Anthony teaches rhythm using the rhythm yardstick. The rhythm yardstick is a tool that anthony came up with to help students with their rhythm. This footage comes from "Victor Wooten, Groove Workshop" all rights reserved.
@@avelord6135 no - planck is constant and cant be subdivided, zeno's paradox is about dividing by 2 forever... a freshman math concept taught in calculus
Brilliant. He gives one of the clearest explanations of rhythmic subdivisions I've ever heard. I'm going to be using this one for both my piano and bass students...well done and thanks!
The simplest explanations are so often the best. Someone once said to me that if you can't explain something in simple terms, you don't really know it. This is a great example of that idea; dead easy to understand, but opens up so many doors.
This is (and always will be) one of the cornerstones in understanding rythm and teaching it, in my opinion. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge Anthony!!!
I learned this years ago by programming midi drums in a DAW. I used REAPER. Everything is quantized and snapped to a grid which is determined by the time signature. Playing with snare hit placements, syncopation, and polyrythms. Didn't know at the time that I was teaching myself deep rhythmic concepts and developing a method for visualizing rhythm. Now it's hard to NOT see what I hear. it's like two separate tools became one. Cool lesson for people who haven't been exposed to this way if thinking though. Great video
I think Midi is a fantastic way to get this idea across. It's visually simple, and really allows you to play with time. I THINK Anthony and Vic are leading up to showing that, for instance, Latin music does not have a perfectly even grid (neither does swing). We can adjust our grids to create more interesting grooves, and better reflect the "Ethnic Grooves" we are less familiar with. Ever thought of repeating rhythms on a "circle grid"? It is less useful, musically, I think, but the geometry helps illustrate the relationship between notes in a neat way.
Same with me. I was really bad at mastering and mixing in general, so I started creating patterns where the instruments avoided each other's places, then a HUGE amount of amazing rhythms emerged for me. It was an awesome feeling.
Thank you Anthony, I've always known to do these things but never could explain it. I also can't read music, but i have 8 years under my belt of all felt out tunes :D
Thank you for this. Im appreciative of the way some people are able to break things down to where it's impossible to not understand. I know exactly what I need to practice as I don't have a good feel for 16th notes at all.
wow.. i've been playing the guitar for 5 years and up to now... Im still struggling on how to understand the beats,, rhythms.. but these 9 min long video helped me understand it. Thank you Anthony.... :)
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I've played bass in 6 years and after I watched Groove Workshop (this show), I said to myself: Uh, I've learned more in one hour then I've done in 6 years..
I know, same!!! After 10 years of playing I still had trouble locking into a groove with other players, but after watching Groove Workshop one time something clicked for me and ever since I've had a much easier time falling into the pocket with drummers.
"...You just want to have an intellectual way to understand it..." Great method to visually conceptualize the physical placement of a note. This same method is really effective to conceptualize note duration as well, especially so when trying to understand syncopation and syncopated note value, and their placement for drummers (since our drum "notes" are essentially all attack and no sustain in comparison to other instruments like a horn, or in this case a bass, that can hold a note).
A way to blow your western centric music mind is to realize that the down beat doesn’t have to be counted as one. Like how language doesn’t necessarily has to be read from left to right. In a 4 beat groove we feel the downbeat as the beginning of the groove, (1) 2 3 4. But that is just one way of looking at it. There is no natural law that says it has to be the beginning, the downbeat can also notate the ‘end’ of a groove, 1 2 3 (4). Might seem trivial or just semantics but to me it has a completely different feel. Like how in reggae the downbeat is on 3, the middle of the loop, instead of the beginning.
The bass/piano teacher I used to have would always spend a part of the lesson on rhythm. He'd jot out a bar of notes and rests on a sheet of paper and get me to tap out the rhythm on my knees. He got to using some really awkward time signatures too. I used to hate doing it, but it was so beneficial to my playing and music reading. He also got me into the book "Modern Reading Text in 4/4" which is full of pages of rhythms in the same vein to tap out. I used to take my kindle to the toilet with me and try to tap out a whole page without fucking up while doing my business. Highly recommend this book.
Thanks for posting this, the full masterclass was up a year or so ago, there's a fabulous section where Victor makes a point about groove over note choice, priceless.
Brilliant. Nobody teaches time and rhythm well on RU-vid, and I love hearing people who aren't already experts in technique....makes it easier to understand and hear inaccuracies from correctness
I feel like the "a" is easier for me to feel, coming from a percussion background. a-1 2 a-3 4 gives it that heartbeat feel. I also think of the "&"s as the upbeat chuck in reggae guitar. Forget the "e"s tho. I still struggle
this is a cool exercise for people who cant feel and understand the accuracy of time. but its interesting to think that most people dont think of it this way. Being a drummer myself, this is just worked into my brain
watching the videos on the internet and practicing for 6 hours a day helped me to surpass my bass instructor in less than 6 months thanks Anthony! and i have no intentions of stopping anytime soon!
Hello Anthony, Hope you have plans on coming to Atlanta, GA in 2020 for a future clinic workshop! THANK you and to Victor also for your "teaches rhythm..." RU-vid! I just STRUGGLE trying to play in correct time "Got To Give It Up" by Marvin Gaye. Would you consider producing another RU-vid, Clinic, or offering Private Lessons solely for teaching "how" with Visuals to play in time (between the beats), just the first couple of minutes of this song? So many other Bass Guitarists on RU-vid are busy offering how to play Grooves & Patterns & Improvisations, but none seem concerned with connecting with their audience's real needs. Your "teaches rhythm..." RU-vid in my opinion, is the most VALUABLE LESSON I've seen since College back in the mid 70s. All the Best, and Hope to see you and Victor here in Atlanta soon !
