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 | | Polyrhythms are found in just about all types of music. | | | The concept of polyrhythms is an often misunderstood topic. | | | As a starting point listen to some of the masters of polyrhythmic playing. |
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http://f.unkster.tripod.com/polyrhythm.html
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| | The Royal Academy of Music, Aarhus - Polyrhythm and polymetre in modern jazz |
| | The polyrhythmic occurrences can be divided into three groups: 1) polyrhythmic occurrences which can be notated, 2) polyrhythmic occurrences which can be notated to a certain extent (where the counter pulse can be notated, but where part of the rhythm cannot be notated meaningfully) and 3) polyrhythmic occurrences which cannot be notated. | | | Just as with the case of polyrhythm, the harmonic foundation does not need to be explicitly present in the music. | | | In a polyrhythmic occurrence the basic pulse must as a general rule - seen from both the listener's and the performer's point of view - be maintained. |
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http://www.musik-kons.dk/webshop/pvbogeng.php
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| | The Polyrhythmicon Home Page: Selected Works |
| | The penultimate rhythm is chaos, a wild rush of stochastically generated rhythmic pulses coinciding with the introduction of acoustical noise and the high string melody of the final section. | | | This mapping of spectral data from an acoustic sound source could be done in real time by sampling a live instrument, analyzing the recorded file and resynthesizing it on the polyrhythmicon, and further work will need to be done to implement this performance method. | | | The rhythmic function occurs when this tonic rhythm can be established in the ear of the listener and then transformed into a new recognizable form. |
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http://www-ccrma.stanford.edu/~mburtner/polyrhythmicon3.html
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| | Polyrhythm |
| | An example from popular American music is the song that goes "Chimchimini chimchimini chimchim, cheree" from the musical Mary Poppins. | | | Some basic definitions and examples of polyrhythm for drumset, in standard musical notation. | | | It comes naturally if you have grown up around polyrhythmic music, but most Americans have not, so it can require some study and getting used to. |
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http://www.batadrums.com/understanding_rhythms/polyrhythm.htm
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| | Notablog: Musical "Purists" and "Impurities" |
| | Polyrhythm is rare in Western music, yet it has been around for a long time. | | | In classical music, polyrhythm often is employed ornamentally as a sort of rhythmic bump in the road. | | | And that point is key: because jazz, as a uniquely American contribution to music, is at a cultural crossroads in its genealogy, integrating Western, African, and sometimes other world cultural idioms (Brazilian, etc.) in its various musical forms. |
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http://www.nyu.edu/projects/sciabarra/notablog/archives/000432.html
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| | CD Baby: PETE MAGADINI: Polyrhythm |
| | Listen to the polyrhythms if you want to, or just listen period. | | | The compositions were chosen, not only for their rhythmic variation and adaptability to polyrhythmic interpretation but for their overall musical contribution as well. | | | The drum solo is in 3 over 4. |
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http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/magadini?cdbaby=479db36e43f71b40a82cc33861b074d7
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| | Polyrhythm Addicts - Free Music Downloads, Videos, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links |
| | They decided to release it as the Polyrhythm Addicts, and it became a big hit with the New York City underground rap scene. | | | Cut over the spring of 1999, the record was an inspired collaboration, with Spinna's old-school beats mixing well with the individual approaches of the other participants. | | | Put together by Nervous Records after a successful single featuring the participants, the Polyrhythm Addicts were a one-album group that united several talented New York City rappers for a collaborative project. |
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http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/music/artist/bio/0,,855814,00.html
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| | fUSION Anomaly. Polyrhythms |
| | Polyrhythm impels the listener to explore a complex space of beats, to follow any of a number of fluid, warping, and shifting lines of flight, to submit to what the hip hop act ATribe Called Quest calls "The rhythmic instinction to yield to travel beyond existing forces of life." | | | John Cage founded a percussion ensemble, composing the seminal polyrhythms piece _First Construction (In Metal)_ in 1939. | | | In most symphonies or ensembles, all instruments basically follow the same meter; the shared rhythm is counted evenly and stressed on every main beat. |
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http://fusionanomaly.net/polyrhythms.html
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| | African Polyphony and Polyrhythm: Musical Structure and Methodology - Word Power |
| | Considering in particular the harp, sanza, xylophone and percussion music of Central Africa, Simha Arom develops a a rigorous method for the analysis of the music and for the recording and deciphering of the many strands of polyphony and polyrhythm. | | | Through a systematic breakdown of the many layers of apparently improvised rhythm he reveals the essential structure which underlies this rich and complex music. | | | African Polyphony and Polyrhythm: Musical Structure and Methodology |
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http://www.word-power.co.uk/catalogue/052124160x
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| | MTO 3.3: Chopin, Pygmies, and Tempo Fugue: Ligeti's "Automne a Varsovie" |
| | This "virtual pulse" is difficult to interpret: is it simply a visual by-product for the audience--much as Ligeti's barlines are a by-product of the musical notation--or is it an integral part of the musical experience which is missing in a recording, like the final, long rests which mark the end of a typical Ligeti work?) | | | [1.2] He produces these polyrhythms by combining two vastly different sources of inspiration: the Romantic-era piano music of Chopin and Schumann, and the indigenous music of sub-Saharan Africa. | | | Among the most striking is number six, "Automne a Varsovie" (1985), which combines disparate influences, including 19th-century piano music and sub-Saharan African polyrhythm, to produce an effect which Ligeti has called "tempo fugue." To see how Ligeti's fugue works, this article examines his various influences, then analyzes the piece itself. |
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http://www.societymusictheory.org/mto/issues/mto.97.3.3/mto.97.3.3.taylor.html
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| | New Fractal Tunes |
| | Polyrhythms are particularly characterstic of African music, with the performers each playing one of the rhythms, making a complex resultant rhythm that would be very hard for a single performer to play. | | | Here is a comparatively straightforward polyrhythm for two recorders guitar, Agogo and glockenspiel. | | | This next one is a polyrhythm fractal tune proper, rather than a polyrhythm custom voice playing the notes of the fractal tune, which one can do already. |
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http://tunesmithy.netfirms.com/tunes/new_fractal_tunes.htm
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| | iBreatheMusic Forums - polyrhythm |
| | I also think I remember that Steve Vai had said that he got interested in and learned about polyrhythms mainly by listening to Zappa and transcribing and learning those tunes. | | | They have a lot of polyrhythm exercises there. | | | I just realised that Bret Willmott has released his polythythm book. |
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http://www.ibreathemusic.com/forums/showthread.php?t=16
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| | Polyrhythms - Musician Forums |
| | Arguably, a 4/4 rock beat is a polyrhythm because one could notate it as if every "limb" was playing a rhythm in it's own time signiature, but thats not the point is it?!? | | | Now if you want to get into technical polys then listen to bozzio or even pearts poly section on O baterista. | | | hey guys, I want to start to learn polyrhythms but i cant really get a grasp of what they are. |
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http://www.musicianforums.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=393456&styleid=18
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| | ESCOT |
| | I made a polyrhythm with the beats 1:3 and 1:5. | | | When I built the same song on the composite panel, the notes match with the two ratios at 1:3 and 1:4. | | | I them took into account the number of beats for each polyrhythm and noticed it took 12 beats in order for the beats to be simultaneous, or 3 sets of the 4 original beats. |
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http://www.escot.org/resources/problems/polyrhythms.html
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| | Glossary: Polyrhythm Sweetwater.com |
| | Long identified with ancient origins in African music, polyrhythms are common in twentieth-century music, from minimalist compositions to progressive rock and jazz. | | | A common alternative to thinking of these patterns in musical notation is to envision (or hear) them as ratios: the triplet example would have a ratio of 3:2. | | | Other simple polyrhythms are 3:4, 4:3, 5:4, 7:8 and so on. |
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http://www.sweetwater.com/expert-center/glossary/t--Polyrhythm
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| | MR COMPLEX Interview by Todd E. Jones |
| | While working with Shabaam Sahdeeq, Apani B Fly Emcee and DJ Spinna on the Polyrhythm Addicts project, Mr. | | | Complex has been released a myriad of singles on many different underground labels. | | | COMPLEX: “When I did my first record, I met DJ Spinna. |
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http://www.geocities.com/hiphopinterview/mrcomplex.html
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| | NorthwestTekno - :::: RAIDEN & MAYHEM Feb 4th :::::: Polyrhythm & Onset [SEATTLE DNB] |
| | Come listen and support your local producers at the NW's first ever Seattle DNB producers showcase competition. | | | All producers will enter 1 song and play it themselves infront of our guests and will be judged by RAIDEN, T.Z.A and MAYHEM. | | | The Culture > Music > Upcoming Parties > :::: RAIDEN and MAYHEM Feb 4th :::::: Polyrhythm and Onset [SEATTLE DNB] |
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http://www.nwtekno.org/vb/showthread.php?threadid=81126
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| | Salsa & Merengue Society – A History of Salsa: An African Movement |
| | As long as the key is present, the drummers are synchronised and the polyrhythm holds together. | | | Every drummer is kept on the right track by being aware of how his own pattern fits with a master pattern called the “key”. | | | Each part of the polyrhythm can be complex, and drummers play in a highly syncopated environment, so it's easy for them to lose their place. |
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http://www.salsa-merengue.co.uk/revealit/histsal/part3.html
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| | Salsa & Merengue Society – Salsa Level Two The Percussionist Dancer: Extras |
| | If you happen to be dancing to the tumbao moderno or a song containing it, then two simultaneous contrasting rhythms are being used and you've established a polyrhythm. | | | Being able to perform the salsa dance pattern to a single instrument layer is the ultimate goal. | | | Polyrhythms are the theme and the vehicle by which you will learn to dance to individual instrument layers in Phase II soon to follow. |
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http://www.salsa-merengue.co.uk/VidTutor/salsatwo/pulse/extr_pulse.html
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| | Polyrhythm and the Caribbean |
| | They have used this polyrhythmic writing both consciously and unconsciously, in pursuit of different political and artistic agendas. | | | They use it to more accurately portray the different cultures and traditions in which they grew up. | | | The permutations of a basic polyrhythmic structure go on and on. |
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http://www.thecore.nus.edu/post/caribbean/themes/rhythm/litintro.html
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| | View topic - 1st fah khing gig! |
| | if that's notated vaguely correctly, yes, that is a 5:4 polyrhythm. | | | For a longer explanation: here you go, an extract of a conversation with the extraordinarily musically intellgent el chris... | | | [22:50] el: if you have a 5:4 polyrhythm |
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http://www.pithrecords.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=81
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| | Polyrhythm and the Caribbean |
| | Benitez-Rojo seeks to discover in improvisatory (hence free) cultural performances (writing, dance, music, etc) a polyrhythmic current that best sums up the people of the Caribbean, or the "People of the Sea" as he calls them. | | | In order to put forth a definition, he isolates three important processes: performance, improvisation, and, most important to this discussion, rhythm or more precisely, polyrhythm. | | | Benitez-Rojo sees this polyrhythmic performance as based on two factors: first, the diverse nature of the roots of Caribbean society, and second, an underlying desire to sublimate violence. |
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http://www.postcolonialweb.org/caribbean/themes/rhythm/benitezrojo1.html
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| | Tomás Howie Drumming Web - Monthly Drum Lessons - #13: Polyrhythms #1 |
| | Let's abandon the sheet music for a few minutes and try putting some polyrhythms together just using numbers. | | | The first exercise comes from the King Crimson album Thrak. | | | When talking about Polyrhythms, two different concepts are generally discussed as both being definitions of the term "Polyrhythm." The first concept is the notion of playing in odd time signatures, like 5/4, 11/8, 17/16. |
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http://www.drummingweb.com/lessons/lesson13.htm
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| | CaribSeek Kaleidoscope Migrated Rhythm: The Tambú of Curaçao by Rene V. Rosalia |
| | Polyrhythm is one of the principal characteristics of African music. | | | The motifs which are elaborated in African music are often short and are never played in exactly the same way. | | | In the second half of the twentieth century the number of iron instruments increased from one to two or more and the polyrhythm has thus been richly embroidered, with the various iron instruments also in dialogue with one another. |
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http://kaleidoscope.caribseek.com/Rene_Rosalia/Tambu/the-polyrhythm.shtml
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| | Bloomsbury.com - Research centre |
| | In African folk music in particular, and in musics such as jazz which make extensive use of syncopation, polyrhythm is a major intellectual and emotional resource. | | | There is some disagreement between the terminologies used for the discussion of rhythm in Western art music and those used to discuss the rhythmic, often percussive music of other cultures, such as African drumming; debate centres on the precise meanings of 'rhythm', 'metre', and 'pulse' or 'beat'. | | | But in performance, the effect of polyrhythm is easily perceived and is exhilarating and stimulating, the brain simultaneously reacting to the 'reassurance' of a perceived, regular rhythm, and to the 'surprise' of rhythmic variants or contrasts being performed at the same instant. |
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http://www.bloomsburymagazine.com/ARC/detail.asp?EntryID=102692&bid=2
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| | Most recent uploads |
| | As for the African style complex polyrhythm, it is inspired by recordings I've heard of African polyrhythms, but probably not in the least African sounding if you are immeresed in the traditions; but never mind... | | | By way of example, to make a rhythm with three and four beats played together, as is common in some African music, enter 3 4 here. | | | You can also use your polyrhythm to make fractal tunes. |
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http://www.robertinventor.com/polyrh.htm
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| | He is currently a Musician with Blue Man Group, and is Music Director and Organist at St. Mary’s Parish in Holliston, MA, where he leads a 4-choir, 80-voice choral program of all ages in works from the 8 | | | He is also active as a composer in a variety of idioms, and has authored several books on philosophy and music, including "An Encyclopedia of Polyrhythm", and "The Book of the Artist". |
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http://mysite.verizon.net/vze6y1pl/id1.html
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| | LESSON 3 |
| | If you do choose to use these rhythms when you play with other musicians, try to use them musically to create tension and release. | | | This particular one is quite easy, as it is based on an eighth note triplet subdivision, which is a common rhythm in western music. | | | Polyrhythms are two or more rhythms occurring simultaneously and are often used effectively in both improvisation and composition. |
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| | jazz - Columbia Encyclopedia® article about jazz |
| | The earliest form of jazz to exert a wide appeal, ragtime was basically a piano style emphasizing syncopation and polyrhythm. | | | The African-American spiritual, characterized by syncopation, polyrhythmic structure, and the pentatonic scale of five whole tones, is, above all, a deeply emotional song. | | | She began singing professionally in 1930, and after performing with numerous bands—especially those of Benny Goodman, Teddy Wilson, Count Basie, and Artie Shaw—she embarked in 1940 on a career of solo appearances in nightclubs and theaters. |
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http://columbia.thefreedictionary.com/jazz
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| | What this is about |
| | With the polyrhythms I chose to clearly define the underlying pulse rather than using the notation of spanning the rhythm across beats. | | | Sometimes there is confusion on what the rate is for a polyrhythm. | | | At some point I will show the shorthand on writing the polyrhythms and the concept of using the new rhythm as a base to expand from. |
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http://www.izap.com/~pinnacle/rhythms/about.html
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| | African Dance Drumming Tradition |
| | Cross-rhythm should be properly reserved to define rhythmic/metric contradiction which is regular and systematic and which occurs in the longer span: that is, systematic rhythmic/metric contradiction that significantly disrupts the prevailing meter or accent pattern of the music. | | | In Anlo-Ewe cultural understanding, polyrhythm is a highly developed systematic interplay of varying rhythmic motions simulating the dynamics of contrasting moments or emotional stress phenomena likely to occur in actual human existence. | | | While all examples of cross-rhythm would also be examples of polyrhythm, all examples of polyrhythm would not necessarily be examples of cross-rhythm. |
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http://www.cnmat.berkeley.edu/~ladzekpo/Kusum/Polythythm.htm
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| | jaced.com » Blog Archive » Polyrhythms |
| | Written for instrumentalists and vocalists alike, “MGTP” combines the material from both volumes and includes solos and exercises that feature polyrhythmic concepts with a supplemental audio tape. | | | The definition above makes all music consisting of two (or more) different rhythmic lines, in fact polyrhythmic. | | | Strictly speaking, from an English teacher’s point of view, a “polyrhythm” is the systematic exploitation of two ore more rhythms performed simultaneously. |
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| | Bass Player magazine - Acoustic and electric bass guitar tabs, chords and lessons |
| | If you want to hear true rhythmic genius, just listen to some Frank Zappa recordings—he’ll bend your ear! | | | To get the most out of a polyrhythm it helps to play with a drummer, a drum machine, or at the very least, a metronome—something that can keep consistent time while you play a contrasting rhythm. | | | Practice playing the pattern over and over, with your drum machine or metronome sounding the three downbeats per bar. |
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| | Quintessential Polyrhythm Article |
| | Tempo-Mental is an article that Steve Vai wrote back in around '83. | | | Granted, it has been a long time since I've heard that song, but I don't recall hearing any polyrhythms or other weirdness. | | | This can get kind of sticky and is best used when there's no definite time signature going on. |
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| | NorthwestTekno - ::: RENEGADE HARDWARE PARTY presented by POLYRHYTHM & ONSET 3/18 [SEA] ::: |
| | The Culture > Music > Upcoming Parties > ::: RENEGADE HARDWARE PARTY presented by POLYRHYTHM and ONSET 3/18 [SEA] ::: | | | Just like they do them in the UK we are bringing the RENEGADE HARDWARE sounds to SEATLLE full on sponsored by RENEGADE HARDWARE UK..... | | | ::: RENEGADE HARDWARE PARTY presented by POLYRHYTHM and ONSET 3/18 [SEA] ::: |
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http://nwtekno.org/vb/showthread.php?threadid=83467
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| | Search Results for polyrhythm - Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | American composer noted for the rhythmic vitality and full harmonies of his music, which is marked by modern dissonances and polyrhythms. | | | He was twice awarded the Pulitzer Prize for music, in 1960 and 1973. | | | American composer whose erudite style and novel principles of polyrhythm, called metrical modulation, won worldwide attention. |
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http://www.britannica.com/search?query=polyrhythm&submit=Find&source=MWTEXT
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| | polyrhythm - Musician Forums |
| | This can be played across instruments, or on a single instrument (ie. | | | The term 'polyrythm' goes from a Greek term meaning literally many (poly) rhythms. | | | eh guess i'm doomed to play 3:2 polyrhythms forever |
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http://www.musicianforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4693
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| | A polyrhythm is reducible if it is composed of repeats of smaller polyrhythms. | | | For each of the given polyrhythms, write the smallest number of beats that can be used to write out the rhythm. | | | The polyrhythm in the previous example is called three against two. |
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http://www.sju.edu/~rhall/Multi/polyrhythms.html
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| | Math Forum: Teacher Support - ESCOT May 21, 2001 |
| | Then discuss which ones sound better -- and why, relating it to the numbers involved in the rhythms. | | | Introduce or reinforce the idea of common multiples, as that is one of the things that drummers pay attention to. | | | Polyrhythm is no longer the current ESCOT Problem of the Week. |
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http://mathforum.org/escot/polyrhythm.html
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| | Virgil Donati Messageboard - Polyrhythm question |
| | Does anyone know what polyrhythm is played starting at 7 seconds? | | | as for the polyrhythm i'm a bit lost! | | | That polyrhytm is awesome indeed...after a while he changes this polyrhythm into the normal beat, except with adding 32nd triplets with his lefthand on the auxillary snare.. |
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| | Jazz Book Review - Time for the Future: Polyrhythm in Harmony by Bret Willmott @ jazzreview.com |
| | This book would make a nice gift for any musician wanting to learn about polyrhythm in harmony. | | | Review: Bret Willmott has put together one of the best, interesting and most detailed, easy to read, and helpful guides to the study of polyrhythm in harmony with his 240 page book, TIME FOR THE FUTURE. | | | Every guitarist should own a copy of this book! |
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| | Mondo MIDI * A Big Mess of Timelessness (Percussive Polyrhythm) |
| | The Pyramids of Mars - Imagine a stoned Beethoven hunched over a Casio toy keyboard (well, a very expensive one!) pondering the images that have been beamed back from space in this century. | | | Mondo MIDI * A Big Mess of Timelessness (Percussive Polyrhythm) | | | NOW PLAYING: A Big Mess of Timelessness - A plethora of percussive instruments played by the 'puter in a pulse of polyrhythmic patterns as per my precise placement of preferred parameters. |
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http://www.angelfire.com/music2/mondomidi/Timeless.html
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| | Tune Smithy Help |
| | See Polyrhythm Metronome for the help, or for the contents page |
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| | Polyrhythm: Articles on Polyrhythm (current) from Fablis Online Encyclopedia |
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