Learn to Clap Your First Rhythms Like a Pro!

Build Confidence in Reading and Interpreting Rhythm Notation Even as a Beginner!

Learning to clap and read rhythms is a fundamental skill when it comes to understanding written music.

No matter how new you are to music theory this Clapping Rhythms Course will help you develop confidence in reading and clapping rhythms in the following SIMPLE TIME SIGNATURES:

Lessons take no time at all, making it easy to stay consistent without feeling like you're trying to cram too much in.

In just a few minutes a day, you’ll go from slowly working through rhythms to confidently clapping more complex patterns with ease.

The Best Way to Learn and Absorb

👏🏽 Chapter 1: Getting Started

This chapter takes you through the 'How-To's' of the course with short instructions, video and visual demos. It will take no time at all and covers:

  • Why and how you clap rhythms

  • What will I learn?

  • What rhythms will I be clapping?

  • How to complete the exercises

👏🏽 Chapter 2: References, Reminders and Overviews

This chapter gives you intros, lessons and refreshers on everything you need to know to complete the exercises.

  • Note Values

  • Rests

  • Ties

  • Dots

  • Repeats

  • The One-Line Stave

  • Helpful Links

👏🏽 Chapter 3: Clapping Rhythms in Simple Time - The Mini Course

Then it's the course itself which is designed as a building block system, where each day introduces a new rhythm skill and builds
on the last.

Each day focuses on one particular area and includes a set of rhythm exercises and the video solutions that show you how to clap each one if you get stuck. The 5 Days look like this:

  • Day 1: Clapping rythms in 4/4

With rhythms made up of semibreves, minims, crotchets and quavers.

  • Day 2: Clapping rhythms in 3/4

With rhythms that add semiquavers, ties and crotchet rests into the mix.

  • Day 3: Clapping 2/4 rhythms

With rhythms that add quaver rests into the mix.

  • Day 4: Clapping rhythms with changing time signatures

Adding in minim rests and rhythm passages that have changing time signatures.

  • Day 5: Clapping more complex rhythms

Adding in semibreve rests, whole bar rests, repeats, and first/second time bars.

  • 🎁 Bonus Lesson: Understanding anacrusis (pickup notes)

👏🏽 Chapter 4: Congratulations & Next steps

This chapter also includes a pdf download of all 30 exercises
for you to practice with after the course has finished.

How it Works

Each day of the course starts with a brief overview:

Then you move onto the exercises, which look like this:

Once you've had a go yourself, press play to reveal the solution and you'll be able to check your answers and clap along with me - complete with the follow-along pointy pencil!:

By the end of the course you will:

  • Understand all of the beginner level note values

  • How to read and clap combinations of them in rhythm

  • How to read those rhythm in three different time signatures

  • How to interpret additional markings such as repeat bars and first/second time bars

  • How to read rhythms that have a starting bar with a different number of beats than the time signature

  • Have solid-as-rock skills in how time signatures work and how to decipher and read rhythm passages that will give you a brilliant foundation to work from when you move on to working with pitch, melody and more advanced rhythms and time signatures

This IS for you if you are:

✅ an absolute beginner to music & theory who wants to learn about & develop your rhythm reading skills from scratch.

✅ a self-taught learner who struggles with reading rhythm.

✅ a singer or instrumental learner looking to develop foundational skills in reading music.

✅ a music student preparing for tests, exams or auditions.

✅ a music learner who has had a basic introduction to note values, simple time signatures, rests, dots and ties who want to put all those things together.

This is NOT for you if you are:

❌ a musician looking to learn an instrument—this course is focused entirely on clapping rhythms.

❌ looking for advanced rhythm training (e.g., polyrhythms, irregular time signatures).

❌ looking for pitch or melody exercises—this course strictly focuses on rhythm.

❌ wanting a broader music theory course—this is specifically designed for mastering rhythm in simple time signatures (Check out the other resources though!)

❌ someone who hasn't had a preliminary introduction to note values and the stave.
Luckily you'll be able to find these on the Notes on Theory tiktok page, so be sure to check them out. And there are some very helpful links listed inside the reference section of the course, so you'll be able to give them a watch before you get started!

Who's Teaching Me?

I’ve been working professionally for over 25 years, writing music for stage, production, media and more.

During that time, alongside my professional commissions, I have worked extensively in music education, including via a private music tuition and coaching practice that I had for well over ten years and my music is currently published in the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music (ABRSM) national exam syllabus.

I believe music theory should be accessible for everyone who wants to learn it, and I especially love breaking down concepts that are perceived as being difficult and breaking down other barriers that a lot of beginners feel stops them from giving it a go, which is why I started posting free lessons @notesontheory on TikTok.

I want people to develop skills in music theory in a way that avoids overwhelm, keeps everything bite-size, managable, affordalble, and in a way that makes finally understanding all those dots, squiggles and lines, effortless and refreshingly possible!

And I decided to make some resources like this course to help people do that.

Hope you love it.

Thanks for being here.

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A structured, practical way to improve your rhythm skills—for less than the cost of a quarter of a private lesson.

  • Immediate lifetime access for the life of the course

  • No instrument needed

  • 100% beginner-friendly

  • Unlimited access to any course updates (these are automatic)

Before You Buy:

PLEASE NOTE:
All purchases of courses and products are final and non-refundable, as immediate access to the digital content is provided at the time of payment.

Therefore, please consider your purchase carefully.

All the Notes on Theory resourses are designed to support and assist your learning, but progress always depends on your own effort and practice so individual results will vary depending on how much you put in to working with this material.

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Clapping Rhythms 5-day Mini Course

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