My First Rhythm Cup Explorations® Book
- Level: Early Elementary – Elementary
- Pages: 41 reproducible pages
- Rhythm and Concepts Covered: Quarters, repeats, quarter rests, half notes
- Format: PDF instant download
My First Rhythm Cup Explorations® Streaming Accompaniment Tracks
- 84 tracks
- 3 tracks per page that include slow, medium, and fast tempos
- Format: Web access to streaming tracks
- Access: From any device using a browser
Rhythm Cup Explorations® Book
- Level: Elementary – Advanced (there is something for all levels here)
- Pages: 16 reproducible pages
- Rhythm Concepts Covered: Quarters and halves (easy), eighth notes, triplets, and sixteenth notes
- Format: Web access to streaming tracks
- Access: From any device using a browser
Streaming Accompaniment Beats 1
- 36 tracks
- 3 tracks per page that include a practice, performance, and challenge tempos
- Format: Web access to streaming tracks
- Access: From any device using a browser
Rhythm Cup Explorations® 2
- Level: Elementary – Advanced (there is something for all levels here)
- Pages: 32 reproducible pages (double the first book!)
- Rhythm Concepts Covered: Basic triple time (easy), dotted quarters, compound time (with a touch of hemiola), eighth note syncopation, sixteenth note syncopation
- Format: Web access to streaming tracks
- Access: From any device using a browser
Streaming Accompaniment Beats 2
- 104 tracks
- 4 tracks per page that include a slow practice, practice, performance, and challenge tempos
- Format: Web access to streaming tracks
- Access: From any device using a browser
This Rhythm Cup Streaming Tracks Bundle includes the most important part of the cup tapping curriculum! Teachers and students from around the world are using this curriculum to teach and reinforce rhythm. But more importantly, students are loving practicing rhythm and their excitement for practice is improving the most basic skill in music: rhythm. Watch the videos above to see why students are so excited!
This is a special discounted bundle that includes PDF books and a subscription to streaming tracks. This Rhythm Cup Bundle comes with:
- My First Rhythm Cup Explorations®
- My First Rhythm Cup Explorations® – Streaming Tracks
- Rhythm Cup Explorations 1®
- Rhythm Cup Explorations 1® beats – Streaming Tracks
- Rhythm Cup Explorations 2®
- Rhythm Cup Explorations 2® beats – Streaming Tracks
What is Rhythm Cup Explorations®?
Rhythm Cup Explorations® is a fun, supplement program that combines the fun of cup tapping with carefully composed rhythms to teach and reinforce rhythm. This series is a supplement to the comprehensive, reproducible Rhythm Menagerie® and Rhythm Manipulations® series.
The Rhythm Cup Bundle can be used in private or group lessons. You only need 1 person (2 is even more fun though, and more than 3 is a blast!). The cup tapping techniques are explained in the book and in an introductory video that you will get a link to after you purchase.
Any teacher can do this! And definitely any piano or music student can do this!
What are some ways to use the Rhythm Cup Explorations® Bundle?
Rhythm Cup Explorations® can be used in many different ways. Here are just some of the ways that teachers use the Rhythm Cup Bundle:
- Private lessons – it’s easy to do these with just two people – you and the student
- Group lessons – the more the merrier! Cup tapping is tons of fun in groups
- Classrooms – hundreds of teachers are using this in their grade school and high school classrooms
- Recitals – Rhythm Cup tapping looks beautiful and impressive at recitals
- At community events – One Canadian teacher did a booth for Canada that taught one of the basic pages to more than a hundred people at a time!
- Adult students & Retirement centers
- Bring-a-friend lesson – Rhythm Cup Bundle is a great way to advertise lessons. Just have a bring-a-friend week and you can teach your student by reading then rhythm and then that student can teach their friend by rote. The friend will go way thinking piano lessons are awesome!
Streaming accompaniment tracks come with the Rhythm Cup Bundle!
All three Rhythm Cup Exploration® books are fun, but they are even more fun when you add the streaming accompaniment beats and tracks. These are created with all styles of music, so there is a great mix for students of all ages. Kids love these! Here are some samples.
My First Rhythm Cup Explorations®:
Book 1:
Book 2:
All at medium tempo:
How does the pricing and subscription work?
- When you purchase this bundle, you will be charged one time for the price of the PDF rhythm books (see above for discounted price). Then, you will be charged monthly for the streaming tracks. See above for monthly charge. Tracks cannot be downloaded from the streaming service, but you can cancel the monthly streaming service at any time.
- After payment, you get web access to all 224 tracks. This means that you can log in to ComposeCreate.com from any device (computer, ipad, iphone, smartphone) and play any of the tracks from these Rhythm Cup Explorations® books.
- The tracks are hosted on our super fast web server.
- They are organized by unit (see screenshots at top of page).
- To access quickly, simply go to your Account page and click on Memberships.
What is a studio license? Why is it so amazing?
This Rhythm Cup Bundle comes with a studio license which means that you only have to purchase it one time but you can use it for ANY student you are directly teaching! You can make prints of any of the pages of the PDF and give them to your student. You can even print the entire book for your students! There is not limit to the number of students you can do this for – they just have to be students that you directly teach.
For the tracks, the studio license means that you may use the tracks in your studio but tracks may not be distributed. Students will need to purchase their own track subscription to use at home: Rhythm Cup Explorations® 1 – Streaming tracks, Rhythm Cup Explorations® 2 – Streaming Tracks, My First Rhythm Cup Explorations® – Streaming tracks
What is the difference between the International vs. North American edition?
The difference between the North American (uses terms like “quarter, half, whole”) and International edition (uses terms like “crotchet, minum, quaver”) simply has to do with what kind of rhythm terms you and your students use.
Will I be able to download these?
No. This subscription gives you web access to the tracks, but they are secured and cannot be downloaded.
Kristy McLaren –
I LOVE the Rhythm Cups! I have used it 5 times since yesterday afternoon. Brilliant!
Mary Jane Cope –
I used the Rhythm Cup explorations game with groups this week; my students loved it – even the older high school students had a great time! I love that this is so adaptable (in terms of tempo, repetitions, sequencing, etc.), and can even inspire students to make up some of their own – suitable for all ages! I noticed most of my students were extraordinarily focused but relaxed when doing these exercises.
Iris Westcott –
Addictive and kids of all ages love it!
Kimberly Baker –
My students were a little surprised at first, and then excited, and they had a LOT more fun doing those than the regular rhythm book I’ve used for years! My students are loving the Rhythm Cups! 🙂
Jessica Barefoot –
My students loved it! …Definitely will be worth my money, and I appreciate how affordable it is. This is such a fun way to teach rhythm reading!
Cheryl Weber –
My 6th graders love rhythm cups!
Priscilla Moffett –
Wish I had tried this a loooong time ago…..my students understand and internalize the beats immediately!!
Yoko Hoshihara –
I just wanted to say THANK YOU SO MUCH for creating such a fun teaching tool! Your product is one of the BEST educational materials I have ever purchased! I am so excited…this is just so great, thank you, thank you, thank you! I tried with several students (age 6, 9 and 10) today and they all (and I) LOVED it!! What a fun way to teach students to have a steady beat! All I needed was to demonstrate some taps and the rest was just having fun with them. They picked up the rhythm quickly and it even helps us be bonded. I have this difficult 10 years old boy who has shown no interest in learning piano for several months. He has been inattentive, and there are times he even refused to follow my instruction. This boy, however, has a good sense of rhythm and plays jazz pieces so well, so I thought he would love Rhythm Cup Explorations. (And yes, he really did!) Today I did the first page with him for only a few minutes. Only after a few exercises, he began opening up to me…we both laughed when we didn’t know how to pass the cup to each other (lol), anyway…it was just so wonderful.
Aaron Bloom –
Your Rhythm Cups have become a standout feature in my lessons. I love them, the kids love them, and above all kids even with a struggling sense of Rhythm have dramatically improved with these cups.
Wanda Everett –
I have just finished my first of three 4 day Piano Camps for June. Your rhythm cups were the best! Every student loves them at every level.
Keri Salustri –
So many smiles and lots of laughter today!! The kids love these, Wendy!
Susan Gravel –
I found out that my students are talking about this while they are at school…how cool is that.
Andrea –
This is fantastic! My students were begging for more. Super fun, and very effective. THANK YOU!!
Paul Eliot –
I’m the kind of teacher that would usually find these too childish for High School. I have been very wrong. They love these and they read rhythms better as a result. I even use them in AP Music Theory! I usually introduce rhythm concepts, clap and count, then the relevant cups exercises, then rhythmic dictation immediately follows. In 30m, they experience the rhythm concepts in many ways. The Rhythm Cups are an integral part of this cycle!
Tresa Davis –
One of the very best activities I have ever done in the Studio! Such exuberance and excitement, Giggles, and right out riotous laughter can be heard wafting up and down the hall into other areas of the building when I break out the rhythm cups. Sometimes I wonder if they even know they are polishing their rhythm skills and sight reading abilities. I plan to use parts of The Christmas bundle in each of my five group lessons this month. Sure to be a hit. Should I send videos?Thank you Wendy!
Tonia Polykarpou –
I just loved them!!! My students loved them, too! A perfect way for me to teach rhythms and have fun with my students at the same time. And it’s suitable for any age, including children from 5 to teenagers. Adults can have fun, too ???? The children are looking forward to this. It’s a fun challenge for them to play the rhythms and try to play them faster and faster. Great job Wendy Stevens!!! Thank you!!!!
Elizabeth Bonds –
Love it! And so do my students. I have even had students parents get involved! Students don’t even realise they are learning they are having so much fun. One student took a paper copy of sheet one to practise on holiday. They family planned to cup tap on an areoplane to Greece. I hope it went ok, They were on a 5am flight!!!! Thanks for a brilliant resource Wendy!
Laura Knight –
I love this program! I’m using it in my group piano classes and my adults are having a great time with it. I’ve also pulled it out as a game around the kitchen table and it has been a lot of fun.
Michael Payne –
I’m a PreK-12 music teacher and it works across the board! My middle schoolers LOVE this! Thanks Wendy!
Halyna –
We love Rhythm cups a lot ! They instantly became a part of lessons, with parents joining in the Fun& Learning. Imagine lots of smiles and giggles, the cups are great ! Thank you so much !
Fran ONeill –
My children loved it. Can hardly wait to try it with my students! Thanks so much! *****
Sean –
I have been using the be-jezzus out of Rhythm Cups 1 and 2, and definitely will be purchasing the new “My First..” book. Thanks so much, they have really revolutionized my studio!
Allisha Hughes –
My students loved this! We started with My first rhythm ups and the kids (ages 5-11) were eating it up! They loved doing it along with the tracks and that it got faster as we went. Well worth the money!
Laura Crouse –
I did a Rhythm Cup activity with a bunch of Middle and High Schoolers as a way to bond a new group— and when I polled everyone afterwards, it was a unanimous thumbs-up from two dozen teenagers—even the non-joiners. 🙂
Katie Spjut –
Every winter we do a rhythm challenge. This year I used Rhythm Cups, My first rhythm cups, and rhythm menagerie to create level appropriate packets for each student based on their goals. One of my little guys saw your name on the mp3 and got so excited to know rhythm cups were from ‘his composer’ Wendy Stevens. The fact that I can get all my students to dust off the metronome and be excited about rhythm is priceless.
Carol F. –
I really enjoyed beginning to use your rhythm curriculum with my students this past week. Every one of them, (ages 6 through 74) enjoyed it and everyone was engaged. This really makes practicing rhythms fun!
Brenda Steele –
I started a new student a couple of weeks ago. He is 5 years old. Today he came and I started him on the Rhythm Cup Explorations. He loved it so much that he didn’t want to go hone. I showed his mother the materials. As she listened to us doing it she remarked how great it was and that she had never seen it before. She said it’s like school but better. It is a wonderful tool. Thank you for creating it and passing in to we teachers. It’s a fabulous aid for us.
Kelly Jenkins –
I’m a big fan of Rhythm Cup Explorations! I have a 6 year old that has a really tough time with rhythm, but he is ON IT with Rhythms cups. He does it with his 8 year old sister every week and when they come back, they are ON THE MONEY with their rhythm routine. Love them!
Liz Murray –
I highly recommend rhythm cups to any teacher, not just for students who have difficulty with timing but for any student. Even my high school students enjoy these! I have a yr9 student who came to me as a transfer student 2yrs ago has major difficulties with rhythm (I’ve tried everything!) and just after two lessons her playing has improved immensely. I was completely blown away after doing some Rhythm Cup Exploration 2 and returning to the piano and hearing her play in perfect timing! This is something I will implement in each lesson for reinforcement and fun. So incredibly helpful and well worth the investment! Thanks Wendy!