The Russian Rhythm Exercise that Changed Everything

Aaron Parks shows how stepping away from the keys can completely change your time feel. Drawing from an exercise he learned from piano teacher Sophia Rosoff, Aaron explores how rhythm lives in the body, and why tapping, movement, and pulse awareness unlock a deeper groove. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ▼ START YOUR FREE TRIAL TODAY ▼ Get full access to Aaron Parks’ course, Meditations on Jazz Piano, plus new lessons every week from Peter Martin, Adam Maness, and more: https://happypracticing.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ You’ll learn: ✅ The “closed lid” rhythm exercise Aaron learned from Sophia Rosoff ✅ Why great rhythm feels more like dancing than counting ✅ Ways to loosen up your time feel and play more naturally Chapters: 0:00 Intro 1:00 Getting into the Excercise 2:00 Testing the Results 4:47 Exercise Variation 7:42 Loosening up Even More 10:20 Waking up The Whole Body 📺 Watch next… What Is Pulse Memory?: https://youtu.be/H4yR1ira0w8 Open Studio Jazz offers online jazz piano courses for players at every level — from complete beginners to advancing musicians ready to develop their own voice. Join thousands of students worldwide living a musical life. #jazzpiano #jazzpractice #rhythm #swing #aaronparks