Village Heartbeat offers a range of courses and workshops in the U.S. that take drumming and rhythmic training into new evolutionary territory that is as much about personal growth as it is about musical education.
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See the Drumming Classes and Calendar sections for details on current course offerings and registration.
with Zorina Wolf and other TaKeTiNa teachers
Three-day TaKeTiNa workshops
Rhythm Play: The Critic Exchange Program
Friday evening and Saturday & Sunday day
To be in rhythm we have to let go of some simple, little things: thinking and judging.
Rhythm insists on our complete attention and presence for its magic to happen.
Thinking is always “late”--one step behind an event.
We can’t groove through thinking—only through the magic of being in the moment In our rhythm circle we begin to play with the elements that make music happen, events and intervals. We use stepping, clapping, and call-and-response song to lure us away from trying to “figure it out” or “get it right.” By staying in the field of music-making, we increase our chances of losing our minds in a playful, happy way.
In rhythm, we have nothing but time. Often, we don’t know what to do with the time given to us.
Learning about this time, becoming intimate with the interval, need not be a serious business in which the judge and critic rule.
Allowing rhythm to arise within us is an immediate and direct path to freedom from self-criticism.
See the TaKeTiNa section for complete info.
Zorina Wolf on TaKeTiNa (click to listen)
To the International TaKeTiNa Website
About TaKeTiNa
Developed in the early 1970’s by Austrian composer and percussionist Reinhard Flatischler, and co-developed by Cornelia Flatischler, TaKeTiNa is a musical group process that allows people to access their innate ability to express and embody rhythm, whether they are complete beginners or musically accomplished.
TaKeTiNa workshops and trainings are held in over 40 major cities around the world.
