Add it up! Eastern European Additive Rhythms

Eastern European musicians aren’t satisfied with the run-of-the-mill 1-2-3-4 rhythms that form the foundations of most Western popular songs — no!! Instead they playfully link groups of 2, 3 and 4 beats into phrases that may have us counting to 7, 13, 16 or more. In this lesson I help you and your kids make sense of this “additive rhythm” mayhem. We do it using fruit.