Any odd meter based in 16th notes can be felt as a 16th note longer or shorter than a more common meter based on 8ths or quarter notes. Once you become comfortable with that concept, you can start to internalize any 16th-based meter. The first meter we’re going to explore is 15/16. Let’s start by relating it to a bar of 4/4, as shown in Exercise 1.

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