Reading Rhythms

There’s an art to figuring out rhythms. Ultimately, it comes down to feeling smaller subdivisions as they go by whether you’re playing them or not. For today’s column, we have a video to help us walk through different rhythms and how to decipher them on the fly.

Be sure to follow along with this PDF.

Have a question for Damian Erskine? Send it to [email protected]. Check out Damian’s instructional books, Right Hand Drive and The Improviser’s Path.

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