These elements of vocabulary are intended as supplemental information for Rhythm Arise students. They are frameworks for learning, understanding and embodying rhythm in it’s many varieties. The names are convenient ways to refer to rhythmic structures and should...
I just had a conversation with a friend that touched on cultural appropriation in the context of world percussion and drum and dance circles. It can be a sticky subject but I’m glad that folks have developed some sensitivity to it because it goes hand in hand...
In “Interior and Exterior Experiences of Music,” I discuss the importance of development on both technical/theoretical and experiential/expressive domains. Clearly, the most important aspect of this is practice, the question is how. Our approach to...
m and dance circles are often not the shape of a circle. I’ve been to hundreds of drum and dance circles. Very Lifew of them were actually the shape of a circle. Those that that were often presented phasing problems due to difficulty in people hearing one...
There are a lot of recreational music making experiences available today that, grouped together, are called “drum circles”. These range from highly structured team building events for schools and corporations, to free-for-all celebrations of life found on...
Reduced PainA 2012 study published in Evolutionary Psychology found that active performance of music (singing, dancing and drumming) triggered endorphin release (measured by post-activity increases in pain tolerance) whereas merely listening to music did not. The...
