Legacy Percussion 4:: Agbekor (Ewe people of Ghana, Africa)

Legacy Percussion
This collection of educational and performance videos represents the culmination of 4 decades of studying, performing, teaching, and writing about world percussion, with a new video uploaded each week to the end of 2018. Although geared toward the drummer/percussionist, the underlying concepts can benefit all musicians, composers, and arrangers.


VIDEO #4: Harmonic Time (Agbekor)
Just as tonal “harmony” involves three or more staked notes to form a chord, “Harmonic Time” (HT) incorporates three levels of activity to internalize and orchestrate musical time, groove and mathematics into the entire body. HT places all musicians on the same playing field for learning about world rhythm systems from the ground up, using stepping patterns, clapping patterns, drum vocables, and traditional songs. HT borrows from the African tradition of dancing, drumming and singing. In this way, practitioners come to “own” the concept or exercise, and not just “approximating” how parts align. This 4th video of the Legacy series incorporates all of the Agbekor elements from the previous three videos into the Harmonic Time method.

VIDEO #5: 12/8 bell w/ 2 cross-rhythm

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TEDx talk on Harmonic Time:
   • Harmonic Time Rhythm Method: Jerry Le...  

Article (JazzEd Magazine):
http://www.rhombuspublishing.com/arti...

Books:
http://www.rhombuspublishing.com/rela...

CDs:
http://www.rhombuspublishing.com/craf...
http://www.rhombuspublishing.com/cubi...
http://www.rhombuspublishing.com/the_...

Groups:
http://www.natrajmusic.com
http://clubdelf.com
http://agbekorsociety.org

Colleagues:
   / royalhar.  .
   / benpaulding  

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Jerry Leake is an Associate Professor of Percussion at Berklee College of Music and the New England Conservatory. Jerry leads the world-rock-fusion octet Cubist whose four CDs feature his skill as a composer, arranger, and performer. He is a founding member of the indo/jazz band Natraj and the dub/trance/groove collective Club d’Elf.

Jerry studied Ewe drumming with David Locke, Godwin Agbeli and his sons Nani, Reuben and Emmanuel, and Dagomba drumming with Dolsi-naa Alhaji Abubakari Lunna and Locke. He studied North Indian tabla with Rajeev Devasthali and Todd Nardin, and South Indian mridangam with T. K. Ramakrishnan. Additional rhythm theory has been gained through his association with sarodist and scholar, George Ruckert.

Jerry graduated from Berklee College where he studied jazz vibraphone with Gary Burton and Ed Saindon, and hand percussion with Pablo Landrum. He has written eight texts on world percussion, articles for PAS magazine, and manuals for solo drum set
(http://www.rhombuspublishing.com).

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Videos 1-29, 31, 33, and 39 recorded and mixed by Randy Roos on December 28 & 29, 2017 at Squam Sound.

Series Contents:
#1. Agbekor solo:    • Legacy Percussion 1: African drum sol...  
#2. Agbekor solo analysis:    • Legacy Percussion 2: African drum sol...  
#3. Atsimevu master drum:    • Legacy Percussion 3: Agbekor master d...  
#4. Harmonic Time:    • Legacy Percussion 4:: Agbekor (Ewe pe...  
#5. Agbekor Bell w/ 2 Cross-Rhythm:    • Legacy Percussion 5:  Agbekor/Bembé B...  
#6. Agbekor Bell w/ 3 Cross-Rhythm:    • Legacy Percussion 6: Agbekor/Bembé Be...  
#7. Agbekor Bell w/ 4 Cross-Rhythm:    • Legacy Percussion 7: Agbekor/Bembé Be...  
#8. Agbekor Bell w/ 6 Cross-Rhythm:    • Legacy Percussion 8: Agbekor/Bembé Be...  
#9. Agbekor Bell w/ 8 Cross-Rhythm:    • Legacy Percussion 9: Agbekor/Bembé Be...  
#10. 6+4 African Styles:    • Legacy Percussion 10: African drums: ...  
#11. African Bell Meets Indian Math:    • Legacy Percussion 11: African Bell Me...  
#12. Palo Bell 24/8:    • Legacy Percussion 12: Palo Bell (Afro...  
#13: Adzogbo 24/8:    • Legacy Percussion 13:  Adzogbo (Ewe d...  
#14: Benin 24/8:    • Legacy Percussion 14:  24/8 styles in...  
#15: Gahu drum solo:    • Legacy Percussion 15:   Gahu solo (Ew...  
#16: Gahu analysis:    • Legacy Percussion 16:  Gahu drumming ...  
#17: Dagomba, gung-gong: Jebo (invocation):    • Legacy Percussion 17:  Dagomba drummi...  
#18: Dagomba: Na Yella Bo:    • Legacy Percussion 18: Dagomba:  Na Ye...  
#19: Dagomba: Tora song with 323 clap:    • Legacy Percussion 19:  Dagomba: Tora ...  
#20: Frame Drum: A Quality of Six:    • Legacy Percussion 20:  Frame Drum sol...  
#21: South Indian Reductions:    • Legacy Percussion 21:  South Indian R...  
#22: Riq Improvisation:    • Legacy Percussion 22:   Riq Improvisa...