Reading Challenge #2 (watch out for the rests!)
Happy February & Black History Month! As I write this email, New York City is getting a ton of snow ❄️ It's a day like this that I am quite grateful to have a warm home. I'm also excited that this is my 10th newsletter!
Today, I'm sharing my Reading Challenge #2! 🥳
(You can download the PDF via the link)
Learning that people enjoyed the Polyrhythm Reading Challenge, I made another open instrumentation rhythm challenge that contains 4 levels. This one is focused on our ability to recognize and play music with many rests.
I wrote this challenge in two ways: 1) with melodic material 2) rhythm only, so that one can choose to just work on the rhythm or both notes and rhythm. ⭐️
This challenge will train your ability to:
Sightread rhythms and/or notes
Read various length rests
Play rhythms accurately in quarter notes, 8th notes, triplets, and 16th notes division
How to Practice:
Sightread this the first time you try playing so that you can test your sight-reading ability
Always put on a metronome and incrementally speed up when you feel comfortable
Record yourself to double-check your accuracy
To make it more challenging, you can reduce the metronome "tick" — for example, silence beat 2 and 4 so that you only hear the tick every half note
If you do the challenge, please tag me on Instagram @chihiroplayspercussion with the hashtag #positivepercussionist - GOOD LUCK!