Damn this was a solid explanation. Never thought to try isolating the different feels because it's so true that you tend to gravitate to one over the other. Will be practicing this over the weekend.
What a great video and great teacher. You inspire me man. I was thinking of what I should practice for a pretty long time. And this looks like fun to experiment with! Also this feels like one of the most greatest and simplest ways of explaining polyrhythms to drummers
this is awesome. you really delve deep. great job. every other lesson on polyrhythms don't break it down like you. i will refer to this video everyday for 6 months
Mike, Idk if you're a Tesseract fan, but they are a great band for demonstrating this concept; emphasizing different parts of a polyrhythm, often to the point where they would be playing a rhythm I already was familiar with, but I didn't recognize it at first because they were emphasizing the opposite part of the beat than I was used to. Particularly on their 2013 album "Altered State"
Lol :D "By the way, doing this whole lesson while doing this with my feet and talking to you guys has not been easy... The inside of my brain is like this aaaaa and I'm like just trying to hold my face together while doing this." You're too funny :) Great lesson though! I never heard of polyrhythms and been drumming 10 years now. Glad I came across your lesson :) I've always listened picking it right up. Thanks for sharing, you're an awesome teacher! I'd love to take lessons from you, maybe Skype and mail u payment or something?
so, ima doub amputee. and been playin prof, for years. but since im only able to work the kick, and not a foot hi hat beat. to employ this lesson how would you employ it?
+judotapoutjesus How many limbs do you have to work with? You could go a little electronic and set up a trigger for a kick pulse (it's just a 4/4) or the high hat 3/4 pulse. and then play against it.
Great lesson. When I feel the hihat as the pulse I can play over the top of it and even represent is as a chart over 3 bars of 4 notes (hi hat every 4 = 12, kick every 3 = 12) I cannot break this down with the kick as the pulse (kick every 4 = 16, hat every 5.3 = 16) Unless I can see this on a chart and see where all the limbs land I can't work it out. Am I missing something here??? This is doing my head in
5.3 actually isn't wrong, try to think of it like this: you're playing 4 counts of kickrhythm in every 3 counts of hihat rhythm, so a bar of kickrhythm would have the size of a triplet on the hihat score. If you played 4 bars on the hihat, you would be able to fit 5.3 triplets in there. Since you only play 0.3 of the triplet, you only play the first count of that triplet, which would be the kick. Now if you play this polyrhythm, you would end up with a kick on the fourth count of the fourth bar in hihatspeed, which is the first count of that 6th triplet. Two bars later the rhythms would resolve again.
