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90.1Start with pitchless rhythm
Ignore notes.
Tap:
short – short – long
For example, on an eighth-note grid:
♪ ♪ ♩
Do not worry about exact notation yet.
Just hear:
ta-ta-TAA.
That is a rhythmic motif.