Lesson progress Overview If you’ve worked through the other lessons in this course, then you’ll know what the 3/4polyrhythm is, what it feels like when you play it behind the kit, and you’ll have worked with some occasionally mind-bending patterns. In this section of the course, I’m going to show you how we can use …
Lesson progress In this lesson I’m going to show you how you can use the 3/2 Polyrhythm as a starting point for a creative writing process. To come up with new beats, sometimes I like to write using a computer first. It takes away the guessing element and cuts straight to the perfectly played beat. …
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Lesson progress Overview If there’s one thing all drummers can agree on, it’s that they want to improve limb independence: the ability to control the response of each limb, independent of the actions of the others. With three limbs, it’s a fairly straightforward process, as we generally need three limbs to play a basic drum …
Lesson progress Overview In this lesson, we’re going to work with a couple of key rudiments alongside the 3/4 polyrhythm: single strokes and paradiddles. This is going to help us to improve our overall understanding of the 3/4 polyrhythm and also, importantly, help to further improve our limb independence. Exercise 1 – Singles This looks …
Lesson progress Overview In this lesson, we’re going to add the kick drum into this 3/4 polyrhythm pattern. This is going to help improve our limb independence and coordination. It’s also going to lay the groundwork for when we start building the 3/4 polyrhythm into grooves. Exercise 1 – Three limbs To do this, we’re …
Lesson progress Overview In this lesson, we’re going to learn the basics of the 3/4 polyrhythm. I’ll show you how to count it and how to feel it. The aim is to break free of the counting stage and to be able to comfortably feel the beat that is created when you combine a 3 …
Lesson progress Exercise 1 – Pedal hat threes In this lesson, we’re going to pull together a load of the concepts we’ve covered around the 3/2 polyrhythm and realize a cool groove. The first thing we’re going to do is get comfortable counting the threes on our left leg – the pedal hat. Loop exercise …
Lesson progress In this lesson, we’re going to take the 3/2 polyrhythm pattern that we’re now used to playing, and turn it into a groove. Exercise 1 – Ghost notes First off, we’re going to lay down the foundations, counting twos on the hi-hat with your right hand (or whichever is your dominant hand) and …
Lesson progress In this lesson, I’m going to show you where the 3/2 polyrhythm is used in TesseracT’s music, then provide you with some loop exercise examples for you to slow down and work with. The aim here is to help you better understand how the polyrhythm is used within a real-world musical context. Loop …
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This lesson is going to present the biggest challenge so far in this course. The exercise itself isn’t too tricky at slow speeds but it’s a whole different matter once we speed it up. Exercise 1 – Inverted 3/2 Polyrhythm We’re going to play the exercise at 100bpm to start out. We’re playing the three-count …
Exercise1 – The kick drum The natural next step with an exercise like this is to introduce another limb – in this instance, we’re going to bring in the kick drum. Our hands are going to play the dotted quarter notes (the two’s) and our kick is going to play the quarter notes (the three’s). …
Exercise 1 – Half the work In this lesson, we’re going to take the exercise from lesson 1 and cut it in half. We’re going to switch the right and left hands every bar instead of every two bars. Sounds easy, right? What this is going to do is force us to get used to …
Lesson progress Introduction – What is a polyrhythm? Before we get ahead of ourselves – what is a polyrhythm? A polyrhythm is when two numbers start and resolve at the same time. You count them alongside one another and it can literally be a combination of any two numbers. Typically, the first three polyrhythms a …
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