How deep is your pocket?

Grooving hard comes down to three core abilities...


You can play the coolest notes, but they will only hit right if they groove right!

  • Do you sometimes feel lost, you drop a beat here or there?
  • Feel that something just doesn't sound right or feel right?
  • You have cool fills and lines under your fingers but the people around you ask you to "play less"?

It is time to learn these core abilities with Ari's Rhythm Matrix.

➡️ This is a ten-week masterclass, recorded with a live audience on zoom. 

Level 1

🎵 The Core Abilities you need to make your lines shine:

So that others understand what you are playing you must understand it yourself.

It is easy to know if you play the right note or not - you can likely hear a clam when you play one. But if it doesn't feel right it's much more elusive!

To make matters worse, often it is simply assumed that rhythm is just a natural ability that one "simply possesses".

And teachers can be the worst when it comes to that because for many great players rhythmic ability is completely unconscious so many are helpless or clueless when it comes to helping you.
I know, because I have sat across from students in tears telling me about that teacher in band class who told them to just pretend because they were so off.
And don't get me started on fellow musicians with well-meaning but hurtful advice...

✨ Ari has developed a method to help you with this!

Master the  three core abilities you need to make it groove:


1 - Feel the Rhythm in Your Body

Likely, to get the rhythm right you have to focus hard and be in your head. Maybe you have to count or tap your foot just a certain way. But that means you can never cut loose, enjoy, improvise. The remedy for this lies in your body. If you feel the rhythm in your body you can stop counting. Ari has a simple but effective way to help you get the rhythm into your body. Reliably!

2 - Understanding the Subdivision

Understand the difference between ternary subdivisions such as shuffles, swing or Jazz and binary ones. Feel the difference and crack the code of each song.

3 - Ari's Matrix

16 shapes to rule all binary rhythms. That's it! Yes, it involves a touch of reading, but it's just 16 figures, so... and if you ever had a hard time reading rhythms, Aris Matrix will make it easy going forward! 




Sign up now ($175.00) Installment Plan (3x$69.75)

✨ What you'll learn ✨

  • Improvise freely

    Once you begin to feel the rhythm in your body, your creativity can finally shine!

  • Ari's Matrix

    Learn the 16 shapes of the binary world and learn how to hear them, use them, and read them! Finally, you will understand what you play!

  • Read charts

    Even if you are new to reading, or thought you don't need it, in this class you will decode the toughest part of reading: reading rhythms! Ari's 16 shapes make it easy!

  • Rhythms in tunes

    Putting the 16 shapes into the context of some of the most iconic tunes helps bring them to life. It will also help you play these tunes!

  • Identifying rhythms

    No more fear of the funk! Soon these 16 elements will start jumping out at you when you hear them in songs!

Verified Graduates

What out students say...

Chris N.

Bassist

First of all I wanted to tell you how much I've learned in our class and it has really help me understand the rhythms. Your teaching methods are amazing.

I now find myself trying to identify the rhythm patterns on tunes as I drive to work and transcribing some of the bass lines that constantly bounce around my head.

Tracie W.

Professional Bassoonist and Bassist

I just finished Ari’s Rhythm Course and I can’t stop thinking about how awesome it was. She has come up with such a great way to get the rhythms into your body. I have struggled with syncopation and off beat sixteenth notes for years as a classically trained bassoonist and although I still have a long way to go to get every single subdivision lined up exactly right, I am finally on the right path.

Ari teaches us to feel the subdivisions in our bodies using words.
It’s so simple but so deep at the same time.

I loved the songs she used to teach us examples from the rhythm matrix and the idea that you can isolate the rhythms from those songs and use them when you are practicing other material.

Thanks so much Ariane Cap for your brilliant, creative teaching!!!

SLM, personal email

5 string bassist

I started using the Rhythm Matrix approach to Sight Reading and Transcribing Rhythms from Audio. The counting "1 + 2 +, 1 e a +" drove me crazy when reading and transcribing rhythms.

The Rhythm Matrix makes my job so easy when reading, and figure the rhythm when listening in the car.

Laura B.

Bassist

Over the past six years, I’ve tried many different teachers with their different teaching methods, and time after time, I return to Ari’s courses.

I have come to realize that this is the only place I need to be to learn everything I need to continue growing in this journey. She has the most impressive process of instruction. She obviously loves to teach. All her courses are interconnected. No matter which piece of the puzzle you focus on, whether it be theory, rhythm, patterns of the fretboard, technique, etc., she manages to include insights into all the other aspects of what she has to offer. It’s a beautiful thing.

Randy

Bassist

I signed up for the next session less than 24 hours after the info was posted so that should tell you something.


I’ve taken in-person lessons from four local “teachers" here in the Columbus area and have learned bits and pieces from each of them. What I didn’t learn was how to tie those bits and pieces up into a usable bundle. I’ve learned more about that part of it in the last ten weeks than in the three or four years of combined instruction locally.

I plan on continuing with this course until I feel comfortable enough to walk into any situation, plug in, and hold my own and would recommend anybody spending some time in a class of their interest with Ari.

Curriculum

Make it Groove!

It changes everything!

Each week is jam-packed with strategies, tunes, analyses, assignments and drills.

⚙️ How it Works
🌎 Your Rhythm Matrix Community
⭐️ Helpful Resources - Tech Tools
👍 Helpful Resources - Pattern and Score Paper
🏷️ Tags
⬇️ How to download audio and PDF files from our platform
⚠️ Please Read!
Lesson 1: Welcome
Lesson 2: Basics
Lesson 3: Matrix Groundwork
Lesson 4: Let's Build the Matrix Together
Lesson 5: From xs and os to Notes and Rests
Lesson 6: Match up your work with The Matrix
Lesson 7: The Matrix
Lesson 8: More Matrix Help if you need it
Lesson 9: The Pocket
Lesson 10: Precision Drill: Tempos (Start fast)
Lesson 11: Precision Drill 2: Tempos (start fast)
Lesson 12: Preview
Lesson 1: Knock Knock
Lesson 2: How to do the Groove Gym Drills
Lesson 3: Groove Gym
Lesson 4: BaBoom Rock Steady
Lesson 5: More variations on BaBoom
Lesson 6: ObLadDi
Lesson 7: More Variations on Ob La Di (in minor!)
Lesson 8: Add a Slide to ObLaDi
Lesson 9: Stand by
Lesson 10: Hot Sweat
Lesson 1: Welcome to Unit 3!
Lesson 2: Upbeat vs Downbeat - Continuous eighth notes
Lesson 3: Upbeat vs: Downbeat - Adding Quarter Notes
Lesson 4 Upbeat vs: Downbeat - Phrasing!
Lesson 5: Upbeat Song: Ashes
Lesson 6: Shuffled versus Straight
Lesson 7: Shuffled BaBoom!
Lesson 8: Fix Your Groove with right Note Lengths
Lesson 9: New Figures: #4 #6
Lesson 10: #4 in a Song (Holy Driver)
Lesson 11: #6 in a Song: Don't Call Al!
Lesson 1: Welcome to Unit 4
Lesson 2: New Shape #3 "and-then he" (TeenyTown)
Lesson 3: New Shape #7 "and-a" (Wolf's Tune)
Lesson 4: Shuffled Stand by me
Lesson 5: Shuffled Ob La di
Lesson 6: Shuffled Minor Ob La Di
Lesson 7: Shuffled Ob La Di with slide
Lesson 8: More Cheerful Upbeats with Al
Lesson 9: More Hot Sweat
Lesson 1: Welcome to Unit 5
Lesson 2: Groove All The Rhythms
Lesson 3: Rhythmic Improv
Lesson 4: Rhythmic Improv 2
Lesson 5: Quiz
Lesson 6: Change the Feel on the Fly!
Lesson 7: Call and Response
Lesson 8: EarTraining
Lesson 9: Fill Game!
Lesson 1: Welcome!
Lesson 2: Rhythm #9 with downbeat (Africa)
Lesson 3: Rhythm #9 with rest
Lesson 4: Rhythm #10 with downbeat (Knightrider)
Lesson 5: Rhythm #10 with rest
Lesson 6: Dead Note Drills
Lesson 7: Anticipation
Lesson 8: Improv using syncopations!
Lesson 9: Getting the "Feel"
Lesson 1: Welcome!
Lesson 2: Introducing #5
Lesson 3: #5 Feature
Lesson 4: #5 & #15 combo feature
Lesson 5: Introducing #8
Lesson 6: What is Hip? #8 is Hip!
Lesson 7: The Barbra Anne Trick for #8
Lesson 8: Precision Workout #1 Straight and Shuffled
Lesson 9: (Reward Lesson!) Easy Groove Etudes 1 and 2 with Ari's Trick Metronome
Lesson 10: Barbra Anne as a Precision Drill
Lesson 1: Welcome!
Lesson 2: Meet #11
Lesson 3: #11 Feature 1
Lesson 4: #11 Feature 2
Lesson 5: 3 Strategies for Improvising over a Rhythmic Template (Expand your Rhythmic Freedom!)
Lesson 6: Mastering Ties
Lesson 7: "Backwards Shuffle"
Lesson 8: 6/8
Lesson 9: Develop Your Feel
Lesson 10: Reward Lesson: Easy Groove Etude 3 (with Trick Metronome!)
Lesson 1: Let's Complete The Matrix: #14 & #16
Lesson 2: Feature: #14
Lesson 3: Feature #16
Lesson 4: #16 Goes to Town!
Lesson 5: Moving the Figures
Lesson 6: On-the-beat-Off-the-beat
Lesson 7: On the Beat - Off the Beat Fun Variation
Lesson 8: Don't be Early!
Lesson 9: Reward Lesson - Easy Groove Etude
Lesson 10: Advice if you are in a Band
Lesson 1: Welcome!
Lesson 2: Groove All The Rhythms
Lesson 3: Groove All The Rhythms (in 3/4)
Lesson 4: Groove all the Rhythms (now shuffled 16ths!)
Lesson 5: Improv with Minor Triangle
Lesson 6: Change the Feel on the Fly
Lesson 7: Call & Copy without Pitches
Lesson 8: Call & Copy with Pitches
Lesson 9: EarTraining
Lesson 10: Fill Game!
Lesson 11: Now what?
Ari's Rhythm Matrix
PORA Cheat Sheet
Trick Metronome
#1 Complete PORA drill with Ari
#1 with #2 (Animation Video)
#1 with #13 (Animation Video)
#1 Dead Notes
#2 Complete PORA drill with Ari
#2 with #2 (Animation Video)
#2 with #13 (Animation Video)
#2 with Dead Notes
#3 Complete PORA drill with Ari
#3 with #2 (Animation Video)
#3 with #13 (Animation Video)
#3 with Dead Notes
#4 Complete PORA drill with Ari
#4 with #2 (Animation Video)
#4 with #13 (Animation Video)
#4 with Dead Notes
#5 Complete PORA drill with Ari
#5 with #2 (Animation Video)
#5 with #13 (Animation Video)
#5 with Dead Notes
#6 Complete PORA drill with Ari
#6 with #2 (Animation Video)
#6 with #13 (Animation Video)
#6 with Dead Notes
#7 Complete PORA drill with Ari
#7 with #2 (Animation Video)
#7 with #13 (Animation Video)
#7 with Dead Notes
#8 Complete PORA drill with Ari
#8 with #2 (Animation Video)
#8 with #13 (Animation Video)
#8 with Dead Notes
#9 Complete PORA drill with Ari
#9 with #2 (Animation Video)
#9 with #13 (Animation Video)
#9 with Dead Notes
#10 Complete PORA drill with Ari
#10 with #2 (Animation Video)
#10 with #13 (Animation Video)
#10 with Dead Notes
#11 Complete PORA drill with Ari
#11 with #2 (Animation Video)
#11 with #13 (Animation Video)
#11 with Dead Notes
#12 Complete PORA drill with Ari
#12 with #2 (Animation Video)
#12 with #13 (Animation Video)
#12 with Dead Notes
#13 Complete PORA drill with Ari
#13 with #2 (Animation Video)
#13 with #13 (Animation Video)
#13 with Dead Notes
#14 Complete PORA drill with Ari
#14 with #2 (Animation Video)
#14 with #13 (Animation Video)
#14 with Dead Notes
#15 Complete PORA drill with Ari
#15 with #2 (Animation Video)
#15 with #13 (Animation Video)
#15 with Dead Notes
#16 Complete PORA drill with Ari
#16 with #2 (Animation Video)
#16 with #13 (Animation Video)
#16 with Dead Notes
Unit 1 - April 18, 2025
Unit 2 - April 25, 2025
Unit 3 - May 2nd, 2025
Unit 4 - May 9th, 2025
Unit 5 - May 16th, 2025
Unit 6 - May 23rd, 2025
Unit 7 - May 30th, 2025
Unit 8 - June 6th, 2025
Unit 9 - June 13th, 2025
Unit 10 - June 20th, 2025

Is this for you?

Whether you are looking to dial in the accuracy of your groove or are feeling pretty lost when it comes to making it groove, this is for you!

Prerequisites are:
💜 Basic ability to play simple bass lines.
➡️ No reading skills required, TAB for pitches
➡️ No theory skills required
➡️ Low intermediate and up!

What's included

  • 10 Hours of video, recorded live on zoom with our awesome students

  • PDFs, custom composed jam tracks and other resources

  • Post your videos, discuss your learnings in our community

Get started now!

✨ Lifetime Access✨
✨ 20 day money back guarantee✨