Rhythm Exercises For Musicians - 15 Levels Of Difficulty 🎵

[@SightReadDrums]

Hi everyone! If you're just starting out on drums, I've put together a comprehensive beginner drum book that will teach you everything you need to know. It's packed with exercises and tips that have really worked for my students. Feel free to check it out! 👉 mybook.to/nfh0uTr

[@hamzzzakkk]

This has given me a better understanding of how specific notes work. As always, REST = DANGER

[@anonomous8649]

I love that and will repeat that, rest = danger 😂 I used to be a violin major and remember so many times either I or someone else would play on rests and all eyes would be on whoever did it lmfao. My orchestra was great and would make light of it but lord that was still kind of embarrassing to be that person.

[@unnikrishnanvr186]

​@Carleen everyone isn't perfect like you dude, you have to understand that. I am not a professional or anything, and I tend to miscount and mess up a lot.

[@SilverStarGG]

can you explain wdym by that?

[@unnikrishnanvr186]

​@Carleen well, ok? I guess that proves my point

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[@ianemerson2704]

Actually challenging. Did not expect this to be difficult sight-reading. Nice work!

[@michaelh.3228]

I did classical voice & piano in college, still do it now. Rhythm was always my weak point in sight reading and it’s good to know that that hasn’t changed LOL.

[@emmu__]

My friend learns the drums and she sent me this video. This helps me learn to read rythms alot. Each day i get a bit further in the video without mistakes. Thankyou for making this type of video!

[@爱日]

u also might want to expose yourself with more variety of rhythms to practice yourself more

[@zoldlomblegolas1]

Really good one, nice work! I was missing triplets & sextuplets a bit, but I guess the video would have been much longer including additional rhythms.

[@SightReadDrums]

Thanks! Yes triplets would’ve made it too long, I’ll do another similar video for triplet-based rhythms I think.

[@AmtrakCitiesSprinter64]

Fun fact: there is a thing called a “nested tuplets”. It’s kinda hard to describe but I’ll give you an example: a septuplet inside a quintuplet inside a triplet

[@deletedduck1273]

​@Sight Read Drums your channel is really helpfull in my 2nd year of band!

[@luciddreams3586]

This channel is brilliant. Went through a handful of videos over a couple of half hour sessions and already seeing decent improvement.

[@mrsqwizzy7960]

Hehehe tuplets

[@SW-ef5oy]

As a wildly out of practice pianist, this actually taught me a lot about how I understand sheet music! I'm definitely much more of an auditory learner than visual - I messed up a lot of the combinations within beats the first time but had them down as soon as I heard them once. Made it to level 12 before struggling, was absolutely screwed from 13 onwards.

[@Sergonizer]

I found levels 13&14 easier than 12 lmao

[@MAJORSVNVLOGS]

@@Sergonizer same! Level 13-15 was quite a doozy! but I had a good time!

[@TheresRoomAtTheCrossForYou]

As a double bass player learning violin....thus is very helpful. However, as a bassist, we never ventured past level three, and my hands and eyeballs can not keep up. I'm going to keep practicing

[@eldrichhorrornya5933]

You got this! I believe in you! ❤

[@SushiSuxs]

It's official, I suck. Time to practice

[@MyaMiaFroggy]

Same😅

[@Shady_129]

I struggled with rhythm and that caused me to also struggle with sightreading. Now after 10 minutes, PRESTO, I'm suddenly good at sightreading now. Thanks!

[@SumDumNerd]

As a native percussionist, level 15 surprisingly required me to focus a little and overall really good video for beginning percussionists. :)

[@percyvolnar8010]

Great job. Rhythm is the hardest aspect of reading music. Please give us another rhythm exercises video like this one!

[@SightReadDrums]

Thanks. I plan to do lots more.

[@percyvolnar8010]

@@SightReadDrums I'm serious, I must make sure you know that your videos have helped me greatly! I appreciate you!

[@iozsaygi]

You have no idea how useful your videos are to musicians out there!

[@monicabonatesfeijo6461]

I believe one of the best exercises is to play all notes and all it's possible values including pauses, isolated before the exercises on pentagram with all notes and their possible values together. It would be a lot helpful to memorize the sounds associated with the notes. I have never seen teachers or any youtube channel teaching this. I also miss fusas, semifusas and respective pauses values, also 2/2, 3/4 and 6/8, wichh are most commonly used.

[@ZeBathroom630]

As an 8th Grader, making it to level 13 is an absolute win

[@Roman_Tadesse]

What instrument do you play?

[@duckfat365]

As a drum player for about 5 months, I managed to get through all and this was very helpful

[@merlinprivat-pw5dq]

Whopps, lvl 10-15 are not as easy as i thought!! 10years self taught Guitarist and i really need to practise 13-15 to get along Love it!

[@michaelcumming2097]

Good exercises, the last 3 were more challenging than I thought they would be.

[@Caff-pv8fg]

man im coming back to this vid after a month of casually practicing your videos, and I'm so happy my counting is so much better

[@SightReadDrums]

So pleased to hear it's helped you improve 😀

[@NightshadeNate]

I went into this expecting something simple, never have I been humbled so fast in my life

[@bobalife785]

it was pretty easy but then I got to level 8 and that's when I started messing up badly. Great challenge and so fun!

[@horus2711]

Thank you so much for this. It’s really helped me play those note that was struggling with or didn’t know. Life save.

[@AmandaMauch]

I tried this with flute and it really helped my breathing. Nice work!

[@alexalani10110]

As an oboist this was great practice because we don’t get a lot of super funky rhythms in our classical repertoire. Especially the sixteenth rest on beat 1, sixteenth note on e, eighth note on the +, kept tripping me up when it was followed up by sixteenth rest on beat 1, eighth note on the e, sixteenth on the a. Going back and forth between those was groovy but challenging. I tried the later challenges on double speed, good for humbling the ego as an oboist😂

[@snowbeatstheheat7939]

Had no problems till level twelve 🥹pianist and trumpet player and rhythm personally is the hardest thing for me in music but this helped a LOT! Thank you!

[@TheOmniverseYT]

Love this! I was able to do every level decently but there were some pretty tricky parts in the last 3. If it wasnt at 60 bpm i probably would have messed up

[@pineapplelollipop1074]

I think the 60 bpm messed me up a little I kept wanting to speed up😅

[@RepititionLegitamizes]

Yeah, I'm a freshman percussionist, and I can make it to level 12 comfortably, but once we hit 13, rest=bad

[@Rik-Ahbece]

When 60 bpm is too hard, put video speed at 75% .. and also advice to pause video at every sheet and practice with a metronome / clapping, then you will really learn to lock in..

[@Rik-Ahbece]

Awesome exercises, and not easy: Big advice for everyone from personal experience: 1) Listen and watch the video and clap/tap the notes of let's say 3 sheets. 2) Go back to the 1st of the 3 sheets, pause the video at a sheet and put on a metronome at 60 bpm ( or 50 if it's too fast) Use one foot to follow the metronome quarter notes and clap or tap with hands the notes in the sheet. 3) After doing that, go back and follow with the video to check how you are doing. 4) Repeat step 2 and 3 with one sheet until it is perfect, and only then go on with the next sheet. 5) When done 6 sheets, grab your instrument and start again at sheet 1 and repeat all steps.. use one leg for the quarternotes, and follow the rythm playing a C note (or any other if you wish) This way you will learn to "feel" the rythm, programming your body and mind to place all the notes correctly instead of only learning to "copy" a sound you are hearing in this video (or any audio/music) and not realizing you are drifting in timing and not completely 100% locked in when playing with other musicians.... 🙂

[@BenjaminJahnke]

Use this video almost daily in my classroom. Thank you

[@Leyzime]

I cannot imagine KZbin without your videos. I'll be lost in the space. Thank God i found your channel 🙏👍🥁🥁❤

[@RICARDORUI-e2p]

Soy un aficionado al piano tengo 80 años. Estos ejercicios me sirven mucho para entender el ritmo y el pulso. Creo que esta es la parte mas dificil para mi. Muchas gracias.

[@stanleyazure]

I've been having such a hard time reading rhythms lately and this helps so much

[@celterin]

This is proving to be an excellent way to get back into percussion for my uni years

[@Oi-mj6dv]

Made till level 10 then brain stopped braining. This is actually good rythmic sightreading my god

[@MohammedAli-ch2cz]

Great work. Keep up, let millions learn from you.

[@gurungjk7517]

It´s very very useful .One of the Best . Thanks is going to this important video maker. Music is a practices of sound of the object. I am sorry to many of music teachers tell only bla...bla..bla... theory. Now I am being very clear about the Time Signature in Music after see this video . Thanks ..!

[@Moonchild-ri5ci]

Huge thanks from a bass beginner

[@ipivo888]

Спасибо за это видео. Я лишь новичок и мало разбираюсь в записи, так что это видео мне очень помогает. Сейчас я лишь на 8 уровне, но с завтрашнего дня это будет моей разминкой для рук перед тем, как сесть за инструмент. Спасибо вам за этот прекрасный канал и видео

[@sleppy_M]

попробуй в качестве разминку томи айго Basic Warmup

[@anthonyfaiell3263]

Rhythm isn’t so hard for me as rhythm mixed with other changes. So I’ve been going through this on guitar while playing leads that match the rhythms. Been a lot of fun and really helping me out

[@weltenschmerz]

This is so challenging but also a very nice goal to reach sooner or later :) and then even speed it up. its helps me so much not only feeling note value but even more "break" values... Thank you !!

[@j.albornoz_]

thanks a lot !! i practice this every day to improve my rhythm

[@robertatassetti]

Hi, I am a music teacher in Italy and I foud these exercises very useful to work with the students. Can you tell me wich program did you use to do it? I would need more exercise for beginners. Thanks a lot 😊

[@swiggydswirl330]

I messed up on levels 4,7,10,13 and 15. With level 13 being the most difficult to do. It's interesting to find what areas I struggle the most with and how that can differ between each levels

[@nadiad3758]

I’ve been so bad at rhythms for years now and am trying to fix it Been playing guitar for three years, clarinet for two, alto for nearly one, and a couple others just for fun sprinkled in but I didn’t even make it through level four 😭

[@SightReadDrums]

Rhythms can be tough, but keep going! Break things down slowly and practise simple rhythm exercises regularly. You’ve got a solid skillset with all those instruments-keep at it! 👊😎

[@petrifiedbutterfly9243]

Made me realise how much I need to work on my rhythm 💀 Tysm

[@Almightservant]

Very useful exercises . It's improving my sight reading!

[@carloscarpio3495]

Excellent mi amigo

[@brianmascarenhas9740]

Most of them were simple but the rest were so hard Thank you

[@wyattstevens8574]

I started getting mixed up after level 3, although I could keep up fine until about level 6. The trick? I was able to link each even division of a quarter note to a type of produce ("Sweet Beats" by Preschool Prodigies style: quarter= beet, 2 8ths= cher-ry, 4 16ths= a-vo-ca-do) In fact, the first 2 bars of level 2 are literally in "Sweet Beats," as "We've got *beet, beet, cherry, beet...* (Beet, beet, cherry, beet!) *Cherry, cherry, beet, beet...* (Cherry, cherry, beet, beet!) ..."

[@alaitz_drummer]

Gracias por estos ejercicios!!! Nada más salir de la uni me pongo a practicar. Me ayudan mucho a mejorar... Me gustaría mucho que suberas otro con bombo y Hit-Hat. Gracias!!!! Ojalá aumentes tus seguidores...

[@shantanuchiplunkar3715]

This page is one of my favourite I have turned on the notification, I watch every new video of this page , superb work !!!

[@SightReadDrums]

👊😎

[@Garfield_633]

Good practice. The rests are killing me!😂

[@Garfield_633]

I feel much better now with the rests, thanks for the exercises!

[@awakenwithoutcoffee]

great exercise. Would love to have some rhythm changes and harder difficulty levels.

[@Benzebuth18]

Would be more challenging if silences were, well, silent

[@Yes-bm4vn]

I don't play on my instrument as much now as I used to but god damn.. it really makes wanna play, well done! I'll challenge myself

[@frostisalr]

Thanks for the training, made it to lvl 9, I'm just a freshman and I kinda suck so that's why 😭

[@brucemoxley4300]

Wonderful exercise for learning to read notes 😊

[@quaternity6943]

If you want to increase the challenge put it on 1.5x or more 😅 Thx for the video, I enjoy these a lot !

[@yeisonclaros4557]

Excelente estoy en los 15 niveles lectura a primera vista soy estudiante de batería muy buen canal

[@dragonwhiterr]

это идеально для тренировок!🔥 спасибо вам!🤗

[@mide8845]

more of this please this is incredible

[@AhmadEbrahimpour-tj4zc]

U r 1 of the best on drums education thanks ممنون

[@JabariRawMusic]

Those last 4 were insane no cap

[@JENNMOGUU]

1:25 this and 2:05 this part help for me to play drum. Thank you❤

[@spamham5979]

This was lots of fun! Almost expected triplets to pop up near the end 😂

[@SightReadDrums]

I considered adding triplets but all the triplet variations would’ve made this video too long I think 😆

[@positiveharmony7230]

@@SightReadDrums make a video like this one through triplets would be nice.

[@1dle1ndustries]

​@@SightReadDrums this same exercise and triplets but with LR notations would be amazing too. im trying to do this one with paradiddles right now👍

[@debford2836]

Excellent exercise. Something like this with a swing feel would be great

[@SightReadDrums]

Good suggestion, I’ll add to my list

[@RM-pn9sn]

That helped me improve on all my notes

[@demigr0539]

yeah doing drumline for 4 years definitely carried me through this 😅

[@joho-z]

Thank you so much!!! Exactly what I was looking for

[@MR1964HJM]

Ok. I've mastered them all. Well, 97% on #15. 🥁😸

[@kouvostoliitto99]

Pretty easy but good job. 5 years of percussion study and these were all so easy. Do you have any harder one?

[@AntonDeniz]

This i will come back to every day

[@sadiesof]

I had never seen some of the notes past difficulty 7, I only got up to grade 3 when I was learning drums as a kid and I never realised on how much I missed out on after not playing for so long :,D

[@musicman7098]

Thank you for this life changing video

[@jerecakes1]

i am not a musician but i play "rhythm" games, its very interesting how the parallels are on these two worlds of entertainment and how my brain tries to comprehend the notations that i barely remember to somehow "read" the "chart" the concept of chunkating notes i think do apply to both based on this video? :D (i guess? idk much) [chunking as in, grouping them in your mind to be able to be played much easier] and nonetheless, very good and challenging video!

[@jimaraud862]

Trop bon de revoir les bases merci

[@brantrobertspercussion]

This is honestly 15 levels of reading difficulty for a drummer with maybe 6 months of playing experience. No one should think they are adequate at reading if they made it to 15 without mistakes.

[@kyeburns1163]

yeah it’s good however giving it a go at double the speed

[@fishing50when70]

Nice man this gonna help with my gallops a ton!

[@Moserboy12]

so glad my music degree is going towards something

[@ava_jane_]

Thank you for this, I definitely struggle with sight reading and this is helping lol

[@9fresh252]

got to around 111 or 12 before tripping up alot, very helpful though!!

[@famosolameacaga8257]

4:26 6:49 7:30

[@ATLDRUMACADEMY]

This is so awesome

[@vangyqn]

no problem copying the rhythm just figuring out how to count it correctly

[@nickinho69]

simply the best videos of its kind to learn rhythm

[@chantonpetersen6431]

Great work bud. help to clear things up for me.

[@richTqstodio1215]

Brilliant for beginners like me.

[@PiyaChoudhari]

Reallybbety kive challenging and very good to comprehend what exactly these fine four four four four that's total 16 subdivisions of a beat subdivisions of

[@marcobrocks1490]

How Great-Thank you very much for this great lesson🤩

[@ParkerVick-bv7jg]

I did pretty good for sight reading

[@lapp10]

do yk what the weird looking note (kinda looks like half a sixteenth note and half an eighth note together) at 7:32 is

[@masonvannort6875]

As a band director and a French horn player I’m a little embarrassed that the off beats at level 14 are what got me

[@alliccielelven780]

Level 15 is kind of easy once you’ve done NYSSMA level 6 instrumental sight reading rhythms 😂 those things are INSANE

[@debackerefamily7230]

I’m doing level 5 rn, and what level do you think would be most similar to it. I feel pretty confident bec I was able to do level 15 first try with only like 2 mistakes.

[@yaj_yaj]

I’m a drummer, this was light work

[@lonely_ghost9857]

I was doing so well until level 13😂 I love subdivision but omg some notes i gotta hear first before playing

[@burger9592]

I put this on 2x speed and it was perfect, only messed up one little note on level 14 but other than that it was perfect

[@bennetjoseph1956]

Really good Note 🎶👍

[@JeithKarrett]

TA TAGGA TA TAGGA TAGGATAGGA TA TE 🗣🗣🗣🔥🔥🔥‼️‼️‼️

[@theyluv.quinnstifer]

I got to level 8 as an 7th grader so I’m pretty surprised! I play saxophone so definitely not a percussionist 😅

[@הודיההודיה-ב9ט]

Thank you for the video and thank you for the marker . It helps alot. 🙂

[@annupborrge3091]

Loved it... But would be more challenging if triplets were added.

[@matiasshedden4733]

excelente!! Losultimos estan dificiles pero con practica todo sale!!