I think more people know about micro time than then know about macro time... You know what I'm saying? Like putting the click on every 2 measures, every 4 measures, or every 8 measures. Just one click every 2 measures, 4 measures, and 8 measures. Helps get your phrasing, and comping in line. Plus, it makes those metric modulations easier to digest. Tell em about that one, Mr. 80/20 :) Keep on keeping on with these great vids!
is the a place i get can transcriptions so this stuff is written out? it's all sounds really cool but I just can't absorb it all if it's not in writing. My brain just works better with visuals. Thanks !
Hey Vida I think it's having your brain at least one level of subdivision above what you're playing. So in this exercise since the common denominator is triplets, I'm thinking in sextuplets. The reason I don't simply put the accent of the metronome on the downbeat is that lets my brain "chunk" the sextuplets together into triplets without really subdividing. When I have to pay attention to that sextuplet "pick up" note just before the downbeat, I can't rush or drag. one level further is only the offbeats, so you have to "lead" and place the notes in exactly the right place and use the click to check yourself, and you can't simply "follow" the click. if I want to play triplets more precisely, I can' t just practice hearing triplets, I have to practice hearing a level above that. Hope that helps!
The 80/20 Drummer Missed the entirety of your replies because youtube is acting weird, but you had asked if I could demonstrate something slowly, then the email cut the comment off. I think you were asking if it's triplets sliced in half with the accent on the subdivided upbeat, which is correct. To the question of can/will I demonstrate more slowly, of course. Will find a moment to delve into that in a future video. Every comment I get refines the process!
I wish he would actually demonstrate this with music or a band. Because I’m not quite sure what context he is even referring to. Could somebody give an example of when this technique/sensibility is in use in actual music?
This is your best lesson, but it needs an update! :)
Oldie but gold. Easily the most pedagogical drummer on the tube
Great lesson Nate, thanks again!
Fantastic
I think more people know about micro time than then know about macro time... You know what I'm saying? Like putting the click on every 2 measures, every 4 measures, or every 8 measures. Just one click every 2 measures, 4 measures, and 8 measures. Helps get your phrasing, and comping in line. Plus, it makes those metric modulations easier to digest. Tell em about that one, Mr. 80/20 :) Keep on keeping on with these great vids!
cool stuff - like it!!
Yeah, thx!
is the a place i get can transcriptions so this stuff is written out? it's all sounds really cool but I just can't absorb it all if it's not in writing. My brain just works better with visuals. Thanks !
Also, sound-time helps with slow tempos. Have you seen that from Benny Greb, Nate?
nice snare sound
So in the slow exercise your click is actually on 32th triplets or am I wrong?
So can microtime be described as accenting any beat other than the downbeat within the [16th note] subdivision?
Hey Vida I think it's having your brain at least one level of subdivision above what you're playing. So in this exercise since the common denominator is triplets, I'm thinking in sextuplets. The reason I don't simply put the accent of the metronome on the downbeat is that lets my brain "chunk" the sextuplets together into triplets without really subdividing. When I have to pay attention to that sextuplet "pick up" note just before the downbeat, I can't rush or drag. one level further is only the offbeats, so you have to "lead" and place the notes in exactly the right place and use the click to check yourself, and you can't simply "follow" the click. if I want to play triplets more precisely, I can' t just practice hearing triplets, I have to practice hearing a level above that. Hope that helps!
The 80/20 Drummer Missed the entirety of your replies because youtube is acting weird, but you had asked if I could demonstrate something slowly, then the email cut the comment off. I think you were asking if it's triplets sliced in half with the accent on the subdivided upbeat, which is correct. To the question of can/will I demonstrate more slowly, of course. Will find a moment to delve into that in a future video. Every comment I get refines the process!
Thank you so much!
If you swing that 1st exercice it kind of sounds like a samba beat :p
At the 142 bpm I think you meant 8th off beats?
I might catch up with you in my next life...may be? but thank´s anyway!
I wish he would actually demonstrate this with music or a band. Because I’m not quite sure what context he is even referring to. Could somebody give an example of when this technique/sensibility is in use in actual music?
I believe he is just subdividing it more in his head than in his rhythm. Basically taught at any school of music.
I think he only uses the metronom in another way to practice his time feel.
And if you are playing in 16th notes? You have to think in 32th notes?
A quanto pare credo che molte persone non hanno capito il concetto.nemmeno io