"Music Theory Rhythm" "Your Journey in
Music Rhythm"
Introduction:
Your journey to learn and master the music theory
rhythm begins in this section of the Music Learning Workshop. The music
rhythm workshop provides us with the basics needed to get rhythm down
cold. below we link to the beginner series of lessons.
We start with the essential building blocks of how to fundamentally
know rhythm and then expand our knowledge of rhythm music theory and
know how until we achieve mastery.
The Basic Building Blocks of Rhythm
Rhythm forms the basis of music theory. It is what all other musical
elements are based upon. You can only survive so long in your musical
journey without the essential building block of rhythm.
Ask professional musicians: what one element of music do you find to be
most important? The answer will often be rhythm. As it is the one thing
that is least forgiven by the listener.
Our learning approach assumes a level of maturity in the student. Often
it is related to the age of about 8 years old. However, with proper
guidance younger ages can use the materials. We don't take a single
element to explore, but instead take a bigger picture and zero in on
the elements that make it work.
When we teach notes names or values we
do it all at once, because it is very important that you know how all
of them are related right at the start. This allows you jump start and
accelerate your learning process. What’s really neat is that if you get
hung up you can go back and see exactly what that single thing is and
how it relates to other items in context.
The
sequence of lessons below are designed specifically for the newbie
music student. They start with an overview approach of just looking at
music components such as what is a measure a note in definition. We
then follow the approach detailed above.
There
is no hurry, it is far more important that you understand the
concepts than to rush through them to get to the next one. The better
you understand each step the easier the next one will be.
Start
with some terms we will need to become familiar with when discussing
rhythm and music theory and move on through the lessons to build up on
the previous group of knowledge.
This outline shows the components of rhythm available on this site that
you can
start learning.
This sequence is designed to quickly lead you through the basics
of what is needed to learn rhythm music theory.
The Music Learning Workshop "Get It Down Cold" Workbooks will be
available soon to lead you through the process.