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Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 11:24:49 -0500
From: Douglas Tate
Subject: Re: Rhythm and Reading

At 09:34 AM 02/23/02 -0700, Robert Bonfiglio wrote:

>PS - I would do a dotted quarter followed by a quarter and two 16th's in
>6/8 as (1-2-3) (4-5) (6 and) one - I always count to the next down beat
>since that's where the last 16th ends.

The great thing about Rhythm reading is that there are so many different
ways of killing the horse in a palatable manner.

Robert's way is great the way to go with music students and those keen to
achieve... When presented with a class of less than enthusiastic low
teenage mixed classes a lollipop sometimes help. Two ways I had were to
make up nonsense sentences to create rhythms, starting (because I am an
Internationalist) with 'Tea' as a quarter note and 'Co-fee' at a pair of
eight notes. So, you could make up rhythms like
Tea Co-fee Semolina Tea as a 1/4 2X 1/8 Triplet 1/8 1/4
Draw it on the board and put normal notation over the to of it.

One of the problems is that you have to use local speech patterns and the
natural rhythms which the kids use in speech. The above 'sentence rhythm'
worked well in the district I taught in but American stress patterns are
different.
For
In America RENaissance
In England RenAIssance
In France RenaiSSANCE

OK... lesson over for the day :))

BTW, I agree with Robert, the Bono book is great, it looks deceptively
easy... don't be fooled.
Douglas t