 Hi guys this is Jason Zach from Nathaniel School of Music. In this lesson I'm going to introduce you to perhaps a concept you haven't heard that often of or an approach rather which you haven't been exposed to too much in the world of very very basic rhythm how to count rhythm how to feel rhythm how to write rhythm how to notate rhythm how to read it blah blah blah. So in this lesson we are not going to be very piano heavy we are not going to be dependent on the piano too much however we will try a few clapping patterns I will try and show you a few things on the piano but essentially this is a video on how you can read rhythms and how you can learn from the rhythm pattern how you can combo it together and so on and so forth and this entire lesson will have exercises which I've manually written because I think that's kind of cool to manually write down your work and even if I had notated it I wouldn't really know what pitch to give it so I just thought I'll hand write it rhythmically and I think that makes more sense so you could read the notation and the main focus with our rhythmic journey in this lesson is going to be to approach rhythm from a binary perspective so what I mean by binary is essentially the two options in music when we exist as musicians which is to play or not to play that is the question so when we play a note it's considered a note it could be whichever note we have on the keyboard or whichever instrument when we don't play it's considered a rest and notes and rest have different symbols right you have the notes which are semi-brieves and then you have a semi-brieve rest then you have a minimum you have a minimum rest you have a quaver and you have a quaver rest oh I forgot crotchets which is before that you have a crotchet and a crotchet rest semi-quavers then you have the dotted notes you have the dotted rests as well so for every note there's an equivalent rest so when you read an entire bar of music or when you read a piece of music it becomes a bit daunting to go bar by bar or section by section so in this lesson the binary strategy will help you lock into your rhythm pattern beat by beat and then you combine the beats together to create a bar and then that becomes a pattern then you have many bars coming together and creating some awesome music so follow this entire thing along however there will be exercises waiting for you on our patreon page to practice all this stuff so do consider heading over to patreon and get yourself a copy of the notes right away and you can also consider subscribing and hitting that bell icon for regular notifications especially now as I'm going to make a follow-up youtube tutorial exclusively for exercises on the quaver divisions which is dividing by two triplet permutations dividing by three and semi-quaver permutations or 16th note permutations dividing by four let's move forward now the amount of division we go into the beat will yield different binary options or different binary permutations and why I keep saying binary because the permutations are going to be to play or not to play yes no or in computer class terms zero or one right which a computer tends to understand so the zero or the x or the rest or the one or the play so to get the permutations first of all we look at the beat division level let's start with dividing the beat into two units if the beats are divided into two units it could be equal or swung straight or swing it will be two raised to two so that's four possibilities or four things you can do on a beat by beat basis so what are the four possibilities you can do tick tick which is two quavers you could write it on as two quavers beam together also I have made a note of it saying it as one one so that's the computer analogy and then you can do tick x now tick x can be a bit visually weird so you could look at tick x either as a single crotch it held on or held over for that remaining subdivision or you could look at it as a quaver with a quaver rest so that would be one zero in computer analogy then you have x tick that is don't play and play so don't play on the on beat or the down beat and play at the off beat so x tick that would be a quaver rest and a quaver okay that's zero one in computer analogy and then you have everyone's favorite at least my favorite which is don't play don't play don't play at the on beat and don't play at the off beat take a pillow and get a nap if you wish and that would be represented with a crotchet rest or a well a quarter note rest which lasts for an entire beat of us doing absolutely nothing but counting that nothing we can't be chilling out without counting remember so that'll be zero zero in computer analogy you may also think what do I do if I want to develop a two beat phrase so two beat phrase well you could have a minimum obviously you could also now use the subdivision strategy since I'm dividing by two and first of all when we divide by two the process generally when we count it is to have an on beat which is one and then the off beat which usually we focus our attention by saying and so one and two and three and four and would allow us to count the subdivision well you could also say it in Indian terms if you wish you can say and so on and so forth you could have an exciting combo of a dotted crotchet meeting up with a quaver so a dotted crotchet will last for one and a half counts while a quaver will last for half a count so a dotted crotchet would be dot with a crotchet plus and the next right after that you'll have a quaver with the tail you can also jumble that up and do a quaver and then a dotted crotchet that's also pretty cool so you get what I'm saying right you can grow these symbols in a beat by beat manner in a two beat structure in a three beat structure and eventually finish off an entire bar or two bars of music you can use tied notes you can use a lot of things but the binary idea is rooted towards giving you the guidance of having things which you play and don't play and just making it simple you just have four options really if you have to do just two quavars beam together it's gonna be one two three four one and you see I'm playing both so on the piano that's two quavars I'm moving my head and crotchets quaver quaver quaver quaver now if I do crotchet a quarter note one two three my head is moving the same I am still counting one and two and three and four and but I'm not playing both the divisions I'm just playing one two three four now one and two and three that could also work this is a quaver rest with a quaver or an eighth note rest with an eighth note depending on what you call it one and two and three and four and one and two and then of course my favorite one two three four you do absolutely nothing so these are all your eighth note permutations now how did we get four two raise to n where n is the division level of an integer the integer will tell you how much you're dividing so n could also be one so then two power one will be two and what are the two options when you don't divide you have a crotchet and you have a crotchet rest rather limited options you get the idea so two raise to two also known as two into two you could say two twos are four so moving on to the world of triplets let's see what triplets have to offer so with triplets what I like to do is to divide them into two categories the trivial category and what I call as the groovy category or the category which makes it sound very Indian and very folk like a very dancey in nature not that the trivial won't make you dance it's quite groovy but the groovy one will really make you dance so the trivials are going to be first of all it's triplets so two raise to n what is n now triplet three two power three not two into three two power three two power three is two into two into two which equals to eight so we count triplets as one and a two and a three and a four and one and a two and a three and a four and so there are three spaces which we can fill in each beat and then the question is to play or not to play that is the question two and a three and a four and a one and a two and a three and okay so what are the trivial options first of all all the three triplets that is one and a two and a three and a four and a one and a rather obvious dividing by three so you can get a nice arpeggio going perhaps what about dividing by three but not playing the divisions that will end up being like a crotchet or a quarter note one two so in your head there is three but you're playing you're executing just the pulse two three but in your head you probably will be doing three and a four and a one and a two and then everyone's favorite nothing one two three triplet four triplet one two so we I also like to add one more to the trivial which is swinging so that will go one one and a so if you count one and a two and a three and a four and a one and a two and a three and a four and a so one and a so you're not hitting the end so you could notate it as either a quaver a quaver rest and a quaver and triplets I guess because they evolve later in the world of notation you would need to put a bracket and write three under that indicating it's a triplet okay so three quavers under that you write a three and what about swing you put a quaver you put a quaver rest then you put another quaver beam the quavers and then under that you need to gang up a three to call them a triplet and that would generally be called a swing which would be one and a two and a three and a four and a one there we go swing very popular which is why I put it in the trivial and now coming to the groovy ones which are the other permutations again two part three is eight so you have that whole one one one or zero zero zero zero one zero one zero zero zero one one system or one zero zero then what one zero one then one one zero one one one finally quite cool like still remember that after my school days the groovy options would be the remaining permutations the first one I'm writing there as tick tick x or play play don't play so that'll be one and two and three and no one and a two and a three and a four and a count the year but don't play the year okay okay then we will do the x tick tick which will be don't play play play so that'll be my left hand is indicating the crotchet or the pulse my head is also moving with the pulse so you can follow one two three four one right triplet triplet triplet tata tata so we've covered the the the first and the third of the triplet beats that will be swing and we've covered first and second we've covered no one but two and three what about the others what if we have two missing and one there so that'll be one and a two a three a four a one and a two a three a four there we go very last one the what I like to play a lot is the and of the beat which is one and a two and a three and a four that one so these may not be as groovy as we can make them so to do that you combine the groovies with each other or it's easiest for your brain to start counting the trivials with the groovy so if I take trivial tick tick tick meets up with tick tick x let's see how that's on ending with two crotchets for fun or two res versus only triplets would be now that's tick tick tick meets up with tick tick x right so I can also do maybe trivial the trivial one all in with x tick tick let's see how that sounds or maybe just fool around you know okay now moving forward let's do the next subdivision what's the next subdivision we've divided by two meaning we get four permutations we divide by three meaning we'll get eight permutations dividing by four what's that going to be two power four that's two into two into two into two that's a lot that's 16 so 16 rhythm patterns now coming up first of all let's look at all the trivials the trivials would be one zero zero zero in computer analogy which would just pretty much be a crotchet two three four now for 16th notes first of all let's take a small step back and count it as one e and a two e and a three and a four e and a one e and a two e and a three so that gives you access unique access to all of those subdivisions one e and a all of them feel very different one e and a two e and a four e and a versus one e and a two e and a three e and a four e and a versus one e it just gives you a different electrical impulse I guess in your in your body and that's what the maths does it's just purely maths so the rhythm gets you to feel the music in a completely different way depending on which division or which subdivision you decide to hit so the trivials the trivial ones which I've listed there are one e and a two e and a three rather easy then I have another trivial which is just eighth notes that's in computer literature that would be one zero one zero right there we go then another trivial would be all in two e and a three e and let's get a nice arpeggio going then you could do everyone's favorite which is nothing so that's your crotchet rest rest now the trivial then another trivial would be at the only at the ease and the earth's which will be so you're targeting only the ease and the earth another trivial which I've marked out by computer analogy zero zero one zero so that you can just think of it as a quaver rest with a quaver which we've discussed earlier in the dividing by two system right and the and but you in your mind you still want to count one e and a two e and a three e and a four e and a one e and a two e and a right so those are the trivials play only at the one play at the one and the and and play at all four don't play then only at the ease and the earth so only at the and and it okay so I've categorized the groovy stuff into three groups this time unlike the triplets where it was just one column with the semi quaver grooviness you're going to look at three in one out and group them then you're going to look at two in two out and then you're going to look at one in and three out if that makes sense so in and out meaning note and rest so if you do three in three out the first binary permutation which I have for you is one zero one one so that'll be a gallop that's one e and a two e and a three and a four e and a one e and a two e I love that gallop then we have one one zero one which is four e and one e and a two e and three so then what about one one one zero three in and one out the last one out people think this is a triplet but it's essentially just a group of three notes you don't call that a musical triplet a musical triplet is what we learned earlier it's dividing the beat into three this is just one e and in with notes and then the no notes one e and a two e and and then we could do a off on on on so there we go and as always you combine the groovy stuff together it's going to be amazing and this is how you build a phrase if you ask me that's a phrase for you what did I do there I combined the first one under the groovy category which is one e and a two e and a nothing at the e I combined that with the one one one zero so that can be an arpeggio it could also be something melodic what am I doing here I'm doing I'm not playing at the one and then the next beat I'm playing at the one e and and not playing at the uh okay I have a few more groovies for you not not me the maths gives you more of the groovies for you so the next set of four would be where you play two and you don't play two so let's start with one zero zero one which I think is quite cool so that will be one e and a two e and a three and very good for some riffs or you could do one one zero zero two and always combine it with other rhythms you know but this is one e one e then you go zero zero one one then we have zero one one zero now it gets a bit tricky so it may also be a nice strategy on the piano at least to maybe keep a pulse going in one hand and try to then play the rhythm in the other hand and again I'm not swinging people may think this is swing it's not it's one e and a two very straight that swing the margin is very very small for the musician's head and for the math so the difference between a semi-quaver which I showed you now a semi-quaver pattern which is the difference between that and a triplet which is so small you know and if you math it out it'll be barely a hundred milliseconds or lesser if you take about 75 or 80 bpm but that small fraction or a few milliseconds difference affects the real world of music lovers or even dancers a dancer would completely change their dance style or their dance genre based on these small phenomenon these small diversions of the beats so to speak so I'll do one zero zero one again then we have one one zero zero zero zero one one and then zero one one zero trying to put the pulse in my left hand and if you go by the maths you have one more thing which I put under trivial or rather two more things I put under trivial where you play two and don't play two that's one zero one zero which are two quavers I already showed you that and then we have zero one zero one may look trivial but not so easy to play you have to be attentive of those E's and us and lastly the two two more permutations left which is zero zero zero one that's only the or only the E you could just staccato it or legato it it would end up you would end up writing it as a dotted quaver okay so that's how we've notated it there for your reference so in this lesson we've covered eighth note permutations two part two equals four and eighth notes by the way are eight notes in a bar of four where you divide by two so that gets very technical so don't think eighth notes have any hardcore maths associated with them it's just called an eighth note I sometimes just like to call it a quaver so that prevents me from thinking of the maths of an eighth note which is a bit weird to digest for most people so you have quavers two part two four permutations you have triplets two part three gives you eight permutations there I move some to the trivial category some to the groovy category trivial means obvious easy mundane run of the mill whatever you want to call it groovy is the one which one which really brings out the division of the beat in all its beauty and then we divide by four which is two to the power four gives you sixteen permutations and again we divide it trivial and groovy groovy has different permutations of course so hopefully you found the lesson useful and clear in terms of what can I do in a beat these are pretty much all the division levels you'll have in music I've covered them all and for variety you can always swing some of these you can do one and two and versus one and two and three you're swinging the and or one and two and you can swing these divisions as well that means move the and a little bit later move the e and the a little bit offset from the perfection spot so to speak so what I'd like to do for this lesson as a follow up I don't want to just make this very conceptual which it was and I hope you got the concept but I also want to follow this up with some proper rhythm counting strategies and some proper rhythm exercises for you which I've divided in a very sequential manner I start with eighth notes then I do eighth notes of course in tires of easiness to most difficult with dotted notes and tied notes and stuff then I do triplets with a lot of permutations combining triplets with eighth notes as well then I do quarter notes and eighth note triplets are covered including quicker triplets so we'll check that out as well then we are going to do semi quavers and all the semi quaver permutations there's a lot of exercises which will be waiting for you right now if you want to practice it on our patreon page it will give you all our handed in notes where I've also come up with all the exercises you can start practicing that on your own and there's one huge bonus of being a patron member being you can send me your work as well especially in the fifteen dollar and the thirteen dollar subscriptions or the higher tires you can connect with me you can interact with me literally through whatsapp and send me your recording send me your work from time to time so that'll be really cool to actually see all of you people while you do my exercises that'll be and also connect with you personally that'll be a lot of fun for me right guys so 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