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Kinetic Hues DVD
The Ari Hoenig Quartet was formed at the end of 2002 while playing steadily every Monday night at the New York Village jazz club Fat Cat. The band featured Jacques Schwarz-Bart, on tenor sax, Jean Michel Pilc on piano and Matt Penman on bass. They released two records on the Smalls Records label: "The Painter" (2004) and the DVD "Kinetic Hues" (2005)
Melodic Drumming - JazzHeaven DVD
Ari shares a rather unusual aspect of drumming, playing melodies on the drums.
Includes:
- Playing the melody of a song using the basic contour
- Playing the melody of a song using actual pitches
- Soloing melodically over a song form
- Free improvising in a compositional way
- Various tracks of Ari playing complete songs
Intro to Polyrhythms Vol 1
Contracting & Expanding Time Within Form.
Ari Hoenig & Johannes Weidenmueller
One of the best methods for learning advanced rhythm, polyrhythm, and metric/harmonic superimposition. Looks at rhythm through a magnifying glass and enables the student to see, sing and hear various subdivisions and groupings of subdivisions. Can be used by any and all instrumentalists. Will greatly improve the student's improvisational ability to create and respond to rhythmic musical dialogue. Students will learn how to make core rhythms into core grooves and use beat displacement to alter these core grooves. The book is complete with general exercises for all instrumentalists as well as specific exercises for pianists, bassists and drummers; a DVD with demonstrations of all the material from the book; improvised examples by Ari Hoenig and Johannes Weidenmueller in duo as well as trio with Aaron Goldberg; transcriptions on how to harmonically navigate through polyrhythm inside standard jazz forms; musical examples which can be watched, and used as a play along.
Metric Modulations
Vol 2
Expanding and Contracting Time Within Form.
Ari Hoenig & Johannes Weidenmueller
The follow-up to Intro to Polyrhtyhms, a method for learning advanced rhythm, polyrhythm, and metric/harmonic superimposition, looks at rhythm through a magnifying glass and enables the student to see, sing and hear various subdivisions and groupings of subdivisions. This book can be used by any and all instrumentalists. Metric Modulation will greatly improve the student’s improvisational ability to create and respond to rhythmic musical dialogue. The book is complete with general exercises for all instrumentalists as well as specific exercises for pianists, bassists and drummers. The included DVD demonstrates of all the material from the book, including improvised examples by Ari Hoenig and Johannes Weidenmueller in duo as well as trio with Aaron Goldberg. Transcriptions on how to harmonically navigate through polyrhythm inside standard jazz forms are included.
The Ari Hoenig Songbook
For C Bb and Eb Instruments A collection of rhythmically, melodically, and structurally interesting compositions by great New York City drummer/composer/bandleader Ari Hoenig. Includes songs such as Lines of Oppression, Arrows and Loops, The Painter, Bert's Playground, Green Spleen, Seraphic, Remembering, Loves Feathered Nails, Rapscallion Cattle, Ska, For Tracy and more.
Systems 1
Can you say 4 way coordination? Systems Book 1 will vastly improve a student's creative melodic independence and will offer musical possibilities of improvisation through theme and variation. It's an in depth look into jazz comping while using melodies which stress the 2nd triplet note. The systems are designed to help drummers prepare for the modern world of highly rhythmic band improvisation. Includes hand warm ups, flam warm ups, swing prerequisites, triplet displacements and much more. Intermediate to Advanced.