From £165
Natural Musicianship Rhythm Foundation Course
Feel the pulse and sense the rhythm
Live Zoom Lessons or Face to Face
This course is for every musician who is determined to revolutionise their sense of rhythm
For any musician that wants to play with more accuracy and self-assurance.
Developing a greater inner sense of the pulse and mastering rhythms will help you learn to play your instrument to a much higher standard.
Learning other elements of music, will be much easier and far quicker.
This course helps you master rhythms in a very short space of time.
“Focusing on rhythm alone helps you master the most fundamental element of music making.
Rhythm is at the core of everything we play”
Develop a strong internal sense of the pulse, rhythms, timing, metre and far more with the Natural Musicianship Rhythm Foundation Course
What You Will Learn
Learn to get a greater feel for how long each note in a piece of music lasts
Learn to read and play musical rhythms with accuracy and confidence
A tried and tested, systematic approach to understanding rhythms and internalising the pulse
How To feel rhythms more intensely and gain a much better sense of the pulse.
How to Read Rhythms Fluently - How long does a note or a rest last? How time signatures effect the rhythm? The multiple ways a beat can be divided.
Essential Ear Training – Can you reliably count and maintain your sense of the pulse? How do you express rhythms with the voice? How does syncopation or accentuation effect the rhythm? Can you listen to the rhythm of a piece of music or part and accurately identify how long each not lasts?
A Language of Rhythm – How to use the voice to read rhythm notation. This helps you to learn to read the notation and to develop your innate sense of the pulse and rhythm.
Course Details
What’s included in the Natural Musicianship Rhythm Foundation Course?
Professional Teaching
Live online classes by expert teacher. Who will help you to develop an accurate and confident understanding of rhythm.
Essential personal feedback on your progress. Questions answered.
N.B. Pre recorded Online video courses cannot adequately provide personal feedback.
A Language of Rhythm
How to use the voice to understand and read rhythm notation.
How to accurately work out how long each note lasts.
How to internalise pulse and rhythms
Live Online Classes Via Zoom
Weekly live classes with expert music teacher. Learn from the comfort of your own home. Interact with other students. Expert guidance and live feedback. Practical and theoretical exercises during the lessons. All live lessons are archived for later viewing.
(121 lessons also available)
Support Videos
To help guide your practice between live lessons.
To help you consolidate what you’ve learnt during the Zoom classes.
Practical Exercises
From the beginning of this course, you will be encouraged to relate what you’ve learnt in the class to your own instrument. You will get weekly practical exercises to play on your instrument.
Weekly Assignments
Reading exercises. Practical exercises. Ear training. Composition assignments.
This course is very different to most other rhythm courses:
You learn to read and internalise rhythms by using your voice.
You will explore ‘body percussion exercises’ and how they can help you to warm up and centre you before playing.
Using the voice and body to express rhythms, helps you to strongly internalise your sense of the pulse and how rhythms interact with it.
Learn from the comfort of your own home.
“There is no better way to explore rhythms and learn to read and internalise them, than by using your voice to express them”
This process places your body at the centre of your music making.
You are the musical instrument. Whatever instrument you play, is the conduit through which you express your innate musicality.
It is highly practical and helps you understand the most fundamental aspect
of music theory and practice.
"I had an 'ah ha' moment, where it all started to click into place"
Natural Musicianship Rhythm Foundation Course Modules.
What you will learn in Module 1 alone, will be enough to transform your appreciation of musical rhythms. The entire course will revolutionise your music performance and practice.
Module 1
Simple Time
Five Weeks
Rhythm Introduction - Time Names - Bar Lines - Time Signatures - Dotted Notes.- Language Of Rhythm - Quarter Notes -Eighths - Sixteenths - Rests - Eighth and Sixteenth Combinations - Tied Notes. £165
Module 3
Swing Time
Four Weeks
Jazz, Blues and Country rhythms. - Swing Rhythm Language and Expression.- Playing Swing Rhythms £149
Module 2
Simple Time Advanced
Six Weeks
Syncopation - Tied Eighths and Sixteenths - Triplets - Triplet variations -Triplet ties - Dots and Double Dots - Unusual Time Signatures £195
Module 4
Compound Time
Four Weeks
6/8 - 9/8 -12/8 Time Signatures. - Syncopation - Compound Time Rests and Ties £149
The Natural Musicianship Rhythm Foundation Course
Duration: Five weeks for Modules 1 Six Weeks Module 2. Four Weeks for Modules 3 and 4
Location: Online via Zoom. Live, weekly lessons.
Private 121 Rhythm Lessons and group classes available.
By the end of the Natural Musicianship Rhythm Foundation Course you’ll be able to…
Play music with much more ‘feel’ and awareness.
Gain more confidence as a musician.
Understand how music works rhythmically.
Raise your musical skills and understanding to a much higher level.
Use the tools you’ve learnt to help you read rhythms, to teach yourself to play music to a higher standard.