“This book goes straight to the top of my practice routine.” – Nav Jhaj MattWarnockGuitar.com Reader
There are three main elements of music: Harmony, Melody and Rhythm. These three items form the foundation of modern music, which has some combination of time/pulse, harmonic content such as chords/chord progressions and/or melody.
Now, think to yourself, what order do you place these items when you are in the practice room?
When I ask this question in workshops, no matter what country I’m in, the answer is always the same. Harmony, Melody, then Rhythm. But, is this the best way to organize our practice time and place focus on the bandstand?
After teaching jazz and other improvised music for almost 20 years, I have realized that many of the students I work with struggle with time and rhythm. Even though they understand and can apply all of the harmonic and melodic material in the correct way, their rhythmic control, interest and application is not up to par with their lines, chords and phrases.
For this reason, I have always put a strong focus on rhythmic material with my students, as well as in my own practice room as I have continued to develop as a player. And after teaching this material privately for many years, I have brought these lessons and exercises together into one book for the first time, “Modern Time: Rhythmic Fundamentals for the Improvising Musician.”
The book’s focus is to help you develop a solid understanding of how rhythms and rhythmic groupings work; how they can be manipulated and expanded as well as how to apply all of this knowledge to your own playing.
Each concept is presented in an easy to understand fashion, and is accompanied by multiple exercises that focus on developing your control of rhythmic material from both a technical and improvisational standpoint.
This book was a labor of love for me as I love to work on rhythmic material and to teach it to my private students. I hope you enjoy working through the book as much as I enjoyed putting it together for you.
When buying the Modern Time Ebook you get:
- Printable PDF Format
- 84 Pages of Lessons, Exercises and Musical Examples
- Over 100 Musical Examples in Notation an Tablature
- Over 100 Audio Examples (Mp4 format that will play in iTunes, Windows Media Player and Quicktime)
- Enough learning material to keep you busy in the practice room for months, if not years, on end
- All For Less Than the Cost of 1 Private Lesson!
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If you’re looking to bring your rhythm playing to the next level and are searching for new inspiration in the practice room, check out “Modern Time: Rhythmic Fundamentals for the Improvising Musician.”
For less than the price of one private lesson you get a lifetime’s worth of practice material to explore in the woodshed.
Lesson Topics Include
- Rhythmic Pairing
- Rhythmic Retrograde
- Rhythmic Mirroring
- Rhythmic Transposition
- Eighth-Note Accents
- Charleston Accents
- Brazilian Accents
- Afro-Cuban Accents
- 5 Exercises for Rhythmic Development With Repertoire
- Whole Notes
- Half Notes
- Eighth Notes
- Eighth-Note, Quarter-Note and Half-Note Triplets
- Sixteenth Notes
- Dotted Quarter-Notes in 4/4 and 3/4 Time
- Bossa Nova and Reverse Bossa Nova
- Samba and Reverse Samba
- Choro
- Baiáo
- Son 2/3 and 3/2 Claves
- Rumba 2/3 and 3/2 Claves
- 6/8 Clave
- 2/3 and 3/2 Montuno
What People Are Saying About Modern Time
“‘Modern Time’ is the clearest explanation of rhythms I have come across. Unlike many other books that are just page after page of notation, each exercise in this book has a clear purpose and is thoroughly explained. Straight away useful and practical practice methods are introduced that keep the information relevant. After establishing a solid foundation in the basics the book steadily takes you along to more advanced rhythms, but never gets overwhelming. The accompanying audio tracks were also very useful to check that I was reading the notation correctly. This is an invaluable book for any musician wanting to expand their grasp of rhythms, highly recommended.'” – Jamie Holroyd (UK Based Jazz Guitarist and Teacher)
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