Rhythm Boot Camp: Everyday Practice
Get some tips on how to incorporate rhythm practice into all your music activities. Includes rock and Latin practice tracks to improvise and jam with.
Sabrina Peña Young
An intermedia composer, percussionist, author, and obsessive sci-fi buff, Sabrina Peña Young creates mind-bending electroacoustic works that have been heard throughout Australia, Asia, North America, and Europe in media festivals, radio, film, dance clubs, random boom boxes in France - and as not-so-pleasant background music.
Critics have described her music as “daunting,” and “marvelously abstract,” and she has received a wide range of awards for her compositions, including New Genre Award from the International Alliance for Women in Music for her work "Creation" and the Cintas Foundation's Brandon Fradd Fellowship in Music Composition, as well as awards and nominations for her film-making work.
Sabrina has a passion for writing too, and recently published "The Feminine Musique: Multimedia and Women Today", available at Amazon.com. She has also written for the Kapralova Society Journal, Percussive Notes, Panpipes, the IAWM Music Journal, the SEAMUS Music Journal, and various fine arts websites.
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Posts by Sabrina Peña Young
Common Rhythm Problem Spots: Solos and Syncopation
Get help tackling two common rhythm problems: keeping time during solos and when playing more complex rhythms. Includes practice tracks to improvise with.
Common Rhythm Problem Spots: Getting Lost
All musicians have had that moment when they find themselves lost when playing with others. Get some tips and practice not getting lost in this tutorial.
Common Rhythm Problem Spots: Transitions
It can be easy to loose rhythmic accuracy during tempo and style transitions. Get some tips to help you keep the beat and practice with these exercises.
Rhythm Bootcamp: Rhythmic Accuracy
Find out 3 reasons why musicians struggle with rhythmic accuracy, then learn the 5 ways you can improve and practice with a rhythmic accuracy exercise.
Rhythm Bootcamp: Got No Rhythm?
You can Improve your sense of rhythm by internalizing the beat in your mind using audiation. Learn more and practice this skill with some simple exercises.
Rhythm Bootcamp: Induction
For all musicians who understand the theory of good rhythm, but are looking for simple and fun everyday exercises to improve this crucial musical skill.
How to Spell Intervals
Starting with basic music theory, followed by exercises and a game, learn which notes make up each interval and notice the improvement when you play music.
Introduction to Polyrhythms
Curious about polyrhythms? Find out what a polyrhythm with examples from different genres and practice counting and playing them with some simple exercises.
Fascinating Rhythms
Explore fascinating rhythms from around the world and find out what makes our bodies move, souls dance and spark inspiration in your own musical creations.
Songwriter’s Secrets: Killer Arrangements
The final tutorial in Songwriter’s Secrets guides you through how to arrange your song for maximum impact using re-mixes of Disney’s Let it Go as examples.
Songwriter’s Secrets: Writing Harmonies
Part of the songwriter’s secrets series, this tutorial guides you through how to write harmonies. Learn this 6 step process and add harmonies to your songs.
