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•Prerequisites: SFM Percussion Level 1, SFM Percussion Level 2, SFM Percussion Level 3, SFM Percussion Level 4
•Length: 140 pages
•Edition: 2nd Edition
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Sound Formation Method™ Level 5
This 2nd edition book unveils the true relationships between polyrhythms, meter, and hemiolas. It introduces vital new concepts that breathe life into the study of advanced rhythmic concepts. These concepts are often readily used by the highest level of performers and composers, but rarely understood and for the first time are classified in a unique taxonomy of rhythm that is easily visualizable and deeply rooted in the physicality of music.
In order to master more advanced rhythms, the correlations between inverse ratio polyrhythms, tuplets, hemiolas with the same ratios (as the polyrhythms) and proportional ratios (to the polyrhythms), and how these rhythms are felt across three or more meters is essential. Numerous rhythms that you find and use instinctively are explained in a way that’s easy to grasp. This book is also full of results-based exercises to ensure you level up your playing, improvising, and composing.
Polyrhythm as historically understood in many Western cultures, is extremely superficial. Here you’ll learn to break through and attain higher levels via inverse polyrhythms and their corresponding inverse hemiolas along with the multiple metric modulations involved. These are conceptualized in many intriguing ways to help you to grasp and perform them with a vastly deeper musical feel than before.
Numerous hemiolas are systematically addressed including 2:3/3:2, 3:4/4:3, 4:6/6:4, 6:8/8:6, 6:9/9:6 hemiolas and their displaced, syncopated, elision, and proportional hemiola counterparts. This book gives you an incredible array of strong rhythms that will drastically improve your compositions, improvisations, and grooves.
The Level 2 Workbook introduced a new rhythmic definition called elision. Elision when referring to rhythm is critical to grasping the relationships between the equivalent rhythmic shapes that are syncopated. Elision hemiolas and tuplets are discussed in a manner that will allow you to understand how the way rhythms are written and conceptualized affects musical feel.
Watch the Concepts in Action
Interpose is an original piece in 3/4 co-written by Dr. Peter Stoltzman and Curtis Madigan using a simple 6:8 elision hemiola in the melody. This singular hemiola shape was the basis for the piece which features Stoltzman on piano and Madigan on cajon.
Check Out the Level 1 Workbook
This workbook is an essential tool for all instrumentalists in understanding and mastering not just rhythm but musical feel and groove.
Check out the Level 2 Workbook
This book is the second in an integrative system for mastering rhythm. This book teaches how to understand rhythm using sequences, operations, symmetry, exponents, factors and more.
Check out the Level 3 Workbook
This book is the third in an integrative system for mastering rhythm. This book teaches how to understand rhythm using binary numbers, reflections, rotations, symmetry, exponents and more.
Check Out the Level 4 Workbook
This book is the fourth in an integrative system for mastering rhythm. This book teaches how to understand rhythm using binary numbers, multiplication cycles, rhythmic melodicism, exponents, and more.
