FLOWER

This is a piece which should only be performed after the One Two piece has been thoroughly absorbed.

I FOLLOW exactly the same process as for putting 'One Two' onto instruments (Stage 4). The halfway mark (the offbeat ) can then be embellished. Gradually the space between One and Two (and between Two and One) becomes a space in which the individual can improvise, while still retaining the Ones and Twos and swapping between them. This can develop into an open improvisation, losing the 'rules' attached to doing the One Two piece, but always remembering the rhythmic place which you are in.

II TO finish the piece you can go back to your original rhythmic place (which is either the One or the Two). Alternatively you could treat it as an open ended piece, and go into a free group improvisation, which will have a conversational quality because of the discipline preceding it. This should naturally resolve itself.