Welcome to the Zildjian Rhythm Cards!

Whether you’re a beginning student who is just learning to read music, an intermediate to advanced player looking for a challenge, or a teacher who needs free resources to use in the classroom, the ZILDJIAN RHYTHM CARD project is designed for you!

Each rhythm card level isolates specific note values, rhythmic combinations and concepts in a graduated fashion to help you learn to read in a fun and engaging way. With play-along videos that will challenge you, no matter where you’re at on your musical journey and downloadable PDFs of the charts that you can use to create games and competitions, you’ll want to bookmark this page and come back often as we continue to add new levels!

WebRhythms is a series of short articles designed to teach rhythmic reading. Each article includes musical examples that help explain the conceptsand an exercise that tests your new reading skills. Along with the written materials, WebRhythms allows you to download and print a copy of each exercise and provides a computer-perfect MIDI performance at a number of different tempi. With all these materials, it’s easy to be creative and challenge yourself while you learn or improve your reading ability.

If you’re a novice at reading music, these articles will start you off by building a solid foundation. Those of you with strong reading skills can use these lessons to brush up and polish what you already know. The later lessons may even show you some new rhythmic ideas and procedures. Monster readers can take the Pro Challenge. Do you have what it takes to keep up?

The videos in this YouTube playlist include logically paced studies that are perfect for percussionists AND non-percussionists — and can be frequently used in any music classroom for a fun rhythm training activity!

Starting from the very beginning and progressing through 8th/16th note combinations, it’s easy to test your skills as you play along with some great percussion tracks!