How fast can you read 3 basic rhythms? 🎵

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Here we have random combinations of 3 basic rhythms - quarter notes (crotchets), eighth notes (quavers) and sixteenth notes (semiquavers).
They're easy to play at slow tempos but you'll often have to read them at fast tempos too.
The exercises in this video increase by 20 BPM each time, starting at 60 BPM and ending at 200 BPM.
See how fast you can sight read and play them.
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[@swiggydswirl330]

My best was at 160bpm. I completely flopped at 180bpm but did surprisingly better at 200bpm. The faster bpm speed engaged more than the slower speeds. For this, I blame intense rhythm games

[@waterdesign9573]

Yeah same but I had trouble with 160

[@juanli7593]

This was a lot easier for me @@waterdesign9573

[@Boo-iv7yp]

Mine is 300

[@Boo-iv7yp]

Fastest I can play

[@apextoejam2257]

@@Boo-iv7ypSo your Max is 300 huh

[@thomasm3103]

I have 4 years of drumline and jazz band under my belt. This brings me back man. Jazz band was essentially "here's the part, its 8 pages and has no less then 30 tempo changes and requires a ferret to play properly, think you'll be ready to play it in the next 5?"

[@aa-yy1oc]

As someone who is not musically talented and has never picked up an instrument nor read sheet music, I am proud to say I was able to read the text and numbers on the screen.

I started messing up on 120bpm😩will pratice again...awesome practice

[@ionlygroommymy2cats]

that emoji tho?

[@Adrian-bk4ex]

@@ionlygroommymy2cats 🥴🥴

[@afhoj]

Awesome! Still finding my way with music so tripped up around 100. These are great learning tools. Starting to see that for me the sticky point is the gap between the last note of a set and the first note of the next set

[@hazymorning1823]

im so glad i found this channel! i'll be practicing these in preparation to my orchestral audition!

[@ragellejean]

Fantastic, so I was right that I cannot side read to save my life. Perfect!

[@SightReadDrums]

You’re in the right place if you want to practise 😆

[@josephmoravitz736]

It wasn't until after I swapped videos to something else that I realized I accidentally still had this video playing at 1.75x speed. I was confused how so many people were claiming to succeed through to the end, but it makes so much more sense now.

[@SightReadDrums]

No way anyone is doing the last few levels at 1.75x speed 😂

[@jd0879]

Lol that would mean the bpms are 105 to 350

[@GresSimJa]

I was able to follow along and knew what to do, even during the obscenely high-BPM bars. Playing those 16th notes is a different story...

[@gastonpiget1034]

Super. Gotta do this one a few times - untangle those fast 16th notes.

[@alex_tremo255]

thanks so much for this content, im learning piano and, even tho i have a good rhythm, im still learning to read the sheets and tempo things, this is helping a lot

[@lucscott3631]

Pretty solid at 200, however the straight 16ths kinda get me cause I don’t have the best singles

[@alxjones]

Play though Stick Control pg 5 but every time you repeat a hand, fill in the other hand. So L L becomes LRL and R R become RLR. Eight notes become sixteenth notes. Start slow and work up the tempo. Play each line 4 times, then 2 times, then 1 time, make sure you do the fill ins on repeats and moving across lines. Your singles will get much better after doing this for a bit, and it engages your brain and forces you to look ahead which will improve your reading.

[@Drums4LifeSubscribe]

i just played them as doubles

[@Alex_Gid]

Daaamn, never realised how bad I'm in rhythm, gonna practice it somehow

[@colescroggins2896]

Don't be too hard on yourself. It's much more difficult to sightread things at such high speeds. I started messing up at around 160. Keep practicing!

[@Alex_Gid]

@@colescroggins2896 thank you! Practicing these exercises for a while I realised I became better at this, so I don't push myself hard

[@lightningstar0379]

@@Alex_Gid it always helps to start slow and then speed up if you are struggling

[@Alex_Gid]

@@lightningstar0379 yeah, that's how I practice now, thank you!

[@user-gr3qs9nj1x]

the double stroke roll came in clutch at the end

[@waterdesign9573]

I surprisingly got through all of these. I struggled on 160, had no trouble with 180, and then had to try a 5 to 10 times on 200 to get it but I made it.

[@philb4462]

I did OK. I started to struggle at 140 but didn't mess up too much. It was only at 200 where I completely fell apart.

[@void_magical3279]

I got all the way to the end. It helps that I’ve been drumming for 5 years but yknow, it was worth trying this

[@antrix2107]

I can do all of them, this was so much fun, thx for uploading this :)

[@emanuellindstrom4003]

Love the speed!

[@bennetjoseph1956]

Good lessons 👍

[@pin8997]

this is the best double tonging to single tonging transitions i've used in a while once it goes above 180 bpm

[@Nylx0h]

140 is my limit

[@Nylx0h]

I came back the next day after practicing and im now to 160

[@PortalChicken]

Today was the day that I realized that percussion section actually deserves respect.

[@dananthony6258]

That was fun 😊

[@johnrobinsoniii4028]

I LIKE that!!!!!

[@CoolerStar-lz1jr]

I love how playing along until 180 bpm is possible. The 16th notes become so fast that there are like rolls.

[@Grayman-fv3po]

Why did I feel the need to bring out my trombone of all things

[@BRANDRUMZ]

200 wasn’t clean, 180 was pretty close! I love these videos, really helping me learn the drums/music in general - thank you! :)

[@ruikasasfixer]

what i learned from this is that i suck at reading music, well, practice makes progress

[@the_real_F.F.]

it caught me at 120 BPM- i could read it, and i know what beat it was, i just couldn't act it out the right way 😭😭

[@MANt0theGUY]

Sick beats

[@abid5519]

as a tuba player i am shocked that i not only made it past 60, but made it to the very end

[@valquiriapereiradeoliveira8811]

😂😂😂 this was fun!! Thank you

[@taki4689]

the power of subdividing

[@tanjirokamada592]

180 was about where I could be lol

[@Zeth-bass]

Nailed all first try, you should add quintuplets in your next vid

[@TheCornChili]

I was fine through 160 managed to follow at 180 and got lost at 200. Id say that’s pretty good considering I have not played my instrument very much the last few years

[@lnrngo2828]

100-140 is just the right degree of difficulty Surprisingly, even though there are no rests 😂

[@MorganAtwater]

I'm a percussionist and managed to get all the way to 200 without problem

[@powertaco2867]

I a percussionist, this was an easy W

[@BTGames2004]

*Laughs in percussionist

[@ALTnOtes]

Got up to 180bpm fine and noped out at 200bpm lol

[@sadonii1876]

Im a grade 1 piano student and i couldnt read much on 120bpm already he he. I plan on coming back to this video onces ive graduated to grade 2 or maybe grade 3 and see how much ive improved

[@SightReadDrums]

Good start! The more you read the fluent you get 😎

[@realkennyg3714]

im a drummer and i skipped to 200bpm and sightread it perfect 1st try but its always interesting to see sightread rhythms from non-drummer perspectives

[@tristanpommier957]

I'm a drummer so.... I think i complete it. Anyways great vid !

[@Brooklyn_nightsss]

1:01 I can’t stop singing ram Sam Sam 😂

[@Best-Archive-Discovery]

After successfully completing all subsequent steps, I understood that the video was sped up twice.

[@bluelizard3599]

I should show this to my band detector so he can show it to all the others in band cause they struggle with rhythms which are pretty simple .

[@bernardetecarneiro9220]

Band detector? What is that?

[@bluelizard3599]

@@bernardetecarneiro9220 I misspelled band Director

[@Sasha-tm8qy]

Started to mess up at 180, 200 got me losing braincells 😂

[@Hotle34]

5 years in percussion and I did all of them

[@deepreaper]

Did all of em

[@cowboyhampster]

The last bit is basically a single stroke roll for 3 beats

[@shxdyneo7298]

osu is why i nailed 180 & 200

[@jayslays118]

I was chillin up until 180

[@kylegrefe4399]

Got better at it each time until 200

[@thegamingnetwork234]

I got to 200 to say the least it was pretty hard am going to see if I can try this on a piano.

[@thenextworstone9050]

A one point it wasn't that I couldn't read it, it was that I couldn't tongue that fast (playing the flute).

[@fadeluscki]

200 got me

[@AaronDeez711]

Use double stroke rolls at the higher tempos

[@SightReadDrums]

Good idea to practise this

[@EvenFlow391]

Trying to get back I to playing music after a number of years and while some of the faster rhythms (120bpm) were fine, slower rhythms completely tripped me up. I don't want to talk about 180bpm.

[@bequerhernandez8487]

180 got me trippin’😊

[@virr_highlanders]

140 as a beginner

[@rocklobstah1876]

messed up at 160

[@w.s6124]

As A Drummer This is basically just a test of how fast and alos how clean you can play 16th notes. The rest is more or less piece of cake with some mistakes here and there. After 220 It becomes really hard tho

[@beaverbuoy3011]

MY BRIAN

[@-whos.rei-]

I keep accidnelty doing the rythem too many times in a panic

[@Shtikface]

I only managed to get everything correct on the 5th one, i knew my rhythm was bad..but not to this extent..

[@bugemaster2700]

Couldn't get the 200 on my trumpet 💀 got the rest pretty well though

[@GryboTaku]

I was a bit slow at 200 bpm, but I can read it

[@lightningstar0379]

I was just thinking I need to practice part of one of my songs that is 16th notes at 160 bpm. I might die

[@JosephGashTrumpet]

me trying this on trumpet

[@shad0wassassin24]

I've only played all the way up till 140bpm in our marching band and after that I won't even try to go faster

[@weevee]

My best was 180bpm I had to double toungue

[@noblehart-il9lp]

my best was 200 bpm

[@urbanelchert373]

200 caught me off guard 😅 Maybe if i had my sticks instead of my hands i could've done a little better

[@totally_not_a_bot]

First mistake at 160, one more mistake at 180, missed about 20-30% at 200.

[@dhdusidjdjso]

im a brass player and after 140 i was messing up really badly

[@Garfield_633]

I feel like I just can’t count anything at 200bpm. 180bpm was my best

[@jackjackasses6273]

I had done 180 on alt saxohpone bruh

[@merkuri2386]

i've been a percussionist for 10 years now, over half my life, i did better at 200 than i did at 60 😂

[@Tijam23]

👍

[@CalebDaThing]

dci made this easy

[@pumpkinshrek]

I got to 160 but I’m on my 2nd year of playing

[@edxardo5409]

180, almost 200

[@alibadshah1223]

💕

[@aidanpark7705]

i noticed the faster tempos are much easier for me to get accurately than the slower ones. Is this normal?

[@SightReadDrums]

Sometimes slower tempos are harder to play accurately because there’s more space between the notes

[@hellopsp180]

120 BPM is my limit :O

[@CarnageRulez469]

Sight read everything up to 200bpm, then messed up. Not bad.

[@daylightghost3673]

I can read that fast but not tap my hands that fast lmao

[@Musical-Productions]

i mean to be fair im a percussionist with 5 to 6 years under my belt so its a little unfair but it was kinda easy lol

[@ukcots7084]

i got to 180

[@ceddamann7837]

I got lost on 160

[@durchdenwald2880]

Where are the dotted 16'th notes/sextuplets?

[@DaRealNoobKing]

my best was at mid 100

[@thomassicard3733]

Yep. Rhythm notation. Check.

[@janinefelix2001]

Page 13 is 4.6x a/z zero 4/0 ok

[@hellopsp180]

Oooo

[@trinforthewin]

i got up to 180 but 200 killed me💀😭

[@mayowaoduntan2349]

120 is as fast as I can sight read accurately

[@jacobxgaming1221]

Wind players💀