G9 Bullet 1 – Continue to count out loud. Some things are elementary after all: two follows one – three follows two – and so on. We can know this with certainty.
2. If you get your counting down, just 4/4 counting for now, playing a hand drum pattern within just about any song becomes quite predictable...at this particular point of the song this particular beat of the drum pattern needs to be played.
3. Sweet and simple; routine IS good.
4. Work on your counting. Only then will you be ready to start breaking down your favorite songs by verse, bridge, and chorus - learning how to count in and out of each of these components, learning how to substitute different hand drum patterns for different parts of the song; but not too many.
5. Think "too many spices spoil the dish,"adding 'just enough' variety and interest into the performance through slight variations in your pattern selections.
6. Nobody is going to get very far with an erratic song that jumps all over the place with multiple time signatures either. Okay, maybe one or two, uh worldwide - in the name of taking some kind of abstract, artistic license; you know kind of like an Andy Warhol approach to song writing; refusing to follow any kind of rules. Should you be trying to pull this off without first telling anyone, I think your crowd's interior sense of timing, those that have come to hear you play, would go bananas, becoming dazed and confused and, if you're lucky, they'd all just sit down and not launch a rotten tomato attack on you and your bandmates.
7. What's going on? There seems to be a universal truth buried here regarding what 'makes' danceable music.
8. What is it about a four over four piece that puts people on their feet?
9. We don't really need to have all the answers; why certain time signatures create a dance response while others don't- we can simply believe that it's something within our created nature and then go with it, have confidence in it.
10. We just need faith that it's going to happen over and over again and then simply work to play our parts well.
11. Some things we CAN just trust.
2. If you get your counting down, just 4/4 counting for now, playing a hand drum pattern within just about any song becomes quite predictable...at this particular point of the song this particular beat of the drum pattern needs to be played.
3. Sweet and simple; routine IS good.
4. Work on your counting. Only then will you be ready to start breaking down your favorite songs by verse, bridge, and chorus - learning how to count in and out of each of these components, learning how to substitute different hand drum patterns for different parts of the song; but not too many.
5. Think "too many spices spoil the dish,"adding 'just enough' variety and interest into the performance through slight variations in your pattern selections.
6. Nobody is going to get very far with an erratic song that jumps all over the place with multiple time signatures either. Okay, maybe one or two, uh worldwide - in the name of taking some kind of abstract, artistic license; you know kind of like an Andy Warhol approach to song writing; refusing to follow any kind of rules. Should you be trying to pull this off without first telling anyone, I think your crowd's interior sense of timing, those that have come to hear you play, would go bananas, becoming dazed and confused and, if you're lucky, they'd all just sit down and not launch a rotten tomato attack on you and your bandmates.
7. What's going on? There seems to be a universal truth buried here regarding what 'makes' danceable music.
8. What is it about a four over four piece that puts people on their feet?
9. We don't really need to have all the answers; why certain time signatures create a dance response while others don't- we can simply believe that it's something within our created nature and then go with it, have confidence in it.
10. We just need faith that it's going to happen over and over again and then simply work to play our parts well.
11. Some things we CAN just trust.
G9 Bullet 2 – 4, Learn the Rhythm - Quiet Storm: What's Going On
13. Work both hands: Remember; when working on technique, whatever is true for the right hand is true for the left hand. You will find that if you are right handed, the patterns starting with the right hand will be easier to play than when starting the same pattern with the left hand (and vice versa). Switch hands: If you are right handed, use your left hand now to start playing the pattern. It helps me to go to the practice sheet (see YOU Practice below) and write out L,R,L,R,L,R,L,R below the R,L,R,L,R,L,R,L line so that I can clearly see the strokes my left hand is supposed to be playing at a particular moment (beat) in time. Start slowly and work up your speed as your accuracy improves; this exercise develops dexterity.
SPEAK THE RHYTHM: Du n Du n Pat e re Du n Du n Du Pat e te re...
13. Work both hands: Remember; when working on technique, whatever is true for the right hand is true for the left hand. You will find that if you are right handed, the patterns starting with the right hand will be easier to play than when starting the same pattern with the left hand (and vice versa). Switch hands: If you are right handed, use your left hand now to start playing the pattern. It helps me to go to the practice sheet (see YOU Practice below) and write out L,R,L,R,L,R,L,R below the R,L,R,L,R,L,R,L line so that I can clearly see the strokes my left hand is supposed to be playing at a particular moment (beat) in time. Start slowly and work up your speed as your accuracy improves; this exercise develops dexterity.
G9 Bullet 5 - Topic A4, Sound Check. Man responds to God: Believing. Would you believe something you knew wasn't true?
15. All the things you could possibly be reading on the Internet at this very moment, here you are reading mine. Why trust any of it?
16. Maybe it's because you've scanned through some of my work. "Seems honest enough." you might think. In this collection of postings, I've tried to share some things with you about my life and perhaps, through this testimony alone, you've come to trust me in some small way.
17. Indeed I BELIEVE what I write is reliable and trustworthy.
18. Or perhaps it's because, in all their simplicity, you see the truth and beauty in the tabletop rhythms that I've posted on YouTube.
19. Either way, you've come to know something about me, even though, for now, you just have to take my word for it.
20. The point being: In no other way could you have learned these things about me had I not revealed them to you through this blog.
21. Based on this 'virtual' experience and this 'virtual' relationship with me you've come to really know something about me - maybe you've come to have faith in me as a kind of teacher of sorts - even though we've never met.
22. Isn't this like believing in something you know might not be true?
23. Not hardly - otherwise who could we REALLY trust.
24. Your reason, intellect, and faith CAN guide you to the truth.
25. So why do some people think having religious faith means having to believe in things you know aren't true?
26. Many are convinced, I'm afraid, that truth is only found in things that can be seen or sensed with their very own eyes - this 'alleged truth,' if it didn't happen in one's own lifetime… forget about it!
27. But through our Christian faith we CAN know and we CAN trust in God as he tells us about himself and as he tells us about ourselves in the Scriptures. "Because this kind of believing is based on reasonable trust, it's not 'blind faith,' and it's certainly not believing something we know isn't true." (YOUCAT Study Guide, pg. 9)
15. All the things you could possibly be reading on the Internet at this very moment, here you are reading mine. Why trust any of it?
16. Maybe it's because you've scanned through some of my work. "Seems honest enough." you might think. In this collection of postings, I've tried to share some things with you about my life and perhaps, through this testimony alone, you've come to trust me in some small way.
17. Indeed I BELIEVE what I write is reliable and trustworthy.
18. Or perhaps it's because, in all their simplicity, you see the truth and beauty in the tabletop rhythms that I've posted on YouTube.
19. Either way, you've come to know something about me, even though, for now, you just have to take my word for it.
20. The point being: In no other way could you have learned these things about me had I not revealed them to you through this blog.
21. Based on this 'virtual' experience and this 'virtual' relationship with me you've come to really know something about me - maybe you've come to have faith in me as a kind of teacher of sorts - even though we've never met.
22. Isn't this like believing in something you know might not be true?
23. Not hardly - otherwise who could we REALLY trust.
24. Your reason, intellect, and faith CAN guide you to the truth.
25. So why do some people think having religious faith means having to believe in things you know aren't true?
26. Many are convinced, I'm afraid, that truth is only found in things that can be seen or sensed with their very own eyes - this 'alleged truth,' if it didn't happen in one's own lifetime… forget about it!
27. But through our Christian faith we CAN know and we CAN trust in God as he tells us about himself and as he tells us about ourselves in the Scriptures. "Because this kind of believing is based on reasonable trust, it's not 'blind faith,' and it's certainly not believing something we know isn't true." (YOUCAT Study Guide, pg. 9)
G9 Bullet 6– YOU Practice Lesson G9: Rhythm sheet (2) and (3 cut-time). If you want measurable results - try to practice both your faith and drumming at least 30 minutes a day.
a.) Playing simple rhythms on a daily basis can be similar in repetition to (but never used in place of) dedicating a half hour or so of work or study to the Lord as a form of prayer.
b.) Work or study well done is pleasing to our Lord. We have been given the highly noble gift of co-creating with the Lord. Work carefully and professionally showing kindness and mercy to your coworkers and/or classmates. Study rather deliberately focusing your concentration on the schoolwork at hand.
c.) "Study. Study in earnest. If you are to be salt and light, you need knowledge, capability. Or do you imagine that an idol and lazy life will entitle you to receive infused knowledge?" (St. Josemaria Escriva, The Way, No. 340)
d.) If you're a truck driver, pray for other professional drivers as you go along your route. Pray for the many and varied people that you meet along your truck stops. If you're an engineer take extra time in your calculations; double check your math, and those details in your drawings, small details that no one will notice, do them well too.
e.) Practice perfects the one undergoing the repetitious movement; either naturally or supernaturally. Answered prayers are reminders of God's supernatural order present in our very own lives. The Church teaches the fruitful value of a sound prayer life. My family and I can give personal testimony to the effectiveness of daily prayer. Practice makes perfect!
a.) Playing simple rhythms on a daily basis can be similar in repetition to (but never used in place of) dedicating a half hour or so of work or study to the Lord as a form of prayer.
b.) Work or study well done is pleasing to our Lord. We have been given the highly noble gift of co-creating with the Lord. Work carefully and professionally showing kindness and mercy to your coworkers and/or classmates. Study rather deliberately focusing your concentration on the schoolwork at hand.
c.) "Study. Study in earnest. If you are to be salt and light, you need knowledge, capability. Or do you imagine that an idol and lazy life will entitle you to receive infused knowledge?" (St. Josemaria Escriva, The Way, No. 340)
d.) If you're a truck driver, pray for other professional drivers as you go along your route. Pray for the many and varied people that you meet along your truck stops. If you're an engineer take extra time in your calculations; double check your math, and those details in your drawings, small details that no one will notice, do them well too.
e.) Practice perfects the one undergoing the repetitious movement; either naturally or supernaturally. Answered prayers are reminders of God's supernatural order present in our very own lives. The Church teaches the fruitful value of a sound prayer life. My family and I can give personal testimony to the effectiveness of daily prayer. Practice makes perfect!
G9 Bullet 7 – Table Task: Think and Pray. Think about one area of your Catholic faith that you find challenging. Pray about it. Do a Google search on your question. You'll be surprised at how many others have asked the very same question. Ask a priest, deacon, nun, or religious education teacher for their opinion. In prayer ask our Lord for the gift of understanding, knowledge, and wisdom; for the promised gifts of the Holy Spirit. Have patience. Don't forget about your YOUCAT. The book is presented in question and answer format. All of the answers provided have additional references cited; follow these!
G9 Bullet 9 – Counting (1) and (2) handouts: study them.
Gray Level Syllabus
"Time For The Table" The Way and Means"
Gray Level Syllabus
"Time For The Table" The Way and Means"
