Rhythm Workbook

Rhythm workbook

The From Scratch Rhythm Workbook

Since its formation in 1974, the internationally renowned performing group, From Scratch, has developed a distinctive style of music using sophisticated rhythmic language and unique sculptural instruments. Group founder Philip Dadson and longtime member Don McGlashan have translated this twenty years of experience in to the exercises and game forms presented in The From Scratch Rhythm Workbook. This hands-on resource uses a body-based approach to rhythm and sound, including clapping, stamping, and simple vocals. A wide range of rhythmic and compositional concepts are introduced in exercises that are both fun to do and musically satisfying in themselves. The introductions and discussion notes accompanying each exercise emphasize natural functions such as heartbeat, breathing, sleeping-waking, and walking, to illustrate that our bodies are organized rhythmic systems and that this natural rhythm is the best basis for developing rhythmic skills.

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