How fast can you read 3 basic rhythms? 🎵

(Lifetime Access members will find this under "General Rhythm Reading")

Here we have random combinations of 3 basic rhythms - quarter notes (crotchets), eighth notes (quavers) and sixteenth notes (semiquavers).
They're easy to play at slow tempos but you'll often have to read them at fast tempos too.
The exercises in this video increase by 20 BPM each time, starting at 60 BPM and ending at 200 BPM.
See how fast you can sight read and play them.

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[swiggydswirl]

My best was at 160bpm. I completely flopped at 180bpm but did surprisingly better at 200bpm. The faster bpm speed engaged more than the slower speeds. For this, I blame intense rhythm games

[thomasm]

I have 4 years of drumline and jazz band under my belt. This brings me back man. Jazz band was essentially "here's the part, its 8 pages and has no less then 30 tempo changes and requires a ferret to play properly, think you'll be ready to play it in the next 5?"

[aa-yyoc]

As someone who is not musically talented and has never picked up an instrument nor read sheet music, I am proud to say I was able to read the text and numbers on the screen.

[josephmoravitz]

It wasn't until after I swapped videos to something else that I realized I accidentally still had this video playing at 1.75x speed. I was confused how so many people were claiming to succeed through to the end, but it makes so much more sense now.

[hazymorning]

im so glad i found this channel! i'll be practicing these in preparation to my orchestral audition!

[ragellejean]

Fantastic, so I was right that I cannot side read to save my life. Perfect!

I started messing up on 120bpm😩will pratice again...awesome practice

[afhoj]

Awesome! Still finding my way with music so tripped up around 100. These are great learning tools. Starting to see that for me the sticky point is the gap between the last note of a set and the first note of the next set

[GresSimJa]

I was able to follow along and knew what to do, even during the obscenely high-BPM bars.

Playing those 16th notes is a different story...

[gastonpiget]

Super. Gotta do this one a few times - untangle those fast 16th notes.

[WaterBottleDesign]

I surprisingly got through all of these. I struggled on 160, had no trouble with 180, and then had to try a 5 to 10 times on 200 to get it but I made it.

[alex_tremo]

thanks so much for this content, im learning piano and, even tho i have a good rhythm, im still learning to read the sheets and tempo things, this is helping a lot

[void_magical]

I got all the way to the end. It helps that I’ve been drumming for 5 years but yknow, it was worth trying this

[pin]

this is the best double tonging to single tonging transitions i've used in a while once it goes above 180 bpm

[JoeGardener-cc]

the double stroke roll came in clutch at the end

[philb]

I did OK. I started to struggle at 140 but didn't mess up too much. It was only at 200 where I completely fell apart.

[Alex_Gid]

Daaamn, never realised how bad I'm in rhythm, gonna practice it somehow

[antrix]

I can do all of them, this was so much fun, thx for uploading this :)

[BRANDRUMZ]

200 wasn’t clean, 180 was pretty close! I love these videos, really helping me learn the drums/music in general - thank you! :)

[MorganAtwater]

I'm a percussionist and managed to get all the way to 200 without problem