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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