Hello and welcome to piano lesson #20. So 20 lessons so far pretty good, it is there last maybe five or so lessons kind of like scattered but I am sure you can kind of tell a difference between. The first videos that I have actually have outlined and planned and have them all ordered and then just kind of doing whatever comes to mind and stuffs like that as request come in just do whatever. So this one is also quite really random but it will help people that are staying to get a little advance probably into the grade five and stuffs like that, five, six anyway, like you will see more and more good in higher grades and stuff like that.
Today I am going to be talking about something called Poly Rhythms. Okay, Poly Rhythms are not actually that complicated if you just remember two sayings. So I drawn out some examples here and then we will use the white board but my dad took it into his office so no white board today just some paper and some pen marks that will look a little sloppy and might be hard to read but this lessons are free so you cannot complain.
Poly Rhythms, there is two types that are common to the rest of the groups here and Poly Rhythms are more important to few drummer but if you are a piano player not as important, you will see two poly rhythms. The first one is called two against three and the other one is called three against four. Now, understand why these are called plaques with my patterns and stuff like that? Try dividing three into four and try and divide two into three, you do not get any even number do you? Yes, I thought so.
That is what the other guys found out too when they first discovered this poly rhythms or they do not match up so in most music it is at all divides perfectly into halves or like quarters or something but with these poly rhythms they are uneven and it just does not line up properly. It actually sounds like the two hands are separated, if you actually want to see it, go to example of poly rhythms, look at I have a piece called the first day I have asked(ph) from WC, I recorded in one of those installed from my homepage. The first starting part where it is coming down that it goes.
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That is all poly rhythm.
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Now, if you listen close there they are not really matching out.
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I need to work for my slow practice because it is a bit uneven but you get the idea right? Okay, so they do not match up and they sound, that sounds like there is a lot time in the right hand are completely all long to part and everything not like if you are just playing a chord and it is all like.
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It is all together. So let us look at this another that I have here. So the first one two against three, so let us just practice over here. So two against three, it just looks like this is easier than writing it down. So I had this written in four forth hand, right hand, left hand. Now, it can be so strand(ph) so the triplet, there is a triplet here, now this is three. So what that triplet means is 2/8th knots or one beat right so now these are 3/8th knots or one beat right. So now these are 3/8th knots and a triplet that means that the three triplets actually only count as two. So even though there is 3/8th here and 2/8th here, they actually end up taking up the exact same amount of time. so how that would sound is this is going.
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And this would be.
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Okay, so you just have to remember that you will take this one off even though you see this, it actually only counts as this but it is being played faster because there is three different the same space so this creates the kind of paradox or a problem between the two coming together because they start together and then this one is going to come in here then this one and then this one so people will play them and it will not sound properly or they will look at it and be like, “Huh, what am I suppose to do?” As this should go along just.
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Or
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So those two things are hopping simultaneously. So my wonderful teacher Lloyd gave me a nice saying to say to make things easier so I am going to pass this on to you. Okay, so the saying is, “Not difficult”, I like that because it also helps you psychologically to think that it is not that difficult so you are going to be saying it over and over to yourself and your head and it actually helps you anyway because in you I got to feel that is not that difficult at all. So what you will do is you will go, “Not difficult, not difficult”. Now, how this will actually look as do not and not so just write a little diagram here. So when you say not, you are going to play this, the first two knots together.
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