TaKeTiNa for musicians
TaKeTiNa group work offers a fundamental training in rhythmic assurance and cultivates a more relaxed way of dealing with mistakes – which in turn leads to less mistakes being made.
Instead of practicing rhythmic patterns, which is often the way rhythm is taught, TaKeTiNa enables you to keep your bearings when dealing with an increasingly complex texture of simple, almost archetypal, basic rhythms (two, three, four, five, seven, nine and twelve beats).
This work leads to a heightened sensual and musical presence, an increased ability to concentrate without effort, and enables learning in the ‘flow’ to become the fundamental experience when learning music.
TaKeTiNa gives a musician something that is really difficult to learn: playing with „groove“ and „flow“. Pulsation and flow are essential qualities of music. They presuppose a balance of active doing and passive letting things happen and, as experience has shown, this can best be developed without an instrument.At the same time TaKeTiNa can help musicians deal with the pressure to perform, which many of them suffer from. .. Even if it is necessary for a professional musician to know his or her weaknesses and strengths, a chronic „wanting-to-be-better“ has a destructive effect.
In the TaKeTiNa process, the fact that mistakes are allowed can ease anxiety. The student realises that in the end he or she is moving towards something larger than just „getting it right“.Reinhard Flatischler