An excellent how-to guide to the dressage muscial freestyle!
In this revised and expanded edition of the original work by Mary Campbell, the authors offer the techniques and tools you'll need to set you "dancing with your horse."
Even if you have no musical training, you'll learn how to create your own musical freestyle for any level, using the right music for you and your horse. Topics included are:
- Using "beats per minute" to create a beautiful and successful ride
- Choreographing your own original ride
- Selecting your music, and considering the suitability of the music for horse and rider
- Timing and editing your ride to a final polish
- How to prepare a high quality tape or CD of your music
- Developing your own music library and music sources
- What judges are looking for in the freestyle
- The benefits of lungeing to music
And much, much more!
The first edition of this book, written by Mary Campbell and published in 1989, was one of the first on the dressage musical freestyle. How far the sport has come since then!
Mary passed away several years ago but her work has lived on in the mnay students she taught. Leigh Ann Hazel-Groux and Libby Anderson were two of her most dedicated students and have written this revised and updated edition of this excellent book.
Covering all aspects of the freestyle, from the history of the sport to designing your own music, to what the juedges are looking for in competition, the authors provide answers to any questions you might have. You don't even have to be "musical" to prepare a freestyle with the advice offered in this book. And, they even cover other applications of riding to music such as lungeing to music simply to improve as a rider.
Hardback.