Hemiola city

If you know what hemiola's are, good for you.

This is just a very basic beat, really fun to mess around with. I explain it all in the video.

First attempt at making a video of me while showing something on the drums, so you know.

The sound of the hi-hat is really bad, and I'm off when I'm demonstrating, I know. I think most of that's just poor camera placement. The sound I mean.

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Music

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• Hemiola
• 3
• on
• 2
• polyrhythm
• Trevor
• Brady

[smooshall]

omg itt took you so long to start playing and it didnt help me what so ever. but you are a good drummer. i just need something which explains in a simple way what a hemiola is.

[whatthedeath]

@smooshall

A hemiola is basically this: If you're playing in 3/4, you subdivide the count into sets of 2, rather than 3. If you're playing in 4/4 (or 2/4), you subdivide it into counts of 3. Example

(Accent on 1)

3/4: 121 212 121 212 (starts over every 2 bars)

2/4: 12 31 23 12 31 23 (starts over every 3 bars)

4/4: 1231 2312 3123 (starts over every 3 bars)

Hope that helps.

What I'm doing is expanding on that idea using a 3:2 polyrythym around the set.

[justlooking813]

cut the first 1:50

[TheClarity99]

Stop talking and fucking drum already!!

[KCdrummer94]

you should try 8th notes on left hand, triplets on the right hand, and 16th notes on the right foot. Oh, and quater notes on the left foot. Or 16th notes on double kick, they all sound cool.

[aidange2]

it would have been good if you'd played it and eithr not explained it in this video or at the end, because the less you know about what rhythms are going on the more interesting they are to listen to...

[TurboCash92]

You own, man. You seem to be the only one on youtube that knows what a hemiola is. Thank you!

[xdoseonex]

nice!

[xwolfbagx]

have you tried doing the hemiolas with the feet and play around on the rest of the kit with your hands? I'm trying to get that down right now, but I'm having a hard time.