Rhythmic Training - Textbook

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Summary: Rhythm Training Galore !
Review: If you no nothing about Rhythmic notation I would suggest that you start with his other book, Basic Rhythmic training and then go on to this book, but if you already know how to read music and feel you are a bit rusty in the Rhythm department or want to be a better sight reader, rhythmicaly speaking, then this book is very good indeed.

It starts with the basics, how rhythm is organized and the concepts of bar line and meter are explained, he deals with time signatures like 2/4, 3/4, 4/4, 5/4, 6/4 and 7/4 and then 6/8, 9/8, 12/8 and 15/8, and also changing meters.

Rhythmic Concepts like Hemiola, Downbeat, Upbeat, Changing the rate of the pulse are dealt with and the books end with a brief chapter on Polyrhythms (for more about Polyrhythms see Peter Magadinis books).

A fine book to polish your Rhythmic skills. See also The book By Gary Hess.

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Summary: Solid rhythmic sight reading training
Review: This book does it's work very well. Through slow and steady practice of it's exercises, one can build up one's reading skills as fast as one practically can. It's hard work, but it doesn't get easier than this book.

While the end of the book is focused on insanely complicated rhythmic scores, rarely to be seen outside very complicated 20th music, it's still good reading practice.