“Do you think that rhythm can be taught to someone with virtually no ‘ear’ for it? I come from a musical family so I just got lucky that way, and can help if that’s what it takes, but while i can teach salsa steps all day, I don’t know how to teach such [...]]]> Hello Buddy,

“Do you think that rhythm can be taught to someone with virtually no ‘ear’ for it? I come from a musical family so I just got lucky that way, and can help if that’s what it takes, but while i can teach salsa steps all day, I don’t know how to teach such a basic idea as ‘listen and move to the beat’.

There’s no hurry on this, but I have immense respect for you as a gentle and effective teacher, and I know you have run into this sort of thing. How much potential for improvement is there in someone with no natural ear, and how, if at all, can I help him?
thank you, both for your time, and for being you.

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The distractions that interfere with a person trying to feel their own sense of rhythm are a result of trauma – usually. The steady gentle slow downbeat in the middle of the drumhead is the safest way for them to recalibrate their sense of rhythm that has been dislocated. Set up two drums, hit just the low middle downbeat tone at a medium tempo, with a soft high note at the edge, repeat steady for fifteen minutes or more slow it down until your friend starts to FEEL the concept of a steady pulse. This is something I deal with a lot. There is psychological processing that accompanies this miraculous event. Be gentle and non judgemental. Let me know. I have CDs.

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The concept of Rhythmic Dysfunction has been conceived in the recent years by the [...]]]> Helmtone Drum Protocols 2009

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The concept of Rhythmic Dysfunction has been conceived in the recent years by the Helmtone practioners because there was no other vocabulary to describe what people were approaching me to help them with. They are sincere, intelligent, talented people with a common occurence: they are disassociated from their sense of rhythm.

When people approach a music teacher, the assumption by the teacher is that they want to learn to play music, but many times the people want to be healed by the qualities inherent in music. This is not becoming a musician, although they will no doubt become good musicians after they are healed. The music teacher must then treat the person with a different form of respect. There are no wrong notes in this process. There are clues. The Rhythmic Indicators that appear in the person are clues to the real reason that they are the way they are. Then the healing phenomenon of the groove can do its miraculous work resulting in a happy, healthy, integrated person- who can also drum very well.

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