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When counting a rhythm out loud, there is a specific language to be used to ascribe eighth and sixteenth notes. You may have already learned to say “1, 2, 3, 4 ” when counting the quarter-note pulse of a groove (assuming the particular music you’re counting is in 4/4), but in this video from Berklee Online’s Time and Rhythm course, instructor Matt Sharrock shows you how to count out remaining subdivisions when you want to translate a syllable grid into a notation grid.

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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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