Thank you, Cali. Shades of Suzuki "I like spaghetti," "chocolate" and "elevator operator" bow strokes with my daughter 20 years ago. I'll give this a try.
Off to the coast... It's heating up around here. Bye for now, Barbara On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 10:17 AM, Cali and Alden Hackmann<[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Barbara, > > One of the easiest ways to get some of the more unusual time signatures into > your head is to find a word or set of words with the rhythm and repeat them to > get it set. An example would be "Henry Kissinger" for 5/4 so if you say > Hen-ry-Kiss-in-ger, Hen-ry-Kiss-in-ger you get 12-123, 12-123. One of my > favorites came from John and Anna Peekstok of Telynor. They were learning a > new tune from I believe eastern europe. The mnemonic they came up with to get > the irregular rhythm was "eat 'em up nemesis alligator, eat 'em up nemesis > alligator, alligator." So 123, 123, 1234, 12, 123, 1234, 1234. > > Hope this makes sense. You can get the feel and count very easily doing this > and the sillier they are the easier they are to remember. :-) > > > Cali > > >> > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "hurdygurdy" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hurdygurdy The rules of posting, courtesy, and other list information may be found at http://hurdygurdy.com/mailinglist/index.htm. To reduce spam, posts from new subscribers are held pending approval by the webmaster. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
