FindMyRhythm.org

  • #SnapToItChallenge

  • How You Can Help

  • The Rhythm Really Can Get You

The Challenge

Music is a part of our everyday lives. We hear it on the radio. We hear it on TV. Help raise awareness and help people find their rhythm. Upload your #SnapToItChallenge video today. If you complete the challenge within 24 hours, you only have to donate 15 minutes of your time to a person lacking rhythm. If you're nominated and miss the deadline, however, you then must donate 15 hours of your time to a person who couldn't find a downbeat with a conductor.

Clapping on 2 and 4

Even after we've helped someone find the basic beats of the music, our work is not done.

Clappping on 1 and 3 has become a raging epidemic over the past few years. This becomes especially obvious when an audience or large crowd is encouraged to clap along with music. Even if you're the only one clapping on 2 and 4 against hundreds, or even thousands, of people clapping on 1 and 3 - hold your ground. You'll stand out, but eventualy people will learn.

Dancing

People without rhythm have an especially difficult time at social events where dancing is expected. These include occasions like proms, or weddings.

Try to encourage some form of group dancing early on in the evening, before those without rhythm get completely wasted because they feel left out. It's a monkey-see-monkey-do philosophy, but in a pinch it's a start. From there, try to move on to partial group dances, like "YMCA" or "The Time Warp", where people dance together on the choruses and do whatever the f*ck they want during the verses.

Time and Practice

There's an old joke - "How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Practice." Everyone has to start somewhere. Everyone wasn't born with the gift of music, well, everyone except people like Beethoven who just crawled up to a keyboard right out of the womb and was all, "Hey Ma! see what I'm doing here?!" The rest of us, however, had to learn it. That's where you can help. Your small donation of just thirteen hours a day can help give a child some much needed rhythm.

Tapping to the Beat

While snapping is fine and dandy, tapping your feet to the rhythm of a song is a good Advanced Beginner skill. It will probably give you shin splints at first, until you build up some stamina. In just a few short months you'll be tapping your feet without even knowing it. Side effects, however, include annoying the crap out of everyone within earshot.