Rhythmic Mastery

Contents

• Keeping a Consistent Tempo
• Triplets
• Playing Three Notes Against Two
• Playing Four Notes Against Three
• More Complications: Quintuplets etc.
• The Hemiola
• More Complex Cross Rhythms and Accent Patterns
• Rests
• Ties
• Rests and Ties Combined
• Stopping Sounds: Damping
• Articulation
• Slurs
• Trills and Other Tricky Things
• Shifts Combined with Tricky Things
• Tricky Chords
• Rubato
• Practicing for Evenness and Contro -, Working for Perfection
• Playing Position
• Appendix: A Rhythmic Obstacle Course