I am from India and was searching for a tutorial on Konnakol. It's so amusing for me, being an Indian, learning an Indian system, from a "Westerner" applying the skills to heavy metal, a genre that is as different from any Indian music and philosophy as anything could be. Thanks for the lesson :).
Metal and rock have used Indian music theory combined with modern engineering quite commonly. It makes sense considering that Indian culture, religion, and classical music integrated into rock were all big in the time when this music was at it's peak.
Matthias is one of the world's most unique guitar players. Non can cover his guitar solos. Period. His ideas are very crazy but takes you to a whole new level. I totally appreciate and honor his inclination towards ancient Indian rythmn patterns. Hi from Sikkim, India. 🙋♂🙏🤘✌
@F. Sion Meshuggah use some of these basics with great results. The groove at 2:31 can be heard on Swarm, Demiurge, Clockworks, partly in Sane and maybe a few others.
Holy crap. What an amazing lesson. I love how Mattias is so unafraid. As great as the lesson was, his pure spirit to simply be who he is & to get his point across so well AND to be so fun at the same time is wonderful. Brilliant beyond brilliant. Cheers, Jason from Ishibashi Music in Tokyo, Japan.
Thank you for teaching me the name Konnakol. A hundred years ago I saw John McLaughlin, with someone else and Trilok Gertu, who sat on the floor playing tabla and various percussion. At one point in the show, all three musicians broke into this long and highly rhythmic "song" consisting of the spoken percussive sounds Mattias demonstrated above. Trilok was clearly leading it, and it was also clearly being improvised. It was fun and fascinating to watch, and now I know what it was.
I saw the same video when I was a Kid, my dad used to listen John Mclaughlin, and today was looking for some information about it :) Nice to know Tyrion Lannister has good musical taste.
I never knew what it was called either. My band director showed me that amazing bela fleck video with all the amazing players and they had a konikol guy on there who’s probably very well known
I saw the same tour and was amazed by it too, Here's a clip from that tour of them doing it ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Ye56RtL2tgw.html
Ok class. For those of us just starting out it’s One and two and threeeeee and fouuuuurr. Love this guys talent and the time he spent enlightening us to the music of Indian culture!!!
I found out about Konnakol last night, very impressive stuff, I've always tackled rhythm in a similar way breaking everything down into twos and threes and using 'ja ga da' or 'ba ga da' for threes and 'da ga' for twos. Because you use a different part of the mouth for each sound you can bounce between different rhythms really easily.
I really like the idea of playing "odd" signatures, but I think I may need to watch this 100 times before I truly get it. The other thing is that, around 5:30 when doing 5/4 your face looked like you were having a quiet stroke :O) Love the ideas, love that guitar, and love your generousity for teaching us all of this!
Yes! Indian music and rhythm for the win! If you use konnakol/bol and apply this to drums or other instruments, you can practice your instrument with just your voice and when away from your instrument.
"Metalheads are very easy to confuse, idk why...i use to play drums as kid" like it's a prerequisite every single self taught guitarist has in their toolbox when they get into metal lmfao. Top tier humour by Mattias, as always. Great lesson also but still so much more to learn... Thanks for that
thanks for the great tutorial. :-) One question: is it just my PC or is the video slightly out of sync? Video seems slightly ahead of the audio. Makes concentrating on the beat and following the whole thing a little bit hard, especially when the clapping and stomping begins
getting schooled, wow! taki tenna, taki teena, didn't make sense until I heard the distorted guitar:) This is cool, drummers and bass players must be rolling their eyes, they know this already, us guitarists have to be hit over the head with taki tiinna to stay in beat. Very cool vid.:)
can u please do somethin on MESHUGGAH type vibe.......i need the light bulbs lit...am struggling as a bass player to play 7/4 n other odd time meshuggah signatures
Listening to measure explanations is like sitting through an algebra class. I'm no fan of math, however I admire those that can explain it. As a musician that doesn't read music or know measures and all the nerdy tech stuff, I prefer stumbling upon unusual rhythms and chords without knowing what I'm looking for.
