Learning the Language of Drumming

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Welcome back, another polyrhythm here. Okay, now we are going to do is we are going to show you some fun things that you can do within polyrhythm. We will just have the drum talk back and forth each other and we are going to give you a real simple way to do this here in the next lesson the hard way to do this. So this is a trick that we have, where one of the drummers calls trick, calls something, says something everybody says oh! okay we are going to do this. We are going to drop out and let each drum play for two beats. Now remember that a beat is 1, 2, 3, 4. So we are going to go back to the basic rhythm…1,2,3,4,1,2,3,4 what we are going to do is drop out of that each drum is going to take two of those beats and play back and forth. So you hear how how we did this and now we come down 4, 3, 2, 1. Okay… ready… you need to play two beats.

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