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When you are looking at notated rhythms, it’s important to remember that the notes convey more than just the notes themselves. In this video from Berklee Online’s Time and Rhythm course, instructor Matt Sharrock explains that a quarter note in 4/4 doesn’t simply represent that quarter note. It also represents the complete space in the measure taken up by that quarter note. We measure that space using subdivisions, and we need to remain cognizant of the fact that a quarter note takes up the space of four sixteenth notes. All notated rhythmic material falls on a grid of subdivisions, and we need to be able to place our rhythms correctly on that grid if we want to perform accurately. If you want to understand and play the rhythm written in a bar of sheet music, you should try writing in stems for all of the sixteenth notes that could exist within each measure plus the counting syllables that apply to each sixteenth note slot. Just like a good ruler accounts for millimeters and centimeters, in addition to the decimeters, our musical ruler needs to account for eighth and sixteenth notes, in addition to quarter notes.

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ABOUT MATT SHARROCK:
Matt Sharrock is a versatile marimbist, percussionist, and conductor who tirelessly champions the music of living composers. As half of the bass clarinet/marimba duo Transient Canvas, they have commissioned over 80 pieces while touring extensively in the United States and abroad. From 2013-2020 they served as music director and conductor for Equilibrium and are a founding member of the mixed quartet Hinge and the Boston Percussion Group. In demand as a chamber musician, Matt is the resident percussionist with the Chameleon Arts Ensemble of Boston and has performed with the Lydian String Quartet, Boston Musica Viva, Sound Icon, the Lorelei Ensemble, and Dinosaur Annex, among others. Matt has recorded on Beauport Classical, BMOP/sound, Innova, Navona, New Focus, and Ravello record labels. They teach music theory and liberal arts at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee and Berklee College of Music. Matt proudly endorses Marimba One and Encore Mallets.

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