Rhythm Program Contents
Each instructional unit is between three and five minutes long. We recommend one unit per day.
One of the things we have learned in producing this program is that students pay better attention when they must depend on visual cues only. So a muted click track should be the normal method of using this material. But the metronome sound is there on most of the rhythm instructional files.
The following are automated RhythmBee instructional units in curriculum sequence. Therefore, if you are teaching beginning students, we recommend starting at the beginning and teaching every unit. If the class is not at the beginner stage, we recommend starting with Unit 12, in which case special attention must be paid to the consistency of the foot tap.
The text describing each unit indicates the instructional topic and sometimes the format of the unit.
Unit Topic and format
Foot tap
Foot tap and quarter rest
Foot tap, quarter rest, eighth rest, arrows (Units 4A-9A are the same material as 4-9 but without Walbert, the little green man who provides purposeful distraction to encourage the brain to install performance duties into the brain's autonomic functions. If Walbert is not desired, use units 4A-9A. If Walbert is desired, use units 4-9.)
Quarter notes - Reading Music - Subdivision
Quarter notes - Reading Music - Subdivision
Quarter notes, ties, half notes - Reading Music - Subdivision
Quarter notes to whole notes - Reading Music - Subdivision
Quarter notes to whole notes - Reading Music - Subdivision
Quarter notes to whole notes - Reading Music - Subdivision
Quarter notes to whole notes - Reading Music - Subdivision
Quarter notes to whole notes - Reading Music - Subdivision
Two measures per page - Serious music reading
Comprehensive review - The first page turn!
Rules 1 & 2 - Quarters and eighths
Use of Rules 1 & 2 in a quartet format
Quarters and eighths - Quartet
Quarters and eighths - Quartet
Quarters and eighths - Quartet
Assessment in RhythmBee Festival format with Flash Reading Option
Eighth rests on the beat - Quartet
Eighth rests on the beat - Quartet
Quarters & eighths - Quartet
Quarters & eighths - Quartet
Dotted notes and ties
Dotted quarter practice - Quartet
Syncopation
Syncopation - Rag #1
2/4 time - Quartet 29. Unit
3/4 time - Quartet
Assessment in R-B Festival format with Flash Reading Option
Strict canon - Quartet
Review Rules 1&2 in the rhythm of a tune we all know
Assessment with Maestro
Assessment with Maestro
Assessment with Maestro
Assessment in Festival Format - Big 60 The End of the Elementary Edition
Rules 1&2 review - Unison
Triplets - Rule 3 - Instruction and drill
Triplet ties - Unison
Triplet Trio
Triplets vs. compound time
Triplets & eighths close by - Unison
Triplets and eighths trio - Parts 2 & 3
Triplets and eighths trio - All parts
Triplets and eighths trio - Maestro and fewer arrows
4/4 Trio with Ostinato - Ostinato first
4/4 Trio - Ostinato review - work top part
4/4 Trio - Review then work middle part
4/4 Trio - Practice for speed
4/4 Trio - few arrows
Unit 51 - Review Rules #1-3 and Learn Rule #4
Sixteenth note practice - Unison
Sixteenth note patterns - dotted 8th - 16th
Practice and drill all 4 Rules - Duet
Practice & drill - Duet - fewer arrows
Practice & drill with Maestro - No arrows
Practice & drill with Maestro - No arrows
Sightread - practice and drill with Maestro
2/4 - All rhythms - few arrows - Duet
3/4 - All rhythms - few arrows - Duet
5/4 Trio - simpler rhythms - few arrows
4/4 - More difficult - Trio
4/4 - Even more difficult - Quartet
4/4 - Simple vs. compound - Unison
4/4 - Triplets plus 16ths - Unison
4/4 - Triplets, 1/4 note triplets, 16ths - Unison
4/4 - Triplets, 1/4 note triplets, 16ths - Duet
6/8 using skills from 65-67. Duet
4/4 - 1/4s, 1/8s, dotted 1/4 & 1.8s. Duet
4/4 - More simple meter review - Duet
6/8 - Difficult rhythms - Duet
4/4 - Difficult on top - easier on bottom - Quartet - The End of Secondary Edition
3/4 - Review of all rhythms - Quartet
2/4 March - Quartet
2/4 March with rests - Quartet
2/4 - Rhythmic Puzzle - Independence test - Quartet
5/8 in two - (1 › 2 › › ) - Quartet
5/8 in two - (1 › › 2 › ) - Quartet
5/8 in two - (1 › 2 › › 1 › › 2 › ) - Quartet
7/8 in three - (1 › 2 › 3 › › ) - Quartet
3/4 with 7/8 thrown in - Quartet
5/8, 3/4, 7/8, 3/4 - Quartet
Sixteenth note challenge - Quartet
Speed reading practice (tachistoscope effect) - Duet
More difficult speed reading (tachistoscope effect) - Duet
4/4 Very difficult assessment in RhythmBee Festival Format
4/4 More difficult assessment (ultra tachistoscope) in RhythmBee Festival Format
6/8 march-like review - Quartet
3/4 - 6/8 alternated - Quartet
Cut time - Unison