What is Music & Sport

Train through music,
not with it.

Music & Sport is a rhythm-development method for athletes. It measures an athlete’s timing, reads it against what their sport demands, and prescribes the musical training that fills the gap, inside their own sport.

See with your ears.
Hear with your eyes.

A training mindset that uses rhythmic movement to sharpen musical and bodily awareness. Eight points, one for every full turn of the wheel.

Manifesto

Rhythm is movement.

Turn the wheel once for the next point

It started
with a waltz.

Milan, 2012. In a sports science class, a swimming instructor asked the class to dance a waltz before explaining freestyle. Three beats for alternating arms: rhythm organizes motion. That is how everything started.

The outdoor pool of the Saini sports centre in Milan
Saini pool, Milan: where the lesson happened
Keep the beat
120BPM
Brisk walk
Beat every500 ms
One bar2.0 s
Accentbeat 1
The method

Measure. Match.
Prescribe. Climb.

The method works in four steps. Measure how the athlete keeps time. Match it to what the sport demands. Prescribe the musical training that fills the gap. Then climb, inside the training hour, from a beat in stillness to music in sport.

The method in four steps
1 Measure PACE How does theathlete keep time? 2 Match Sport recipe What does thesport demand? 3 Prescribe Supply matrix Which musicfills the gap? 4 Climb Framework Beat in stillnessto music in sport.
Try the tools

Find your tempo.
Test your rhythm.

Find songs at your exact training tempo, build playlists for your sport, and test your sense of rhythm.

Tempo Finder, live
  • Tap or moveset the tempo of your drill
  • Songs at your BPMfrom the song library
  • Playlists for your sportWorkouts
  • Rhythm gamesGot Rhythm? and the Hall of Fame
PACE Test

Five axes.
One timing profile.

PACE is an assessment that measures the rhythm of athletes through five short tasks: hearing a beat, clapping with it, holding a tempo, adapting to a change, and carrying it into the body. The result is a profile of how an athlete keeps time, not a score.

PACE in 45 seconds
  • Beat perceptionhear the beat
  • Synchronizationclap with it
  • Tempo maintenancehold it alone
  • Adaptationbend to change
  • Body transfercarry it in the body
Train with me

Rhythm coaching,
built around you.

1-on-1 rhythm coaching, built around your sport, your level, your goals.

  • 1
    Your sportThe recipe comes from what your sport demands.
  • 2
    Your levelMeasured first, so the training starts where you are.
  • 3
    Your goalsSessions and musical work matched to what you want to improve.
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