A learn-by-doing lesson that musical time and rhythm isn’t just some abstract intellectual notion inside your brain… Time is Motion!
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Lesson Goal
To deeply understand that musical time lives and breathes in physical motion.
Prerequisites
LOVE of music… and the discipline to study and practice accordingly.
Time is Motion (YouTube)
In order to play with good time, you must go beyond counting the time in your head and experience time with your entire body. To that end, watch Frank demonstrate how to cultivate such “full body” engagement…
Time is Motion Video Highlights
- Musical time has many more dimensions than most people realize.
- Musical time isn’t mathematical or mental—it’s physical and felt.
- Real musical time lives in the body, not the mind. It’s about motion, rhythm, and presence.
- Musical time is not math. Musical time is not some abstract notion of sequences and things in your mind.
- Musical time is something that lives and breathes in physical motion.
- Merely counting time in your head is not music.
- Counting the meter out loud (one and two and three and four and one and two and three and four and…) is an improvement, but we can do better.
- Moving your body as your count is an enormous improvement (because that is where the music is!).
- Musical time live and breathes in physical motion in time and space.
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The Big Takeaway
Don’t fall into the trap of merely thinking the time in your head. Allow the musical time to move you, literally, and feel it in your entire body!
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