aleksi -> RE: Where from to study about compas (Jul. 8 2009 22:40:17)
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Hi Ramzi, I dont know books, but my advice is that you take a palo what you want to learn and start feeding your mind and body with it alot. Make a play list to your mp3, and while listening it, tap the rhytm with your feet or your hand or fingers. Try to find the basic rhytm first, stay with it until it becomes natural, then make a little variation about it and stay with it until it becomes natural. After you will be able to change between these two and know where you are all the time. If you have patience, you can then take third variation, make it solid etc.. After you have the basic compas under your feet/hands you have more freedom to listen whats around it. Start to listen how the singing is going, where does the guitarist make accents. They usually follow the basic compas pattern and it goes easily with your tapping, but they are also "playing" with the rhytm and accenting in interresting places (maybe just microsecond before or afrer the compas pattern) and ways. I find this way of learning compas effective. You can do it where ever you are. Driving car, walking, bycicling, at shop, at home... After awhile the compas you want will be playing in your head even without mp3 and you can do some nice contras to that [:)] I've noticed that theres a limit of how much listening one can take without getting crazy, or totally bored about the subject[:D] so be careful[:D] -Aleksi
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