On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 7:47 AM, Daryl Shawn <
highhorse@mhorse.com> wrote:
> I've been wanting to remark for a while on the rhythm intensive I took a few
> months ago with Rick Walker (I think a few others here have taken it too,
> yes? Luis or Per, maybe?). For anyone who's looking to improve their
> rhythmic sense, or just expand their musical consciousness, I can't
> recommend it enough, really. The coolest part is him showing how any rhythm,
> no matter how complicated, can be broken down to its component parts, which
> fit in a nicely finite family of building blocks. It's changed the way I
> pick up and can respond to beats that I hear, pretty dramatically. I took a
> rhythm workshop with Cyro Baptista last month, and I realized there that
> Rick's instruction had made me way more confident and comfortable with
> rhythm than I'd ever been before.
>
> It's also just a pile of fun learning about things like the percentage of
> swing in a particular beat, or the characteristic rhythms in music I had
> never heard of. This is a massive understatement for anyone who knows him,
> but Rick has gotten around. A fount o' rhythmic knowledge.
>
> (It's kinda worth the trip to Santa Cruz just to see his magic house of
> instruments from all over the place. It is wondrous. But I know he's been
> looking into doing long-distance lessons over video, too, which is nice for
> our far-flung group here.)
>
> Daryl Shawn
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