Rhythms Volume 12: Duple and Tuplets
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Rhythms Volume 12: Duple and Tuplets
“Rhythms Volume 12:: Duple and Tuplets” is a continuation of a series of books created to hone a student’s ability to recognize and play rhythms. Volume 12: covers Duple and Tuplets on four metric levels, with and without rests. Each exercise will give you regular Duple rhythms such as quarters, eighths and sixteenth notes in combination with Quintuplets, Sextuplets and Septuplets. This Volume also contains a consistant C drone for each exercise while the pitch of the exercise changes. This means you can work on your rhythmic ability and your ear training skills at the same time. This innovative way of practicing saves time because you are improving your rhythmic skills while also finding those pitches that are difficult to hear within a key center. The Duple and Tuplets covered in this book will prepare you for the most common situations where this type of rhythm is used.
Duple and Tuplets
Duple and Tuplets are fairly common in all kinds of music, such as contemporary classical, Broadway musicals, contemporary jazz and rock. Duple and Tuplets are now are part of a family of rhythms that are called tuplets. These especially include the rhythms that divide a beat into groups of five, seven, nine etc. Tuplets are also called “irrational rhythms” because their durations lie outside of the normal duple system of 2 or 4. Many students don’t know how to count tuplet rhythms.
How Will This Book Help My Musicianship?
“Rhythms Volume 12: Duple and Tuplets” is slightly different from previous volumes in the “rhythm series” and you can use it in a variety of ways to improve your musicianship. These exercises will improve your sight reading, sight singing, transcription, ear training and rhythm ear training all at the same time. This makes each exercise highly efficient, and excellent for those musicians who have a limited amount of time to practice each day.
Here is a list of exactly what is contained in the course:
- Course rundown:
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- Rhythms Volume 12:
- Indian Mnemonic Syllables for Quintuplets
- Subdivision of Quintuplets
- Drone Subdivision of Quintuplets
- Indian Mnemonic Syllables for Sextuplets
- Subdivision of Sextuplets
- Drone Subdivision of Sextuplets
- Indian Mnemonic Syllables for Septuplets
- Subdivision of Septuplets
- Drone Subdivision of Septuplets
- How This Book Improves Your Musicianship
- The Drone
- Sight Reading
- Music Recognition Skills
- Each étude below is played at a different pitch degree against the drone which will help you memorize the sound of each pitch in a key center. So you can use these études as rhythm and ear training studies at the same time!
- 12 Études one in each key for Sixteenth Note Duple and Tuplets with C Drone on Every Beat
- 12 Études one in each key for Eighth Note Duple and Tuplets with C Drone on Every Beat no Rests
- 12 Études one in each key for Eighth Note Duple and Tuplets with C Drone on 1 and 3 no Rests
- 12 Études one in each key for Quarter Note Duple and Tuplets with C Drone on Every Beat no Rests
- 12 Études one in each key for Sixteenth Note Duple and Tuplets with C Drone on Every Beat with Rests
- 12 Études one in each key for Eighth Note Duple and Tuplets with C Drone on Every Beat with Rests
- 12 Études one in each key for Eighth Note Duple and Tuplets with C Drone on 1 and 3 with Rests
- 12 Études one in each key for Quarter Note Duple and Tuplets with C Drone on Every Beat with Rests
- 12 Études one in each key for Quarter Note Duple and Tuplets with C Drone on 1 and 3 with Rests
- 12 Études one in each key for Thirty Second Note Duple and Tuplets with C Drone on Every Beat no Rests
- 12 Études one in each key for Thirty Second Note Duple and Tuplets with C Drone on Every Beat with Rests
A Unique Approach
Rather than a traditional metronome, the audio files for each example give you a drone pitch played either on every beat or beats one and three. This drone pitch does two things: It creates a key center which will help to improve your ear training skills and it creates a metronomic pulse to help you decipher the rhythm of each exercise. In some cases the fewer times you hear the MetroDrone per measure, the harder it will be to hear the rhythm, in others the quarter note drone pulse will complicate the Duple and Tuplets as shown on the previous page.
There are a few skills obtained from these studies that may be obvious to some but not to others. First, rhythm can be notated in many ways. Many times this has to do with the tempo or style of a piece of music. Secondly, rhythms have been divided up into 4 metric levels. On the next page you will see actual musical examples of these 4 metric levels. These 4 levels are the different types of exercises you will find in this course. There is an interesting inverse relationship between the notation and the tempo which is mentioned above each example. The 4 metric levels are listed below:
- Metric level one contains mostly half and quarter notes.
- Metric level two contains mostly quarter and eighth notes.
- Metric level three contains mostly eighths and sixteenths.
- Metric level four contains mostly sixteenths and thirty second notes.
Below are four examples from the “Rhythms Volume 12:: Duple and Tuplets.” One each from each metric level:
- Click on triangle to see the Étude for 16th notes without rests:
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- The page below shows you an sixteenth note étude where you have a C Drone and a “G” being played by the sixteenth note rhythms. This will help you to memorize the sound of “G” or the “5th” in the key center while at the same time teaching you Duple and Tuplets rhythms.
- There are 3 levels of MP3s each progressively faster. Level 1 for above example with 2 measure countoff
- Level Two MP3 for example above with 2 measure countoff
- Level 3 for example above with 2 measure countoff
- You can use these études for ear training, sight reading, transcription or just to listen to ingrain the sound of the note in the key center. Remember you can play these examples at any tempo… Super slow or extremely fast with the midifiles that accompany this course.
- Click on triangle to see the Étude for quarter notes without rests:
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- The page below shows you an quarter note étude where you have a C Drone and a “Ab” being played by the quarter note rhythms. This will help you to memorize the sound of “Ab” or the “b6th” in the key center while at the same time teaching you Duple and Tuplets rhythms.
- There are 3 levels of MP3s each progressively faster. Level 1 for above example with 2 measure countoff on beats 1 and 3
- Level Two MP3 for example above with 2 measure countoff on beats 1 and 3
- Level 3 for example above with 2 measure countoff on beats 1 and 3
- You can use these études for ear training, sight reading, transcription or just to listen to ingrain the sound of the note in the key center. Remember you can play these examples at any tempo… Super slow or extremely fast with the midifiles that accompany this course.
- Click on triangle to see the Étude for eighth notes with rests:
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- The page below shows you an eighth note étude where you have a C Drone and a “Gb” being played by the eighth note rhythms. This will help you to memorize the sound of “Gb” or the “b5th” in the key center while at the same time teaching you Duple and Tuplets rhythms.
- There are 3 levels of MP3s each progressively faster. Level 1 for above example with 2 measure countoff
- Level Two MP3 for example above with 2 measure countoff
- Level 3 for example above with 2 measure countoff
- You can use these études for ear training, sight reading, transcription or just to listen to ingrain the sound of the note in the key center. Remember you can play these examples at any tempo… Super slow or extremely fast with the midifiles that accompany this course.
- Click on triangle to see the Étude for thirty second notes with rests:
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- The page below shows you an thirty second note étude where you have a C Drone and a “E” being played by the thirty second note rhythms. This will help you to memorize the sound of “E” or the “3rd” in the key center while at the same time teaching you Duple and Tuplets rhythms.
- There are 3 levels of MP3s each progressively faster. Level 1 for above example with 2 measure countoff
- Level Two MP3 for example above with 2 measure countoff
- Level 3 for example above with 2 measure countoff[
- You can use these études for ear training, sight reading, transcription or just to listen to ingrain the sound of the note in the key center. Remember you can play these examples at any tempo… Super slow or extremely fast with the midifiles that accompany this course.
Recommended way to proceed with the course
- How to explore this course!
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- Each exercise has a drone that creates the tempo and the key center therefore you will automatically be doing contextual ear training as you sight read each exercise. You should include a small part of “Rhythms Volume 12: in your daily sight reading exercises.
- When using these exercises for ear training/sight singing or transcription, you should work on an exercise for 5 to 10 minutes and try to do this 5 to 10 times per day. Since a student’s sight singing and transcription skills are often weak, use the midi files to check your accuracy, as they will allow you to play the exercise at an extremely slow tempo. If you use the recommended midi file players you should also be able to put on a metronome in conjunction with the drone to help you feel the time if you are working at extremely slow tempos.
- Time development skills are automatically built into these exercises because the drone is only heard either on every beat or on beats “1” and “3.” Think of these two different drone patterns as developing a different way to feel the music you are reading.
- The structure of the exercises automatically broadens your music recognition skills by giving you exercises on multiple metric levels and with varying notation. Therefore this book is an excellent sight reading tool.
- Additional Information:
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- Digital IBSN: 978-1-59489-530-2
- 148 page PDF with 132 études with 396 MP3s and 123 Midifiles
- What people are saying:
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- This is the hardest book in the series but the most valuable. If you are only going to get one volume then this is it. A warning though you should have a good ability with Quintuplets, Sextuplets and Septuplets before giving this a try!G. Hone.
- I’ve worked through this entire series and not only is might sight reading skills in a whole different place but my ability to freely flow between Duple and Tuple rhythms is very strong A. Van Dyke
- This series of books really is a time saver. I have weakness in ear training and rhythm and it addresses both at the same time. Obviously Volume 12 is meant for an advanced student so start with early volumes if you need remedial work…H. Orens.
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