> I'm from Portugal which is a little country in the westerner side of
Europe,
> and grew up listening among other things to african and brazilian music.
> The music from Cabo Verde, Angola, (Portuguese ex-colonies) or from Brazil
> (colonized by Portuguese) has all to do with my musical roots.
> Being so into african beats, the rhythm gets under your skin, so the whole
> off-beat subject is just second nature to me. Also I begun studying music
by
> the percussive side, and have now some nice practice of hand percussion. In
> fact I can say that I'm quite good improvising with rhythm (I also program
> sequencer/drum machines which gives a deeper understanding of it all).
> My influence from bossanova, provides a lot of rhythmic ideas, so I can say
> that is not a problem to me. So I don't stress it. But I would be more than
> happy to discuss it.
> All this to say I would love to dissect some rhythms here!
> Pedro
I'm very interested in this idea. Unlike Pedro, I don't have any depth of
background in percussion performance or concepts. I have been thinking of
dissecting some rhythms to build more understanding.
May I suggest a song we can start with?
How about Little Digi's Strut from Mark Whitfield's CD titled The Marksman.
Frank