Rhythm: What It Is And How to Improve Your Sense of It - Softcover

Andrew C. Lewis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0975466704 ISBN 13: 9780975466704

Publisher: RhythmSource Press, 2005

Synopsis

In this one-of-a-kind guide, veteran percussionist Andrew Lewis offers time-tested techniques for entering the world of rhythm and inhabiting it comfortably, whether playing the basics or meeting the most advanced challenges. Designed to benefit every musician, not just drummers, the contents include: Insightful explorations of core concepts, from pulse and pattern to polyrhythm and phrasing, exercises to help you improve your feel, your sense of time, and your overall accuracy, advanced exercises and tools for handling the most complex and difficult rhythms, and guidance on the habits, attitudes, and practices that contribute to excellent performance.

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About the Author

AC LEWIS has extensive experience in many worlds of music. In the classical world, he worked as Substitute Principal Timpanist and Percussionist with the San Francisco Symphony, the New Zealand Symphony, the Mexico City Symphony, and the National Orchestra of Colombia. You can hear him as Timpanist on the San Francisco Symphonies recordings, of Beethoven s 1st and 3rd Symphonies, Schubert s Unfinished, and the Grammy award winning recording of Orff's Carmina Burana. In the Contemporary Chamber Music world, he worked with John Adams, Steve Reich, Elliot Carter, Frank Zappa, Charles Wourinen, Wayne Peterson, Lou Harrison, Pierre Boulez, and others. Equally at home in the Jazz and Rock worlds as a Drummer and Percussionist, he has played with Ritchie Havens, Ray Charles, Ella Fitzgerald, worked on Broadway in New York, and has been a member of numerous rock bands, sharing the stage with Moby Grape and the Grateful Dead. He also led the A. C. Lewis Jazz trio and the group Deep Hip Pocket. As a soloist he's performed concerti, given marimba recitals, including a solo Marimba tour in South America. The Juilliard Orchestra featured him as Cimbalom soloist in Hary Janos by Kodaly. In 1982 he wrote and performed a concerto for Percussion and Orchestra, receiving a terrific review from the New York Times. His roots are in ethnic and World music. He began drumming on home made conga drums, then Tabla, then traveled the world studying music in Europe, North Africa, Turkey, Central and South America, Bali, and India. He has been teaching Drumset and Percussion for 35 years, and teaching rhythm seminars for 12. Lewis has a Bachelors from San Francisco Conservatory of Music, another Bachelors and a Masters degree from the Juilliard School, and a postgraduate diploma from the Mannes College of Music. He presently lives, teaches and performs as conductor, violinist, pianist, guitarist, and percussionist, in Sun Valley, Idaho.

Review

Percussionist Andrew Lewis is devoted to teaching rhythm and metronome study. His book Rhythm is a one of a kind guide designed to benefit every musician (not just drummers) at all levels of play. Contents include: insightful explanations of core concepts such as pulse, pattern, polyrhythm, and phrasing;and exercises to improve feel, sense of time, and overall accuracy. Lewis' career has ranged from working with the San Francisco Symphony to work with such greats as Leonard Bernstien, Frank Zappa, and others. In addition to developing his own line of innovative metronomes, he has taught rhythm and percussion for 30 years. --Making Music Magazine

Edition details

• Publisher: RhythmSource Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0975466704
• ISBN 13: 9780975466704
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 176
• Editor: Tad Lathrop