Beyond 4/4 - escape the rhythmic matrix with odd time signatures

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𝄞 How to start making drums like Louis Cole, Knower, JD Beck, Yussef Dayes, Chris Dave, etc. Why does every bar of music have 4 beats when there is so much rhythmically interesting music that can be made using odd time signatures. We are born into a rhythmic matrix, where our musical structure is dominated by a concept of weak and strong beats that may come from our experience as humans who walk with alternating right and left steps. By learning about subdivisions and using geometric shapes such as squares and triangles in our music, we can start to unplug from this rhythmic matrix and use time signatures with odd numbers of beats; 3/4, 5/4, and 7/8. Using odd time signatures is a great way to create contrast between sections while creating musical illusions that turn your songs into puzzles that can be challenging and fun for the listener to solve. By using them tastefully and sparingly you can renew the impact and freshness of the standard 4/4 meter. 𝄢
00:00 Intro
00:15 Rhythmic Matrix
00:39 Weak & Strong Beats
01:54 Time Signature
03:05 Subdivisions
04:37 Triangles
06:08 7/8
07:39 Mixed Meter
08:21 Refresh 4/4
08:41 Odd times are underused
08:55 Practice feeling it with this exercise
10:12 Ebook
10:34 Take Lessons over Zoom
10:44 "cascade"
11:02 Odd Times album
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rhythmic phasing is the goat

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genius time signature explanation + visualization.

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Great explanation!

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Thanks for the positivity man!

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This is so helpful. I've been struggling with this, and this really helped make it plain for me.

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Great to hear it helped David, thanks for checking out the channel!

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Great Channel! I was wandering If it could be possible to do a series like "BASS THAT VIBES". It would be nice to have a breakdown on bass lines in the jazz, R&B, funk, fusion genres and how they interact with drums and chords. Anyway, BEST CHANNEL ABOUT "JAZZY " MUSIC PRODUCTION!

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[@The_Invisible_Man]

It be cool if the DAW had a global shape to correspond the time signature

[@maktire]

I do not live in drummerworld, but I think a cross rythm or cross beat sounds like what you mean by rhythmic phasing

[@jaronlopez]

Cross rhythms absolutely factor in to all of this, but the rhythmic phasing idea that I am referring to is; if you have the cycle of 7 8th notes play on a hi hat and alternate from closed to open. On the first cycle the open hi hats will fall on the off beats - then on the second cycle the open hi hats fall on the downbeat. It's an interesting detail of odd time signatures.

[@monab615]

i think you might be talking about polymeter @Jaron Lopez 9:54 andrew huang covers it here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nqXFg6ton8x5Y6c&ab_channel=ANDREWHUANG :) or also here with the difference to polyrhythm: kzbin.info/www/bejne/ane6ineIqLSEsLc&ab_channel=DoctorMix

[@jaronlopez]

Yes, polyrhythms are definitely part of the puzzle. The rhythmic phasing is the way that the weak and strong beats shift over the course of the cycle of 7 quarter notes in relation to the cycle of 7 eighth notes. Not exactly a polyrhythm but definitely in the same territory. Thanks for those references!

[@monab615]

@@jaronlopez sure, you're welcome :) so by rhythmic phasing you refer to the concept of the weak and strong beats being found somewhere else in each bar? seems to me like this effect would be the logical "result" of a polymeter but whether this idea has a name already on it's own (other than rhythmic phasing) i don't know :P

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can you do a tutorial on basslines played by bassits like rocco palladino

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It sounds like 14/8. :D

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Btw man, your time stamps are wrong, they’re for a different video

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Hey man, thanks for letting me know, I think they are sorted now.

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This is really more a video about the basics of odd time signatures then a video about these specific drummers and their technique. I don’t think it’s a bad video at all, but this is definitely clickbait in a bad way.

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My nation characteristic and folklore are in 7/8 they say that our heart beats in 7/8 here in our country Macedonia for my people.