RE: OT Rick Walker "How Rhythm Works' free lecture at UCSC, Friday, 20th

[Gareth Whittock <buddhamachine@live.co.uk>]

I can completely see where you're coming from Rick - good luck with it all!

Peace

G

Gareth, Sentientfx -  Innovative music plugins. http://sentientfx.com/

> Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2012 01:55:53 -0800
> From: looppool@cruzio.com
> To: buddhamachine@live.co.uk; Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
> Subject: Re: RE: OT Rick Walker "How Rhythm Works' free lecture at UCSC, Friday, 20th
>
> On 7/22/64 11:59 AM, Gareth Whittock wrote:
> > Sounds cool Rick. Good luck with it. Will it be video'ed?
> >
> > Peace
> >
> > G
> Dear Gareth and everyone who inquired about me videoing this lecture and
> releasing it to the public:
>
>
> I have to admit that it's getting so difficult to have any income stream
> as professional musician
> anymore and it's all I've ever done in my adult life, so I'm not
> entirely sure I want to put this material
> out for free on the web.
>
> It would further reduce my ability to have private students which is one
> of the last steady income streams
> that local musicians have these days in the present economy, at least.
>
> For what it's worth, I'm actually going to be teaching this course,
> professionally, one on one
> on Skype in a month or so. The good news is that I specifically tailor
> the material for a persons' specific
> background, level of rhythmic expertise (it goes DEEP when I teach an
> accomplished professional rhythmatist
> and learning styles and learning speeds. I work really hard to make
> the material fit people's specific needs.
>
> Additionally, I have spent 30 years of my life developing this material
> and countless hundreds of hours on research;
> literally thousands and thousands of dollars on private lessons with
> world master drummers and
> book and CD purchases for analysis and transcription so it's seems
> reasonable to be able to be able to
> make some of my living by teaching it.
>
> And viz a vis the University lecture, they are actually paying me well
> to teach it, so it's a gig.
>
> So, because I feel dedicated to this community and try to be really free
> with my own area of expertise
> with it as frequently as I can, I feel a little guilty admitting all of
> this, but it's the world we live in.
>
> You can get almost anything on line for free these
> days...........well.............almost anything.
>
> I hope you all understand my reluctance to video and put it out.
>
> yours, respectfully, Rick
>