Steve Tirpak

Introducing The Sixteenth Note Steve Tirpak

Introducing The Sixteenth Note takes you on a wild and exciting ride of rhythm exercises designed to improve sight reading ability. Written with the high school / collage student in mind, each page progresses very gradually in difficulty. The author breaks down every possible sixteenth note grouping that takes place in one beat. By learning to see the notes and rests in one beat chunks, things become clear and much easier than counting individual symbols. Each chunk is throughly covered before a new variation is introduced. The fastest note in this book is the sixteenth note. Ties are added after each possibly sixteenth note combination has been drilled. All of the rhythms are practical, meaning there are no theoretical occurrences of odd groups of notes and rests. The author recommends that the exercises are practiced with a metronome while clapping and also by playing one pitch on an instrument. For band and group situations, instruments can be assigned different pitches creating chords as a fun change. Get ready to unlock the mystery of the sixteenth note and understand it like never before!