Description
Up to now, we have worked with two reference points: first, the metronome speed, and second, the figure chosen among the progressions, with all its combinations. In this section, we shall deal with a third reference or calculation point: the so-called displacement, which as its very name indicates displaces us through the measure. Just as I have commented on other exercises, being able to use this kind of figure helps you to gain a greater control over rhythmical language in general: this change can open up other possibilities that are much more natural than we believe. In this exercise we are dealing with groups of 3 over 5.
Commentary:
Play Back (Rod Morgenstein) Displacement – 1716 – E
Here you’ve got some musical backgrounds based on patterns of the great drummer Rod Morgenstein. As you may well have noticed, this pattern was conceived for the use of a double bass drum. Commentary:
4/4 Polyrhythm – 1736 – E
I prepared this base for a demonstration years ago, and the idea was to develop ternary concepts on this binary sequence. This effect usually reminds me of African music. Do not forget Africa!! For us, it’s almost a motherland. Commentary:
19/4 Amalgam – 1712 – E
Up to this section, we have been working at 4/4. From now on, we shall go on to other measures. There is a method of Bob Moses’s which I have found extremely useful for an understanding of this kind of measures: Bob Moses called it “reference point
