Indian Rhythm Workshop by Darren Moore

Indian Rhythm Workshop Series

Improve your rhythmic sense and develop a deeper understanding of rhythm through learning Carnatic Indian rhythms. Over the course of five workshops, Carnatic rhythmic concepts will be introduced and taught by using the spoken rhythmic syllables called Solkattu recited over combinations of claps, waves and finger counts. The workshop will be taught without any instruments and the rhythmic ideas can be applied to any style of music. The workshops are open to acoustic musicians, computer-based musicians, composers and dancers; anyone who works with rhythm.

The workshops will be taught by Darren Moore who is an Australian professional drummer based in Tokyo. Darren studied Carnatic rhythms with South Indian master ghatam player Suresh ‘Ghatam’ Vaidyanathan and mridungam master T.R. Sundaresan. In 2013, Darren obtained a Doctorate of Music Arts from Griffith University in Australia which looked at applying Carnatic Indian rhythms to the drum set. 

Workshop 3 - 29 October 2017

- Rhythmic ideas in 5/4

- Groupings of 5 in 4/4

- Using ‘space’ as a rhythmic tool

Workshop Series Ticket (5 workshops): ¥10000

Tickets/Enquiries: velvetsun.ticket@gmail.com

Coming up soon:

Workshop 4 - 19 November 2017

Rhythmic ideas in 7/4

Using groupings of 7 in 4/4

Rhythmic design

Workshop 5 - 10 December 2017

Rhythmic ideas in 9/4

Using groupings of 9 in 3/4 and 4/4

Creating rhythmic variation