Polyrhythms & Sixteenth Notes on the Djembe

Video Transcript

" Welcome back. Another lesson on polyrhythm. This time we are going to add some sixteenth notes and as well as 8th notes. Now this is one that we are going to work in on, this… believe it or not actually comes from Middle East rhythm, but we are adapting it to a more African percussion and I am going to play the basic part and Anderson is going to play a part he created to go with it. I kind of just want to listen and he is already playing a rhythm so what I do not want to do is overcrowd that rhythm. So what I am doing is basically listening for gaps may be in what he is playing to where I can add something to kind of fill those gaps. It is got to be like two puzzles being meshing together. So here it is. We will play it for you to hear want he came up with… Now, you can it reversed. That is how you feel like a little . So you can do this with the friend of yours. You play or have your friend play the basic… and have your friend or you to listen to for where… this drum isn’t playing or is playing one beat and you try to place something in there or double that beat, but keep it very simple like we are doing once again and here you can actually practice this."