Subdivide

The bar plays once with a count-in and metronome so you can hear it. Then a playhead sweeps across and you tap on every grid pulse: bright dots are the actual notes, faint dots are the in-between ghost subdivisions. The engine judges how close each tap lands.

• Tap on the whole subdivision grid, keeping the pulse, not only on the audible notes
• Each tap is graded perfect, good or miss by timing
• Accuracy across the bar becomes your grade and score

• Desktop: press Space on every pulse (Space also starts a round), or tap the stage
• Phone & tablet: tap anywhere on the stage on each pulse

• Difficulty: Easy eighths, Medium triplets, Hard sixteenths
• Daily for a shared bar, Practice for fresh ones

• Internalize the steady ghost grid first; the notes sit on top of an even pulse you keep going throughout
• Count the subdivision out loud during the listen pass so your taps already have the pulse

Subdivide builds an even internal pulse by asking you to tap every subdivision of the beat.

• Skills: rhythm, subdivision, internal pulse, timing
• Best for: roughly grades 3–12 (ages 8+)
• For parents & teachers: builds a steady internal pulse.

Tapping every grid pulse while distinguishing the notes that sound from the ones that do not is subdivision — the internal counting underneath a bar of metre.

Hearing the bar first, then tapping the silent pulses too, is the original method.

Tapping the rests is what makes this teaching rather than testing. Rhythm is kept by feeling the pulses that are not played, which is why a player who taps only the notes loses the beat the moment the music thins out.

Subdivide is a rhythm trainer that builds an even internal pulse by asking you to tap every subdivision. It is an original, free browser game built in-house for PlayPendium.

A free, original browser game on PlayPendium. No download, no install.