At 10:34 AM 11/27/96 -0800, you wrote:
>This thread gets me thinking. I have often thought that one of me true
>regrets is that I never played drums. (Its equally true that one of my
>few saving graces is that I never played drums ;-)
>
>But seriously, I know several muscians who have played drums and now
>play another instrument, e.g. guitar or sax. It appears to me that
>these players have a tremendous instictive(?) sense of the groove.
>
>I wonder if there are exercises that one can do to enhance rhythmic
>skills. As a guitar player myself, I have a healthy dose of rhythm
>from all the pop/blues/reggae/rock/jazz comping I have done for many
>years. But I have never done any woodshedding on it. I could dream up
>ideas of what to do but I suspect schooled musicians have drills that
>are time tested to be effective.
>
>Its always a pleasure for me to play with someone who uses interesting
>rhythmic variety in their comping. This also must flow over into their
>soloing skills too.
>
>Frank
>> From owner-discussion-L@justjazz.com Tue Nov 26 20:15 PST 1996
>> To: Multiple recipients of list discussion-L <discussion-L@justjazz.com>
>> Sender: owner-discussion-L@justjazz.com
>> From: David Kaczorowski <kaczordk@umdnj.edu>
>> Subject: Re: jazz rhythm
>> Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 17:19:43 -0500 (EST)
>> In-Reply-To: <2E58E675.513B@sympatico.ca> from "Renaissance Music" at Aug
22, 94 10:55:01 am
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>> > 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
>> >
>> >
>> This is what I was elluding to in my post last week, recommending the
>> Latin stuff as a source for ideas and so on. The above and subsequent
>> posts lead me to believe that my definition of polyrhythm is incorrect.
>> If what you describe are rhythm templates or metric modulation, what then
>> is polyrhythm? Or, is polyrhythm the combination of two or more rhythm
>> templates? I'd appreciate some clarification.
>> BTW, I meant to say in my last post that the key to playing stuff like
>> this "spontaneously" is learning how to think rhythmically on multiple
>> levels like the way a drummer thinks.
>>
>> Peace,
>> David Kaczorowski
>> kaczordk@umdnj.edu
>>
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