re:jazz rhythm
Renaissance Music ( renmusic@sympatico.ca )
Mon, 22 Aug 1994 10:55:01 -0700
David:
Thanks for youe reply. A rhythmic template could be for example a
repeating 3 beat idea in 4/4
time.(imagine for example the rhythm of the words "double dubonnet")
Start the idea on beat 1 of bar 1 and play it 4 times and you come out on
beat 1 of the fourth bar. Start the whole thing on beat 2 of bar 1 and
come out on beat 2 of the fourth bar etc. The possibilties are of course
endless. I suppose that if you practiced enough of these rhythmic words
that you would start to assemble them in different combinations much like
we combine and recombine melodic ideas during improvisation.
Andrew Trott
renmusic@sympatico.ca