{"id":19478,"date":"2019-09-03T12:51:39","date_gmt":"2019-09-03T19:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/?p=19478"},"modified":"2023-07-14T14:50:23","modified_gmt":"2023-07-14T21:50:23","slug":"teach-kids-simple-rhythms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/teach-kids-simple-rhythms\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Teach Kids Simple Rhythms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/J3-QrYLWokY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Looking for a fun way to teach kids rhythms? Whether it&#8217;s on or off the drum kit, here are two tricks you can try:<\/p>\n<h3><strong>&#8220;Strawberry watermelon&#8221;<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Cool rhythms can come from the most ridiculous conversations. Come up with patterns that match a word&#8217;s rhythms and syllables (think &#8216;salt peanuts&#8217;)! Ask them for their favorite fruit or food.<\/p>\n<p>Watermelon? That&#8217;s four even syllables, so you might play &#8216;right left right left&#8217; on the snare.<br \/>\nChocolate cake? You might play with your hands together on the snare and floor tom.<\/p>\n<p>Next, try it with two foods. You never know what kind of crazy combination of rhythms you&#8217;ll get:<\/p>\n<p>Watermelon watermelon chocolate cake: RLRLRLRL R R R<br \/>\nStrawberry shortcake rhubarb pie: R LR L L R R R<\/p>\n<p>(R = right hand, L = left hand)<\/p>\n<p>Since the patterns are connected to things your kid knows and loves, they can start playing tricky stuff right from the start. It doesn&#8217;t need to be their favorite food; you can ask for their favorite animal or dinosaur. The more ridiculous the answer, the more wild the rhythm becomes.<\/p>\n<div class=\"box-snippet\">\n<div class=\"shadow\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<div><i class=\"fas icon fa-solid fa-question\"><\/i><\/div>\n<div class=\"text-container\">\n                    <strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/drumming-questions\/\">The Most Common Drumming Questions (Solved)<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h3><strong>Stomps and claps<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Another way to get the kids learning rhythms is to stomp and clap together to their favorite songs. In <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/kids\">The Rhythmic Adventures of Captain Carson<\/a><\/em>, we stomp and clap to match the rhythms we hear in the song. You can do it with your favorite tracks, too &#8211; why not make it fun for both of you?<\/p>\n<p>Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/kids\">Drumeo Kids app<\/a> or check out all of the episodes in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/edge\">Drumeo members area<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>This video is part of a &#8216;quick tips&#8217; series for parents to inspire kids to play drums:<\/p>\n<p>1. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/inspire-kids-to-play-music\/\">How To Get Your Kid Interested In The Drums<\/a><br \/>\n2. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/teach-kids-simple-rhythms\">How To Teach Kids Simple Rhythms<\/a><br \/>\n3. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/homemade-drum-set\">How To Make A Homemade Drum Set<\/a><br \/>\n4. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/support-kids-passion-for-drums\">How To Support Your Kid&#8217;s Passion For Drums<\/a><br \/>\n5. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/discourage-child-from-quitting-drums\">How To Encourage Your Child To Not Quit Drums<\/a><br \/>\n6. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/buy-kids-drum-kit\">How To Buy A Drum Kit For Your Child<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"email-form-include-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/weeklyemail\" frameborder=\"none\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are two ways to get kids playing simple rhythms on their first or second try.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121,"featured_media":19837,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4015],"tags":[4014],"class_list":["post-19478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-beginner-lessons","tag-beginner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/121"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19478"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47594,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19478\/revisions\/47594"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}