Folk Rhythm as a Bridge to Improvisation.

AI-generated dubbingThis is thefirst installment in a series of videos and podcast based on my book Ear Training forInside–Outside Playing, the third volume of the trilogy Beyond Musical Borders. In thisepisode, I present one of the exercises from the book. The idea is to startwith a traditional rhythm from your own musical culture—whatever it maybe—internalize it through memory, divide it into simple high and low sounds,apply it within a tonal center, then outside that center, and eventuallyexplore it through different harmonic progressions and, finally, atonality.