I've just gotten to the 16th notes in the Rhythmic Sight Reading Lessons, and at 90 bpm, I can barely tap the space bar fast enough to keep up, I certainly am not doing it with any concept of rhythm - just tapping as fast as I can. I tried the mouse button and I tried clapping, with even worse results. Am I just an unusually slow individual, or is this faster than normal humans can tap?
By the way, I looked ahead to the module where they introduce 32nd notes - and the tempo is the same, 90 bpm...which means you have to tap twice as fast as for the 16th notes. Please tell me you're joking... :wall:
Rhythmic Sight Reading for Slow Folk
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Re: Rhythmic Sight Reading for Slow Folk
Hi,
it is indeed quite difficult to play 16th notes on the space bar, and almost impossible with 32th notes. You should perhaps try to tap them on a MIDI keyboard using two keys. Mic input also works great, but it requires that you use headphones (otherwise the metronome will mess up the beat detection) and that you are very careful with the microphone calibration (TOOLS menu --> Mic Calibration tool, last step).
it is indeed quite difficult to play 16th notes on the space bar, and almost impossible with 32th notes. You should perhaps try to tap them on a MIDI keyboard using two keys. Mic input also works great, but it requires that you use headphones (otherwise the metronome will mess up the beat detection) and that you are very careful with the microphone calibration (TOOLS menu --> Mic Calibration tool, last step).
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Re: Rhythmic Sight Reading for Slow Folk
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I suppose it's also true that with 32nds not many people would be able to tell if you were out of rhythm or not! It would all be a blur like some mad shredding guitarist playing as many notes as they were mechanically able to pick.
With me it's a basic rhythm problem I'm trying to fix and I don't know if I'm right or not but if you understand a rhythm it won't matter what tempo you try and play it at. If you "hear" it right internally against the pulse the fact that you can't move your fingers fast enough is a different issue.
Not being able to play a rhythm I understand and can hear absolutely correctly in 8th notes in a piece written in 32nds (demi semi quavers?) or 64ths (hemi demi semi quavers) wouldn't worry me at all. I'd just focus on the 1 beat or the bar lines and try to make sure I synced with them so I would at least start and stop at the right time. Anyone picking up on a bad or missed note well good luck to them is all I would say. Drummers might feel differently but they're all mad anyway
I suppose it's also true that with 32nds not many people would be able to tell if you were out of rhythm or not! It would all be a blur like some mad shredding guitarist playing as many notes as they were mechanically able to pick.
With me it's a basic rhythm problem I'm trying to fix and I don't know if I'm right or not but if you understand a rhythm it won't matter what tempo you try and play it at. If you "hear" it right internally against the pulse the fact that you can't move your fingers fast enough is a different issue.
Not being able to play a rhythm I understand and can hear absolutely correctly in 8th notes in a piece written in 32nds (demi semi quavers?) or 64ths (hemi demi semi quavers) wouldn't worry me at all. I'd just focus on the 1 beat or the bar lines and try to make sure I synced with them so I would at least start and stop at the right time. Anyone picking up on a bad or missed note well good luck to them is all I would say. Drummers might feel differently but they're all mad anyway
Re: Rhythmic Sight Reading for Slow Folk
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