Rhythm Exercises For Musicians - 15 Levels Of Difficulty 🎵

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Rhythm practice exercises suitable for musicians of all kinds.
The difficulty gradually increases on each one but the tempo stays the same at 60 BPM.
See which level you can reach and increase the playback speed if you need more of a challenge.
Includes quarter notes (crotchets), eighth notes (quavers), sixteenth notes (semiquavers), dotted notes, and all the associated rests.
0:00 Video starts
0:05 Level 1
0:45 Level 2
1:25 Level 3
2:05 Level 4
2:45 Level 5
3:25 Level 6
4:05 Level 7
4:45 Level 8
5:25 Level 9
6:05 Level 10
6:45 Level 11
7:25 Level 12
8:05 Level 13
8:45 Level 14
9:25 Level 15
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[@SightReadDrums]

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[@zedarated]

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!

[@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

[@noelrowland4613]

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! ❤

[@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!

[@papusa_pozitiva]

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

[@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!

[@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

[@SushiSuxs]

It's official, I suck. Time to practice

[@MyaMiaFroggy]

Same😅

[@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.

[@OmniCapital_]

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😅

[@AizawasMentalState]

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

[@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.

[@michaelcumming2097]

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

[@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!

[@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!

[@duckfat365]

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

[@MohammedAli-ch2cz]

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

[@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 😀

[@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!

[@iozsaygi]

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

[@alexalani10101]

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😂

[@stanleyazure]

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

[@Almightservant]

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

[@j.albornoz_]

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

[@musicman7098]

Thank you for this life changing video

[@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👍

[@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.

[@celterin]

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

[@NightshadeNate]

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

[@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...

[@BenjaminJahnke]

Use this video almost daily in my classroom. Thank you

[@Leyla.E.]

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

[@brucemoxley4300]

Wonderful exercise for learning to read notes 😊

[@nickinho69]

simply the best videos of its kind to learn rhythm

[@jitheshkuyyalil]

This is amazing! Thank you!

[@Garfield_633]

Good practice. The rests are killing me!😂

[@danielerambelliguitar6119]

Interesting work, I really appreciate this!

[@marcobrocks1490]

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

[@user-jd3on4vw6u]

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

[@Moonchild-ri5ci]

Huge thanks from a bass beginner

[@AdiKartaDasa]

Great exercise. Thanks.

[@chantonpetersen6431]

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

[@yeisonclaros4557]

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

[@RM-pn9sn]

That helped me improve on all my notes

[@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 !!

[@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 ..!

[@spunky11111111]

Wow, great exercise !!

[@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

[@giacintodanesi9509]

Very usefull exercise thanx! 😊❤

[@AntonDeniz]

This i will come back to every day

[@ava_jane_]

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

[@kyeburns1163]

good challenge at double time speed!

[@user-lu1ss3nn6o]

わかりやすい、イイネ😊

[@marktaylor8818]

yes very nice. thank you for the videos

[@AhmadEbrahimpour-tj4zc]

U r 1 of the best on drums education thanks ممنون

[@JabariRawMusic]

Those last 4 were insane no cap

[@user-dm5uz8td4f]

Nice one thanks

[@debford2836]

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

[@SightReadDrums]

Good suggestion, I’ll add to my list

[@valquiriapereiradeoliveira8811]

Thank you

[@matiasshedden4733]

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

[@ritchiecustodio2425]

Brilliant for beginners like me.

[@flameplame2708]

A very useful video! 👍

[@JabariRawMusic]

I LOVE THIS!!!!

[@sarangnirmal5503]

Great ! Thanks a lot 🙏🙏

[@bennetjoseph1956]

Really good Note 🎶👍

[@famosolameacaga8257]

4:26 6:49 7:30

[@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

[@kothargyikothargyi3389]

Thanks very much

[@Rhkswhdtkfka]

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

[@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]

👊😎

[@fishing50when70]

Nice man this gonna help with my gallops a ton!

[@ninocapellan3652]

Excelente gracias

[@foaadfallah2143]

So much thanks

[@anastasiaromanov3737]

Thanks

[@alexmelnua]

Bravo! Bravo!! Bravo!!! 👏 👍❤❤❤❤❤❤❤👍

[@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!) ..."

[@awakenwithoutcoffee]

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

[@armandoperez-qv1vv]

Super nice

[@Hector_Eugenio]

I love it!

[@frostisalr]

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

[@FrostDirt]

Fun video!

[@petrifiedbutterfly9243]

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

[@demigr0539]

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

[@Moserboy12]

so glad my music degree is going towards something

[@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

[@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

[@fransiscoy3992]

Thank you...

[@MR1964HJM]

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

[@aldenmitchellswaby6822]

Please make more videos like this

[@davidmartinez6204]

Times 2 speed for extreme difficulty 😈

[@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

[@quaternity6943]

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

[@marciokarvalho474]

muito bom!!!

[@MrFreakdivers]

Sehr gut bitte weiter so

[@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

[@vaughnchauncy8360]

I agree.i like this

[@9fresh252]

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

[@yaj_yaj]

I’m a drummer, this was light work

[@voihiivatti]

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

[@ricardojoani5817]

Tanks