mnemonics for rhythms - list please add

Subject: mnemonics for rhythms - list please add
From: Mr Red
Date: 07 Sep 06 - 01:05 PM

in the thread 7/8 time thread people are contributing phrases that give a good guide to the rhytm of timings.

eg
4/4 Tango   SNEAK, SNEAK, hide behind the BUSH

6/8 classical guitarist Christopher Parkening's ("Christopher Parkening, Christopher Parkening;" 1-2-3 4-5-6, 1-2-3-4-5-6).

5/4 "Rimsky-Karsakov, Rimsky-Korsakov. . . ."   Yup. "1-2-3-4-5,1-2-3-4-5. . . ."

Pineapple Oranges for a jig. (TS?)

7/8 just repeat the words "Jaffa cake choclate biscuit, jaffa cake choclate biscuit"

Dancing Rant steps "Potato Crisps" or in yankee patois "Potato chips" - no idea of TS but it seems to be a Polka. (4/4?)

any others - maybe we could collect them up.

Subject: RE: mnemonics for rhythms - list please add
From: Leadfingers
Date: 07 Sep 06 - 01:19 PM

My Old Fiddler mate John Somerville uses Footbal (Soccer) -

Jigs - (6-8) Liverpool Everton

Reel - (4-4) Rangers Celtic

Slip Jig (9-8) Liverpool Everton Manchester

Subject: RE: mnemonics for rhythms - list please add
From: Little Robyn
Date: 07 Sep 06 - 03:45 PM

And in New Zealand:
Jigs - Wanaka, Wanaka, Wanaka
Reels - Invercargil, Invercargil, Invercargil
Robyn

Subject: RE: mnemonics for rhythms - list please add
From: rich-joy
Date: 12 Sep 06 - 04:40 AM

refresh - more please!!


Cheers! R-J

Subject: RE: mnemonics for rhythms - list please add
From: fogie
Date: 12 Sep 06 - 05:00 AM

If you want me I'll be here in the bath tub. 11/8 (+ soaking) 13/8
But I dont suppose you will. 7/8

Subject: RE: mnemonics for rhythms - list please add
From: Leadfingers
Date: 12 Sep 06 - 10:17 AM

I have a song about Bonnie Prince Charlie , written in 1745 , but I re arranged it into 4 4 to make it easier to play !

Subject: RE: mnemonics for rhythms - list please add
From: Splott Man
Date: 12 Sep 06 - 11:12 AM

11/8 I am knitting a jumper

Subject: RE: mnemonics for rhythms - list please add
From: The Sandman
Date: 12 Sep 06 - 12:59 PM

REELS FOUR FOUR =captain birdseye. Waltzes= all that jazz

Subject: RE: mnemonics for rhythms - list please add
From: Pauline L
Date: 12 Sep 06 - 04:16 PM

A lot of words and phrases are commonly used to teach rhythm to beginning students, including Mississippi Hot Dog (hard to forget) and names of pies and flavors, such as strawberry, butterscotch, and huckleberry. I also use the names of my students, but one kid, with a couple of middle names, complained that it took all day to play them.

Subject: RE: mnemonics for rhythms - list please add
From: fogie
Date: 13 Sep 06 - 05:46 AM

Splott Man ! how many fingers have you got?

Subject: RE: mnemonics for rhythms - list please add
From: leeneia
Date: 13 Sep 06 - 08:57 AM

6/8 jig One lol-ly, two lol-ly. For a new guitarist, we subsitute the chord name for the numbers, telling them to play D-lol-ly, G-lol-y, for example. When the tune calls for a minor chord, we have to omit the "minor," but that's never been a problem.

This applies only if the jig is all eighth notes.

Reel in eighth notes: henrietta, henrietta.

Subject: RE: mnemonics for rhythms - list please add
From: Scrump
Date: 13 Sep 06 - 09:01 AM

3/4 time: 1-2-3, 1-2-3, 1-2-3,...

4/4 time: 1-2-3-4, 1-2-3-4,...

... I'll get me coat.

Subject: RE: mnemonics for rhythms - list please add
From: Snuffy
Date: 13 Sep 06 - 09:31 AM

This applies only if the jig is all eighth notes.

1/4 + 1/8 is Humpty Dumpty

Subject: RE: mnemonics for rhythms - list please add
From: Vixen
Date: 13 Sep 06 - 02:53 PM

reels: one potato two potato
jigs: higgledy piggledy

V

Subject: RE: mnemonics for rhythms - list please add
From: Kaleea
Date: 13 Sep 06 - 06:26 PM

I can recall my grade school Music teacher having us chant our names-one of the oldest techniques for teaching kids & (grown ups) rhythm & meter. Look around while you're driving at the various street names, & chant them. You can come up with all kinds of things.

Here are some smoothies to say to help you smooth out those odd meters.
for meters with 5 beats:
(2+3)
ap-ples-or-an-ges-ap-ples-or-an-ges
          (or 3+2)
   or-an-ges-ap-ples-or-an-ges-ap-ples
   
   don't add any pauses!!

for 7:
    (4+3)
ap-ple-or-ange-le-mon-lime-ap-ple-or-ange-le-mon-lime
    (or 3+4)
   le-mon-lime-or-ange-ap-ple-le-mon-lime-or-ange-ap-ple

get the idea?   You can make lots of flavors of smoothies that will work for you.


Boring ole me, my jr. hi band director (no rest for his sould, he's playing in the heavenly band, of course!) taught us to count duple meter with plain ole numbers:

6/8
1 lah lee 2 lah lee 1 lah lee 2 lah lee

    or even more subdividing the beat,

1 tah lah tah lee tah 2 tah lah tah lee tah

9/8
1 lah lee 2 lah lee 3 lah lee 1 lah lee 2 lah lee 3 lah lee

12/8
1 lah lee 2 lah lee 3 lah lee 4 lah lee etc.

   
    thus, no mathematically challenged Musician (like me) ever has to learn to count past 4!


When I listen to wonderful compositions in odd meters, like Take Five, I don't "hear" or "feel" it in 5. Instead, I feel it in 1! If you go to the youtube link Stewart gave us in the other thread, for Dave Brubeck's band playing Take Five, try this. After you try to "hear" or "feel" the 5 beats by counting 12345,12345, stop, play it again, close your eyes & then:    sway left on one measure, sway right on the next. If you keep doing this, you will really begin to understand the meter.
It really flows!!!