JS 523T World Music Rhythms
Focuses on the students’ ability to internalize and comprehend a range of rhythms from Africa, India, and other regions. The teaching emphasizes speaking a rhythm and then performing the lessons on the frame drum. Course materials are based upon a contemporary application of old-world teaching methods from North Africa, the Mideast, and South India. The basic playing techniques are adapted from South Indian drumming and can be applied to a variety of percussion instruments. Leake’s “Harmonic Time” method of orchestrating and internalizing musical time, groove, and mathematics will also be applied to learn advanced rhythm theory concepts.