Rhythm & theory lab
Short lessons on timing, feel and meter. Each one pairs a short explanation with a rhythm you can play or a practice tool. If you are not sure where to start, try the silent-bar lesson first.
Keep time through a silent bar
The click-disappears lesson plays a pulse, removes it for a bar, then brings it back. Keep counting and playing through the gap. Listen to whether you land with the returning beat. The metronome practice guide develops this into a session with tempo ladders, subdivisions and fewer clicks.
Hear two rhythms at once
Start with 3 against 2. Both parts share the first pulse, then their notes alternate until the next cycle. The polyrhythm guide explains the count and the generator lets you hear each part separately, change the tempo and share a setup.
Understand the grouping
Six evenly spaced eighth notes can become three groups of two in 3/4 or two groups of three in 6/8. The playable comparison holds the note speed steady while changing the accents. The beat-one lesson moves the starting accent of a repeating phrase so you can hear its effect.
Compare shuffle feels
The three-shuffles lesson compares the Purdie, Rosanna and Fool in the Rain practice studies at the same tempo. Listen to the backbeat first, then isolate the hats and ghost notes. These are authored practice studies rather than exact reproductions of recordings.
Turn an 808 kick into a bass line
Hear the same pattern at a fixed pitch and then as a short melody. Open the 808 drum machine to explore it yourself, or read the drum-machine history to learn how those instruments shaped records and performances.
Take the lesson to your instrument
Practise with a drum beat for accompaniment, the metronome for a specific timing exercise or the chord progression tool for chord changes. Keep the passage short enough to hear what happened. Repeat at a comfortable tempo before adding speed or complexity.