Foundational Series Book Overview
THE FOUNDATIONAL SERIES
Align your mind and body in this experiential drumming journey with a series of exercises that are sure to challenge, inform, and inspire the way you think and play.
Rich shares his DrumMantra practice method that will require (and improve) your focus, concentration, relaxation, awareness, patience, precision, and endurance.
The Foundational Series presents a method of practice that is designed to systematically sharpen your concept of time, fine-tune your accuracy, improve your pulse awareness, enhance your knowledge of time signatures, increase your coordination, and inform your understanding of polymeters.
The Foundational Series is focused on:
Timing
Reading
Coordination
Polymetric Awareness
Phrasing
Groove
The goal is to strengthen the physical aspects of drumming as well as improve mental aspects such as:
Focus
Awareness
Presence
Patience
Attention
Intention
The Foundational Series presents the practitioner with a series of exercises that are designed to bring awareness to concepts like “rhythmic perception,” “polymetric coordination,” “pulse and accent displacement,” and “polymetric phrasing.”
Based on permutations of accents and pulse exercises, the DrumMantra Practice System utilizes rhythmic repetition as a means of developing muscle memory, coordination, focus, and a stronger sense of time.
The exercises in The Foundational Series are experiential, meaning they must be performed in a specific way to gain the most benefit.
The Foundational Series is divided into three sections (4/4, 3/4, and 5/4), and each section is organized into three categories: warm-ups, meditations, and rhythmic melodies.
The Warm-Ups include various “moving click” audio tracks designed to challenge your attention and awareness as much as your stickings and technique. There are 13 warm-ups. 5 in the 4/4 section, 4 in the 3/4 section, and 4 in the 5/4 section.
The “Meditations” are exercises that begin to explore the relationship of accent permutations and pulse displacements in the 16th note field. There are 6 pages of exercises in each section.
The Rhythmic Melodies will challenge your reading, coordination, and concentration as you play melodies with the feet while playing a variety of accent structures and stickings with the hands. There is one 32-bar Rhythmic Melody in each section.
The practice philosophy in this book was created for all drummers, regardless of genre, who want to play with more accuracy, depth, creativity, and confidence.
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Rich Endorses:
• Yamaha Drums
• Sabian Cymbals
• Evans Drum Heads
• Vic Firth Sticks
• The BoxKit Cajons
• Prologix Percussion
• Low Boy Beaters
• Polynome App