If the previous two videos got your attention about binary rhythm patterns, wait’ll you see all those patterns lined up vertically on music staves so you can read them in (for example) 4/2, 4/4, 4/8, 4/16, and 4/32 all at once…
The Elements of Rhythm, Vol, II, also dives very deeply into the idea of relative notation, where an absolute sound shape can be not only written in many different ways, but be counted in many different ways as well.
We become conditioned to seeing 16th rests and notes in 4/4 and count them 1 e + uh, but then when we see them in 4/16, our minds have to “temporally translate” (my term) the mathematics very quickly to make sense of the notation before us.
Ideally, we should be able to read any absolutely sound shape, written in any beat note value, using any counting syllables and not be married to the idea that, for example, sixteenth rests and notes will always be counted 1 e + uh…
Yeah, this is advanced, heady stuff. It’ll get your mind going from page one, I guarantee you. But, when you consider that in both volumes, you are looking at ALL of the fundamental building block rhythm patterns that all the larger ones come… believe me, that’s worth about six minutes of your time!
Enjoy.
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