reference. Thank you so much for sharing your gift and making life better for us. 👍🏼
That's actually a great idea, thank you! I will definitely do that - it'll probably go out to my email list first so if you haven't signed up already, you can do that here (and get a practice workbook while you're at it 😄): mailchi.mp/bccb1e32807f/practice-workbook-giveaway
Thank you! mdm!
I had years of music lessons and still had a hard time counting complex rhythms until I was taught to count with the smallest notes for everything. I have practiced sight reading a lot in a choir and it has become much easier.
One variation I've found helpful is to count the smallest values in the measures where they occur. In other words, you may have several measures of just quarter and half notes and then a measure or two with eight notes followed by more measures of just quarter and half notes. However, while counting eight notes for every measure can be tiring, it does keep the rhythm steady and uniform throughout.
This is very useful lesson. It has great value😇👏👏
Glad it was helpful!