Rhythm Practice

Two rhythm exercises for now. Name the groove a drummer is playing, and say whether two rhythms are the same. Reading and tapping follow.

Start here

Tap the Rhythm.

You hear a pattern and tap it back. Your taps get measured against the click, so you find out whether you rush before anyone in a band has to tell you.

Feeling it

Name That Groove - the four patterns most songs are built on

Reading it

Same Rhythm or Not - two rhythms, no notation, one question

Exercises

Name That GrooveA drum pattern loops and you name the groove. Four on the floor, backbeat, shuffle, halftime. Pick your pool and hear what you missed.
Same Rhythm or NotHear two rhythms in a row and say whether they match. No notation to read, two answers to pick from, and often just one note that moved.

Keep going

Practice
Rhythm
Reading Music

The other sections

Everything on this site sits in one of these, in the order they are meant to be learned.

Every kind of exercise

Ear Training
Reading Practice
Make a Song