Wusician’s Guide to Understanding i and improvising with Rhythm i |£2 GETTING STARTED 1. Who this book s for and how it works 7 VARIATION 2. Understanding the charts and basic concepts 11 TECHNIQUES: Pulses and subdivisions 12 | crestespuce 32 Four and six 13 Timelines and cycles 14 Changeveleng 40 — a 3 Adapting the patterns to your instrument 17 Hand drums 18 Ccombineveriatons 8 Dre 10 sh as Guitar, bass, and other string instruments 18 ‘addynaic Piano and other keyboard instruments 1 eons 38 Saxand other wind instruments 19 Voice 19 Addghostnots 65 Aajustthevolume 68 4 Amethod for learning any new pattern applied to the timelines on the CD 21 Diplceonenate 74 suse Sayitand-playit 22 Stemntnatee 76 The timeline in four 22 ‘The timeline in six 24 5. Tripleweave practicing 27 Artachasutix 81 Comps v8 PATTERNS, CONCEPTS, AND TECHNIQUES 6 The pulse and parallel figures 31 Lesson I: Playing the pulse on your instrument 32 Bevend a Lesson 2: The pulse and the beat before 36 Sulbstutentepet 175, Lesson 3: The two beats before the pulse 39 Lesson 4: The pulse andthe beat after 44 pecentwithadiam 145 Isolateandrepeat 150 a 1 Lesson 5: The twa beats after the pulse 47, =a Lesson 6: Three-note figures 51 nae ie 7 Pathways through the grid in four 57 Lesson 7: Consecutive eighth notes 58 Lesson 8; Numbered beats and upbeats 61 Lesson 9 Offheats 64 Lesson 10; Singles and pairs 68, Lesson 11: Backbeats 72 lesson 12: Sixteenth notes 75 Lesson 13: The offbeat before or after the pulse 78 Lesson 14: Timelines 828 Pathways through the grid in six 87, Lesson 15: Consecutive eighth notes 88 Lesson 16: The odd-numbered beats ~ the pulse and 3 over 2 91 Lesson 17: The odd-numbered Lesson 18: The even-numbered beats 99 Lesson 19: Backbeats 102 Lesson 20: The offbeats before or after the pulse 106 Lesson 21: Singles and pairs and timelines 110 9 Three notquite-equal groups of beats in four 117 Lesson 22: One-bar clave patterns 118 Lesson 23: Shifted one-bar clave patterns 122 Lesson 24: 5/5/6 patterns 125 Lesson 25: Shifted 5/5/6 patterns 129 10) Three groups of four beats in six 133 Lesson 26:The 3-pulse and 3 over 4 134 Lesson 27: Set 138 Lesson 28: Set2 141 Lesson 29: Set3 144 Lesson 30: Sets 148 11 Crosshythms 153 Lesson 31: 3-beatcross-thythms in four 154 Lesson 32: -beatcross-zhythms in four 157 Lesson 33: -beatcross-rhythms in six 162 Lesson 34: S-beat and 7-beatcrose-chythms 167 12 Polyzhythms with uneven grids 173 Lesson 35:3 over 2 eighth notes in four and six 174 Lesson 36: Subdividing the pulse in fourinto 3 178 Lesson 37: Subdividing the pulse in sixinto2 or 4 181 Lesson 38: Bending. pattern between four and six 185 13 Glossary 191 FOR FURTHER STUDY AND ENJOYMENT 14 Rhythm walking 195, Blankcharts 201 Sources: books, videos, CDs, and audiotapes 203 Also available fom Dancing Hands Music 205 RHYTHMIC CONCEPTS Thetendencyotthe lores 2 Unseceneapuse 37 Thepowerofalnited nome ofvoces 40 The trance effect atovenappirgoNe 59 The dsortenting tector obscung thepulse ” Thestsbtengetect, Thesuspendd eect tendon thebaat bore one a The tendencyto iuprotes nthe Somewace together 106,