A Rhythmic Vocabulary: A Musician's Guide to Understanding and Improvising With Rhythm - Softcover

Dworsky, Alan L.; Sansby, Betsy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0963880128 ISBN 13: 9780963880123

Publisher: Dancing Hands Music, 1997

Synopsis

A musician's guide to understanding and improvising with rhythm. This book is a road map to rhythm for any musician. It's for guitar players intrigued by the rhythms of world music. It's for keyboard players who've studied scales and chords and now want to study rhythm in a systematic way. It's for drummers, b players, and sax players who want to groove and solo with a deeper understanding of rhythmic structure. Whatever your instrument, if you want to play funkier and don't mind using your head to do it, this book is for you. This step- by-step comprehensive course includes: hundreds of patterns drawn from African and Afro-Cuban rhythms explained and organized according to their structures; Rhythmic concepts and techniques you can use to create your own patterns; Bite-sized lessons arranged in order of difficulty; Easy-to-read charts that even non-musicians can under- stand; A CD that creates a realistic, three-dimensional rhythmic context for you to practice in; Exercises to reinforce your under- standing and help you build on what you're learning; and a chapter on rhythm walking--a fun way to create rhythms with your whole body while you walk.

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From the Author

Learn to groove and solo with African and Afro-Cuban rhythms
You don't have to be a drummer to study rhythm. This 208-page book with CD is a roadmap to rhythm for any musician. It organizes and explains hundreds of patterns to give a deeper understanding of rhythmic structure. It also teaches rhythmic concepts and variation techniques you can use to create patterns of your own.

Edition details

• Publisher: Dancing Hands Music
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0963880128
• ISBN 13: 9780963880123
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 208
• Illustrator: Jackson Robert