Afro-Cuban Rhythms for Drumset (Book & CD)

Afro-Cuban Rhythms for Drumset (Book & CD) Review

Afro-Cuban Rhythms for Drumset (Book & CD) Feature

• Book & CD Pages: 64
• By Frank Malabe and Bob Weiner
• Format Book & CD

An introduction to Afro-Cuban rhythms, including the history, traditional instruments and basic styles of Afro-Cuban music. The book explores the complexities of these various styles in a simple, understandable way. The companion audio is invaluable to anyone interested in adapting these rhythms to the drumset.

You're in the Band - Interactive Guitar Method: Book 1 for Rhythm Guitar (Willis)

You're in the Band - Interactive Guitar Method: Book 1 for Rhythm Guitar (Willis) Review

More than just a chord book, this book teaches you which chords go together in each key and how to read rhythms. You get 25 songs to play with the 52 track play-along CD (rehearsal and performance version for each song) plus songs from the lead guitar books. By the end of the book the player will have a strong foundation for playing rhythm guitar.

Understanding Rhythm (Manhattan Music Publications - Drummers Collective)

Understanding Rhythm (Manhattan Music Publications - Drummers Collective) Review

Understanding Rhythm (Manhattan Music Publications - Drummers Collective) Feature

• Book Pages: 68
• By Michael Lauren
• Format Book

Whether you are just learning to read music, or you're an established player who wants to supplement your repertoire, this book will help you understand and execute the most common rhythms found in popular music. Drumset players will find this book useful for developing reading and coordination skills.

Seasons of Life: The Biological Rhythms That Enable Living Things to Thrive and Survive

Seasons of Life: The Biological Rhythms That Enable Living Things to Thrive and Survive Review

Just as daily events are timed by living creatures through circadian rhythms, so seasonal events are timed through an internal calendar that signals birds to return to nesting grounds, salmon to spawn, plants to flower, squirrels to hibernate, kelp to stop growing.

In this fascinating book, Russell G. Foster and Leon Kreitzman draw on remarkable recent scientific advances to explain how seasonal change affects organisms, and how plants and animals over countless generations have evolved exquisite sensitivities and adaptations to the seasons. The authors also highlight the impact of seasonal change on human health and well-being. They conclude with a discussion of the dangers posed when climate changes disrupt the seasonal rhythms on which so much life depends.

Surprising facts from Seasons of Life:
–The timing of human birth has a small  but significant effect on various later life attributes, such as handedness and the susceptibility to many illnesses, including multiple sclerosis and schizophrenia.
–Plants have the ability to measure the length of a period of light, and they germinate, flower, and successfully reproduce by using this information.
–Birds migrate not in response to weather changes but by using an internal calendar.
–Until recently, human birth was tightly coupled to the seasons, peaking in many societies in the spring.
–Just as internal 24-hour circadian clocks predict daily change, many animals have a circannual clock in their brains that predicts the seasons. (20100101)

Jung and the Native American Moon Cycles: Rhythms of Influence

Jung and the Native American Moon Cycles: Rhythms of Influence Review

"The profound insights of Jung and the equally profound teachings of the Peoples of Turtle Island have a common root below ground."

Jung and the Native American Moon Cycles describes the life of C. G. Jung as seen through the lens of the Moon Cycles, a Native American teaching about the archetypal influences and forces that affect us at different times in our lives. Through this lens we see how the rhythm of Jung’s life coincided with the great events of the 20th century.

This book offers new insights into Jung’s life and death, and provides a fascinating perspective on some of Jung’s more important dreams. It also unexpectedly casts new light on Jung’s fateful associations with Freud and Picasso and the controversial areas of his life, particularly his relationships with women and his supposed anti-Semitism. Michael Owen also shows how readers will be able to place the events of their own lives on the Moon Cycles of the Native American Medicine Wheel, gaining a new perspective into the births and deaths in their life (inner and outer). They will see what learning periods are ahead of them, and understand the critical importance of the nine-month and three-year cycles.

Some of the "patterns of time" and other insights revealed:

• Both Jung’s parents were the thirteenth and youngest in their families.
• Freud died twenty-seven years almost to the day after he fainted in Jung’s presence and said "How sweet it must be to die."
• Jung dreamt of the firebombing of Dresden twenty-seven years before it happened.
• Jung’s writings about Picasso and its relationship to Jung’s death.