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Sept. 2009 -
June 2010
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Framedrum Workshop Practice Materials
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Wow, what great workshops this fall, first LA, then Santa Barbara, Esalen, Rowe, Melbourne, FL, and last weekend the Comfort Zone! And there's still more to come -- Tuesday evening in Gainesville, FL, Nathan Ells and I are doing a short intro for the artist Alex Grey's lecture. Next week is PAS, the big percussion conference in Indianapolis, I'm totally excited about teaching a clinic fusing Brazilian and Mediterranean percussion with some great backup drummers, Professor Julie Hill and her students and Rafael Pereira, a great pandeiro player. Also if you are going check Rajna Swaminathan's Mrudangam clinic on Friday at 2 pm. She's breaking the glass ceiling for women Mrudangam players! Then Nov. 20 - 22, Intermediate - Advanced Bee Priestess frame drum workshop in Twin Lakes, MI. Lots of drumming beekeepers will be there!
So
those of you attending the retreats know I promised to send you a review of the
things we worked on so you could continue practicing. Rowe drummers -- I could not find my notes anywhere so if anything is missing let me know!
There were beginning and more advanced drumming workshops and a Golden Lotus Yoga/Chi Kung Chakra Balancing workshop. The drumming reviews are in this email and next week I'll send out one on the yoga/chi kung energy practice workshop. I'm sending the book recommendations that you requested in this email. Thanks for the suggestion to make Amazon Associate links! For those of you in Europe you'll probably want to check your local Amazon or bookstores. I also urge you to look for these books at your local bookstores and if they don't have it they will be happy to get it for you.
And just to put this out here now, start exploring your pulse rate and the rhythms and tempos you are playing with a heart rate monitor, this has been an amazing revelation for me. More info below.
There's a lot of practice material in this newsletter and please feel free to share it and forward the email to anyone you think might be interested. We're committed to spreading frame drum fever!
We're in the planning stages for a retreat called Passing On the Teachings, for students who have been studying with me for a long time and other frame drum teachers interested in the style of teaching that I have developed.
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INTRO TO THE FRAME DRUM
From Tambourine Practice CD 1
And as a refresher you can watch my video intro to tambourine here.
BASIC STROKES:
K - Kah, earth element, hand hits and sticks to drum
D - Doum, water element, whole index finger hits the head and bounces off
T - Tak, fire element, tip of 4th finger, the ring finger, hits the rim and sticks
C - Cha, air element, palm of hand below fingers hits the rim of the drum, not the head.
t - is tick, space element, a sound on the jingle made with the fourth finger.
Remember to keep the thumb of the playing hand pointing up and the hand open. In the following exercises count the thumb as 1, index finger as 2, middle finger as 3, ring finger as 4 and little finger is 5. This material is written with the assumption that the dominant hand is the right.
Jingle practices: Using the fourth fingers, of the right and left hands, the first exercise is right, left, right, left, continuously. Second exercise is the fourth, third and second finger of the right hand and fourth finger of left hand. This is the roll exercise and it goes right, right, right, left. Then the paradidle practice, right, left, right, right, left, right, left, left.
Combination strokes:
D T t t D K t t T D t t K D t t stroke
r r l l r r l l r r l l r r l l hand
Some Basic Rattlesnake Patterns:
C t t C t t C t
r l l r l l r l
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
C t C t C C t t
r l r l r r l l
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
D t T t T t T t
r l r l r l r l
l 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
D t D D t t T t
r l r r l l r l
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Had a great question from the Melbourne group about the cross walking that we do while we are playing. Crossing the center line of the body creates more coherence between the two hemispheres of the brain and dramatically speeds up our learning time. On a count of four, step right on one, then cross the left foot in front of the right foot for two, then the left foot to the left side for three and the right foot crosses in front of the left for four. Got it?!!! Look here to see this in action.
By the way that's Deb and Hollie with me at Kripalu for the beginners workshop. We'll be back there Dec. 4 - 6. We're playing the Moroccan Samba rhythm.
And we did work on some those Moroccan Samba patterns also:
C t C C D t C C t C D t
r l r r r l r r l r r l hand
1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 4 5 6 the rhythm is in 6 beats
1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 walking pulse, step on 1
Remember you are still walking in four under that even though it is a rhythm in six.
This is the "famous" 6/8 candombleŽ bell pattern that I use with it:
1 2 3 4
5 6 1 2 3 4 5 6 1
X X
X X X X X X
1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 walking pulse, step on 1
My tambourine plays that rhythm on The Cult Table on my cd, The Wave of Bliss. Good to practice the bell pattern with that, although it is semi fast.
And here is the Omolu
Bell pattern that we played on our chopsticks and sang. Remember he is the Afro-Brazilian god of healing and death and syncretized with Saint Lazarus.
D D D
t D D D t D D t D t D D t
1 2 3
4 5 6 7 8 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
You can listen to that song here. We are still working on this cd so the songs are not available yet!
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SPLIT HAND TECHNIQUE
During the workshops, I taught this mostly on tambourine to strengthen your hand and arm for all of your strokes. But it is best to learn it on a frame drum in sitting position. Here's my instruction on split hand technique.
And here is N. Scott Robinson showing how to do this technique from the classical South Indian perspective.
Here is Latha Ramachar, one of South India's only female performers on kanjira in the traditional musical setting in which this instrument is used.
And if you've got kanjira fever goes to Scott's website.
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THE BOOKS I RECOMMENDED
For really learning how to practice and really begin to master anything in life, I always recommend George Leonard's book Mastery. I read this book every year to remind myself how to continue mastering the frame drum.
Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment
by George Leonard by Plume
Paperback
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$14.00
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Another fantastic book by George Leonard is The Silent Pulse. It is finally back in print, hooray!!
The Silent Pulse: A Search for the Perfect Rhythm that Exists in Each of Us
by George Leonard by Gibbs Smith
Paperback
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$14.95
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And to maintain our health and ability to continue to play the frame drum at top physical levels, I'm recommending Younger Next Year -- the latest info on the aging process and how to stay ahead of it by seriously exercising for the rest of our lives. It is the only way. And you reduce your chances of cancer, heart attacks, strokes and other diseases by 50%. This is my main anti-cancer routine at this time. Get your heart rate monitor and this book and go! Don't get put off by the best sellerish title, it is really a powerful book. Thanks to frame drummer and great source of wisdom on collaboration, Liz Williams, for putting me on to this!
Younger Next Year for Women: Live Strong, Fit, and Sexy - Until You're 80 and Beyond
by Chris Crowley by Workman Publishing Company
Paperback
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And for the men too:
Younger Next Year: Live Strong, Fit, and SexyUntil You're 80 and Beyond
by Chris Crowley by Workman Publishing Company
Paperback
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$12.95
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Buy NowAnd the key to making this program work is getting your heart rate monitor. Really, I'm dead serious on this. Develop your relationship with your pulse!! It has been a revelation to tune into the different states of my heartbeat and how I feel during those states. Drummers, you get this right??!!! I got the simplest, least expensive, heart pulse monitor, the Polar FS1 Heart Rate Monitor Watch. But there are all kinds of more fancy ones, research it a bit. You can start monitoring your pulse rate while you are playing different rhythms at different tempos and explore how that makes you feel. It will change everything about your playing.
Polar FS1 Heart Rate Monitor Watch (Dark Blue)
by Polar
Sports
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$69.95
Our Price:
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I think everyone concerned about our individual and community health should read this book, Anticancer. It doesn't matter if you are worried about cancer or not -- this details what has happened to our food supply and environment and what we can do it about it every time we eat. It is one of my main guides as I recover from my own bout with a malignant tumor and create a new lifestyle. He's an MD who has gone through two bouts of brain cancer. It is just such an excellent book.
Anticancer: A New Way of Life
by David Servan-Schreiber by Viking Adult
Hardcover
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Sept. 2009 -
June 2010
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Layne Redmond's Schedule
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Nov. 11 - 14, Indianapolis, Indiana, PASIC
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Percussive Arts Society International Conference
9:00 am, Fri., Nov. 13, World Percussion Clinic:
Layne Redmond
Participatory clinic in Fusing Brazilian and Mediterranean Rhythmic Traditions for Middle Eastern Style Tambourine
Bring your Middle Eastern style tambourine, agogo and claveŽ if you have them.
Some drums provided.
For more info and to register click here.
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Nov. 20 - 22, Twin Lakes, MI, Cybele's Retreat Center
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Ancient Tools of the Bee Priestess
The Rhythmic Path of Transformation
Intermediate to Advanced Workshop
We will be concentrating on rhythms in ten on tambourine and sitting position style frame drum, please be
familiar with Layne's Instructional CD: Tenfold, available from her
website.
For complete workshop description, registration and accommodation info, Email Barb Pitcher: oakdrum@earthlink.net
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Dec. 4 - 6, Lenox, Massachusettes, Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health |
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The Healing Power of Drumming Ritual and Chanting
Intro Level Frame Drumming
Prepare to enter the holidays & the new year in a grounded and balanced state!
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Dec. 6 - 11, Lenox, Massachusettes, Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health
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Balancing the Chakras Through Sacred Sound,
Yoga & Pranayama
Prepare to enter the holidays & the new year in a grounded and balanced state!
Learn the underlying energy practices of Layne's Drumming, Teaching and Composing. Combine with the frame drumming workshop Dec. 5 - 7 for a complete training in Layne's work.
Layne will teach traditional practices to
balance each chakra. Drawing from classical texts, she will introduce
practices designed to
remove energetic obstacles and blocks in the chakras.
Layne will do a frame drum purification for all participants but she will not be teaching drumming in this workshop. CE Credits - - This program is eligible for:
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March 26 - 28, 2010, Raleigh/Durham, NC
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Advanced Frame
Drumming Workshop
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May 15-16, 2010, NYC, NY, The New York Open Center |
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Rhythm Healing: Intro Level Frame Drumming,
Purification & Sound Healing
This workshop is a part of The New York Open Center's Sound and Music
Facilitator 9 Month, 250-Hour Professional Certification Training Program,
October 2009 - June 2010. You can register for the whole program
or for each weekend segment separately.
For further information on Layne's workshop click here for her calendar and scroll down to the New York Open Center workshop.
For further info on the Open Center's Complete Sound & Music Training Program click here.
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May 22 - 24, 2010, Mysen, Norway |
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Frame
Drumming & Healing Sound:
The Path of Rhythmic Transformation
A unique
approach to learning that draws upon the ancient traditions of the Frame Drum.
For more information click here.
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May 28 - 30 2010, Women's Retreat in Italy
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Info coming soon!
Please be in touch with Dorothy Rogers: goldenseed@mtnarea.net
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June 2010, Pilgrimage to Greece and Cyprus |
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In Cyprus two weekend workshops:
Advanced Workshop for experienced Frame Drummers (must be confirmed with Layne Redmond for this workshop) and an Intro Level Frame Drum Workshop.
Join a group of Cypriot
women and men to study the frame drum and the meditation practices of
the ancient Bee Priestesses. We'll also visit the great museums of
Cyprus and the sacred sites of Aphrodite. We
will be a small group so contact us early! If you are planning on
attending the drumming retreat in Cyprus you must come with an
appropriate Middle Eastern Style tambourine and for the advanced
workshop you will also need a tar.
Possible extension of trip:
SHAMANIC TOUR OF THE ORACULAR SITES OF GREECE
We
are in the planning stages for a pilgrimage to Greece and Cyprus. The Cyprus part will
definitely happen and if all goes well we will go to the mainland of
Greece to the oracular sites and visit the great museums of Athens.
Please be in touch with Dorothy Rogers: goldenseed@mtnarea.net
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New CD - INVOKING APHRODITE
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Announcing the release of Invoking Aphrodite, Layne's latest cd. Invoking Aphrodite features sacred music and poetry from ancient Greece fused with Mediterranean and
Brazilian drumming traditions, violin, bansuri flute from India and vocals. It features works of Sappho, the
Pythia Priestesses of Delphi, the Epitaph of Seikilos (the oldest
notated musical composition found to date), and Mesomedes of Crete's Hymn to the Muse. A newsletter filled with information on the ancient wisdom based around the Pythia, the priestess of the Delphic Oracle, the hymns of Sappho, and the transliterations of the ancient greek texts for chanting, is coming soon! Click here to listen to tracks and purchase MP3 downloads from CD Baby.Interested in the high fidelity recorded CD? Click here for a special price for Invoking Aphrodite in August and September on Layne's website.
Special Price for August and September: $12.95
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Contact Information
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