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Ricardo

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Joined: Dec. 14 2004
From: Washington DC

Gateway to Rhythm

New instructional DVD by John Mclaughlin and his Indian compadre Selva ganesh

http://www.abstractlogix.com/xcart/product.php?productid=23241

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Estevan

Posts: 1936
Joined: Dec. 20 2006
From: Torontolucía

RE: Gateway to Rhythm (in reply to Ricardo)

Very interesting! The introduction part of the clip seems a bit disorganized, but perhaps it's more systematic once they get into it.

Trichy Sankaran (seen in one of the YouTube selections under the 5/16 thread) has been teaching konnakkol classes at York University in Toronto since the early '70s. As a drummer he was asked to give a performance course, but with the impracticality of obtaining instruments for everybody, developed a konnakkol curriculum with great success. It has even influenced teaching methods in India now that music colleges have largely supplanted the traditional guru-disciple teaching system.

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Me da igual. La música es música.

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Ailsa

Posts: 2277
Joined: Apr. 17 2007
From: South East England

RE: Gateway to Rhythm (in reply to Ricardo)

I've never heard of Konokol before, but a percussion teacher of mine used to teach new rhythms by getting us to vocalise. Only when we could speak the rhythms, were we allowed to pick up drums, and try to reproduce the rhythm we were speaking. It worked amazingly well - once the rhythm was in our heads, we could play it very quickly.

Another teacher of mine taught us complex rhythms by putting silly words to the overall rhythm. Then each drummer would learn which words they played on. Here's a very daft one - I've tried to give the counting, but it's a bit difficult to represent.

(1)--2---------------3-----------4
------Guiness and stout, Barman,
--------5-----------6---------------7-----------8-----------1
and a packet of crisps, packet of crisps, packet of crisps,
--------2------------3-----------------4----------(5)
and a Bud and a snakebite and black.
--------6------7-------------8----------
Hurry up Barman, hurry up please.

Well it made us laugh anyway. Words rather give the impression we liked a drink tho.