Kenny Grohowski 'Polyrhythmic beat' from Rotted Futures

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[@reasonsreasonably]

What a joy seeing masterful musicians do their thing. Warms my tummy, literally. Thanks for your time.

[@MGBlast666]

3:50.. Great video. thanks for the breakdown

[@Coloradiohead]

you went into Konnakol indian drumming almost when counting those faster beats!

[@misanthrobert_guitar]

Love it! There's so much underlying system to the chaos. Thanks for letting us in on the theory behind it all. I'll never get tired of stuff like this!

[@T-roccBABY]

So awesome to see these breakdowns/isolated parts. I must agree about crowds getting confused haha, at the Edmonton show I think I might have been one of the only people bopping along (accurately.) Hope to see y'all again, swing through any time🥂

[@EliLemke-ft3fs]

Love how you explained it as the big 1 being the most important part of the song because it's this way with alot of Indian music that creates a huge pulse throughout the songs Ravi Shankar chants of India comes to mind. With Imperial triumphant it feels like something is talking back towards the end of alphaville, vile luxury and spirit of ecstasy. Like an entity is building up this pulse of anxiety that reveals a atomic lovecraftian nuclear warhead that goes off when you finally can make out what it's trying to say to you. Like if a modern milkman in the 1940s walked down a cold dank corridor into a 50 story dim light and ruby red castle only to find complete abhorrence It sounds like dead space 2, it sounds like every theme I can think of that I've ever heard

[@Daphie_the_Duck]

jesus, you're boring. please be silent

[@maxwellezrin8600]

Big bawla

[@CoolVIguy]

Excellent. I was very concerned about your phone... i knew that floor tom wasn't there as a workbench. But all that aside... the groove is solid, and not that tough really But I am not new at this, so it's all in the ear of the listener and their grasp.

[@joshuagharis9017]

Micro rhythm. Point to point with different amounts between them

[@TheSquareOnes]

I don't think microrhythms come into play here, that usually refers to very precise rhythms that are felt but too subtle to put on a reasonable grid. This is all very clearly gridded out and the strange tension results from rhythms that are very easy to write down, even if they're difficult to hear and play. I think the term you might be looking for is "tuplets," which seems like what's happening. A tuplet is cramming different numbers of notes into the same amount of time, which definitely sounds like what is happening at least at the end where they go into a slower 5 feel against the 7/8 guitar riff. It's basically a giant quintuplet stretched across an entire bar of 7/8. Less clear is the bass drum pattern earlier, but on 0.25 speed it does seem like that's also a 9-tuplet filling the entire bar of 7/8. So it's all proper polyrhythms instead of polymeters, unless I'm misunderstanding his explanation.

[@revb14n]

Oh hi there