Ricardo -> RE: Keeping the pulse (Apr. 3 2019 12:17:31)
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If true, I also find it interesting that they play with a 4/4 click even when it's not explicit in the song itself. Well learning and practicing this odd time stuff really benefits by the even click. Like the guardian angel video I clapped to.... its lots of 5 and 3 in different combos plus an odd 5, 4, and odd 7 tossed in.... but I discovered the underlying 3/4 throughout. That underlying feeling is not easy to maintain at first, however it quickly reveals how uneven your divisions are relative to each other. Humans aren’t machines so that “feeling” element must be present at all times or it falls apart. About the 4/4 broken into odd groups... when I first learned odd meter proper from my drummer/ marimba playing friend in college, I discovered adding up 5/16+7+9, stop after 11.... it adds up to two bars of 4/4. So I composed a duet for guitar and marimba were phrases of 16ths 5,7,9,11 shuffle around in different combos and we groove on the 4/4 and even improv over some sections. The trickiest spots were when I would do poly rhythm phrases (marimba plays off set groups that add up the same against the guitar 57911 pattern). The fun spots were when we would do trade offs, where Guitar does 5 and 9, marimba fills in the 7 and 11 etc.
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