The Book of Movements / Volume 5 / Palindromes 1

IMPORTANT NOTICE: After practicing this 5th volume of The Book of Movements,
You will notice changes in your self-perception since both hemispheres of the brain are exercised.

Palindromes are movement patterns with certain special characteristics. Its internal components keep symmetrical distances They read the same from front to back and from back to front.
These mirrored patterns are special in that when you practice them
They allow us to play fluidly with both hands, the same pattern.
Any pattern that is leading with the right hand is automatically played leading with the right hand.
left, achieving a great kinesthetic balance.
The palindromes sound very exotic and musical at the same time, there are all the movement patterns
palindromics that exist in metric 3/8; 4/8; 5/8; 6/8; 7/8; 8/8; 9/8; 8/10; 11/8; 12/8; 8/13; 8/14; 8/15 and 8/16
Irregular metrics with these patterns sound amazing.
The focus of this volume I is with the accentuation technique.
In addition to the thousands of patterns, the book contains different approaches
to give them interesting musical treatments that will make your head explode.

Many of us hear about palindromes in poetry through phrases or words, in mathematics through numbers, we also hear that the human genome has palindromic sequences etc.
Although there are already compositions, melodies and resources used by great composers in the history of music, related to this kind of symmetry, it turns out that the infinite potential that these special sequences have on musical situations where they can be applied in different ways is little explored. in a very organic way.

This method has specifically selected palindromic movement patterns and classified in a compilation
of which there are no antecedents in musical history.
It is aimed at those who play drums, percussion, piano, bass, guitar, Hang, body percussion or
instrumentalists looking to create new musical ways of approaching their instrument, also
provides excellent rhythmic forms for composers and improvisers.

The palindromes here are arranged in patterns with metrics ranging from 3 to 16 beats, so
We will explore this type of patterns in 14 different metrics, with a simple, organic visual approach.
auditory and kinesthetic learning.

Palindromic sequences exist in different languages of nature, and of course, also
they are present in music, both in the harmonic and melodic plane as well as in the rhythmic plane.
Such sequences visually produce a symmetric phenomenon of reflection that is also very
easy to appreciate from an auditive aspect when we listen to the call and the response, which carries
the palindrome itself. That call and response (object and reflection) give us a very clear notion
that we are listening to a well-formed musical phrase.
(Many of us have already played palindromic several times without being aware of it)

On the other hand, palindromes (here called palindromic motives) while wonderful, since
a musical discursive aspect are also in the motor aspect.
It turns out that the human body, seen from the outside, has palindromic shapes from a
central axis of symmetry towards the ends and from the ends to the axis again.
This type of symmetry manifested naturally in our body, raises its potential
and these can be explored very organically with the movements proposed by the
palindromic sequences contained in this book, enhancing our kinesthetic awareness.