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The Rhythmic Scale: Part 1
by Tim Lake
Outside of drummers and drumming circles rhythmical understanding is quite often the weakest link in an otherwise accomplished musician. For a lot of musicians, rhythm is more invisible than harmony or technique, but studying and understanding rhythm is as important as studying harmony or technique, and is useful in both composing and improvising.
Perhaps not the simplest place to start, the rhythmic scale, so called, is a useful tool to becoming comfortable with quintuplets and sextuplets, and shifting through subdivisions of the beat. It can be developed to give us an understanding of basic polyrhythmic concepts and metric modulations. What is important is to be able to feel the pulse throughout and it is essential to practice with a metronome.
Practice Methods
By Peter Lindemere B.Mus PGCE
Practice Methods
What and how to practice as well as for how long and how often are questions I am often asked by my students. There are no straightforward answers here as it all depends on your ability at the moment, your goals as an individual for the future and of course, how much ...read more...
Learning Types And Memory Techniques
By Peter Lindemere B.Mus PGCE
Learning Types and Memory Techniques
Learning types
There are a lot of things you need to remember as a musician: scales, intervals, chords, key signatures, time signatures, accidentals, musical terms and elements as well as all the physical techniques you shou...read more...
Improving Your Swing Feel
By Gregory Hofmann
Here I look at ways to improve your time feel when playing swing and ways to practice arpeggios while working on common rhythmic subdivisions.
I then let you into how I practice these ideas as well as all the ideas I have spoken about in my previous videos by playing through the A S...read more...