At 10:34 PM 6/30/02 -0400, you wrote: >Tap one hand on syllables 1, 2, 4, and 6; tap the other hand on syllables >1, 5, and 6. Instant 3 against 4.
"Pass the goddamn butter" is irregular the way I say it (quarter-eighth triplet, two quarters, two eighths) unless you add a rest at the end and flatten it all out. Then I can hear the 1-2-4-6 syllable part as the 4 side, but did you mean 1-3-6 for the three side? That would be 4 against 3 instead of 3 against 4, but I'll take it. In any case, whatever this is strikes me as a heck of a lot of hard work, versus just learning 3 against 4 by itself. I had to sketch this sentence on paper a few times. Kids get this? I taught elementary school music for six years and never used such stuff. But I had the luxury of groups of kids to play with, so we could get group rhythms going and trading with some ease. I may have some physical anomalies, though, that make this illogical for me. I couldn't swim (until my wife came up with a method that worked after I was 40 years old), or ever play parallel scales or arpeggios in two hands at any speed (I failed that 2/5 of my piano exam three years running before I had to give up ever getting my degree ... that was in 1970, well before US disability laws would have made the denial illegal). D _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
