The Tone and Groove Course

1.Exploring how attack and flow from the body and soul generate a musical beat - powerful, dynamic flowing energy that moves, stretches and evolves

2. Using mantras to help connect you to unfolding rhythmic energy at different tempos and with different feels

3. Discovering the underlying nonlinear structure of unfolding groove that the mantras point to: this structural principal connects deeply with the poetic magic of the groove, supporting your experience of inward flow and its associated trance state

4. Using simple duple and triple rhythm cells to generate and express powerful, hypnotic rhythms

5. Using the 4 complete triple rhythm cells to generate more complex rhythmic patterns

6. Using the 8 duple/quadruple rhythm cells to generate more intricate rhythmic patterns that take you even deeper

1. Sonority - intention: how rhythm makes the tone feel expressed and “supported”, floating aerodynamically, blooming

2. Exploring patterns on 2 tones, feeling the magical sense of "home and away" that develops powerful tonal intention built on the poetic sense of the groove's rhythmic unfolding, cadence, tension and resolution

3. Playing spacious simple, sublime melodies on 6 tonal blocks of 3 or 4 tones over bass drones

3. Discovering the 3 major and 3 minor harmonic blocks: improvising simple melodies over bass drones using single harmonic blocks and symmetric pairs of blocks within the keyboard map that correspond to pairs of chakras  

4. Playing melodies using the 6 harmonic blocks that plug into the full diatonic block, sensing how auxiliary notes, and harmonic notes create tension and resolution, and feeling how these 6 "places" within the diatonic block connect to specific energy centres or chakras - root, crown, heart, solar plexus, throat and sacrum (the third-eye chakra is constant in this practice in the form of single-pointed mental focus)