Workshop
Beats Working
Simon Preston
Gweithdy
Bîts yn Gweithio
Simon Preston
Sunday May 4 • 10.30am-12:00
Level: All
Dydd Sul Mai 4 • 10.30am-12:00
Lefel: pawb
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This workshop will develop your natural sense of rhythm and improve your ability to connect rhythms together.
Using BoomWhackers (tuned plastic batons) you will be taken through various techniques to develop and internalise a range of listening and attention skills which are useful for playing Samba and African-derived rhythms in a group.
This music depends on interlocking patterns and players’ ability to 'lock in' as opposed to the more Western tradition of 'counting'.
Essential structures will be revealed and deconstructed as you work through a series of rhythmic developments, building progressively from simple beats towards multi-layered polyrhythmic heaven.
Simon is an accomplished percussionist with over thirty years experience and is Musical Director of Samba Galêz.
Since building his first percussion set out of a deck chair, old wood, and library books, Simon has lived and studied drums and marimba in Tanzania (Bagamoyo College of Music) and Ghana, and congas in Cuba and the USA, most notably at the Harbor Conservatory for the Performing Arts.
Simon has performed as a percussionist around the UK and the world, including Europe, Brazil, Ecuador, and the USA.
Simon Preston
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Bydd y gweithdy hwn yn datblygu eich synnwyr rhythm naturiol ac yn gwella eich gallu i gysylltu rhythmau gyda'i gilydd.
Gan ddefnyddio BoomWhackers (batonau plastig wedi'u tiwnio) byddwch yn cael eich tywys drwodd technegau amrywiol i ddatblygu a mewnoli ystod o wrando a sgiliau sylw sy'n ddefnyddiol ar gyfer chwarae Samba a rhythmau sy'n deillio o Affrica mewn grŵp.
Mae'r gerddoriaeth hon yn dibynnu ar batrymau cyd-gloi a gallu chwaraewyr i 'cloi i mewn' i wneud hynny yn hytrach na'r traddodiad mwy Gorllewinol o 'gyfri'.
Bydd strwythurau hanfodol yn cael eu datgelu a'u dad-adeiladu wrth i chi weithio trwy gyfres o ddatblygiadau rhythmig, gan adeiladu'n gynyddol o curiadau syml tuag at nefoedd aml-haenog polyrhythmig.
Mae Simon yn offerynnwr taro medrus gyda dros ddeng mlynedd ar hugain o brofiad, ac yn Gyfarwyddwr Cerdd Samba Galêz.
Ers adeiladu ei set gyntaf o offerynnau taro allan o gadair ddec, hen bren, a llyfrau llyfrgell, mae Simon wedi byw ac astudio drymiau a marimba yn Nhanzania (Coleg Cerdd Bagamoyo) a Ghana, a congas yng Nghiwba ac UDA (yn fwyaf nodedig yn yr Harbour Conservatory for the Performing Arts).
Mae Simon wedi perfformio fel offerynnwr taro o amgylch y DU a’r byd, gan gynnwys Ewrop, Brasil, Ecuador, ac UDA.