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The rhythm of the future
Gillyanne: So what’s coming up next for you. You’re obviously a pretty busy guy, I’m feeling very fortunate to have you here this morning.
Daniel: I am fortunate to be part of this. And you have a great website and a great mailout or mail service. That’s really cool.
Gillyanne: Thank you
Daniel: So what’s up now. Finishing I take eight weeks more, the same week, two days after finishing that I have my dissertation, with a concert – dissertation concert in the evening then the actual dissertation the morning after,. So it’s pretty hard, Harder than a normal dissertation where you only have your opponent or discussion. We have to have a concert too. A one-hour concert and a two-hour barbecue! A vocalist’s barbecue.
Gillyanne: Now if it all goes well then we’ll be able to call you Doctor Borch won’t we?
Daniel: Yes, and I won’t listen to anything else.
Gillyanne: Quite right too. So Daniel, do you have a top tip for your rock pop and soul musicians.
Daniel: Yeah, to warm up and to cool down. That is one I think. Another one is to use your pauses to rest your voice.
Gillyanne: Yes, I read that in the book.
Daniel: In recording sessions and live. Don’t sit around with all the guys all the time talking. Just go into the toilet or read or take a walk, if you have one hour for lunch or something. So that you rest your voice in between. And then I would say focus on rhythmic stuff too.
Gillyanne: You’re very strong on rhythm, I remember.
Daniel: That’s because no-one does that I think. Not singers and not teachers, they don’t talk about the rhythmic part. And all the really great singers of this world are good at that. Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson, they know exactly where the rhythm is. And that gives you also … you and your audience, that this person is a very musical person. It feels like there’s a total musical talent, not just a tone or a voice.
Gillyanne: Yes, it was something again that I thought about after working with you in Sweden., It was the idea that in fact some of your rhythm exercises, like the ghosting which has a strong rhythmic impact, requires a lot of vocal dexterity.
Daniel: What’s that?
Gillyanne: Dexterity is a lot of expertise, skill, fine control.
Daniel: OK, yes.
Gillyanne: In a way that you might not expect to learn as a vocalist. It needed a lot of practice, actually
Daniel: I know, And for the classically trained singer it’s nothing that they’re used to either. I know when I practised just sightreading rhythm with a classical teacher a long time ago he was so stunned about the pop musician has a beat that is so technically correct, you know, we’re on time. But we’re used to drum machines in exact bmp style, so this is in us from the start. So if you’re trained more fluent, to have tempo more moving, with the classical music sometimes it’s more like the unit who decides together…
Gillyanne: Yes
Daniel: Ok, are we now doing an accelerando together? Oh, yes we are. Now we’ll move from 102 to 104 on the next beat. It’s that type of rhythmic world. But for us we’re used to keeping it all steady. So to be able to move in and out of that beat is what makes you even greater after you manage to keep the beat.
Gillyanne: Yes, I think that’s very interesting and an important aspect of pop, Because when you listen to popular music, so much of it is about rhythm, and yet showing people how to perform that rhythm… I know you’ve had a background as a drummer. Did you train originally as a drummer?
Daniel: Yes, I started when I was nine as a drummer, but not for that long. The thing was, then I started to play the guitar and then I started to sing my songs and writing songs, that’s my background. But I’ve always been interested in the rhythmic part of music, riffs and so on. And I played electric bass, and that’s only because I had the beat from the drums when I started, and I had the ability with my fingers from the guitar playing. So then bass is perfect. But of course, you have to be interested in this to be able to… that’s for everything we do. All the questions and everything we do, some day it comes from us, and the more we want to work on it, the more it is from us.
Gillyanne: This is true. Now, the warm-ups and cooldowns and the other advice you have for your rock and pop musicians, that’s all in the book isn’t it?
Daniel: Yes it is
Gillyanne: And it has a CD that goes with it.
Daniel: Yes
Gillyanne: I have it here in English, and I know it’s published in Swedish. What other languages is it published in? No others for now, but I know we have some questions from Spain and from Germany. And it’s released in the States and it’s released in Australia and the UK. It takes a long time for this to get a platform to work on. It’s doing pretty well I think, compared to others – I don’t know anything about what it sells, but I know that my publisher is satisfied, and that’s the best, because then I can do one more maybe!
Gillyanne: Exactly. So where’s the best place to get the book?
Daniel: I would say Amazon
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Gillyanne: Is there anything else you’d like to tell me? I’ve ticked everything.
Daniel: It’s been great talking to you. I’m glad that you have included me on this. Is this the eZINE?
Gillyanne: This will go in the eZINE, yes. As in magazine, but with an E in front.
Daniel: OK, now I understand. It takes a while for us to understand all those…
Gillyanne: Those strange English nuances
Now Daniel, what is the date of your dissertation and concert?
Daniel: December 15 and 16.
Gillyanne: I will be thinking of you.
Daniel: Yes, do so please, it will be a nervous period.
Gillyanne: Who’s your opponent, as a matter of personal interest?
Daniel: AnnaMaria Laukkenen
Gillyanne: Ah yes
Daniel: And she’s a great researcher, so maybe it will be a lot on the research. Because it’s both the research, my book and the CD .So it’s fun.
Gillyanne: And it’ll be even more fun when you’ve done it.
Daniel: Yes, a nice Christmas
Gillyanne: It’s been lovely talking to you Daniel, thank you so much for your time.
Daniel: Thank you, and we’ll keep in touch.
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Gillyanne Kayes
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