I am 67 years old and have played music my whole life. I studied briefly at college and privately, I also played with one of Ricks teachers. Rick is by far the best teacher I have come across. I highly recommend his book! 👍👍👍
Rhythm IS music. Music has 3 components: rhythm, melody and harmony (just those 3 parts). Maybe you mean that you understand what pitch is called for based on its location on the staff. If you can't read rhythms, then you absolutely cannot read music.
Prince Westerburg : Remember this: there is a BIG difference between being able to SLOWLY read/decipher music and being able to sight-read “Flight of The Bumblebee” or Frank Zappa’s famous “The Black Page”. Recognizing what pitch/note it is on the staff (both treble clef and bass clef) is pretty straightforward. Recognizing rhythms is the complicated part. If you want to make learning rhythm more fun then get a drum (played with sticks) or a hand drum. Get a book on rhythms, a metronome (or a metronome app.), and maybe an app. that teaches rhythms. I learned rhythms by working with a machine called “The TapMaster” (pre-computer days).
Rick, you ARE the man. Out of all the accomplished musicians freely sharing their knowledge on you tube tutorials, you are doing the most to further my own growth as a musician with your clear concise expertise. Thank you. I especially love your demo "soloing over one chord" and how you ran through the scales in that example, beautiful. Love the voices you pull out of that Danelecto too. Subscriber for life here.
I have asked so many people to try to explain rhythm to me, and they have all failed. You, sir, are a gem! I don't know what it waswhat it is specifically you did, but this video has helped me so much.
I never thought of the "a" as being part of the next beat, so intuitive and obvious, it makes perfect sense. Thank you, Rick. Keep making great videos! :)
Me neither. Still don’t, and probably never will (because it really doesn’t), but that doesn’t matter. If it works for you, it works! I’m just happy to know that alternate conception is relatable to some people. Thank you for the comments!
@@NominalTopic I am totally confused. Thought that "a" is part of the upbeat. Why is Rick saying to think of it as being on the next beat? Makes no sense at all...
@@ravimusic - I "think" he is talking about phrasing and how the "a" is usually a pick-up to the next beat. Also, maybe it helps to think this way so that you don't forget to carry on and go to the next beat?
How did you get there? I’m struggling with this as I am learning to sight read standard notation on guitar. I can read the notes, but knowing how the music sounds, is hard.
Counting out loud is everything. It's very painful at first, but gradually becomes less so. Active counting makes a huge difference over passive counting.
Another very important (broadly speaking) lesson...Haven't found much really good stuff on rhythm on TH-cam as it appears to be the neglected child of music teaching, harmony and melody getting 99% of the attention. Great stuff, Rick.
Wow! and I thought all musicians ever do is sit around smoking weed and listening to the Beatles. I had Hemiola once but a zesty diet of penicillin and chicken soup knocked it right out! Rick knows music. I learned a couple things just listening and I have been a musician for 33 years.
Rick you are an excellent teacher. For example I have been asking people around and my teachers about the equivalent rhytems issue just only using different descriptions within question. no one was able even to understand what the hell i was talking about. and now i am glad to see someone else also is interested on very basic knowlwdge. thank you for teaching interesting things and classical must know facts.
I appreciate your video. I’m a bass player and I must get better at recognizing these and playing them properly. Thank you for helping me to understand this better. I’ll have to watch this a lot more times with my bass in my hand.
Your skills are amazing, and the fact that you want to give back by uploading videos regularly is amazing. Thank you so much for all that you do. The warmth in your face when you are teaching makes me feel a genuine connection to you even though I've never met you. Your kids are very lucky to have a wonderful father such as yourself. Thank you once again, this is some fabulous content.
Exelente clase!! Todo se hace mas claro y facil! Note counting is a real nigtmare when I want to write music on paper! This is really usful! Thanks Rick Beato!!
Great video. This is the most difficult part of learning to read music and applying it to playing the instrument. Thanks for putting this out there. Please approach this in future videos at a slower pace for beginner and intermediate players.
I totally agree... I’m an upper intermediate piano player but from time to time I too struggle with rhythm but I’m determined to nail it. This video explains it perfectly, but I do keep watching it over and over again so that it sinks in (it’s impossible to grasp from one viewing because it covers complicated rhythms but it’s all there)
@@jeanramirez6441 I quit when I got to the awkward age of 16 at grade 7 🤣😂🤣… back on it at 60 and for some reason progress is slower 🙄 and it feels like I’m starting from scratch 🙃
Hi, RIck. Thanks for this video. For the first time I feel that I am able to learn sight reading. This kind of of simplification but and the same time covering all possibilities looks great.
Excellent tutorial. Rhythm is essential and often not emphasized enough. Notes without rhythm are like cars without tires, you can start the car up, but not go anywhere without those tires. More on complex rhythm, please :)
I love Music , sang and absorbed anything i could since i rememeber but i had some lags in Information till i learned english and i love poeple like you who teile what i need to know
Great job Rick! Repetition is a mother study that is why I have created a learning rhythm playlist on my channel. To get better is to do and go thru exercises!
Rick is on it, as always. Rick, you should have a netflix or mainstream channel TV slot. You might have to slow it down, and they'd have some fun twist to inject to it, but I think it would go down well. An educational and truly interesting morsel now and again wouldn't hurt us all.
bless🙌🏻 so glad you made this vid because I've had a different band teacher literally every year so I never learned how to actually read complex rhythms (obv I knew quarter notes and the like) but now I understand why certain places get an 'e' and an 'a' so thank youuuuuuuuuuu:)
Is Piano Man" by Billy Joel in 3/4? Or 6/8? I am hearing two eighth note triplets per bar which implies 6/8... But all the sheet music for the song is in 3/4.
I’ve played guitar, piano and bass for years at church and have written many songs (some on TH-cam), but this is presented way to fast for me to understand. Never had formal music training.
Very good video Rick. I spent a lot of time with my students trying to explain this like phonics in English. A group of notes creates a sound. Memorize the phonics and accept that sound and don't count when adding the notes. if you are thinking about it, you are probably late. I use flash cards examples like you put up there so they have to be able to do it quickly. Great videos. You Rock! Jazz! or Classical! keep them coming!
Great lesson! Could you make a video about how to create and develop rhythms in a piece? I'm a huge fan of all the work you've been doing on TH-cam, this is the best channel for learning music!
Hey Rick. Great Video, as usual =) Your Approach is completely fine, but I want to try to add my approach to round things up: I try to think/play these 16th blocks as words and/or rhythm blocks as a limited vocabulary. As you have shown, there is an endless number of permutations of four 16th notes, that fall on a beat. For learning them (and teaching), I try to think in four groupings: The first group is not a group, it's just 4 consistent 16th notes (like your first example). The second group consists all blocks with only three 16th notes to combine, e.g. a 16th pause that falls on the beat, followed by three 16th notes. Or, one 8th plus two 16th notes etc. So, there are four possible blocks. The third group consists all blocks with only two 16th notes to combine, e.g. a dotted 8th + a 16th. Again there are four possible blocks. The fourth group has only one 16th note per block, e.g. 16th pause + 16th note + 8th pause. Again, four possible blocks. Conclusion is, that there are only 13 "words" or possible permutations to combine four 16th notes that refer to one beat. And yes, I left out the different writings for somehow "same sounds", because of a more practical approach regarding practical sightreading. cheers =)
If you don't, you have to check out benny greb's the lenguage of drumming, he begins by explaining what he calls is the alphabet and each letter represents one rhythmic pattern first on 16ths and then on triplets, and sums up every simple rhythmic pattern that you can think of. He saids that those are the building blocks the we can encounter on pretty much every piece of music. Great practice even if you are not a drummer. Great vids by the way.
Considering how fundamental rhythm is to music, I've met so many musicians who don't really get it. They know all the notes and chords, but rhythm is a mystery to them ! As a drummer I've found it really frustrating to get some guitarists especially to get to know a rhythm, but they seem to think it's not important. "That's your job !! " It seems like I know more about their job than they do mine.
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I am 67 years old and have played music my whole life. I studied briefly at college and privately, I also played with one of Ricks teachers. Rick is by far the best teacher I have come across. I highly recommend his book! 👍👍👍
Best rhythm tutorial I've ever seen on youtube. Most of the tutorials only show the silly basic 1/16.
Rhythm is hell if you can read music but not understand rhythm 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
yes it is
It seems like hell if you can NOT read music but not understand rhythm.
Rhythm IS music.
Music has 3 components: rhythm, melody and harmony (just those 3 parts).
Maybe you mean that you understand what pitch is called for based on its location on the staff.
If you can't read rhythms, then you absolutely cannot read music.
Prince Westerburg : Remember this:
there is a BIG difference between being able to SLOWLY read/decipher music and being able to sight-read “Flight of The Bumblebee” or Frank Zappa’s famous “The Black Page”.
Recognizing what pitch/note it is on the staff (both treble clef and bass clef) is pretty straightforward.
Recognizing rhythms is the complicated part.
If you want to make learning rhythm more fun then get a drum (played with sticks) or a hand drum.
Get a book on rhythms, a metronome (or a metronome app.), and maybe an app. that teaches rhythms.
I learned rhythms by working with a machine called “The TapMaster” (pre-computer days).
...and vice-versa if you're expected to read.. I *more* than understand rhythm, but reading? HAH!
It would be awesome if someone made a compilation of all your demonstrative noises taken out of context
Or made a song
This is Adam Neely in 20 years.
Not enough D A N K M E M E S
Got too much hair to be Adam; Adam'll still have that close trim all over while we're all going bald...
Prince Westerburg adam is in a band and his job is playing music at weddings
22 years !
Personally I don’t think Adam Neely will never be as cool as Rick Beato.
This is so basic and so on the money!! Thank you Rick. Sincerely rhythmically challenged!
This is probably some of the best musical training on youtube.
This is one of the best rhythm videos I’ve found on UTUBE!
Rick, you ARE the man. Out of all the accomplished musicians freely sharing their knowledge on you tube tutorials, you are doing the most to further my own growth as a musician with your clear concise expertise. Thank you. I especially love your demo "soloing over one chord" and how you ran through the scales in that example, beautiful. Love the voices you pull out of that Danelecto too. Subscriber for life here.
Thanks!
As a teacher of many subjects for 4 decades, let me say this is a spectacular lesson.
Love how you understand that jargon confuses people...You are a pleasure to watch
I have asked so many people to try to explain rhythm to me, and they have all failed. You, sir, are a gem! I don't know what it waswhat it is specifically you did, but this video has helped me so much.
Rick, you're my hero! Been trying to decode rhythm for 30 years, and this little 8:26 video completely unlocks it. Thank you!
For Pattern 4 I generally teach it with 8s and 4s, using the sentence:"Po-peye-the Sai-lor-Man"! It seems to work, especially for younger students!
I never thought of the "a" as being part of the next beat, so intuitive and obvious, it makes perfect sense. Thank you, Rick. Keep making great videos! :)
Wow! For me too.
Me neither. Still don’t, and probably never will (because it really doesn’t), but that doesn’t matter. If it works for you, it works! I’m just happy to know that alternate conception is relatable to some people. Thank you for the comments!
@@NominalTopic I am totally confused. Thought that "a" is part of the upbeat. Why is Rick saying to think of it as being on the next beat? Makes no sense at all...
As a beginner, it makes no sense at all to me. Thinking that "a" is on the upbeat... Rick needs to explain this!!
@@ravimusic - I "think" he is talking about phrasing and how the "a" is usually a pick-up to the next beat. Also, maybe it helps to think this way so that you don't forget to carry on and go to the next beat?
Rythym is the key to reading. Once I understood it, I was able to read and transpose with ease. Great video.
How did you get there? I’m struggling with this as I am learning to sight read standard notation on guitar. I can read the notes, but knowing how the music sounds, is hard.
@@nickfanzo say it. Like “1 e & a”. Or like Ironman Black Sabbath, 1 2 3 & 4/ 1e&a2e&3&4. Learn to sound out the rhythms.
Counting out loud is everything. It's very painful at first, but gradually becomes less so. Active counting makes a huge difference over passive counting.
Another very important (broadly speaking) lesson...Haven't found much really good stuff on rhythm on TH-cam as it appears to be the neglected child of music teaching, harmony and melody getting 99% of the attention. Great stuff, Rick.
Wow! and I thought all musicians ever do is sit around smoking weed and listening to the Beatles. I had Hemiola once but a zesty diet of penicillin and chicken soup knocked it right out! Rick knows music. I learned a couple things just listening and I have been a musician for 33 years.
Rick you are an excellent teacher. For example I have been asking people around and my teachers about the equivalent rhytems issue just only using different descriptions within question. no one was able even to understand what the hell i was talking about. and now i am glad to see someone else also is interested on very basic knowlwdge. thank you for teaching interesting things and classical must know facts.
A dotted quarter note is the same duration as 3 16th notes . The dot is a quarter note rest!! Great job at that explanation!!
Sight rhythms! Every musician (especially guitarist) must be the drummer without the drummer. Rock on!
so glad found this guy...
perfect teacher
I appreciate your video. I’m a bass player and I must get better at recognizing these and playing them properly. Thank you for helping me to understand this better. I’ll have to watch this a lot more times with my bass in my hand.
Your skills are amazing, and the fact that you want to give back by uploading videos regularly is amazing. Thank you so much for all that you do. The warmth in your face when you are teaching makes me feel a genuine connection to you even though I've never met you. Your kids are very lucky to have a wonderful father such as yourself.
Thank you once again, this is some fabulous content.
Exelente clase!! Todo se hace mas claro y facil! Note counting is a real nigtmare when I want to write music on paper! This is really usful! Thanks Rick Beato!!
Great video. This is the most difficult part of learning to read music and applying it to playing the instrument. Thanks for putting this out there. Please approach this in future videos at a slower pace for beginner and intermediate players.
I totally agree... I’m an upper intermediate piano player but from time to time I too struggle with rhythm but I’m determined to nail it. This video explains it perfectly, but I do keep watching it over and over again so that it sinks in (it’s impossible to grasp from one viewing because it covers complicated rhythms but it’s all there)
@@vivienwalker6578 lol that’s where most people quit 😂
@@jeanramirez6441 I quit when I got to the awkward age of 16 at grade 7 🤣😂🤣… back on it at 60 and for some reason progress is slower 🙄 and it feels like I’m starting from scratch 🙃
Hi, RIck. Thanks for this video. For the first time I feel that I am able to learn sight reading. This kind of of simplification but and the same time covering all possibilities looks great.
Rick really there’s no word to describe the VALUE of such treasure ¡LESSON!Thanks so much.
Excellent tutorial. Rhythm is essential and often not emphasized enough. Notes without rhythm are like cars without tires, you can start the car up, but not go anywhere without those tires. More on complex rhythm, please :)
Rick, I've been looking for a straight forward explanation of rhythm for a long time! Thanks very very much!
I love Music , sang and absorbed anything i could since i rememeber but i had some lags in Information till i learned english and i love poeple like you who teile what i need to know
I found this video through a search when I didn’t expect to find anything useful. Up comes a Beato video. He’s all over everything 👍
Great job Rick! Repetition is a mother study that is why I have created a learning rhythm playlist on my channel. To get better is to do and go thru exercises!
I’ve been waiting for this video for the past 20 years!! Thanks!! 🙏
Thank you so so much. Rick, you're amazing. This is so useful for me right now. Thank you!
Thank you Rick for the quality of teaching you deliver in each of your videos. This is really outstanding. Not to be missed.
Excellent! I learned more in the last 8:26 than I have in 30 years
I have a playlist called "Music Theory". Rick DOMINATES that playlist! ;)
Whoa! Doing those exercises made me feel like the top of my head was coming off! Good stuff!
Rick is on it, as always. Rick, you should have a netflix or mainstream channel TV slot. You might have to slow it down, and they'd have some fun twist to inject to it, but I think it would go down well. An educational and truly interesting morsel now and again wouldn't hurt us all.
bless🙌🏻 so glad you made this vid because I've had a different band teacher literally every year so I never learned how to actually read complex rhythms (obv I knew quarter notes and the like) but now I understand why certain places get an 'e' and an 'a' so thank youuuuuuuuuuu:)
As always, excellent and to the point. Rick, you have the best TH-cam channel of it's kind, I've seen. Thank you!
your channel is really deep , we all appreciate it
True!
Yep... This is why I'm subscribed.
Always learning from Beato 😊
As a drummer, rhythmic literacy makes me VERY happy!☺️
Is Piano Man" by Billy Joel in 3/4? Or 6/8? I am hearing two eighth note triplets per bar which implies 6/8... But all the sheet music for the song is in 3/4.
Now I just need to watch this 100 times until maybe I can clap all those rhythms
No kidding!
Same
My favourite channel by far! You have a genuine passion for music and it shows in every video Rick!
the way you explained it was a VERY BIG help
Thanks Rlck, much clearer than some others I have been watching.
I’ve played guitar, piano and bass for years at church and have written many songs (some on TH-cam), but this is presented way to fast for me to understand. Never had formal music training.
alright this was the perfect video for the rhythmically inclined. gotta watch it a few more times. love it.
Nice lesson. Your channel is the best one out there. I wish TH-cam wouldn't block your videos... You are an educator! It's fair use. Great work!
This is the best explanation I've found on TH-cam so far. Thanks.
Very good video Rick. I spent a lot of time with my students trying to explain this like phonics in English. A group of notes creates a sound. Memorize the phonics and accept that sound and don't count when adding the notes. if you are thinking about it, you are probably late. I use flash cards examples like you put up there so they have to be able to do it quickly. Great videos. You Rock! Jazz! or Classical! keep them coming!
Rick, the best explanation I have seen. Thank you!
Thanks mr Rick. I'm learnin to write melodies and your video help me a lot
Great lesson! Could you make a video about how to create and develop rhythms in a piece? I'm a huge fan of all the work you've been doing on TH-cam, this is the best channel for learning music!
Hey Rick. Great Video, as usual =) Your Approach is completely fine, but I want to try to add my approach to round things up:
I try to think/play these 16th blocks as words and/or rhythm blocks as a limited vocabulary. As you have shown, there is an endless number of permutations of four 16th notes, that fall on a beat. For learning them (and teaching), I try to think in four groupings:
The first group is not a group, it's just 4 consistent 16th notes (like your first example).
The second group consists all blocks with only three 16th notes to combine, e.g. a 16th pause that falls on the beat, followed by three 16th notes. Or, one 8th plus two 16th notes etc. So, there are four possible blocks.
The third group consists all blocks with only two 16th notes to combine, e.g. a dotted 8th + a 16th. Again there are four possible blocks.
The fourth group has only one 16th note per block, e.g. 16th pause + 16th note + 8th pause. Again, four possible blocks.
Conclusion is, that there are only 13 "words" or possible permutations to combine four 16th notes that refer to one beat.
And yes, I left out the different writings for somehow "same sounds", because of a more practical approach regarding practical sightreading.
cheers =)
Best lesson on Rhythm I have found so far ... Keep up the great work , Rick!!!
This video gives me intense amateur pleasure. Love it!
I really appreciate you sharing your knowledge. I am trying to learn.
Bless you Rick for everything you do!
BRILLIANT!!!!!!!!! BEST explanation I've heard !!!!!!! EVER!!!! Thanks Rick!
That's the Best video on rhythm of all the Time
You are on a whole 'nother level my good sir... haha. I can't wait for rhythms to feel more natural... Twelve years later and I still struggle :(
Killer lesson. I love your to the point no nonsense approach. Thank you!
This... this is .. this is GOLDEN! thank you!
Charistmatic and cool guy at the same time, thanks a lot Rick. I think that finally, I will improve my sight reading :-)
What an excellent video - an extremely insightful and useful summary packed into 8 minutes. Many thanks.
Thank you so much Sir! Please keep posting such videos. This is really inspiring.
how does this only have 359K views? Guess i'm gonna have to watch it 88 X's and take it over 360K
Yes! More rhythm counting, please. Maybe something on tuplets and nested tuplets. Please.
Wish I'd seen this long ago,thanks. Very helpful.
Hi Great That's what i needed for my terminal exam here in Lyon (France) ! Thanks a lot Rick :)
this is exactly what I was looking for rick. thanks brother.
Awesome Explanation! Thanks for sharing.... Two big thumbs up from American One Productions in NJ.
Thank you Rick Beato.
If you don't, you have to check out benny greb's the lenguage of drumming, he begins by explaining what he calls is the alphabet and each letter represents one rhythmic pattern first on 16ths and then on triplets, and sums up every simple rhythmic pattern that you can think of.
He saids that those are the building blocks the we can encounter on pretty much every piece of music.
Great practice even if you are not a drummer.
Great vids by the way.
Rick Beato = the complicated made simple.
Really? I guess I missed the simple part, lol.
Rick = The Champ!
You are a blessing to us rick !!!
Hey Rick I just wanted to say thanks. This video truly helped me understand rhythm better. Awesome job!
Wow... the American method is more complicated that the one we use in Mexico... but good to know both. Thakns Rick!
Como es para latinos?
Rhythm is the same in Mexico as in the U.S.
You mean you have a different way of sounding out the rhythms?
Let's hear it, please.
Brilliant, concise, clear. Thanks!
Wish I could take Rick out for coffee and just learn from him.
Excellent teaching, Rick
I love this channel. So behind on actually to grips with all this.
Rick ,Could you make a video whether it is worth it to go to music school for making a career in music ?
Thank you, teacher. 🙇♂
Thank you for sharing your wealth of musical knowledge with us. It is great even for general interest
Thank you so much!!! I’ve been struggling with this for years!!! Can you make a midi lesson that I can practice with?
Clear as glass. Thanks.
Awesome and easy to understand. To the Point Mr.Rick. Thank u !
Easy to understand? Are you really an alien? Because easy was not my first thought...
Thank you bunches, the 1, e (+) a was really confusing on paper, this helped a lot
Info at 1:50 really helped me. Thx.
Very helpful. Thankyou Rick.
Thanks, Rick! Great video.
Considering how fundamental rhythm is to music, I've met so many musicians who don't really get it. They know all the notes and chords, but rhythm is a mystery to them ! As a drummer I've found it really frustrating to get some guitarists especially to get to know a rhythm, but they seem to think it's not important. "That's your job !! " It seems like I know more about their job than they do mine.
Pitch=rhythm
Hey Rick do one on odd time signatures - maybe use the Loue Belson Drum book
Coming soon.
Poly rhythms would be incredible from Rick too
Love the frogs chirping in the background… 1e…. 2e….