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! 👍👍👍
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 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?
Another very important (broadly speaking) lesson...Haven't found much really good stuff on rhythm on RUclips as it appears to be the neglected child of music teaching, harmony and melody getting 99% of the attention. Great stuff, Rick.
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.
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.
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.
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 🙃
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.
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 RUclips, this is the best channel for learning music!
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.
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:)
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!
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!!
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 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.
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!
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 =)
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
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).
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.
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.
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.
I am having such a great time with just really everything that you're doing thank you very much and I'm turning my friends on to it and they're impressed we're all impressed thanks man keep it up
There is no cameraman. That's frogs and crickets out in my yard. You never hear that unless it's nighttime in the summer. I am the cameraman :) I noticed the sound but thought "if people can get over Keith Jarrett's singing while playing, they can forgive the crickets" :)
Hey Rick, you might want to correct your clapping at 2:57, it doesn't go twice as fast because your note values are twice as slow (it balances off and all 3 examples should sound exactly the same speed). In general I really appreciate your videos!
This was really good! I do think it could have been expedited by reminding us of EMPHASIS. That you are EMPHASIZING a part. Especially before a rest. Thanks rick!!!
I’ve played guitar, piano and bass for years at church and have written many songs (some on RUclips), but this is presented way to fast for me to understand. Never had formal music training.
The concept of unique rhythms vs rhythmic equivalents is something I've never seen expressed in quite as clear a way. Awesome job! Still doesn't help me read Scott Henderson's outro solo on "The Necessary Blonde" though!
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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.
Thank you, I was classically trained 60 years ago and I haven’t played for 40 years. So I’m hoping your videos helps rebuild my muscle .
Great work
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!
This is probably some of the best musical training on youtube.
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?
It would be awesome if someone made a compilation of all your demonstrative noises taken out of context
Or made a song
Rick, you're my hero! Been trying to decode rhythm for 30 years, and this little 8:26 video completely unlocks it. Thank you!
Another very important (broadly speaking) lesson...Haven't found much really good stuff on rhythm on RUclips as it appears to be the neglected child of music teaching, harmony and melody getting 99% of the attention. Great stuff, Rick.
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.
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.
As a teacher of many subjects for 4 decades, let me say this is a spectacular lesson.
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.
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 one of the best rhythm videos I’ve found on UTUBE!
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!
My favourite channel by far! You have a genuine passion for music and it shows in every video Rick!
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 🙃
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.
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 RUclips, this is the best channel for learning music!
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.
Thank you so so much. Rick, you're amazing. This is so useful for me right now. Thank you!
Love how you understand that jargon confuses people...You are a pleasure to watch
As always, excellent and to the point. Rick, you have the best RUclips channel of it's kind, I've seen. Thank you!
Whoa! Doing those exercises made me feel like the top of my head was coming off! Good stuff!
This is so basic and so on the money!! Thank you Rick. Sincerely rhythmically challenged!
Rick, I've been looking for a straight forward explanation of rhythm for a long time! Thanks very very much!
so glad found this guy...
perfect teacher
your channel is really deep , we all appreciate it
True!
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 👍
I’ve been waiting for this video for the past 20 years!! Thanks!! 🙏
Nice lesson. Your channel is the best one out there. I wish RUclips wouldn't block your videos... You are an educator! It's fair use. Great work!
Thank you Rick for the quality of teaching you deliver in each of your videos. This is really outstanding. Not to be missed.
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:)
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!
Yep... This is why I'm subscribed.
Always learning from Beato 😊
Rick really there’s no word to describe the VALUE of such treasure ¡LESSON!Thanks so much.
Excellent! I learned more in the last 8:26 than I have in 30 years
Best lesson on Rhythm I have found so far ... Keep up the great work , Rick!!!
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!!
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 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.
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!
This is the best explanation I've found on RUclips so far. Thanks.
A dotted quarter note is the same duration as 3 16th notes . The dot is a quarter note rest!! Great job at that explanation!!
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 =)
alright this was the perfect video for the rhythmically inclined. gotta watch it a few more times. love it.
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
Hey Rick I just wanted to say thanks. This video truly helped me understand rhythm better. Awesome job!
Thanks Rlck, much clearer than some others I have been watching.
Now I just need to watch this 100 times until maybe I can clap all those rhythms
No kidding!
Same
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!
That's the Best video on rhythm of all the Time
Killer lesson. I love your to the point no nonsense approach. Thank you!
Rick, the best explanation I have seen. Thank you!
I really appreciate you sharing your knowledge. I am trying to learn.
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.
the way you explained it was a VERY BIG help
Thank you so much Sir! Please keep posting such videos. This is really inspiring.
Bless you Rick for everything you do!
What an excellent video - an extremely insightful and useful summary packed into 8 minutes. Many thanks.
Thanks mr Rick. I'm learnin to write melodies and your video help me a lot
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.
BRILLIANT!!!!!!!!! BEST explanation I've heard !!!!!!! EVER!!!! Thanks Rick!
Sight rhythms! Every musician (especially guitarist) must be the drummer without the drummer. Rock on!
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
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 :(
This... this is .. this is GOLDEN! thank you!
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.
I have a playlist called "Music Theory". Rick DOMINATES that playlist! ;)
I am having such a great time with just really everything that you're doing thank you very much and I'm turning my friends on to it and they're impressed we're all impressed thanks man keep it up
This video gives me intense amateur pleasure. Love it!
The dude creeper chilling in the background @ 24 seconds is freaking me out
Cue dissonant high violins in 4/4: 1, 2, half rest
Haha omg 😳
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.
Charistmatic and cool guy at the same time, thanks a lot Rick. I think that finally, I will improve my sight reading :-)
I love this channel. So behind on actually to grips with all this.
Really good lesson! I can hear the cameraman breathing during the whiteboard segments, really freaked me out while wearing in-ears.
There is no cameraman. That's frogs and crickets out in my yard. You never hear that unless it's nighttime in the summer. I am the cameraman :) I noticed the sound but thought "if people can get over Keith Jarrett's singing while playing, they can forgive the crickets" :)
Rick Beato Sick! The breath of nature. Love all of your videos!
Also, just looked up Keith Jarrett.
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...
You are a blessing to us rick !!!
Hey Rick, you might want to correct your clapping at 2:57, it doesn't go twice as fast because your note values are twice as slow (it balances off and all 3 examples should sound exactly the same speed). In general I really appreciate your videos!
You get the point :)
Thank you for sharing your wealth of musical knowledge with us. It is great even for general interest
Man, those crickets are chirping! Cool lesson, that Superman theme :0
This was really good! I do think it could have been expedited by reminding us of EMPHASIS. That you are EMPHASIZING a part. Especially before a rest. Thanks rick!!!
This is so amazing. Thanks rick. You are a peach man:) im so grateful:)
Wish I'd seen this long ago,thanks. Very helpful.
Two sixteenths and an eight note. One of the most used note combinations of all time in my humble opinion.
I’ve played guitar, piano and bass for years at church and have written many songs (some on RUclips), but this is presented way to fast for me to understand. Never had formal music training.
Thank you bunches, the 1, e (+) a was really confusing on paper, this helped a lot
Very helpful. Thankyou Rick.
Wish I could take Rick out for coffee and just learn from him.
The concept of unique rhythms vs rhythmic equivalents is something I've never seen expressed in quite as clear a way. Awesome job! Still doesn't help me read Scott Henderson's outro solo on "The Necessary Blonde" though!
Rick = The Champ!
Info at 1:50 really helped me. Thx.
Thank you, teacher. 🙇♂
Yes! More rhythm counting, please. Maybe something on tuplets and nested tuplets. Please.
Finally a video that explains a better way to count rhythms than the “ta ta tee tee ta” explanations.
Sometimes that works better.
Thanks, Rick! Great video.