Rhythmic combinations
Familiar note values, rests and accents come together in longer phrases.
Recruit Programme · in preparation
From foundations to real rhythmic playing
The second stage after Beginner. You will combine note values and bring striking, breath and changes in tone colour together into real grooves.
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90days to learn at your own pace
12practical chapters
4layers: , strike, breath and formant filtering
+Beginner included throughout
Recruit is built around playing
From individual techniques to coordinated playing
Beginner separated and explained the individual elements. Recruit starts combining and automating them, turning them into music.
Every chapter:
video→practical trainer→variations→checkpoint
you can feel
Feel 4/4, 3/4, 6/8 and optionally 7/8 with your body and ears before approaching them through numbers.
Strike and
A steady back-and-forth motion, accents, lighter strikes and omitted strikes.
Breath as a second layer
A breathing no longer has to follow every strike.
U [u]–O [o]–A [a]–E [ɛ]–I [i]
Deliberate changes in tone colour and your first independent tone pattern. Use pure vowel shapes; O [o] is not the English diphthong /oʊ/.
Layering and your own groove
Your hands do one thing, your breath another and your mouth a third — without losing the pulse.
Your path through Recruit
Twelve connected steps
No extra showy techniques. The focus remains on rhythm, coordination and layering.
- Rhythmic combinationsNote values become a phrase.
- Metre4/4, 3/4, 6/8 and your first 7/8.
- IISee it → say it → hold it → play it.
- Strike IIAccents, omissions and groove.
- Breath IIBreath as a rhythmic layer.
- Formant filtering IIFive positions and the space between them.
- Why does a jaw harp change its sound?Optional in-depth theory.
- Tone colour as a layerThe strike and formant filtering change independently.
- Layering, strike, breath and formant filtering.
- Groove LabFrom a slow trainer to playing independently.
- Your own grooveThe first rhythm you have created yourself.
- Recruit checkA check of your skills, not the number of videos watched.
Included in the programme
Beginner remains available for all 90 days
When a new combination falls apart, return to its individual layers. Beginner is therefore more than an entry requirement: it remains a practical reference throughout Recruit.
- Completed Beginner → continue straight away.
- Learned elsewhere → work through the foundation skills checklist.
- 7/8 is a challenge, not a compulsory completion requirement.
PULSE● · ● · ● · ●
STRIKE↓ ↑ ↓ ↑
BREATHOUT · IN · OUT · IN
FORMANTO [o] · I [i] · O [o] · A [a]
Did it fall apart? Separate the layers again.
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