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Rhythmic Illusions

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WOW! Now here is a Great book, I've often been Puzzled by some of the Rhythms I've heard in either Modern Music or some of the Jazz or Fusion Music I've been listening to and I've not been able to figure them out, But finaly here is a book that Explaines much of it, and it's funny that some of these Illusions are quite simple actualy, that is in theory, But in practise they can be very difficult, at least some of them.

This Book is for the drumset, I don't play the drumset but bought it anyway because these Rhythm concept can be applied to any instrument.

The Book deals with many Rhythm concept like Beat displacement, Modulation, Rhythmic scales and Polyrhythm, ther's a lot of Material here and I must agree with Bill Bruford in his Foreword to the book "I've got Work to Do".

Other good books that deal with some of these things are "Rhythm and Meter Patterns By Gary Chaffee" and "Polyrhythms by Peter Magadini".

Great book. Very interesting stuff that you've heard Simon Phillips, Vinnie Collaiuta, and the like do forever. this takes the "mystery" out of some elusive concepts and gives you a systematic way to develop the tools. It's kind of like the Chaffee material in that it is very well laid out, systematized, and organized to go through all (or most) of the permutations. Especially great if you're disciplined enough to go through it a little bit at a time b/c it's not easy stuff. It can give you a bit of a headache. Once the concepts, feel of the displacements and modulations, and application of the material within a musical context are together, you're going to impress a lot of people.

This book showed me so much about what can be done on the drums. It explains things that one might never think of or might have ideas about but never be able to put them on paper. Also comes with a brilliant CD that will make your head spin!

Take a look at some of Gavin's solo stuff on youtube. He does a few lectures about metric modulation and displacement. You'll get a feel for how innovative his approach is and how challenging some of the concepts really are.

This really, really changed the way I play drums and how I approach writing.

i love gavin harrison. if you are wanting to stretch yourself musically and you want to be challenged too, get this book. gavin is an amazing drummer and he shares his knowledge and rhythmic insights with the drum community with this book and many of his other publications. p.s. it helps to have some basic note reading skills for this book.

This book is well organized, clearly written and full of all kinds of mind-blowing stuff that will keep me entertained for a while. It also gives the best explanation of modulation that I have seen. The demo CD contains about all the examples played out along with some "musical considerations" so you get to hear how this crazy stuff can be applied.