Reading Rhythms Fluently

A game for your repertoire

Continuing our series on reading music fluently on the fiddle/violin, we'll now move on to an essential skill in reading: Rhythms.

If you haven't tried the previous reading games/exercises, give your muscle memory and eyes a chance to do each of them — Open Strings, Space Notes, Line Notes, and All Notes. These are games — in other words, you never accomplish or learn them, you just play them, get to know what is going on in them, and do them better each time. Your brain may try to convince you that it already knows or at least “understands” everything because some aspects of these games are easy. But other aspects are more interconnected, less verbal, and very beneficial. Here are some reasons why --