Ricardo -> RE: 12-beat Polyrhythm (Jan. 2 2005 20:08:09)
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Of course the guitar can move around all over the place w/ synchopation, and the pattern you keep writing is 12 x's long, but in bulerias, you can often have only 6 x's. But the palmas have a different thing to do, and palmas and guitar don't accent the same way. Poly rhythms happen simultaneously, but what you are describing w/ your x's are different feels happening one after the other. You can represent the change of feel by changing your time signature. If you understood compound meter better (3/4, 6/8, 12/8) you could see how all your different patterns you wrote, are interchangeable in any kind of music. The first pattern you wrote XxxXxx XxXxXx is two bars long, or 6/8, followed by 3/4. The second you wrote XxxXxx XxxXxx is either two bars of 6/8 or a bar of 12/8. The third pattern you wrote XxXxXx XxXxXx, is two bars of 3/4 or a bar of 6/4. The thing you are probably not understanding is that, bulerias does not have to be 12 x's long. The guitar actually moves through phrases of 6, and they are allowed to be odd, though if there are 2 phrases back to back, it may appear as though it is a 12 beat phrase. Notice how I space the accent patterns into two halves. One half is the fundamental. Poly rhythm occurs if the two halves of different accent patterns happen on top of each other, filling in any gaps or doubling up on accents. Palmas + guitar creates polyrhythm. Ricardo
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