The Practice

  1. Pulse – flow and structure

These initial practices are the foundation

  • Use attack and flow to generate a musical beat — dynamic flowing energy that moves, stretches and evolves
  • Experience how one beat is completed by another one or two beats to form a unified group or cell — each cell has two or three beats or syllables.
  • Chant simple mantras to connect you to unfolding, “poetic” sense and structure of the rhythmic matrix
  • Use different tempos and with different “feels”
  • Bring focus to the underlying structure of unfolding groove that the mantras point to — this structural principal connects us to the poetic magic of the groove, and your experience of inward flow

 

  1. Rhythmic gestures or rhythm cells

A rhythmic vocabulary — express evolving hypnotic rhythms

  • Say, sing or play simple duple and triple rhythmic gestures (rhythm cells)
  • Add two more triple rhythm cells to enrich the possibilities
  • Add 8 quadruple rhythm cells to complete your rhythmic vocabulary

 

  1. Tone

Tone enriches the unfolding meaning of rhythm cells in the matrix

  • Create sonority — use rhythmic attack and flow to set the tone in motion. Connect this to intention to make sound feel “supported”, floating or blooming
  • Use two different tones, sensing how one feels like "home” and the other feels like “away". Used with the poetic sense of the matrix, you create cadence, tension and resolution
  • Create spacious simple, sublime melodies using 6 tonal blocks of just 3 or 4 tones over a grounding bass drone
  • Create melodies using a family of 3 major and 3 minor harmonic blocks — moving within a block, and also from block to block
  • Discover how each harmonic block corresponds to a distinct energy centre in the body which connects to deep intelligence (chakras)

This is taught as a deeply embodied practice — allowing as much time and space as needed

You also learn how to read rhythm cells weaving through the tonal blocks. When built on clear embodied awareness of simple elements, reading music feels natural and instinctive — no decoding is involved.