Metric Modulation

Andy shows you how to sound completely out of time

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Music

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• Andy
• Edwards
• Drum
• Drumming
• Lessons
• Metric
• modulation

[boondoxotron]

You come across very arrogant with comments like these.

I have never cared for being so pedantic with terms but you can create a new tempo using tuplets. this is quite common on many scores where it will be indicated that dotted 8ths=8ths.

If you have a 'less clunky' way of doing this show us....

[johngregsonguitar]

"it simply means moving the groove to the next 16th or 8th note"

You're describing displacement, not metric modulation.

Metric modulation, by definition, involves a metric change.

[DDDekost]

cojone

[PositivelyBored]

metric modulation means groups of different # which superimpose over a common #. For a basic rough ex, a passage of 5 - 4 -7  7 - 4 - 5 , but feel as 16th notes in 4/4.

[rizzdrums4life]

i have to show metric modulation going from 9/8 to 8/8 and then 8/8 to 12/8

[TheReligionkills]

If you loop the beat that is going on (both drummers bass and snare parts) between 6:10-6:14you get a really awesome groove in 6/8  i.e. something like this:

| b&2bs&b&bs6& | s&2bb&b&bs6& |

[shredfix1993]

this seems realy cool, ive gotta try this out, your a freaking awesome teacher!

[paapakobe]

Great! People toss around tempo/ time/ metre. I thought once you change time signature as in this demo, you've changed the meter (metric change) - tempo relative to bpm. Modulating "key" doesn't change tempo or signature only th principal oscillating frequencies of the harmonic structure of a work.... blah blah blah-ing ;) Now i get the terminology, metric modulation happens all the time inside the polyrhythms & especially solos in W.African drumming & singing. Thumbs up teacher! play music

[snowypetrel]

It's so good I feel I should pay you for a lesson. J' adore polyrhythms. You probably know Magma? Also on You Tube is Junky Funk with really strong work with polyrhythms.

[themancable]

@ sweetfly66: Sorry to say sweetfly, but johngregsonguitar is 100% correct. This video demonstrates metric modulation and NOT beat displacement. These are two different concepts known to the "rest of us" in the "real world of communicating drummers".

Cool video, thanks for posting.

[delpimpo]

i think a better explanation of the step 6 min 2:50 maybe can be that are Quarter note triplets divided in 2...

[sweetfly66]

no man .... it seems like you are using like dictionary definitions for metric and modulation .... the truth is in the drumming world , the real world of communicating drummers use .. metric modulation is no different than beat displacement or playing " backwards " as dave weckl calls it .... if a drummer wants to talk about changing the time he uses numbers ... ok , from 4 to 7 at this bar ... i have no idea what harmonic modulation means but trust me , it is irrelevant to this discussion