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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.
Music & Intelligence
Will Listening to Music Make You Smarter?
By Duane Shinn
Will listening to music make you smarter? Will learning to play a musical instrument make your brain grow larger than normal? Questions like these ones have been popping up all over the place in the past few years, and not just in scientific...read more...
Taking The Plunge!
Could you leave your day job to teach guitar full-time?
By James Ledley
I thought I would give a bit of advice and hopefully inspiration to anyone out there thinking of starting up teaching full-time. I am 35 years old and had been working in an Admin job "which I hated" since 1991, Over the last few years the urge...read more...
Spoilt For Choice!
Tablature or Dots?
By Oliver Staines
As teachers of the guitar we have the great good fortune of the many perks that come with being able to teach what essentially is the ‘coolest’ instrument read more...
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