The Best Way to Count 16th Note Rhythms

In today's lesson, I am going to teach you about the best way to count 16th note rhythms. I guarantee you will see sixteenth note patterns in your piano pieces all the time so you want to make sure you understand how to count them.
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[@deadnthehead4557]

I've been learning to play the guitar for over ten years. I studied a little bit of music theory and how to count rhythm and although, I understand the concepts, I have never really been able to use it practically. Like when I try to count notes in a song I already know how to play really well, I completely mess up. Your video has done a very good job at explaining and you're breaking it down so well I feel like I can go back and try again. Thank you for the content. I've subscribed and will follow your channel. Thank you again, and keep up the great work.

[@marcusvaldes]

I like this explanation of time signature: Top number is the number you count to, bottom number is how fast you count.

[@letshuman8985]

That made SO MUCH sense!! Thanks! I love these videos. Tim, you are an amazing music teacher!

[@caitlinkenney1390]

This was exactly what I was looking for with regards to sixteenth notes. Thank you!!!

[@hao_are_u]

This was very helpful to me, especially since I’m learning a piece that combines eighth and sixteenth notes!

[@silaswintersguitar]

So well explained thank you.

[@ericswolgaard1808]

Very factual and informative- delivered in a highly personable style- thanks!

[@lovetoplayharp]

Thank you, Tim. I'm actually a Celtic harp player, but this was really useful to me. I'm trying to really work on my pulse and timing, and one just has to figure out those 16th notes!

[@theempress8682]

I'm a beginner harp player & no nothing about reading music. Books are confusing & this helped alot!

[@Love4itzyskz]

Who else is here Bc of online school?

[@paoladonayre900]

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[@ileanahyoung7165]

Me 😂✋

[@johnwinchester8537]

not me.

[@SwaggVlogz]

Me🖐🏾 I have to do Music

[@therealgrassy220]

no, i’m confused on a type of note

[@PaulTheEldritchCat]

How weird, I just realized I never knew how to call the notes in English (I'm French). The same way that French don't use letters for pitch (but do ré mi fa sol la si instead), we use other names for rythm notes (translations are approximative) : Whole note -> a round Half note -> a white Quarter note -> a black Eighth -> a crooked or a hook Sixteenth -> double-crooked / double-hook (which makes sense, when these notes a packed together you can see the flags stacked on top of each other) Funny how language works. For me the quarter note feels like a reference, a landmark. Like the meter. You have bigger and smaller units, and it stands in the middle. But with the English names, it seems more like the whole note is the reference and everything else is derived from it. Love this. It's the same music, but not the same feeling. Thanks for your videos Tim!

[@user_anon777]

im french and i never learned music in french its so weird and confusing tbh.got used to the english system way easier.

[@IcarusRuthven]

Practically speaking, the quarter note is our typical beat pulse. The names are derived from splitting the whole note fractionally, but that's not the level we play music from. Band students are taught to subdivide their pulse one level smaller (at least) than the rhythms they're playing, in order to be more precise.

[@samwright285]

Thank you. Appreciate it

[@silksong7277]

Thank you!!! This is so helpful!

[@user-my1bq5uw6l]

Very helpful, clear explanation. Thank you man!

[@Emil-ko2fv]

I was looking for the same on guitar but it still worked. This was extremely helpful

[@MrPFMneto]

Amazing lesson!! Just what I need to help me with a song 🖤

[@pc9467]

Brilliant! Thank you!

[@boxedoutsports]

YOUR SUCH A LIFE SAVER THANK YOUUUUU

[@savitavanraj7457]

Simply and very well explained

[@johnnypaycheck2584]

You helped me SOOO much!!! Thank you

[@Dontdothat5300]

So this was insanely helpful! Thank you 😊

[@TheTektronik]

It may take me a longer than I originally thought to learn it. Thanks a lot for the lesson teacher Tim.

[@jflopezfernandez]

Awesome explanation, thank you!

[@sligon00]

Great lesson Tim , I now understand 16th notes...the light bulb went on , when you said it is all relative i.e. beat duration , so slow down if it is too difficult to play... :-)

[@internationalco]

Great Video!! Made learning this super easy ❤

[@bukowskimoho]

helped me a lot, so when you are sigth reading, you subdivide te count depending on the note values used in the each mesure to make thing easier.... great!

[@HienNgo-kz5fq]

Love how ur explain so easy to understand thank u

[@marinateddy3012]

This video make me understand everything

[@robertluzano9652]

Very Much Thankful to you sir.. Just Started Again to learn Notes Reading..

[@durontravis4792]

Thanks!

[@davekeen1963]

great explanation..

[@SuperFluidFerroFluid]

I'm used to a more electronic four-e-end-uh with kicks and highhats included but i like where this is going ;)

[@hillers54]

I was looking for a rhythm lesson for guitar but your video was perfect for what I wanted. Well presented and well explained 👌👌👌🎶🎶🎶

[@klerin2732]

Awesome .. You are the best teacher ...

[@jordymendez402]

Thanks the way u explained it was great

[@hihiepshihi2964]

This is explained very very well

[@dontoya325]

I appreciate you .

[@joanlee2382]

This was such a good video!

[@arnulfosediego5919]

explanation was so clear... thank you so much! new subscriber here...

[@ccpcmusic]

excellent!

[@imnothat2185]

really helpful❤

[@jesustephen7895]

Tq bro.I understand this lesson

[@kerorock.]

Love u from India...thanka so much

[@rabbitcony]

Thanks

[@rameshbaghel7534]

Well explained......though I'm learning guitar....

[@raymondgarafano8604]

Hi Tim, gettin' back to music, yup refreshing my info 1 EE & UH is 4 16th notes = 1 beat Hanon 's finger exercise does 2 groups of these per measure 2/4 time. Lots of interesting rythem in Nights in white satin!

[@luciadamasceno1848]

Muito bom!

[@roxiethecockapoo1138]

I've been playing piano for 8 years and never learned this lol. Thank you so much.

[@Darthvexen]

My. Teacher taught me diffrent with names but this is useful to know both my terms and the proper terms

[@JBittermusic]

🤔Yiruma loves this 16th notes 🔥🔥🔥

[@abby_rxses9076]

I forgot these and I just saw this earlier- (My teacher explained this earlier and I forgot already)

[@Lukas7360]

Thanks, I was beginning to lose my mind on how to pronounce 0.25x of a quarter note in my native tongue so I'm just going to switch to counting in english, easier that way.

[@japanese_mango]

thank you

[@LessonsOnTheWeb]

Hey students. Make sure you check out this lesson next. It's the "Common Rhythm Patterns You Need to Know" kzbin.info/www/bejne/nHrFoGZ5jqipfac

[@chrisreed3022]

This works for me. Music and words are two different things. Music is non-discursive. It works, but not in words. To many tutors use words to explain a non-word thing. They end up talking too much and not explaining 'cos you can't explain non-discursive things with words. Explaining doing is one step removed form doing. It gets lost in translation. This 1 e & uh, I just found, and it works for me as a kind of translator from a non-discursive doing thing, music, and a discursive thing, words.

[@Mutintachewe4292]

Hi am new here and would love to join the online class. This is so helpful

[@LessonsOnTheWeb]

Welcome!

[@prajjwalsonawane2548]

Which software do you use?

[@jeromegoslett1478]

What app are you using for your presentation? Can save the planet from paper waste.

[@TheClassicalNetwork]

I also made a video on my channel discussing basic counting strategies you can use when playing complicated rhythms. It's very useful for beginners and can also be used during slow practicing.

[@sarathkrishnan8340]

First like from India bro

[@knightlanding5939]

Great review 👍

[@jnicholas4706]

hey man. Quick question. How should count 16th notes when the quarter notes is upwards of 130 bpm? I find I cannot articulate the 1 e and uh at that speed. Any help is appreciated

[@keananjacobs9133]

Shoutout , by the way you remind me of Andy from the Office

[@jhljhl6964]

Does the heart beat in eighth notes?

[@Jaktwin]

I am terrible at counting! My teacher is always telling me to work on it! This will hopefully help!

[@Zack-xz1ph]

I like the Eastman counting system

[@katttttt]

8:41 helpful!

[@Rehab_nmy]

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[@Gownyu]

❤️

[@juliusggg8598]

liked

[@mr.doubleplus8206]

video starts at 4:37

[@VRPerson-ns3pr]

I KNOW HOW TO PLAY DRUMS AND EVEN MADE MY OWN IMPOSSIBLE NOTE WHICH IS 120th nots

[@mingming1869]

tha ks

[@Siuyendiana]

😊👍🏻🎹🎼🎵🎶

[@standepain]

Anything beyond whole notes is just too much for me. lol I can't get through 2 measure of quarter nots before I stutter and screw up everything.

[@erkkigt8481]

i feel u, me and my friends have a little "band". And always if the rock beat were playing on is let say 8 notes straight, but then there comes a fill (with drums) that is 16 notes (atleast part of it) i always loose track of how to count and keep the motion going XX

[@barriereid9244]

🎻🎻🎻

[@piggywise4205]

8:39

[@ymara426]

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[@alexaisintheinternet157]

Anyone else learned it as Paradiddle, too? Or just me.

[@schoolofmedcine]

Sixteenth note bite me again I almost died I got my first gift in the hospital in icu room I hate to be like this now am in a ICU room with democracy and am still being give a oxygen to breathe every minute am in oxygen right now

[@yetiite]

Wat

[@1Cryllix]

Who else watched and dont get it

[@dmf2990]

It took 11 mins for you to count 16th notes

[@redhood6525]

school

[@costascostas1760]

To me it sounds like One-e-en-duh-two-e-en-duh ... For ten life of me I cannot put the -and- to fall in the middle