Rhythm Riding by CeCe and Frank Maddlone

Rhythm Riding by CeCe & Frank Maddlone

Rhythm Riding by CeCe & Frank Maddlone  provides a proven step-by-step process that makes learning to ride with music an enjoyable and achievable goal.

Creating the perfect musical freestyle can be an overwhelming prospect. Rhythm Riding covers each level through FEI, the book begins with the basics of the compulsory requirements and lists of dos and donts, then explores the addition of music and culminates with reinforcing exercises. In addition, the book provides a guide to available technology and the best metronomes, as well as a primer on music notation for beginners.

Best of all, the reader can immediately apply what they've learned while riding with the accompanying Rhythm Riding Practice CD, which supplies 90 minutes of specially arranged music from Equichord, a professional music studio that provides creative musical arrangements and choreography for amateur and professional riders.

Written in collaboration and consultation with internationally acclaimed dressage rider and trainer Dr. Cesar Parra, and featuring a competitor's commentary from four-time Olympic gold medalist Nicole Uphoff-Selke and a judge's perspective from FEI judge Dr. Volker Moritz.

CECE MADDLONE studied ballet, choreography, and theater arts in her youth, and her passion for these has evolved to include her own dressage pursuits, which span the last 20 years. FRANK MADDLONE has been a composer and arranger for television and cinema since the 1980s. He adds his musical talents and technological wizardry to Equichord's unique offering of services for the dressage or performance rider. Read more about the educational opportunities and musical aids Equichord offers at www.equichord.com.

155 pp, 6 x 9, color photos, drawings, charts, and MUSIC CD.