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Thank you, you really are a great teacher, I just want to say that I've alway's wanted to learn how to play piano as well as learn how to read music, and now I feel with your easy explanation in the lessons that you give, I will learn, and like they say, your never too old to learn, I am 61 and your lessons are making me much more confident that it will happen, so again, thank you!
I agree that this lesson on counting beats was very clear. Like you, I always wanted to play the piano. When I bought my beautiful piano I was in my mid thirties. At the time my children were young, I was divorced and had a full time job. It never occurred to me how much time was required for practice between lessons. Because I didn't carve out that time the lessons were short-lived. Finally, in my mid sixties I retired and resumed lessons because I had time to practice. I'm now 71 and after a year without a piano (we moved to Australia in 2018) I found a wonderful teacher. But she's been on maternity leave so without the structure of actually going to weekly lessons I've become a slug. Fortunately I watched this video and am motivated to return to daily practice. Sounds like you're on the cusp of realizing a long held dream. You'll be challenged but with each accomplishment you'll feel growing pleasure and satisfaction!🎹
Dear friends! As a Conservatory Student, I want to share with you my journey to become a Rhythm and Counting Master! (well... At least I hope it will be so 🤓) I also hope that my videos help you in your practice! 👈 See you on my channel!
I am over 60 and decided during the pandemic to learn the piano. My father was a professional musician so it's in my blood but I never took lessons. Looked at several online courses but yours was the best. I am a visual learner and reading a book just wasn't helpful. Your courses are simply explained with clear examples. Thank you
Dear friends! As a Conservatory Student, I want to share with you my journey to become a Rhythm and Counting Master! (well... At least I hope it will be so 🤓) I also hope that my videos help you in your practice! 👈 See you on my channel!
This video cleared up a few things I was confused about but I still have a number of questions: 1. Why do you say e +a specifically? Does the e and the a mean anything specifically? 2. What about irregular signatures like a 5:8 for instance? How does that work and how does it sound? 3. What about the different scales like playing in A or E for instance? How does that work and how does it sound?
I’ve always improvised playing guitar. But starting to play keyboards last year being 50 I still want to learn . I ready to start at very bottom and work my way up . This lesson helps clear up how to count I will be following you 👍🏾👍🏾
As a novice/newbie to rhythm and counting, I found this incredible helpful. I do have one question: does anyone experience difficulty counting like this for incredibly fast-tempo’s pieces, and if so, what do you do?
Finally! Someone that explains this correctly! I just started playing a week or so ago & knew my timing was off but couldn't find how to accurately do so! Thanks again!
Listen I've been struggling so hard to understand time signatures I get so frustrated but you've broken it down in a way that what's taken me weeks to try to understand you taught me in a 11 minute video thank you!
I was confused in playing sheet music, your counting and attack points gives me a clear pattern to hit the key. An insight to read and play. Thanks and God Bless, A A Solomon
This guy absolutely DOMINATES piano teaching info vids on the interwebs. If you are thinking of buying his lessons then think no more. I can highly recommend him and his methodology!
Really appreciate this..just started my first few piano lessons a few weeks ago and I still struggle with counting..and I’m supposed to work on the counting now and for next week once she comes back..but my teacher never really helped me with trying to understand how to count them in the meantime..
Hello Tim,a happy New year to you from across the pond in Wales, United kingdom. I'm 80 years old and a novice piano player. I've had some tuition but have had great difficulty with the 1+2+3+4 system especially when you get a variety of notes. Your tutorial has just.made it so much easier to follow the music, many thanks for a clear and concise tutorial.Jack Bowen
This is a great lesson. So simple, but correct step by step instructions. Implement what he says to do in this lesson, practice it regularly for even just a couple of weeks and you will greatly improve. Ultimately a piano player must develop an inner sense of timing. Especially because you want to learn to use the pedals with your foot. But foot tapping and counting it out does get the body’s senses of feel going and that will help develop that inner sense of timing. Alternate adding some metronome work too. Start painfully slow with all timing practice exercises. Gradually increase tempo, but then go down to a slow tempo again. Timing is so huge in music. The great musicians always have an excellent sense of timing. But they have put in a lot of work to get there. Stick with it and it will pay off.
2 weeks ago I decided to sightread more, and it helped tremendously. Today I learned one of the most important things in sightreading is the rhythm, and this helped a lot. Merci
By far the best explanations of how to read and understand music, I'm 65 and have always struggled to make sense of music sheets, as soon as those sheets start looking busy with loads of symbols the anxiety kicks in though.
Hey students! If you liked today's lesson than SMASH that like button and make sure to SUBSCRIBE and TURN ON ALL NOTIFICATIONS so that you get updated when the newest lessons come out! Subscribe here: goo.gl/hSGn5n
Hi do you give private online lessons? Also I am having problems composing the rhythms in my head. It's hard for me to put in on paper. I might be able to simple rhythms but when it's longer I have problems any tips?
Thank you Tim for all the good content. I keep coming back to your counting videos. I'm learning but slow . Am looking forward to more progress this year.
Thank You for the easy-to-understand -lessons. This is the right way to go ahead in my music hobby. Please, include more lessons of the rhythm / timing, because that is what is missing from many other lessons in UA-cam (and my head) ! ;)
Dear friends! As a Conservatory Student, I want to share with you my journey to become a Rhythm and Counting Master! (well... At least I hope it will be so 🤓) I also hope that my videos help you in your practice! 👈 See you on my channel!
Great video. I'm a music Fundamentals teacher and I'm always looking at ways to make reading more clear and easier to learn. I want to ask you what software are you using to write the notes. I could use that for my class so that I can be chatting with my students and present that to them at the same time. Thanks!
Thanks for the lesson. As an Instrumental Music Teacher, I used to use the 'American' terminology - - Whole, Half, Quarter, Eighth note etc. then realised that these names only apply for 4/4 time. So, it was back to the 'English' names, Breve, Semi-Breve, Minim, Crotchet, Quaver, etc.
Nice for beginner students. A good foundation. I would add however, and point out, that the bottom number in the time signature does not function as a number at all, but a numeric representation of a note. In my middle school band class I will demonstrate this by drawing a few time signatures on the board - such as 4/4 ; 6/8 ; 2/2 - and then ( with washable marker) draw the number 1 with a line under it on the back of my hand. As I place this over the top number of each signature, the kind of note that gets one beat is revealed : 1/4 : 1/8 ; 1/2 ; Or sometimes I'll draw 4/4 as 4/with a quarter note beneath it - or 6/8 as 6 with an 8yh note beneath it, etc.
OMG, I could never understand the meaning of the bottom number. I’ve watched entire videos on it and it never made sense. You just explained it to me in short comment. Thank you! You are a great teacher!
In my opinion this can help an inexperienced player in keeping an even rhythm in the beginning. But permanent playing by counting these „micro timings“ or subdivisions will keep the player from gaining an inner pulse. I would recommend that the player should at the same time tap LOUDLY with his foot on the 1s, 2s, 3s, etc. This will help establishing rhythm and feel into the body. So that at best one day he will feel rhythm rather than count.
If you want to improve rhythm, you will need to use a metronome 80% of the time you play. Subdivision is a great tool but if you are actually going for rhythmic accuracy, subdivision won't help if you are not using a metronome. Yes metronomes are an unpleasant sound but if you don't practice with them, your performances will seem amateur regardless of your piano skill. Play a piece or exercise 4 times with a metronome then play it 1 time without. Repeat forever. No matter how much you have mastered a piece, use a metronome during most of your practice time. Subdivide with the metronome on or even practice your subdivision by turning on subdivisions on your metronome. But if you are going to try subdivision, do yourself a favor and have a metronome going.
Agree,also I have found counting 1/2 notes ,dotted 1/2 notes and whole notes works,but counting shorter notes does not.Having a feel for the rhythm allows you to play the piece without counting 1/4,1/8 and 1/16 notes.Can't imagine playing a very fast piece and counting everything.
Dear friends! As a Conservatory Student, I want to share with you my journey to become a Rhythm and Counting Master! (well... At least I hope it will be so 🤓) I also hope that my videos help you in your practice! 👈 See you on my channel!
Yes, I agree. Ultimately a piano player must develop an inner sense of timing. Especially because you want to learn to use the pedals with your foot. But foot tapping does get the bodies senses of feel going. Alternate adding some slow metronome work too. Timing is so huge in music. The great musicians always have an excellent sense of timing. But they have put in a lot of work to get there. Stick with it and it will pay off.
Whaaat I’m mindblown. I always wondered why sometimes notes would be barred together and sometimes not (and when writing music, not knowing which was correct). It was probably for the reason you explained!
Thank you for you math clarity! I have been dancing for years, my teacher always say I dance too fast, now I realize your Subdivision solve my problem, and also help me to count muscle movement without moving my feet!!!
Nice job I am taking music theory back in college an your counting lessons help me understand what I am being taught. You are truly being good to the music !
Maaaan, THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU soooooooooooo much.You are a great teacher,I learnt a lot from this lesson. Respect from Papua New Guinea. I just subscribed.
This is great! I've been thinking of a way that I can teach my students how to do length of notes. I usually just introduced what count or division you say with the note (i.e. I wouldn't teach e+a until I was teaching 16th, and + until I taught 8th notes. ). My way was fast but I knew there would be issues when it came to understanding length of notes. Having more than one way to teach note lengths is always helpful
Thank you! I have absolutely no music theory experience and learning to play bass guitar. Tabs are great but I totally understand the advantage of traditional sheet readings. Kiddos 🤙.
You really are a very good teacher! Playing the piano has always been on my bucket list. Also to be able to read music, eventually! Im 54 and my sons teacher said to me it's never too late to learn.
I've just gotten into music theory. I have been playing on and off but I want to get into the basics. People say you don't need music theory. I don't think so. For me, even if you don't want to follow the rules you still need to know the rules. If you want to break it fine. However, isn't it nice to break the rule once you know the rule? Getting deep into music theory allows you the capacity to manipulate the theory based on the kind of style you want. So this tutorial is valuable because it can help a lot of musicians. For people who love classical music, this is also important.
I jettisoned this method back in the 90s. The takadimi method developed by John White et al (developed and taught at Ithaca College) is far superior. The sixteenth of the beat is TA, your E is KA, your + is DI, and your uh is MI. Thus every beat is takadimi. The eight rhythm possibilities of a subdivided beat are TA, TADI, TADIMI, TAKADI, TAKA, TAKAMI, TAMI, and TAKADIMI. Learn the syllables to the possibilities and sight reading becomes so much easier. Before you ask, triplets are TAKIDA, and a subdivided triplet is TAVAKIDIDAMA, with the DI being in the same place as it is in TAKADIMI. The learning curve for students introduced to this is far steeper than those with the e+a subdiviions. Once I learned it and taught it the first time, I was sold and would never return to e+a.
Oh my god I just found your page! I’m saved! I’ve been playing piano for almost FIVE years and I suck at music theory. I’m only good at memorizing things in the moment
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Am a beginner accoustic guitar player and I will watch this video many times to become super good at counting the Rhythms. This is high quality lesson.🙏
Never like to count and people telling me 1e+a just sounded more problems in my learning and avoid it. Now seeing it Wow. Now I'm going to look for triplets counting methods. Thanks and it will help a lots of people.
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amazing good lesson. it will help me a lot with my reading and playing music. by the way, what software are you using to draw your scores? Thanks a lot
A very good and easy to follow lesson. Thanks Tim. I hope you will follow this up with counting 32nd notes and dotted notes. That would be very helpful.
Greetings from Cairo, Egypt. Congratulations on a great lesson... I have tried and tried learning how to count Rhythm in music... I found your lesson self explanatory and easy to understand... Great Job! I over 60 and I am trying to learn Guitar... Not Piano... Still I enjoyed every minute of your lesson. I subscribed, liked and will look for lessons to practice "Rhythm Counting"... I hope you have such lessons. I also need to know what software you used in this lesson. Great lesson... Keep it up.
Thank you so much. I can't believe how dull I have been. I knew about the 1e+a but only every applied it when I saw 16th notes. I never have tried counting quarter notes and 8th notes using the subdivision as well.
I've been trying to learn sheet music and I guess I completely forgot all these things from highschool! Gosh I'm going to make a folder of these videos. Thanks! Everything seems so clear now
Hey Teacher Tim! Thank you for the clear and overall useful lesson, I first got used to reading notes and now I'm trying to get better at counting and rhythm, quick question though, the counting is a lot slower (And I don't mean like, having trouble counting, I mean literally it feels pretty slow) than my reading and I was wondering if that was normal, is it?
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Best counting rhythm lesson ever. Over 30 years of music lessons and this has finally made it clear. Never too late to learn something new.
Agree! Simple and clear.
Who here has trouble counting while trying to play it at the same time
Everyone obviously
Aditya Dar innit why else we here 🤣
Literally me every time but marching band :/
Meeee
Omg mee
Thank you, you really are a great teacher, I just want to say that I've alway's wanted to learn how to play piano as well as learn how to read music, and now I feel with your easy explanation in the lessons that you give, I will learn, and like they say, your never too old to learn, I am 61 and your lessons are making me much more confident that it will happen, so again, thank you!
Keep up the great job!
Yay!
I agree that this lesson on counting beats was very clear.
Like you, I always wanted to play the piano. When I bought my beautiful piano I was in my mid thirties. At the time my children were young, I was divorced and had a full time job.
It never occurred to me how much time was required for practice between lessons.
Because I didn't carve out that time the lessons were short-lived.
Finally, in my mid sixties I retired and resumed lessons because I had time to practice.
I'm now 71 and after a year without a piano (we moved to Australia in 2018) I found a wonderful teacher.
But she's been on maternity leave so without the structure of actually going to weekly lessons I've become a slug.
Fortunately I watched this video and am motivated to return to daily practice.
Sounds like you're on the cusp of realizing a long held dream. You'll be challenged but with each accomplishment you'll feel growing pleasure and satisfaction!🎹
If I had a music teacher with 1/16 of your clarity back in primary school, I'd be a musician today. Thanks a lot for making these.
Dear friends!
As a Conservatory Student, I want to share with you my journey to become a Rhythm and Counting Master! (well... At least I hope it will be so 🤓)
I also hope that my videos help you in your practice!
👈 See you on my channel!
I am over 60 and decided during the pandemic to learn the piano. My father was a professional musician so it's in my blood but I never took lessons. Looked at several online courses but yours was the best. I am a visual learner and reading a book just wasn't helpful. Your courses are simply explained with clear examples. Thank you
Time passes by and what we do with it becomes our lives. Or our ways of living. Have fun and enjoy..your life and or your ways 😎
Dear friends!
As a Conservatory Student, I want to share with you my journey to become a Rhythm and Counting Master! (well... At least I hope it will be so 🤓)
I also hope that my videos help you in your practice!
👈 See you on my channel!
it's not in your blood. though it may get into your muscle memory, at least the basics
This video cleared up a few things I was confused about but I still have a number of questions:
1. Why do you say e +a specifically? Does the e and the a mean anything specifically?
2. What about irregular signatures like a 5:8 for instance? How does that work and how does it sound?
3. What about the different scales like playing in A or E for instance? How does that work and how does it sound?
They do e + a because it’s easy to remember and when you count it’s easy to count in your head too
*_Timing Of Quarter Notes:_* 3:11
*_Timing Of Eight Notes:_* 4:55
*_Timing Of Sixteenth Notes:_* 6:49
*_Timing Of Different Notes:_* 9:31
Thanks
Thank you
I’ve always improvised playing guitar.
But starting to play keyboards last year being 50 I still want to learn .
I ready to start at very bottom and work my way up .
This lesson helps clear up how to count I will be following you 👍🏾👍🏾
As a novice/newbie to rhythm and counting, I found this incredible helpful. I do have one question: does anyone experience difficulty counting like this for incredibly fast-tempo’s pieces, and if so, what do you do?
Yes this is an excellent lesson on counting time.. Counting like this actually makes it easier... YES agree ! Best counting rhythm lesson ever ! Lee
This is literally the most important part of piano learning that people do not exactly realize how important this is.
Finally! Someone that explains this correctly! I just started playing a week or so ago & knew my timing was off but couldn't find how to accurately do so!
Thanks again!
You explain the nuts and bolts that make music easier to understand. Thank you!
Listen I've been struggling so hard to understand time signatures I get so frustrated but you've broken it down in a way that what's taken me weeks to try to understand you taught me in a 11 minute video thank you!
I was confused in playing sheet music, your counting and attack points gives me a clear pattern to hit the key. An insight to read and play.
Thanks and God Bless,
A A Solomon
I am a beginning drum student and I have found your videos very helpful!
i've been playing the violin for 3 years now and this finally helped me fully understand counting, thank you!
This guy absolutely DOMINATES piano teaching info vids on the interwebs.
If you are thinking of buying his lessons then think no more. I can highly recommend him and his methodology!
Really appreciate this..just started my first few piano lessons a few weeks ago and I still struggle with counting..and I’m supposed to work on the counting now and for next week once she comes back..but my teacher never really helped me with trying to understand how to count them in the meantime..
Hello Tim,a happy New year to you from across the pond in Wales, United kingdom. I'm 80 years old and a novice piano player. I've had some tuition but have had great difficulty with the 1+2+3+4 system especially when you get a variety of notes. Your tutorial has just.made it so much easier to follow the music, many thanks for a clear and concise tutorial.Jack Bowen
This is a great lesson. So simple, but correct step by step instructions. Implement what he says to do in this lesson, practice it regularly for even just a couple of weeks and you will greatly improve. Ultimately a piano player must develop an inner sense of timing. Especially because you want to learn to use the pedals with your foot. But foot tapping and counting it out does get the body’s senses of feel going and that will help develop that inner sense of timing. Alternate adding some metronome work too. Start painfully slow with all timing practice exercises. Gradually increase tempo, but then go down to a slow tempo again. Timing is so huge in music. The great musicians always have an excellent sense of timing. But they have put in a lot of work to get there. Stick with it and it will pay off.
2 weeks ago I decided to sightread more, and it helped tremendously. Today I learned one of the most important things in sightreading is the rhythm, and this helped a lot. Merci
By far the best explanations of how to read and understand music, I'm 65 and have always struggled to make sense of music sheets, as soon as those sheets start looking busy with loads of symbols the anxiety kicks in though.
Hey students! If you liked today's lesson than SMASH that like button and make sure to SUBSCRIBE and TURN ON ALL NOTIFICATIONS so that you get updated when the newest lessons come out!
Subscribe here: goo.gl/hSGn5n
Hi do you give private online lessons? Also I am having problems composing the rhythms in my head. It's hard for me to put in on paper. I might be able to simple rhythms but when it's longer I have problems any tips?
Thank you Tim for all the good content. I keep coming back to your counting videos. I'm learning but slow . Am looking forward to more progress this year.
Thanks for such an excellent lesson. You have no idea how long I have needed this. Can’t wait to teach it to the grandkids. That’s how long.
Thank You for the easy-to-understand -lessons. This is the right way to go ahead in my music hobby.
Please, include more lessons of the rhythm / timing, because that is what is missing from many other lessons in UA-cam (and my head) ! ;)
Dear friends!
As a Conservatory Student, I want to share with you my journey to become a Rhythm and Counting Master! (well... At least I hope it will be so 🤓)
I also hope that my videos help you in your practice!
👈 See you on my channel!
Great video. I'm a music Fundamentals teacher and I'm always looking at ways to make reading more clear and easier to learn. I want to ask you what software are you using to write the notes. I could use that for my class so that I can be chatting with my students and present that to them at the same time. Thanks!
I have just started with a keyboard and I am finding your lessons so so,helpful so thank you.
Thanks for the lesson. As an Instrumental Music Teacher, I used to use the 'American' terminology - - Whole, Half, Quarter, Eighth note etc. then realised that these names only apply for 4/4 time. So, it was back to the 'English' names, Breve, Semi-Breve, Minim, Crotchet, Quaver, etc.
Nice for beginner students. A good foundation. I would add however, and point out, that the bottom number in the time signature does not function as a number at all, but a numeric representation of a note. In my middle school band class I will demonstrate this by drawing a few time signatures on the board - such as 4/4 ; 6/8 ; 2/2 - and then ( with washable marker) draw the number 1 with a line under it on the back of my hand. As I place this over the top number of each signature, the kind of note that gets one beat is revealed : 1/4 : 1/8 ; 1/2 ; Or sometimes I'll draw 4/4 as 4/with a quarter note beneath it - or 6/8 as 6 with an 8yh note beneath it, etc.
OMG, I could never understand the meaning of the bottom number. I’ve watched entire videos on it and it never made sense. You just explained it to me in short comment. Thank you! You are a great teacher!
In my opinion this can help an inexperienced player in keeping an even rhythm in the beginning.
But permanent playing by counting these „micro timings“ or subdivisions will keep the player from gaining an inner pulse.
I would recommend that the player should at the same time tap LOUDLY with his foot on the 1s, 2s, 3s, etc.
This will help establishing rhythm and feel into the body.
So that at best one day he will feel rhythm rather than count.
If you want to improve rhythm, you will need to use a metronome 80% of the time you play. Subdivision is a great tool but if you are actually going for rhythmic accuracy, subdivision won't help if you are not using a metronome.
Yes metronomes are an unpleasant sound but if you don't practice with them, your performances will seem amateur regardless of your piano skill.
Play a piece or exercise 4 times with a metronome then play it 1 time without. Repeat forever. No matter how much you have mastered a piece, use a metronome during most of your practice time. Subdivide with the metronome on or even practice your subdivision by turning on subdivisions on your metronome.
But if you are going to try subdivision, do yourself a favor and have a metronome going.
Agree,also I have found counting 1/2 notes ,dotted 1/2 notes and whole notes works,but counting shorter notes does not.Having a feel for the rhythm allows you to play the piece without counting 1/4,1/8 and 1/16 notes.Can't imagine playing a very fast piece and counting everything.
Dear friends!
As a Conservatory Student, I want to share with you my journey to become a Rhythm and Counting Master! (well... At least I hope it will be so 🤓)
I also hope that my videos help you in your practice!
👈 See you on my channel!
Yes, I agree. Ultimately a piano player must develop an inner sense of timing. Especially because you want to learn to use the pedals with your foot. But foot tapping does get the bodies senses of feel going. Alternate adding some slow metronome work too. Timing is so huge in music. The great musicians always have an excellent sense of timing. But they have put in a lot of work to get there. Stick with it and it will pay off.
Whaaat I’m mindblown. I always wondered why sometimes notes would be barred together and sometimes not (and when writing music, not knowing which was correct). It was probably for the reason you explained!
It blew my mind too when I first heard it!
I watched a lot of videos but this one really make me understood the principles. You are an excellent teacher. Keep it up and thousand of thanks!
Thank you for you math clarity! I have been dancing for years, my teacher always say I dance too fast, now I realize your Subdivision solve my problem, and also help me to count muscle movement without moving my feet!!!
Nice job I am taking music theory back in college an your counting lessons help me understand what I am being taught. You are truly being good to the music !
Sir you are a great teacher. i watch your many videos. i like your style of teaching. i hope one day i will understand a drop from the ocean of music.
Maaaan, THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU soooooooooooo much.You are a great teacher,I learnt a lot from this lesson.
Respect from Papua New Guinea.
I just subscribed.
Thanks for explaining the rythym in a very simple way.
God Bless You.
Thankfully I bumoed into this. Made me realize how easy to count the beat with this method. Love this!
This is great! I've been thinking of a way that I can teach my students how to do length of notes. I usually just introduced what count or division you say with the note (i.e. I wouldn't teach e+a until I was teaching 16th, and + until I taught 8th notes. ). My way was fast but I knew there would be issues when it came to understanding length of notes. Having more than one way to teach note lengths is always helpful
Great lesson I have Adhd and recently learned it affects rhythm and timing this helps massively
I keep on coming back to you lessons. thank you so much from California.
Phenomenal lesson and clearly understand what has been taught.
Thank you! You have a gift for teaching!
Thank you! I have absolutely no music theory experience and learning to play bass guitar. Tabs are great but I totally understand the advantage of traditional sheet readings. Kiddos 🤙.
thank you so much. im not a beginner but i’ve always had trouble counting because nobody explained it to me properly
You really are a very good teacher! Playing the piano has always been on my bucket list. Also to be able to read music, eventually! Im 54 and my sons teacher said to me it's never too late to learn.
I've just gotten into music theory. I have been playing on and off but I want to get into the basics. People say you don't need music theory. I don't think so. For me, even if you don't want to follow the rules you still need to know the rules. If you want to break it fine. However, isn't it nice to break the rule once you know the rule? Getting deep into music theory allows you the capacity to manipulate the theory based on the kind of style you want. So this tutorial is valuable because it can help a lot of musicians. For people who love classical music, this is also important.
Thanks I'm enlightened when you mentioned the bar sigify one note🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏💋🙏💋
I jettisoned this method back in the 90s. The takadimi method developed by John White et al (developed and taught at Ithaca College) is far superior. The sixteenth of the beat is TA, your E is KA, your + is DI, and your uh is MI. Thus every beat is takadimi. The eight rhythm possibilities of a subdivided beat are TA, TADI, TADIMI, TAKADI, TAKA, TAKAMI, TAMI, and TAKADIMI. Learn the syllables to the possibilities and sight reading becomes so much easier.
Before you ask, triplets are TAKIDA, and a subdivided triplet is TAVAKIDIDAMA, with the DI being in the same place as it is in TAKADIMI. The learning curve for students introduced to this is far steeper than those with the e+a subdiviions. Once I learned it and taught it the first time, I was sold and would never return to e+a.
Oh my god I just found your page! I’m saved! I’ve been playing piano for almost FIVE years and I suck at music theory. I’m only good at memorizing things in the moment
Ok
Same for me!
I felt this comment.
Me too. What do I do?! :(
This is very helpful. You’re a great teacher. Thanks!
Don't play piano but my music is written the same , G clef and bass clef. Very helpful. Thank You
Great video. What software are you using to write notes with a stylus pen?
Wow! Thank you for that! This lesson helped understand counting the beats better
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2:12 1,1,1,1
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Lol
I was doing it that way until my teacher told me not to read like that,🤣
Thank you Sir great skill of teaching .
Amazing lesson. I never knew how to read the music rhythm before.
You are one of the best tutors in u tube.
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Thanks a lot this saved me 1 hour before my music test I went from not knowing anything to knowing so much because of your video
Really love the way you teach this. You explain it so well and it's easy for a new player to grasp.
Am a beginner accoustic guitar player and I will watch this video many times to become super good at counting the Rhythms. This is high quality lesson.🙏
Never like to count and people telling me 1e+a just sounded more problems in my learning and avoid it.
Now seeing it Wow. Now I'm going to look for triplets counting methods. Thanks and it will help a lots of people.
What is that notation software you are using. Works amazing ! Thanks. If you could drop me the link that would be GREAT. Great job
Thank you for your lesson. This was very helpful.
This is awesome! I finally have perfect clarity about rhythm. Thank you so much! God bless you.😃
Great lesson ! And this is sooo easy to learning !
Perfectly explained! I'm a new beginner and I was having trouble understanding counting notes, but now I totally understand. Thanks!
I play sax and this was a great lesson in helping to work out more complex rhythms.
Thanks so much! If my teacher had explained it to me the way you do, I would have understood it right away. 👍
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I came across your video by chance. I'm learning bass guitar and this rythms counting tutorial is very good, I'm sure it'll help me a lot!!
Thanks!!!
Thanks a lot. This was a great lesson and it really helped me understand rhythm better.
amazing good lesson. it will help me a lot with my reading and playing music. by the way, what software are you using to draw your scores? Thanks a lot
Really good information 🧡
N u are great teacher 👏👏👏
A very good and easy to follow lesson. Thanks Tim. I hope you will follow this up with counting 32nd notes and dotted notes. That would be very helpful.
Sounds like a good idea to me!
Dotted need to be counted as the total number of beat they represent
But 32 yea
Greetings from Cairo, Egypt. Congratulations on a great lesson... I have tried and tried learning how to count Rhythm in music... I found your lesson self explanatory and easy to understand... Great Job!
I over 60 and I am trying to learn Guitar... Not Piano... Still I enjoyed every minute of your lesson.
I subscribed, liked and will look for lessons to practice "Rhythm Counting"... I hope you have such lessons.
I also need to know what software you used in this lesson.
Great lesson... Keep it up.
Thank you sir, it made my doubt clear.
Great teacher I understand..🙏🏾
Thank you! As a beginner guitarist this was very helpful thanks alot
You are a good teacher, I love it
Thanks so much for sharing.
Just subscribed to your channel. Thank you Tim! This is one the most quality music lesson channels that I know on UA-cam.
Thank you for your knowledge
Thank you for more efforts for us thank you
Thank you so much. I can't believe how dull I have been. I knew about the 1e+a but only every applied it when I saw 16th notes. I never have tried counting quarter notes and 8th notes using the subdivision as well.
I'm a beginner drummer I struggle with counting badly, but this video help me understand better the rhythm pattern, thank you
I've been trying to learn sheet music and I guess I completely forgot all these things from highschool! Gosh I'm going to make a folder of these videos. Thanks! Everything seems so clear now
Hey Teacher Tim!
Thank you for the clear and overall useful lesson, I first got used to reading notes and now I'm trying to get better at counting and rhythm, quick question though, the counting is a lot slower (And I don't mean like, having trouble counting, I mean literally it feels pretty slow) than my reading and I was wondering if that was normal, is it?
Thank you I was having problems keeping count. I just started learning to play keyboard.
Now I'm getting it! I am a beginner piano player, and I was finding it difficult to get the right rhythm, It always sounded off. Thanks!
Thank you very much. This has been very useful to me.
Holy HECK. MIND BLOWN. You have saved my life with this.
The best lesson I´ve found on how to count notes. Thank you for this! ❤
What a great explanation. Thank you!
I'm from India. Great example every bit timing I really understand this lesson. Thanks so much
Excellent educational video. Well done