How rhythm works: the 7.5 ways of keeping time

A practical workshop for all performers with Barak Schmool

- how to sound better when playing music in a fixed tempo.
- moving physically in a relaxed and appropriate way
- keeping time better, playing more accurately
- speaking rhythm in the manner of strong traditions
- expressing funky lines correctly
- spatial hearing, what is that?
Barak Schmool is a multi-instrumentalist-composer from London. A one-time roadie for Django Bates, he grew up musically in the jazz scene of the capital, inspired by the multitude of influences around him to study music of the African Diaspora to the level of more local styles. In the last 5 years he has been producing Hiphop and RnB and completed a PhD in composition and African music structure. He teaches at the Royal Academy of Music and Guildhall School of Music & Drama as professor of rhythmic studies.