UNDERSTANDING EXACTLY THE WAY PERMUTATIONS WORK, WILL HELP IMMENSELY. Learning to use all of them is a virtual impossibility. Forget about trying to learn them all! We, (all drummers, collectively) actually use only around 70 or 80 of the easiest of these beat permutations. You would need to live 132 years and do nothing else for your entire life, to hear them all. It would take 32 years to hear the first billion beat variations of 16th 4/4. But first, we need to do some serious thinking! How large a number is 4.3 billion? 4.3 billion is an awesome number! For example, if you were to begin at birth to hear one new beat every second (24 hours per day/7 days per week).
always seeking out different and more interesting ideas. You will be on your own from that point on to JAM with this structure every day.
Hopefully, this will be enough to get you started. I will provide a few very simple example patterns in this lesson plan. almost anything we add or subtract to the pattern, will be an interesting rhythm. It'll be wise to keep the basses on the counts of 1 and 3, and the snares on 2 and 4, in the beginning. Layout 16 notes, (as Xs) on the hat, and examine the rhythmic possibilities (or options) between the bass and snare. Play around with the 16th 4/4 notation on paper. Do it! Learning this way is easy to do, if our ears are totally focused on the various drummers (within the recordings.) Your ears will work wonders, if you'll give them a chance. Doing so will accelerate your learning curve exponentially. It is also productive to listen to an endless array of 16th 4/4 songs, then imitate the rhythms we're hearing within the music. To simplify this problem, start with the easiest variations first, and gradually try to continually inject, alter, and add, increasingly complex variations to the mix, as the repetitions of the pattern continue to cycle. The fact that there are so many variations (or permutations ) to choose from, tends to make it difficult to know WHERE to start. You'll get better at this gradually, as you continue to repeat, repeat, repeat. Get the BASIC beat going, then as it's repeated, try to alter and rearrange the basses and snares in ways that are fun and interesting to your rhythmic sensitivities. The best, easiest and fastest way to get a handle on 16th 4/4 is to JAM! That's right! We need to get the old creative-juices flowing and JAM (or experiment) with this rhythm structure, the same way most of you have probably already been jamming with the 8th 4/4 'Rock' beat. Think about that for a very long moment! It is an awesome thought, but true.ġ6th 4/4 as we studied it in the Basic Dance beats lesson, is the MOST BASIC and SIMPLEST form of the rhythm, but there are 4,297,967,295 other ways to alter it.
Within ANY measure of ANY 16th 4/4 song, we'll be faced with 4.3 billion potential choices as to what variation of the rhythm we may need to play.
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