Full subdivisions combined with full subdivisions in the same bar. Quarter notes, eighth notes, triplets, sixteenth notes, and quarter note rests in their complete forms.
Most rhythm resources are passive. Students look at them, half-heartedly tap something out, get it wrong, and forget it by next week. The problem was never your students. It was the resource.
This is the one that fixes it.
Ymarfer Music's Rhythm Flashcards Volume 1 — Core Rhythms is a complete visual rhythm teaching system for drum teachers, music teachers, peripatetic teachers, workshop leaders, and anyone who teaches rhythm to real people in real settings and needs something that actually works in the room.
What you get:
100 premium A4 cards covering every core rhythmic combination in one bar of 4/4 — quarter notes, eighth notes, eighth note triplets, sixteenth notes, and quarter note rests. Clean professional notation. A counting reference on every single card. A full instruction booklet including seven ready-to-use activities drawn directly from The Rhythm Practitioner's Playbook by Dan Lewis.
Print at home or send straight to a print shop. Every card is designed to print on standard A4 and be laminated for daily use. Your local printer can have a physical set ready for you within 24 hours of purchase.
What you can do with them
Hold one up in a drum lesson and ask your student to play it cold. Use ten cards to build a composition exercise. Spread twenty across a workshop floor and run a movement game. Assign different cards to students of different abilities and play them simultaneously, same pulse, same bar of 4/4, instant mixed-ability ensemble. Conduct your group with a single card. Build a two-bar phrase from two cards. Run a sight-reading challenge. Create a rhythm relay race. Use them with a complete beginner. Use them with an advanced student preparing for a grade examination.
One pack. Hundreds of activities. No ceiling.
Who it's for
→ Drum teachers who want something they can pull out mid-lesson and use immediately
→ Classroom music teachers who need visual, active rhythm resources that work with real groups
→ Peripatetic teachers who need something portable, flexible, and ready to go at any level
→ Workshop leaders and community musicians who want activities that scale from 1:1 to sixty people
→ Music therapists and SEN practitioners who need inclusive, accessible rhythm resources
→ Anyone who has ever wished they had a better rhythm resource and settled for something that wasn't quite right
The system
Volume 1 is the foundation. Volume 2 — Broken and Full Rhythms — is available now, taking everything built here into more complex broken subdivision territory. The complete Ymarfer Music's Rhythm Flashcards series spans five planned volumes, forming one continuous progressive system from the most fundamental rhythmic concepts to the most advanced.
Every volume uses the same card format. Every volume is numbered continuously. Every volume works alongside every other volume in the same session.
This is not a one-off purchase. This is the start of a teaching system you'll use for the rest of your career.
Instant download. Start using it in your next lesson or workshop
Full subdivisions combined with full subdivisions in the same bar. Quarter notes, eighth notes, triplets, sixteenth notes, and quarter note rests in their complete forms.
Most rhythm resources are passive. Students look at them, half-heartedly tap something out, get it wrong, and forget it by next week. The problem was never your students. It was the resource.
This is the one that fixes it.
Ymarfer Music's Rhythm Flashcards Volume 1 — Core Rhythms is a complete visual rhythm teaching system for drum teachers, music teachers, peripatetic teachers, workshop leaders, and anyone who teaches rhythm to real people in real settings and needs something that actually works in the room.
What you get:
100 premium A4 cards covering every core rhythmic combination in one bar of 4/4 — quarter notes, eighth notes, eighth note triplets, sixteenth notes, and quarter note rests. Clean professional notation. A counting reference on every single card. A full instruction booklet including seven ready-to-use activities drawn directly from The Rhythm Practitioner's Playbook by Dan Lewis.
Print at home or send straight to a print shop. Every card is designed to print on standard A4 and be laminated for daily use. Your local printer can have a physical set ready for you within 24 hours of purchase.
What you can do with them
Hold one up in a drum lesson and ask your student to play it cold. Use ten cards to build a composition exercise. Spread twenty across a workshop floor and run a movement game. Assign different cards to students of different abilities and play them simultaneously, same pulse, same bar of 4/4, instant mixed-ability ensemble. Conduct your group with a single card. Build a two-bar phrase from two cards. Run a sight-reading challenge. Create a rhythm relay race. Use them with a complete beginner. Use them with an advanced student preparing for a grade examination.
One pack. Hundreds of activities. No ceiling.
Who it's for
→ Drum teachers who want something they can pull out mid-lesson and use immediately
→ Classroom music teachers who need visual, active rhythm resources that work with real groups
→ Peripatetic teachers who need something portable, flexible, and ready to go at any level
→ Workshop leaders and community musicians who want activities that scale from 1:1 to sixty people
→ Music therapists and SEN practitioners who need inclusive, accessible rhythm resources
→ Anyone who has ever wished they had a better rhythm resource and settled for something that wasn't quite right
The system
Volume 1 is the foundation. Volume 2 — Broken and Full Rhythms — is available now, taking everything built here into more complex broken subdivision territory. The complete Ymarfer Music's Rhythm Flashcards series spans five planned volumes, forming one continuous progressive system from the most fundamental rhythmic concepts to the most advanced.
Every volume uses the same card format. Every volume is numbered continuously. Every volume works alongside every other volume in the same session.
This is not a one-off purchase. This is the start of a teaching system you'll use for the rest of your career.
Instant download. Start using it in your next lesson or workshop
