In this lecture you'll learn three fundamentals rhythmic values, called Whole, Half and quarter notes

In this lecture you'll learn the core concepts of rhythm, what gives aliveness to the rhythmical patterns, and how to create a feeling with rhythm.

In this lecture you'll learn the standard way of music notation for accents and rhythmic feel through Bars and Time Signatures

In this lecture you'll practice your new skills, reading exercises with Whole, Half and Quarter notes, and using bar and time signatures to organice music and give it a rhythmic feel. Lots of stuff...

In this lecture you'll start you journey into writing music by ear, the ultimate skill of a musician is to hear something, wether is another musician playing, the radio, or even his own musical thoughts and be able to imitate them with his instrument.

In this audio you'll hear the dictations one by one, you can pause and repeat them as many times as you want. In the resources section is a document you can use as a template for writing the dictations.

Answers to dictations in lecture 11

In this lecture you'll learn how to approach not too easy exercises, and you'll be introduced to 3 basic music study techniques.

10 advanced exercises for honing your skills, good luck!

In this audio you can hear how the exercises actually sound

We have a template for doing this dictations in the resource section, download it before doing the dictations!

Answers to dictations in lecture 16

In this lecture you'll learn about Eighths and Sixteenth notes, and one basic method to study them

Do the exercises!

Listen at how the Exercises in lecture 19 sound!

Let's test your aural skills!

Answers to dictations in lecture 21

In this lecture you'll learn how to approach the really hard exercises with Eight and Sixteenth notes

This is getting hard, common you can do it!

Answers to exercises in lecture 24

This time we won't include a template, because in these dictations, both rhythms need to be written instead of just the upper one. But we provide you with the next information: Every dictations has 4 bars, are written in a Time Signature of 4/4, and there are 5 of them.

Answers to the Dictations in lecture 26

In this lecture you'll learn the concepts of tied and dotted notes and how they affect to the durations of sounds and silences

In this lecture you'll learn about the concepts of Syncopation and Off beat notes, these two will add a lot of flavor to your rhythmical repertoire.

These exercises are getting really complicated, make sure you always use the 3 basic study techniques we've seen so far. Never repeat the exercise just for repeat, always make it smart.

Template is in the resource section.

Here you have the audio of the exercises, so you can compare.

Answers to dictations in lecture 31

In this lecture we'll take a look at the most common patterns with Eighth and Sixteenth notes

In this lecture we'll learn the Final barline, the repeat barline, the anatomy of notes, and other useful rules of music notation

Let's practice! This is really hard, but with your new skills and your brain power, you'll be able to dance with it

Let's test your aural skills, they must be really good at this point. They better are..

Let's hear how exercises in lecture 36 sound

Answers to Dictations in lecture 37

You're officially graduated, we hope you had a good time in this course, and more important, you got a new skill out of this course. Thank you!