Friday, September 30, 2011

Follow up on Rhythmic Ideas

I wanted to follow up on my post of rhythmic ideas with some recordings to demonstrate a few of the concepts.  Rhythm needs to be felt as well as understood, so hopefully these recordings will help.

The following are just a few points from original post found here. 

Phrasing
  • Try connecting a few melodic ideas you would normally play separately, or just try extending a phrase  farther than you normally would.
                     Extending a phrase.mp3
  • Try playing a series of shorter phrases, or break up a longer phrase into shorter phrases. Also, try breaking up longer phrases by inserting held notes.  
                     Breaking up a phrase.mp3

Cross Rhythms and Polyrhythms
  • Experiment with basic cross rhythms, grouping your 8th notes into melodic ideas that accent every third or fifth note.
                     3 over 4 cross rhythm.mp3    5 over 4 cross rhythm.mp3
  • Try the most basic polyrhythm, triplets. Try playing phrases of continuous triplets instead of 8th notes.
                     8th notes vs. triplets.mp3


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  1. UnknownOctober 3, 2011 at 10:56 AM

    Hi Ben,
    You should probably record your voice and the horn separately (on different mics) and then put them together in a DAW because the voice is incredibly soft compared to your horn. I have to ride the volume knob to hear the whole thing. Just a thought.
    Barry C

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  2. Ben BrittonOctober 3, 2011 at 4:19 PM

    Thanks for the feedback Barry. I agree I need to get the vocal volume higher.

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  3. UnknownOctober 3, 2011 at 5:34 PM

    Otherwise it's great stuff as always. :-)
    -Barry

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