Hey, get out of here! This isn’t for you. Go wan, git! Scoot!
…good. And now, everybody left over, thinking all the lightweights have been scared off… you get out too. This is for nobody, barely even for myself.
…my big complaint about drumming on the internet, even when it’s good, it’s being broadcasted to a lot of people who should be not hearing it right now. Like the following thing— anybody who can’t already do this kind of thing fast (minus the tuplet aspect) should not be doing it.
THAT BEING SAID: some 9- and 11- tuplets. They’re really not distinct rhythms— an 11tuplet doesn’t sound like anything— so think of the tuplet portion as unmetered. Normally you would arrive at a “9-tuplet” via nested triplets, here we’re just putting a lot of notes in the space of one beat, making a target note on the following beat. With the 11s we’re really flailing. Flailing is the point. We’re getting into some movement that came about through playing free, maybe beginning an approach to a Dejohnette-like thing, floating an unmetered rhythm. It looks like math, but it has to be approached organically.
Use a metronome, slow tempo. Do it a little bit. I’ll ultimately spend an hour or two with this page, maybe.
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