These elements of vocabulary are intended as supplemental information for Rhythm Arise students. They are frameworks for learning, understanding and embodying rhythm in it’s many varieties. The names are convenient ways to refer to rhythmic structures and should not be mistaken as authoritative labels for material found in any musical tradition. These structures are frameworks indicating pillars of grooves, Any suggested voicing should be understood as one of many possible approaches to voicing – and any and all voicing combinations should be explored. All beginners should assume that any box without a letter is a ghost note and any box that is a ghost note CAN be an accent or voice. The aim is to use these as frameworks, but rhythm is a flow of time and we want to be able to flow from any structure TO any structure rather than approaching this vocabulary from the perspective of rigid replication. 

3,3,2 (tresillo)

3,2,3

2,3,3

2,3,3 Passport

3,3,2 Passport

Upbeat Passport

Binary Groove

Quarter note exercise

3/2 Clave

2/3 Clave

Brazilian Clave (Bossa Nova Stick Pattern)

Rumba Clave

7/9

cascara

cicada

Fanga

Baladi

Tumbao

montuno