Rhythmic Training by Robert Starer | Rhythm Exercise Book for Piano and All Instruments | Progressive Sheet Music Method for Musicians and Teachers | Timing and Reading Practice Guide

Really good rhythm instructions!

Good book for learning rhythm with lots of exercises.

I am using this book as a textbook for a class that meets 2 hours, once a week. After six weeks, I have astonished myself in my increased ability to understand, or to know what to do to understand, rhythms. The exercises in the book are like sit-ups in a book of exercise. They are worthless unless you do them. The personal aid of the professor is extremely helpful, but the exercises themselves are what works.I carry around this book as I would a puzzle book. I do the rhythms just for fun. I enjoy reviewing old rhythms and speeding them up, or noticing new things about them.The professor suggested that I use a metronome to give the steady pulse. It works.Violee

Exercises gradually increase in difficulty over the course of the book. Start as a beginner, finish as a 'pro'!

At first, when I took it out the package, my first thought was, “Did they make this book to be opened?” It looked so tightly bound. Intuition was right.The goodThe content itself is fine, got quite challenging real fast, but it's fun once you get the hang of it. You know you’ve “got it” when you’re relaxed enough and playing it “musically” in different ways without any errors.The badThe binding, however, is crap. It arrived with the cover slightly chipped/peeling in places, and though I was miffed I wasn't going to say anything until what happened next.Not wanting anything else to go wrong, I opened the book with all the gentleness I could muster, but it wasn't enough. The glue binding was already separated from the first page a good ways down the page 😵 Seriously?!I don't think it's the seller's fault (it doesn't even look like it was previously opened), but I'm so vexed I had to leave a warning review. .If a book needed to be so tightly bound, it probably should have been done with spiral binding. I’ll probably have to do that myself. So yes, it doesn't lay flat.ConclusionGreat content, practise well until you're super-comfortable with each exercise. The binding however may not hold up even with minimal use, so be prepared that you may have to get it spiral-bound.Hope this helps.

This book cuts straight to the chase without being too wordy. It shows you visually how rhythmic things work, and gives you easy to understand exercises to reinforce the concept. Make sure to read the "How to Use This Book" page at the beginning. It covers bare basics from duration of all of the note and rest notations, bar lines, and meters. It then goes up to dividing beats into every number up to 16, changing meters on the fly, and polyrythms. It also illustrates how to conduct each exercise. An instrument is not necessary for these exercises and is actually best used with humming and tapping. For the price it's a great addition to any amateurs collection.

Rhythm has always been one of my greatest weaknesses as a wind player. I always had difficulty reading rhythms and keeping track of the beat during odd syncopated rhythms.This book helps me with both reading new rhythms and keeping track of the beat while I perform the rhythm. Each exercise has two aspects: tapping/humming the rhythm and keeping track of the pulse. Over the years, I had developed a bad habit of never counting more than maybe 2 beats at a time (i.e. I would count 1 and 2 and 1 2 and 1 and and 1) regardless of the meter. This book has been forcing me to keep count of the pulse of the actual time signature (i.e. 1 and 2 and 3 4). This really keeps me keep track of where I am in a song as I read through it.For me, the best part of this book is I can do the exercises without even needing to get out my sax. I already have a pretty full practice routine so being able to fit this in without having to cut anything else out is a huge bonus.This book is a fantastic value and I would highly recommend it to anyone struggling with rhythm.

This is a must for anyone learning a musical instrument. You are led through exercises of slowly increasing difficulty of rhythmic patterns, shown on a staff. You will learn how to count all the note values that are depicted in gradually challenging patterns. This will also help you to learn to read sheet music, big time.

Excellent recueil d'exercices progressifs pour ceux qui, comme moi, ont besoin de rigueur dans le déchiffrage rythmique.Remarquablement fait, pas du tout rébarbatif.

This answers the ago old question…Can you walk and chew gum at the same time.

Mit Übungen mit zunehmendem Schwierigkeitsgrad ist dieses Buch genau das Richtige für mich, um meine rhythmischen Fähigkeiten zu verbessern. Unverzichtbar für jeden musiker

A very helpful method of improving rythmical abilities. I use it with my private music students, they like it too.

Excelente