Monthly Archives: February 2012

The Watched Pot – a Pocket Poem by Rufus Collinson

By Rob Fletcher | Published: February 29, 2012
It had been a long afternoon of Aloneness when I put the pan of water on the stove to boil. At first, there was just the slight sound of Change and then the collection of small glassy bubbles at the bottom of the pan, hundreds of perfect orbs, gathering bouncing becoming a sphere of waves [...]
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What’s Your Rhythm? Tracking Tension and Release in Your Week

By Rob Fletcher | Published: February 27, 2012
Tempo Track your tempo during a full week by completing the chart found here.  Put a B (ballad – slow), M (medium), F (fast) or R (rest) in the left (TEMPO) column for what tempo you lived at for each hour of the day. Tension and Release Then note what you felt during that tempo, [...]
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Tension and Release in Life: Home Is Closer Than You Think (A Music of Teams Music Team Building Post)

By Rob Fletcher | Published: February 24, 2012
“May you live in interesting times.” – old curse Tension wants to move In the last post I explained the concept of tension and release. So what does this all have to do with you and me? We experience tension every day – both you and me. First, it’s helpful to recognize this simple fact. [...]
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Tension and Release in Music: Here Comes the Bride, Star Wars and the ‘devil’s interval’

By Rob Fletcher | Published: February 23, 2012
How do Purple Haze, Here Comes the Bride and the Star Wars theme relate to each other? Read on! Tension and release is a foundational concept in western music. Tension is used in music to create interest and inspire movement. When we hear something tense in music, there’s an urge inside us for resolution. The [...]
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Looking Back On Your Tracks: Six Questions to Help You Get the Most From Your Rhythm Tracks

By Rob Fletcher | Published: February 22, 2012
Last week I invited you to track your rhythm for a week. If you’d like a refresher, here is a link for a chart (in PDF format) that you helps you to track your life and work tempo for one week. It’s been just over a week. Now’s the time to take a look back [...]
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What I Learned Looking Back on My Rhythm Tracks (A Music of Teams Music Team Building Post)

By Rob Fletcher | Published: February 21, 2012
Last week I invited you to track your rhythm for a week. If you’d like a refresher, here is a link for a chart (in PDF format) that you can print out to track your life and work tempo for one week. Here are some observations I made while tracking my rhythm this past week. [...]
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Turn and Face the Strain – Finding Your Own Rhythm (A Music of Teams Music Team Building Post)

By Rob Fletcher | Published: February 17, 2012
“Turn and face the strain…ch-ch-ch-changes” – David Bowie If you’re like me you experience tension in your day more than you don’t. You can easily tell when you are experiencing other than the right rhythm for you. There’s tension. Too fast? Tension. Too slow? Tension. There’s a sweet spot of tempo for you in every [...]
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What’s Your Rhythm Right Now? Check Your Breath (A Music of Teams Music Team Building Post)

By Rob Fletcher | Published: February 15, 2012
Some people find it difficult to ascertain what their rhythm actually is. We get caught up in a whirlwind of life and it’s hard to get our bearings when we’re being tossed around so quickly. One easy clue is your breath right now. Is it fast? Slow? Deep? Shallow? Ragged? Flowing? We breathe and beat [...]
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What tempo do you want today? There are a lot of choices(A Music of Teams Music Team Building Post)

By Rob Fletcher | Published: February 14, 2012
Here are a range of tempos that are used in classical music (from Wikipedia). Look at all those choices! You can use these while tracking your rhythm for a week if you prefer. If you thought that your work today only had one option for a tempo, you now have many other options. What’s the [...]
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What’s Your Rhythm? Track The Tempo of Your Week

By Rob Fletcher | Published: February 13, 2012
“The rhythm track’s sound identifies the production style and the record’s musical genre. Think of it as to the foundation of a house: you can’t build on a weak base.” – L.A. recording engineer Barry Rudolph (Lynyrd Skynyrd, Pat Benatar) When you record something in a studio, it’s usually referred to as a track. The [...]
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