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RE: How to read music

Author: Mark Charette, Webmaster
Date: 1999-06-29 12:47

A little fun to have with your students after they get good at clapping ryhthm:
Get the "Time Further Out" CD by the Dave Brubeck Quartet, and have them clap time to "Far More Blue" (5/4), "Unsquare Dance" (one of my all-time favorites, 7/4), "Maori Blues" (6/4) and "Blue Shadows in the Street" (9/8). These tunes were written by Brubeck to "show off" the different time signatures and are accented enough for a student to follow. His later works with odd and mixed time signatures didn't have such strong beats and are much harder to follow, but these are fun and "doable".

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