Polyrhythm or Modulation Jazz drumming - from 4 over 4 to 12 over 4

Playing along to a bass track from the John Riley DVD at 80 BPM. Playin 4 over 4, 5 over 4, 6 over 4, etc up to 12.

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• matt
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• advanced
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[janken919]

This is great, but a little explaination would be nice. What' your method for counting?

[MattMacKinnonDrums]

@janken919

Thanks.

I count whatever polyrhythm i'm in at the moment.

Since the bass in on 1 and 3, in 5 i make sure the first bass lines up with my 1, then the 2nd bass is between 3 and 4. When i'm in 6, again the 1 should line up and the 2nd bass should line up with my beat 4...etc

Hope that helps.

[janken919]

@MattMacKinnonDrums That's still tricky. squeezing those groups of numbers into a bar of 4, except the 8:4 which is simply double time. This is a bit easier if one plays against a click track while playing alternating sticking LRLRLRLR, but this is some serious metric or temporal modulation!