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The 16th-Note Language

Rhythm Reading Bootcamp, Volume 2

Volume 2 gives you a deep dive into the wonderful world of 16th notes. Learn how to read, count, and play a huge variety of complex rhythmic ideas by working through more than 80 carefully-written exercises.

Master every possible combination of 16th notes that you’ll encounter in day-to-day playing situations, including syncopation, tied and dotted notes, and rests. Working through this book will give you the rhythmic foundations needed to play great basslines by masters like James Jamerson, Rocco Prestia, and Jaco Pastorius, as well as giving you the skills needed to write and improvise your own 16th-note lines.

Look inside

  • Contents page for Volume 2
  • The fragment index, listing each sixteenth-note rhythmic cell covered in the book
  • The page introducing sixteenth-note subdivision
  • Exercise 3C: six lines of bass-clef reading mixing one eighth and two sixteenth notes
  • A sixteenth-note reading exercise using ties