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The Swift Way to Count is, I believe, one of the simplest, most precise methods of learning how to understand and perform musical rhythms that you will ever find anywhere. It teaches how to really feel rhythm and combine this with the reading of music, giving a deep, instinctual understanding. Previously, many adults began music, only to find that they couldn't seem to make progress and so stopped again in disappointment.

How many of us would love to sing or play music in a group, or a band?
How many of us try to play the piano when we are young but give up along the way?

I believe that people worldwide struggle every day to put musical notes together into the right places. They tax their brains trying to count correctly, yet counting still remains elusive because the brain doesn't contain a beat; it thinks in concepts. The pitch of the notes may be perfectly correct, but if those notes don't correspond to the written music, the piece being sung or played will never sound the way it should and frustration will remain.

Marla Swift has worked with soloists Dame Joan Sutherland, Dame Kiri Tekanawa, Yvonne Kenny and Jose Carreras to name a few. She has performed in Music Festivals in the UK, Austria and Germany and has been a soloist and recording artist with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. Some of the many orchestras she has worked in over the years include the State Orchestra of Victoria, the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, and Queensland Philharmonic. She has been regularly heard on the Australian Broadcasting Commission and has travelled throughout Victoria, performing and lecturing to schools for the State Government.

The author says, "After a lifetime of teaching, performing and examining, I have found simple answers to the challenges of counting and I offer these to you."

Finding the Rhythm in MusicInterview
Australian Book Group
Author: Marla Swift
ISBN: 9780980283693
Price: $49.99