INSANELY SIMPLE Rhythm Exercise AMPLIFIES Your Hand Coordination And Timing

You guys think I'm nuts don't you? There is actually some method to the madness of that introduction and by the end of this video you should know what that is and if you do leave me a comment down below. Welcome to Creative Piano Academy, Joe here, and this video is sort of like it's like an origin story or like a prologue to my three rhythm exercises you're gonna hate video so we'll call it a prelude. This channel is vaguely musical so we'll call it we'll call it a prelude. Before we get into that I want to show you guys something so check this out. Julian sent me in a picture of his setup so Julian I hope you're watching this and he sent me in a picture of his setup and it looks really really good there's a laptop in there in the corner there and all he needs to do is set the piano just look up and I'm right there follow along with those tutorial videos I thought you guys might be interested in that because you know gives you ideas for your own setups but it also got me thinking why don't you guys send me some pictures of your setups I might find somewhere to feature it and I don't know whether it's YouTube videos or on the site or something might find some place to feature it'd be really interesting for me and I think it'll help quite a few people out so do send those in you can go to creativepianoacademy.com sign up to the mailing list I'll even throw in a best adult piano practice plan video so once you're on my mailing list hit reply and send me some pictures okay so I've got another rhythm exercise for you now I teach quite a few beginners you know mostly children mostly kids around the local schools and stuff but I also teach quite a few adults and this is one of those exercises that some people find really easy some people find really difficult I think it completely depends on your experience and with different musical instruments or your upbringing and what music you listen to and stuff and you know whatever so so this is a really good foundational level exercise really good for developing those basics I am going to have to set up another camera here so just just a second here we go let's try something trippy hey guys this is the kind of thing I'm looking at when I do these videos for you it doesn't get any easier oh forgive the mess I'm halfway through packing for India right could do with something to hit as well hang on let me go get it okay right can we see this so this exercise is really good for understanding the difference between crotchets quavers and semi quavers okay so in the other system I believe that's quarter beats eighth beats and sixteenth beats but don't quote me on that I mean I grew up with the crotchets quavers and semi quavers so I'm gonna use those for now don't forget you can do these exercises anyway you know you don't have to have a table you don't need to do on seven do them on your leg you can do on your steering wheel or you're driving and don't kill anybody you can do them on your dog if you want of course we know they love it so we're gonna start off with our standard four beats in a bar so we need to set ourself a tempo and we'll start off with like one two three four about that speed one two nice and steady one two three four okay so that's the kind of speed that we're looking at you need to keep that going now first of all we're gonna look at crotchets and we're gonna just simply tap between the right and the left hand so we've got our speed one two three four so we go right left right left one two three four like this one two three four pretty simple right so after that what we need to do is dive a little bit deeper into quavers so we take our each beat and we add an and in between so we go instead of one two three four we go one and two and three and four and which if we tap we'll go one and two and three and four and okay right left right left right left right left so by now we've got crotchets and quavers like this we've got crotchets and quavers one and two and three and four and okay so this is where some people find it quite difficult especially some of the younger kids when they're first starting out but what you want to do is set yourself a tempo start off and try and alternate between the two without stopping so for instance I go one two three four for a bar and I go quavers for a bar and then back to crotchets two three four and then quavers two and three and four and okay so before I go a little bit deeper on that we'll add the last one in which is semi quavers so this is where we go even faster than quavers and so we've got our quavers go one and two and three and four and for semi quavers we'll go one e and a two e and a three e and a four e and a so it goes twice as fast as quavers so if we bring that down and tap it with our right and our left remember we go in well do quavers first it goes one and two and three and now we need to go one e and a two e and a three e and a four e and a okay so that's crotchets one two three quavers one and two and three and semi quavers one e and a two e and a three e and a four e and a okay so now we've got our rhythms our divisions what you need to do now is put them together in various different ways so the easiest one to do and what I'll do is I'll just set a little metronome off here and I don't know whether the mic will pick this up but hopefully it will just set that down there so what I've done is I've set a metronome up like this and it's going at crotchet equals 80 so what I'll do is start off with crotchets just go crotchets quaver semi quaver quaver and then crotchets quaver semi quaver you get the idea so all we're doing turn that off all we're doing is moving between crotchets then quavers then semi quavers then quavers then crotchets okay so that's a really nice foundational exercise for you to do going between crotchets quavers and semi quavers or quarter beats eighth beats and sixteenth beats and just go between them like that and try and get used to switching on the fly switching between them without having to stop or without having to think you know getting that division that's where a lot of people struggle you know sometimes I'll start off with quavers like crotchets like this and they might move to quavers but they can't quite get used to the to it basically being twice as fast so it's that difference that you need to get used to so make sure you practice that as much as you can and then another thing you can try is just set your tempo off like this and hopefully you can hear that so again that's crotchet equals 80 on a metronome I think that's a really good sort of entry-level speed and then just start moving between them whenever you feel like it yeah so I could start off with crotchets and then I might move to semi quavers crotchets quavers now just start moving whatever I feel like so this exercise is really good for developing your foundational rhythm skills and as well as the hand coordination especially when you move to the piano you'll find that if you practice this and you get used to this you'll find your hand coordination a different way to think of its hand independence you'll find that's much easier for you so see how you get on get used to that and then move on to the three rhythm exercises you're going to hate video which will take it a little bit further with a video is in the card so I really hope you liked that guys it's just a little bit of a quick video I've put together this for you so hopefully you've got something out of it and now I've got to continue packing because I'm off to India for three weeks so as always like the video if you liked it subscribe to the channel and I will see you I will see you in the next video