Advanced Polyrhythms on Djembe Drums

Video Transcript

"I’m Scott Swearingen and this is here is Mr. Anderson… Chris Anderson or Anderson, Chris. He has got two names. We are going to show you another rhythm we have been working on, it builds off that last lesson, only this one is faster, takes a little bit more listening to and it is definitely more advanced sort of technique. The rhythm of this drum is going to be a constant a sort of ongoing rhythm…This is while it is going. Now on that drum, you are going to have something that is not constant, but it is built toward into the constant rhythm. So you …. that the space is there, there are space is… There are no spaces on that one. So in this polyrhythm, this drum is a sort of creating the interested cycle if you will in the background because this guy is always going and this one is not, there are spaces in there. What you can do if you have got a third person you can start to fill the spaces, this one is like the third person, so it sounds like this. So now we are going to do is we are going to take that concept of the polyrhythm one drum a sort of constant, one drum having spaces, we are going to build those solos of that. You will hear us doing flourishes and fills, but notice how the soloing follows what the drum is doing. The solo and flourishes on this drum are going to be constant for solos, where as for Anderson does solos, you hear them more choppy, because they are fitting that pattern that he has played on the drum. So we will just play this for a half a minute to end this session."