Octavalia · Rhythm reading and dictation
In reading, you read the rhythm and tap it over the metronome: one tap per note, held for as long as it lasts. In dictation, you hear it and write it down note value by note value (or tap it back from memory). You start with the quarter note, the half note and the quarter rest; once they go well, the next note value comes in.
Tap this rhythm
How it sounded
This is where you'll see each tap against where it belonged and, if something's off, why.
A note value is secure when you've played it fully in time (in reading) or written it correctly (in dictation) the last four times it came up. Reading and dictation each keep their own progress. The ones you find hard come up more often. In reading, under the staff, each line is where the note belonged and each dot is where you tapped.
In simple time they come in this order: quarter note, half note and quarter rest; eighth notes; whole note; half rest; dotted half note; eighth rest; dotted quarter note; sixteenth notes and their combinations; syncopation; dotted eighth note; syncopation within the beat; tie; triplet, quarter-note triplet and sextuplet. Then compound time (6/8, 3/8, 9/8 and 12/8), with the dotted quarter note as the beat, the duplet and the quadruplet; then 2/2, with the half note as the beat; and finally, time signature changes.