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Creating Your Own Pulse

Instructor: Chris Feener
Topic: Rhythm
Style: Any Style
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    Creating Your Own Pulse - Introduction Chris Feener
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    Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Intermediate Topic: Rhythm Style: Any Style

    Excerpt: Part 1: Creating Your Own Pulse - An Introduction to 8th Beat PolymetersWhat this lesson will introduce, or engrain in your brains is just another method for making your improvisational skills set you apart. Drummers love guitarists with great rhythm, and the following excercises will help to introduce a few applications for making yourself a drummers best f...

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    Creating Your Own Pulse - Groups of 2/4 Chris Feener
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    Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Intermediate Topic: Rhythm Style: Any Style

    Excerpt: Improv Techniques - Creating Your Own Pulse - Groups of 2/4 So let's take number one and apply our rhythmic grouping. We'll find that this one basically consists of two groups of four - or in other words - simply two sequences of the same four notes. This is probably the most common division in basic rhythm as we're simply playing 8th beats, but dividing do...

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    Creating Your Own Pulse - Groups of 3 Chris Feener
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    Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Intermediate Topic: Rhythm Style: Any Style

    Excerpt: Improv Techniques - Creating Your Own Pulse - Groups of 3 Here we see groupings of three eigth notes (not to be confused with triplets) being played to a straight four feel. Due to the meter being cut off each time (when only playing the sequence for as many times as one bar will allow) the three meter is cut off after a little more than two repetitions. L...

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    Creating Your Own Pulse - Groups of 5 Chris Feener
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    Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Intermediate Topic: Rhythm Style: Any Style

    Excerpt: Improv Techniques - Creating Your Own Pulse - Groups of 5 Here, we're introduced to a grouping of five and then a grouping of three, just to get our brains working in five-mode. Longer sequences can get very tricky, but confining these sequences to the length of one bar is usually pretty comprehensible.So after mastering exercise 6, let's try groupings of f...

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    Creating Your Own Pulse - Finale Chris Feener
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    Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Intermediate Topic: Rhythm Style: Any Style

    Excerpt: A very common issue when practicing odd groupings like these is that players will actually miss the soul purpose behind them by not being completely locked in with the underlying rhythm (whatever it might be - backing track, rhythm guitar, drums, etc.) These licks are not intended for "floating" over beats, they are most effective when contrasting with other...

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