Rhythm Primer
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Rating | : | 4.43 (983 Votes) |
Asin | : | 1890944599 |
Format Type | : | paperback |
Number of Pages | : | 108 Pages |
Publish Date | : | 2015-03-24 |
Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
He has observed his student's most common musical problems, elicited their input, and the results are the Bruce Arnold Series of Music Workbooks, addressing both harmonic and rhythmic issues. Arnold's innovative instruction series. We believe that this series of books will help more students and professional musicians to perfect their technique and reading skills through the use of an interactive "practice partner." We know of no other books to compare with them; they are truly a teaching method for the New Mi
"Rhythm for the Rhythmically Dense" according to J. Lolos. This book has 61 rhythm exercises with all sorts of "scary" and not-so-scary rhythms to practice (can you tell I'm a vocalist?) There are triplets, lots of triplets, regular triplets, quarter note triplets and half note triplets. I never knew there was such things as quarter and half note triplets. The book explains the "theory" of all these triplets, but what is really helpful is hearing the triplets played (MIDI down. Swami B said Buy it, do it, get with the program. This book will challenge your musicality, but the time you spend with it is well worth it. Rhythm is so simple, yet very difficult for some kinds of musical artists to incorporate into their music-making (of course, I'm talking about vocalists). I like the approach presented here, and Bruce Arnold is a responsive author. He even sent me a replacement disc for a damaged CD that came with the book.
All examples use one pitch allowing total concentration on rhythm and time. This book concentrates on eighth, sixteenth and thirty second note rhythms without ties or rests. Free audio flies are available on the internet for each exercise.