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Flash Cards-Rhythm

The document provides information about rhythm and musical notation. It includes definitions of rhythm and describes different note values like quarter notes, eighth notes, and half notes. It also presents several flashcard exercises to practice various rhythmic concepts involving notes, rests, ties, triplets and more.
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Flash Cards-Rhythm

The document provides information about rhythm and musical notation. It includes definitions of rhythm and describes different note values like quarter notes, eighth notes, and half notes. It also presents several flashcard exercises to practice various rhythmic concepts involving notes, rests, ties, triplets and more.
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What is RHYTHM?

-the systematic arrangement of musical sounds, principally


according to duration and periodic stress

-a strong, regular, repeated pattern of movement or sound


Quarter Note = 1 beat
Count example: “1”
Or single…

Eighth Notes = 1/2 beat


Count example: “1 &”
Half Note = 2 beats
Count example: 1 - (2)
Rhythm Flash Cards
Level 1-A
Quarter and Eighth
notes
1 2 3 4
1 2 3 & 4
1 & 2 3 & 4
1 & 2 & 3 4
1 2 & 3 4
1 & 2 3 4
1 & 2 & 3 & 4
Rhythm Flash Cards
Level 1-B
Quarter note and
Quarter Rest
1 2 3 4
1 (2) 3 (4)
1 (2) 3 4
(1) 2 (3) 4
1 (2) (3) (4)
Rhythm Flash Cards
Level 2
Ties and half notes
1 (2) 3 (4)
1 (2) 3 (4)
1 2 3 (4)
1 & 2 & 3 (4)
1 (2) 3 4
1 & 2 3 (4)
1 2 (3) 4
1 & 2 (3) 4
Rhythm Flash Cards
Level 3
Rests
1 2 3 4
1 (2) 3 (4)
1 (2) 3 4
1 (2) 3 & 4
1 (2) 3 (4)
(1) 2 3 (4)
1 2 (3 - 4)
(1 - 2) 3 4
1 & (2 - 3) 4
Rhythm Flash Cards
Level 4
Sixteenth Notes
1 2 3 e & a 4
1 e & a 2 3 e & a 4
1 e & a 2 e & a 3 e & a 4
1 e & a 2 & 3 e & a 4
1 e & a 2 e & a 3 & 4
1 e & a 2 3 & 4
Thank you and
God bless us all…
Rhythm Flash Cards
Level 4A
Sixteenth-Eighth
combinations
1 (e) & a 2 (e) & a 3 & a 4
1 (e) & a 2 3 & 4
1 2 (e) & a 3 4
Rhythm Flash Cards
Level 4B
Sixteenth-eighth
combinations
1 e & (a) 2 e & (a) 3 e & (a) 4
1 & 2 e & (a) 3 & 4
1 e & (a) 2 e & (a) 3 & 4
1 2 3 e & (a) 4
Rhythm Flash Cards
Level 5
Remember…a quarter notes = 2 eighth notes…

1 & (2) & 3 4


1 & (2) & 3 & 4
1 2 & (3) & 4
1 (2) & 3 4
The dot is like adding another eighth note to the quarter note…

1 (2) & 3 4
1 (2) & 3 & 4
these are like 16th notes with the “e” and the “&” missing…

1 (e &) a 2 (e &) a 3 (e &) a 4


1 2 3 (e &) a 4
1 & 2 3 (e &) a 4
Rhythm Flash Cards
Level 6
Triplets
3 3 3
triplets – divide the beat into 3 even sections – think “butterfly”
spoken very evenly, counted as 1-&-a, etc.

3 3 3

1 & a 2 & a 3 & a 4


3 3 3
3 3 3

1 2 & a 3 & a 4 & a


3 3
3 3

1 2 & a 3 4 & a
3 3
3 3

1 & a 2 3 & a 4
3
3

1 (2) 3 & a 4
3
3

1 & 2 3 & a 4
3 3
3 3

1 & a 2 & a 3 & 4

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