Introduction
I had this idea for a creative ‘conceptual‘ book for many years. I felt that a lot of us had come beyond the bare rudiments stuff and were maybe looking for something a bit more challenging and, more importantly, something to get the creative juices flowing. A method for the brain more than the muscles in our limbs.
So what is a Rhythmic Illusion?
Have you ever been listening to the radio, changed stations and tuned into a song that sounded as if it had a fantastically unusual rhythm, only to discover moments later, in reality, you had simply misinterpreted something quite straightforward? Or, perhaps, heard a guitarist play an unaccompanied syncopated intro and, believing you‘d identified the beat, tapped your foot along to it until the band came in at a completely unexpected place? Chances are, you were rhythmically illuded.
‘Rhythmic Illusions‘ are about making small changes to a conventional pattern in order to persuade the listener that the tempo, and or time signature has momentarily changed. The secret of a good illusion is to make sure that the pattern you are presenting, is a simple recognisable rhythm that the listeners‘ ear will naturally pick up on. A rhythmic illusion will have it‘s best effect when it ‘appears‘ that the drummer has temporarily left the downbeat and tempo behind,whilst the music carries on unchanged underneath it.
During an interview for Rhythm Magazine UK in 1988 I was talking about my ideas for a ‘Rhythmic Illusions‘ book to editor Simon Braund and he invited me to write a column for them. It turned out to be the perfect way to gradually focus my ideas towards this topic. Since I finished writing for Rhythm in 1992 I have added many more ‘sub concepts‘ and ‘theories‘ and have organized them into the following groups;
- Autor
- Gavin Harrison
- Verlag
- Alfred Publishing
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Instrument
- Schlagzeug
- Medium
- Buch mit CD
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