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Rhythm Memory plays a rhythmic pattern and asks you to reproduce it by tapping. Rhythm is remembered differently from other sequences — as a motor pattern rather than a list — which is why people can reproduce a rhythm they could not possibly describe.
Listen to the rhythmic pattern.
Tap it back with the same timing.
Both the order and the intervals are scored.
Correct reproductions add complexity.
Your score is the most complex pattern you reproduced.
Temporal pattern memory. Timing information is held and reproduced through motor systems, which is a genuinely different route from the verbal rehearsal most memory tasks use.
Move with the rhythm while listening — nod, or tap silently. Motor encoding is what makes rhythm stick.
Feel the pulse underneath rather than counting individual beats.
Subdivide mentally. A complex rhythm is usually simple against a faster underlying pulse.
Reproduce at the same tempo. Changing speed distorts the intervals more than you expect.
Yes, a clear one, because they already encode rhythm as structure rather than as a series of events. Non-musicians improve quickly though.
Yes, the pattern is auditory.
Rhythm is stored partly as a motor pattern. Moving gives you that encoding route in addition to the auditory one.
Rhythm Tap scores your timing against a running beat. This is memory for a pattern you have heard once.