Guided Practice Session
Welcome to Week 2!
Please complete this END OF THE WEEK SURVEY!
Rhythmic String Playing & Chopping - for bowed string players
Schedule:
Daily sessions will be LIVE from 4:00-5:30p ET (New York City time), Monday-Friday, March 15-19, via Zoom.
Please join this Zoom meeting for each class:
https://necmusic-edu.zoom.us/j/94125788571
Please do not share this zoom link, as only those who have registered will be admitted.
You can download supplementary pdf materials for our practice sessions via the buttons below.
Each daily session will feature 60 minutes of guided practice, followed by 30 minutes of Q&A and follow up.
Please complete this END OF THE WEEK SURVEY!If you can’t make all the sessions, no worries! They will all be recorded/archived with links below for later viewing/practicing. Live participation is strongly encouraged, though.
supplementary materials and video recordings
Recordings of each session will be posted below, when ready:
Day 1 Video Recording
day 2 video recording
DAY 3 VIDEO RECORDING
day 4 video recording
day 5 video recording
Links to the songs we dissected on Day 5:
“Isn’t She Lovely” by Stevie Wonder
Some other helpful resources for Rhythmic String Playing and Chopping:
Watch Rushad Eggleston talk about the development of the Chop at MBSC
Tracy Silverman’s Strum Bowing method
Casey Driessen’s World of Chop (download his “The Chop Notation Project (PDF)”!)
Video describing the Chop Notation Project
“Tanuki Attack”, Casey’s “percusssive sounds only” composition
listening list of grooves based on our Fundamental Patterns
Feel free to send me further examples you find, and I can add them to the list!
ChuggaCHUgga
Old-Time clogging to fiddle music
ChuggaChuggaCHUggaChugga
3-3-2
New Orleans style Brass Band (listen for the Tuba part)
3-2 Clave
Demo video on Clave instrument