Reading Rhythm Syllables

Learn how to read rhythms well!

Reading Rhythm Syllables Ta Titi Ta

For music teachers and all musicians preschool to adult.

Become a more well-rounded musician.

Master the skill of sight-reading rhythms.

Build any rhythm with a few memorable syllables as building blocks.

Learn to dictate rhythms you hear.

8 fundamental concepts

1. Use beat squares to feel the beatspeak the rhythm syllables.

2. Learn 5 basic syllables: tikitiki, titi, ta, too, and toe.

3. Add an /m/ sound at the end dotted notes: tim, tahm, toom.

4. Touch beat squares to feel the down-beat and up-beat.

5. Learn syncopated rhythms (tahm-ti, and sin-co-pa).

6. Combine basic syllables (ti-tiki, tiki-ti, tim-ki).

7. Feel the difference between duple time vs. triple time as march vs. sway.

8. Use time signatures to determine duple vs. triple time.

…a whole world of rhythms you can read!

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