CK LADZEKPO (2) - Drum Rhythm Principles of Percussion Polyrhythm from Ghana, West Africa

Best teacher ever. Continuously teaching African Music, Drum and Dance at U.C. Berkeley since 1973! One of the most knowledgeable researchers ever. Hands down the best translator between traditional West African spiritual concepts of life... and... YOU!!!!!!!

[@deejannemeiurffnicht1791]

those bells get REALLY magical when he first begins to add the polys to it! WOW! simple, but giving natural fractal like complexity.

[@TiqueO6]

Really is fractal stuff, what we’re all made of really, and all those layers are embodied in the strongest polyrhythmic interval and harmony in nature, in the harmonic series; the perfect 5th.
Turns out our very nerve cells function on a combination of these rhythms as well, and those rhythms equal harmonies! So music is very fundamental way of experiencing the nature of the universe. Or at least the universe as we know it.

[@jimvannest6958]

As a former student of C.K., I can't thank you enough for posting this...C.K.Ladzekpo changed my life! I will be forever grateful to him.

[@TheGrandBrand]

Great video. How well he can count out loud is just crazy.

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[@karsynalexzander2790]

@Fox Everett happy to help =)

[@clarkflavor]

Ahh, so this is REAL techno!

[@BeatScheme]

I think every student of drums should own a West African Gankoqui (double bell) and at least learn some basic Agbekor patterns. As you can see and hear everything we do on drums come from those rhythms. Master Ladzekpo is an important teacher. I love what and how he is teaching here! (Peter Magadini author of Polyrhythms The Musicians Guide)

[@Geronimo12879x]

I bought my first Gankoqui bell in Ghana many years ago sweet sound. It is a cow bell used to track live stock. But an essential instrument in african rythms particularly kpanlogo

[@TiqueO6]

10:43 way to break it down! 3 groups of four 8th notes each (=12/8 of course but as “big” 3 against 4 and filling out the 'big three' (or “1/2-note triplets”) with a riff based on the 3 groups of 4 8th notes. And that riff includes 16th notes as well which can be thought of as 24/16. So when he said 24 he meant it!
Of course a big part of it is knowing how to start that group of three from anywhere in the bell-pattern phrase.
(Knowing how to play in 24/16 is essential also in Batá drumming, even if you don’t really know how to count it. But you must know how to feel it and even displace the accents.)

[@gabssonperry]

best video regarding polyrhythm so far on youtube I guess, thanks a lot

[@tachikoma-gg]

Whoa! Guest appearance by Eugene and Dr. Carney!

[@tfanimal1]

rhythm awareness class brought me here

[@spiritualwarriorhealer6154]

wow i was 4 years old in 73.. lovely bell

[@geraintballinger5654]

fantastic video

[@6ood6ame]

i agree

[@toberschorr736]

👍🏼

[@GrabBagEntertainment]

Intro to World Music #Pitt

[@TiqueO6]

6:45 he take it all the way

[@kyraocity]

7:15 Three against four. There are four phrasings.

[@campb450]

I'd love to site this in a lesson plan I'm working on. Where was this filmed? When? Thank you!

[@matthewalvarez3799]

Rip your citation lolol

[@musical_lolu4811]

​@matthewalvarez3799 jeez.

[@Fak3guru]

7:35

[@inovartesmedialdainovartes2041]

And this is why your average musical education class is actually teaching racism… Simply because they only teach one aspect of music theory (or should I say a cultural philosophy as it pertains to song, dance and instruments).
This only a smidgit of what’s in Our Ancestral region of West Africa.
We must "decolonize" song, dance and music theory.

[@brianwarner308]

How do you know what my music teacher is teaching us?

[@mkoffler]

imagine the herd of sheep jumpin around to make that rhythm ;-))