Class # 13 - Jan 31

More variations! 

Try these variations on beladi. 

Speaking of...  

Check out the similarity between beladi and masmoodi. 

Which is Which?  

If you're like me, you might struggle to remember which rhythm goes with which rhythm name. Someone calls out "malful" and you go blank,  or you can play along with a track that randomly pops up in your iPod's shuffle just fine (you've spent months playing that rhythm), yet you're stumped to "name that tune". 

Back to a favorite trick from elementary school: Make flash cards! Print these out and carry them around with you. Several times a day, give them a shuffle and either try to correctly recall the name after singing the rhythm to yourself, or recall the rhythm after reading the name. If you have some of them down cold, remove them from your deck so you can concentrate your efforts on the tricky ones. This method can also lets you practice reading TUBS notation.

Directions: Download and carefully print the file on a single sheet of paper (double-sided), then cut the sheet into business-card sized rectangles. Hint: For best results, print them on Avery Business Cards stock (28877 for ink jet, 5871 for laser jet).

Disclaimers: These depict only the core structure of each rhythm to help you associate rhythms with names. 

You may have initially learned these rhythms differently, or happen to know they play them a different way or call them by other names in   (insert place name here)   . That's fine, and even interesting (long discussions ensue...). However, these cards reflect how our we tend to refer to and play the rhythms in our class; This is our local dialect.

Happy Practicing!