 Hi guys this is Jason Zach from Nathaniel School of Music. I might also want to say welcome back if you watch the part one or the more theoretical and maths and rhythm heavy and ear training part of this binary rhythm counting strategy. So in that lesson we looked at what are all the options for a beat of music when you divide by two, when you divide by three which are triplets and when you divide by four. Pretty much everything grouped together quite well with notation, with trivial stuff, with groovy options and I mentioned in that video that we need to do some exercises so now we are here to do some exercises and if you haven't already do consider watching part one and coming to this video that will be very useful and you could also download every single exercise and all the conceptual notes, all of the notation which have been hand written by yours truly waiting for you on our Patreon page that will also support our channel a great deal and before we start it'll be awesome if you could subscribe to our channel and hit the bell icon for regular notifications. Let's get cracking. So the first set of exercises for you are super easy exercises using eighth notes so the one you see there is one and two and three and four and one and two three and four and you see there's a division of the one at the three and the four but there's no division at two so let's do that again with clapping first clap with me one and two three and four and one and two three and four and you could also whack a note on the piano just to give yourself more reassurance. I'm taking D which is a nice note maybe F, C maybe a combo let me go or maybe a chord one and two three maybe more chords and I try to play a pulse in my left hand if I am playing the rhythm pattern in the right hand so melodically you can do stuff on the piano starting with a simple note harmonically you can do a lot of stuff on the piano starting from a single chord and then going to an entire chord progression rhythm pattern number two is also very very easy we have four quavers beamed together spelling out two beats in a bar so that'll be one and two and and then the three four will be three four where you need to count the division in your head so one and two and three four okay one and two and three four there we go one and two and three four and that'll be rhythm pattern number two let's try a little bit on the keys rhythm pattern number three which would be a crotchet at beat one and then two quavers at beat two two quavers at beat three and a follow-up crotchet at beat four that'll be let's clap it there we go do that'll be clapping it so playing some playing something on the piano let's get a bit fancy with rhythm pattern number four which is two quavers beamed together in beat one two quavers beamed together in beat two then in beat three we have a rest and then a quaver so that'll be and then beat four a simple crotchet so one and two and three you don't play at three so you could even lift your hand away one and two and three and four just to kind of make it obvious at three one and two and three and four one and two and three and four okay hope you are able to do that now rhythm pattern number five which is going to be the lazy one because it has a quarter note rest right there so let's get it over and done with that'll be one two three and four and one two three and four and one two three and four and you can also sing the rhythm pattern which i'm going to show you for the next one in the set which will be you can also make up some random syllables with your mouth which is something some nonsense whatever you wish really because that'll the difference of syllable will make it more obvious for your brain to capture the music so you can also sing a tune there we go you can make up a song possibly you can put some words to it that'll be cool share it with me in the comments if you wish moving forward now i'm going to give you more sophisticated rhythms because i've decided to add in dots and ties so dots and ties will give you sort of the next league of rhythm reading if you will so let's look at a few of those first off we have a dotted crotchet or a dotted quarter note followed by an eighth note so that'll be one and two and at the end of the two one and two and three four one and two and three four one and two and three four there we go one and and three four okay then we have a rather simple one but there's a tie there so that'll be one two three and four so you're actually targeting the end of the three but there's a tie on the two it extends the note the sound of the note extends to the on of the three and then you have the off beat at the end of the three so one two three and four one quite like this one if you're making a song with this that'll be cool then we have because there's a tie there so you need to hold that down that the two and three and four you don't hit the four watch out there's a tie there so this is actually confusing even me as i'm doing this with you da da da da one and two and three and four one and two and three and four and one and two and three and so with the rest two and three and four and two and three okay then the next one is rather simple You have 1, 2, 3 and 4. 1, 2, 3 and 4. 1, 2, 3 and 4. 1, 2, 3 and 4. Okay. 2, 3 and 4. Works nicely with chords. And then the next one has a good old minimum friend of ours who's long forgotten because we are getting into all the in-between ones. So that goes. So let's put that on the piano. Okay. Make sure 2 and 3 are lingered on. And a couple of 2 bar phrases for you. We've been doing 1, 1 bar all this time. We are going to get incrementally complex as we go along in this tutorial. So might as well start off with 2 bars. So that will go. So let's clap that out. 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and 1 and 2 and 4 and there we go. Let's do that again. 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and 1 and 2 and 3 and 4. Again. 2 and 3 and 4 and 1 and 2 and 3 and 4. 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and wait and 2 and done. Let me try and get something going on the piano. 1 and 2 and 3 and 4. It's important to get the vibe of it first. So keep fooling around. Try clapping. Try doing various things. Let's see. Just do the first bar. 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and 1 and 2 and 3 and 4. You get the idea. Let's do the last 8th note rhythm with a 2 bar phrase now which would be 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and 1 and 2. 2. You have to hit the 2 there but you tie to the next bar is 1. Let me do that again a little slowly. 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and wait. 2 3 4 and 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and wait. 2 hold 4 and let's try it on the piano. 1 and 3 and 4 and wait. 2 hold 4 and 1 2 and 3 and 4 and 2 3 4 and 1 2 and 3 and 4 and 1 and 2 4 and 1. It's a bit tricky to get that 4 and you get the right. So that pretty much covers 8th notes or quavers and I don't want to leave it at that. I want to now move into the next time division. 2 raise to 3 triplets gives us 8 permutations to play around with. All the permutations were covered in the previous video. The link is in the description. Do watch that as well. And let's get some simple combos going of all those patterns. I'm going to first look at all the trivials and put them together real quick. So first one is quarter quarter triplet quarter. 8th note triplet combo of 3 and quarter. That'll go first of all for triplets. How do we count? 1 and a 2 and a 3 and a 4 and a tuck it. Let's get that into our system for a couple of minutes. Maybe a couple of seconds rather. 3 and a 4 and a 1 and a 2 and a so first one. 1 2 3 4 1 and a 2 and a 3 and a 4 and a 1 and a 2 and a 3 and a 4 1. You can even do note note arpeggio note note note arpeggio note note note so whenever you have the fast stuff do a arpeggio and whenever you have the slow stuff do a note so second one that's the second one for you then we have triplet triplet nothing swing triplet triplet nothing swing so I'm saying it sounds rather cool actually triplet triplet nothing swing don't forget the rest Next one, swing triplet, crotchet crotchet, rather easy. Jam with it and come up with something. For you to understand any concept in music, what I tend to tell myself is you need to compose something using that. You need to put your stamp of authority on the concept, if you will. So try to put it into practice, try and make something out of it. Otherwise, you're just going to read from a book, which hopefully this lesson is not because you're reading it and you're actually doing it with me. I hope you're doing it with me, if not, do it. And then, moving forward to the next one, which I call Roadhouse Blues, which is... So that's swing, swing, swing, triplet, swing, swing, swing, triplet, swing, swing, swing, triplet, bang, two, three, triplet, off. And last but not least, we have a super easy one, which is a Minim, our friend returns, one, two, three, four, one. Just to show you the difference in speeds, one, two, three, four, you could even count it like that actually, one, two, three, four, one, two, three triplet, four triplet, that's a bit annoying. So one, two, three and four and one, two, three, four, makes a bit more sense for me. There we go. And now, I have a combo of exercises where we combine the grooviness with the trivialness, where we take some of the trivial triplet patterns and the groovy ones, which are the ones which are a bit more off the beat and don't... are not the mundane ones. So the first one you see there is quite an Indian one actually. And a good strategy while watching this video could be to pause just before I play it, you know, because if I play it, you'll digest the sound and maybe you won't focus on reading. I also want you to improve your reading skills through this video. So let's do this rhythm now. We're covering a lot of genres in this video. The next one, triplet swing, that's at the ear, one end, one end. The next one will have a crotchet, a swing and then one, one, zero, the binary permutation and then back to crotchets. Let's get that going. Inspiring this rhythm. The next one would be one, one, zero, one, one, zero and then we leave the one, we leave the on beat. You can always release from this by playing some trivials, crotchet and the end. Last triplet rhythm for this exercise series would be swing, then a very Indian one which is one end and not the ear and then the same Indian and then the same Indian one again to follow. So there are so many permutations out there and for you folks who have listened to some of the South Asian music, the Indian folk stuff, some Sri Lankan stuff, some Pakistani folk music as well, you'll realize that this triplet movement is very common. Even in the Middle Eastern genres or music, music from Turkey, you'll find this very often, this very triplet, it's a very Eastern concept I'm sure. So practice triplets well and have fun while doing it. So lastly in this exercise series, I would like to now move to semi-quavers. The oney-anders where you divide by four, you have 16 permutations, some of which are trivial, some of which are groovy and we need to put them together in a nice structured stepwise manner. So let's now move forward to semi-quavers. Shortly after catching some breath, let's move forward. So the first semi-quaver rhythm you see there is crotchet, semi-quaver, semi-quaver, quaver, two-quavers and naturally four semi-quavers will be beamed into one beat of music and all of the exercises given for you or printed for you are on four-four just for us to focus on one time signature but in theory what you learn from this could apply to any time signature. If you knock off a beat, becomes three-four or walls, add a beat, it becomes five-four. So let's get down with that rhythm, tongue, tug-a-digga, tug-a-digga, tongue-tow, tug-a-digmi, tug-a-digmi, tug-a-tah, tug-a-digmi, tug-a-digmi, tug-a-digmi, tug-a-tah. I like to say that sometimes it's conical, ta for no division, taka for dividing by two, taka-digmi for dividing by four and takita for dividing by three. So ta, tug-a-digmi, tug-a-digmi, tug-a-tah, tug-a-digmi, tug-a-digmi, tug-a-tah, tug-a-digmi, tug-a-digmi, tug-a-tah, tug-a-digmi, tug-a-tah. Now if you, that's already given you the music in your head I presume so. Okay the next one would be, tug-a-tuk-a-tuk-a-digmi-tah, tug-a-tuk-a-tuk-a-digmi-tah, tug-a-tuk-a-tuk-a-digmi-tah. That's how you count it, quaver, quaver, semi-quaver, crotch, quaver, quaver, semi-quaver, quarter, quaver, quaver, semi-quaver, pulse, like that, okay. Something like that. That's what I want to play on that rhythm. Nice. Then the next one would be semi-quaver, semi-quaver, quaver, pulse, semi-quaver, semi-quaver, quaver, that's tug-a-digmi, tug-a-digmi, tug-a-tah. Something like that. The next one is rather tricky. That would be a dotted crotchet followed by a quaver, then a quaver-est and a quaver. So let's first figure that out. One and two and three and four. One and two and three and four and three and four. So four e-ander would end up being very fast. So let's slow this down and let's clap that together. I think let's get back to clapping. One and two and three and four e-ander. One and two and three and four e-ander. One and two and four e-ander. One and two and There we go. That's the rhythm. And the last rhythm in this set would be one and two 3e and a 4 super easy just with that Quaver S Let's fool around on the piano something like And I just wanted to make a note very quick note is the rest are not necessarily for you to actually Play or actually observe if you want to hold on the previous note and tie it no problem. It's just a visual Convenience I would say so you can do whatever you want when there's a rest you can have the old note coming into the Rest point or you can just rest it. So if you tie the old note If you rest the rest as it's printed Bump bump bump It also sounds good what we do now to conclude our lesson is I have a few more groovy Exercises in the 16th note domain and let's combine the groovy with the trivials The first one you have there are two gallops two Quavers and a crotchet that will be tongue Tug of tongue tug of tongue tow tongue tug of tongue tug tug tug tow Dum-tum-tum-tum-tum-tum-tum-tum There we go. Then the next rhythm pattern, which you see there is All in, but that's not a triplet. That's oney and without the the O. Then the next one you see there would be. There we go. Let's put that on the piano. That'll sound nice. Let's sing that. That'll be fun. And then there's a rest at the 4. Don't forget that. I may have forgotten that a couple of times, but let's observe that now. One E and a two E and a three E and a four E and snapping at the four makes it a bit easy for me and groovy also. And so on and so forth. Now the next one you see there is a very salsa ish rhythm that goes. It's also a nice strategy to use these rhythmic devices as I call them to just spend half an hour on the piano and create music, see where you can go, see what are your options, melodically, harmonically, rhythmically, or just cause some chaos with all this stuff. You never know what will happen, what music you could compose. So be aware of this entire lesson, not only getting you to be able to read and clap out this stuff, but also it can inspire you to compose music and also have a very fun music practice while ticking all the boxes for that music practice. Who doesn't want that? So the last one for this lesson is super easy. One E and a two E and a three E. That just pushes you to get the E's and the E's. One E and a two E and a three E. One E and a two E and a three E. There we go. I've showed you a few options on the piano. I haven't delved into it in great detail. That was not the point of this video. It was just to clap, read, sing, be inspired hopefully and understand the logic and how beats are divided. And hopefully a few of these which you may have tried in your own time, maybe you were struggling with it or maybe you thought it was wrong. You were a bit here and there. Hopefully this lesson clarifies that. I hope I could have given more options really. Maybe I'll do a part two of this particular exercise series. Who knows if you think so, do leave that suggestion in the comments or anything you'd like to do or learn in the field of rhythm. Do suggest that in the comments as well. And you can connect with me on Patreon with any of our tires, especially the $15 and $30 tiers. The $5 one gets you all these notes by the way, MIDI files, backing tracks and my handwritten notes for almost all the lessons. However, if you want to share your exercises with me and get me to listen to them and give you some comments or some feedback, it'll be nice to hear from you. It'll be nice to see you and chat with you. So do consider heading over to Patreon and I can catch you guys there. And again, thanks a ton for watching the video. If possible, do consider heading over to the part one. If you haven't watched that before, we call it part one where that is more descriptive and more theoretical, right guys? Thanks a ton for watching the video. See you in the next one. Cheers.