These 2 Indian Rhythm Exercises Will Destroy You [ADVANCED RHYTHM THEORY + KONNAKOL]
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In this lesson, we learn to perform some "simple exercises" from Indian konnakol (vocal percussion), then make music inspired by the concept. For most Western musicians like myself, these exercises will be wildly complex and advanced, since we rarely encounter such patterns in our music. However, reductive and growing patterns are common in Indian music, and keeping track of a steady pulse beneath them is a must! By learning konnakol and practicing these patterns, you should be able to easily expand your composing possibilities and start including "exotic rhythms" into your own music should you wish. As you'll see, these exercises easily lead into polyrhythms and polymeters of extreme complexity.
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And a HUGE thank you to Ben Levin for being a part of this video! Make sure to visit his website here: benlevinmusicschool.com/
And to @BeardStank (Jeff Schwertfeger) for his drumful prowess!
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Here's the Adam Neely video with the Phrygian Challenge, featuring this rhythm: • Can the Phrygian Scale...
Table of Contents
00:00 Intro
01:35 Explaining Exercise 1
03:38 Keeping Tala With Your Hands
04:34 Hear Exercise 1
05:46 Converting Indian Rhythms to Western Notation
06:51 Hear The Exercise On Guitar
07:30 Turning Mad Rhythms Into Music
13:25 Hear The Song by Jake Lizzio + Ben Levin
14:56 Exercise 2
16:57 Closing Thoughts
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Since I have specialized in this thing KONNAKOL as a guitar player it made me reflect on the fact that everything that we learn in music theory is based on language: note names, the scales and the harmonies - and on higher levels upper triads, substitutions etc. - all tonal events taking place in time - So the good thing to ask is : how do we practise time?, timing, subdivisions, polyrhythms & timekeeping ? And for that Konnakol is awesome because it is a language. A universal language.
Folks, listen to this man here! And watch his channel!!!
In the land of the blind, the man with one eye is the king! But here, in the land of the deaf, the man with hearing in one year will still not be the king. Got it? 😁😁
@@SignalsMusicStudio going to check him out for sure..I liked his comment big time
Please be polite. Not many understand the diversity of India and its okay for them to br wrong. Take it easy
I have definitely heard table being used in Karnataki music. In fact one particular instance springs to mind.
In my college days, I was part of the organising committee for Viraasat - a cultural festival organised by Spic Macay and one of the performers invited were the Mysore brothers on violin - Karnataki music. They had table accompany them in their performance.
That was a beautiful evening. They played many songs, and their re edition of “Krshna nee begane baaro” was ethereal.
Im so glad you are back. Your work is like no one else on youtube
I agree
It is always a treat
I went to write a comment only to see you already said exactly what I felt needed to be said.
@@nopenheimer great minds think alike i guess
@@nopenheimerAnd I went to write a comment only to see you already commented on this my behalf
Thank you for teaching me these wonderful exercises and inviting me to write with you! You're amazing at what you do and a great hang!
I couldn't have said it better, and @BenLevin, so are you. I learn a lot from both of you, but what I like even more, you challenge my musical brain. I never want to feel like I have heard it all, or that I understand music. And both of you give me sth to chew on every single time.
Thank you!
"Name your own price" for content of this quality is just astounding! You're a true gentleman, Jake...this is what the whole of YT *_ought_* to be like!
get it while it lasts! next year I'm going to start charging a reasonable price for it
Australian here, always liked and respected Indian music! It's really fascinating to explore some of the complexity!
I grew up listening to these rhythms.. still never saw them the way you explained.. awesome thank you
Sitar and tabla is not Carnatic, that’s south India with veena and mridangam. Anoushka plays North Indian music called Hindustani
My mistake!
@@SignalsMusicStudio No worries, just adding nuance. Carnatic and Hindustani are very very different musical styles once you learn a bit about them. To me as a sitarist they sound nothing alike, Carnatic is mostly compositions while Hindustani is 90% improvisation.
He’s in the ballpark. Good start. Keep going ..
Props for owning the error.
Absolutely delightful to see constructive Input and jake owning up like already mentioned...
Many different music genres and styles in our country... Your way of putting it up and analysing is really nice to see...
And the music piece you constructed sounded straight out of a Hindi movie bgm
I bought a book on Northern Hindustani Classical music as a kid and quite a bit went swoosh over my head but the stuff that hit my rhythm and the way i look at phrasing it is nice to have that influence that advanced my overall education.
That melody you wrote is sooooo cool!!!
it's just a cool rhythm, played using a cool scale, of which we break down to make cool chords 😎
@@SignalsMusicStudio And you found the tone to bring it all together.
It really rocked and the drumming was superbly musical.
The Talam in The Second Exercise, is actually called as a Khanda Chappu
Khanda meaning 5
Chappu means Irregular beat numbers like 5 and 7(that being Misra)
Great vid!
There is a good reason why it takes MANY years to become a master of Indian music.
It’s wonderful!
Thanks for this break down!
I’m glad someone else is recognizing the complexity of other worldly rhythms. A lot of people just stay to the westernization of music and miss out on a lot of cool complexities of other cultures in music. It’s a really cool exercise and I highly recommend people to up their rhythm game because it will allow you to create and express more. Hope you’re having yourself a wonderful week thank you for your contribution.
There are many complexities in varieties of western music as well. Western music incorporates rhythms and modes and scales from around the world. I'm tired of people treating all-things western as if it's monolothic and bland, and talking down to westerners under the presumption that westerners think non-western things are not as interesting or are inferior - particularly when fetishization of non-western things is commonly seen among westerners, and when non-western things are commonly held up as superior rather than different.
@@Objectified I think you misunderstood me. I’m not saying that its inherently bad I’m just saying that if you only focus on specifically western stuff you miss out on a lot of things that could inspire more.
I don't think he was discounting Western music as "simplistic".
@@TheSeeking2know nah I wasn’t implying anything but admiration for other cultures of music outside of it and thanks for pointing it out.
Hope you found this video to be as fun as I did! The thing that Ben did still blows me away, I'm very grateful to have his awesome artwork in one of my lessons😁 Here's a few important things:
🔴I showed Hindustani music (instead of Carnatic music) during the intro. The rhythm I'm teaching occurs in both music styles though (both originate from India). As I mentioned right after, I can't teach Indian theory!
🔴Don't leave before watching 13:26
🔴Pete Lockett and Matthew Montfort get credit for exposing me to these rhythms via their online content. Matthew wrote a great book called "Ancient Traditions Future Possibilites" which was instrumental to my rhythmic knowledge
🔴The reductive 3's also works as reductive 5s, and is actually more common to hear in Indian music (at least in my experience). This still lies neatly within "adi tala", the 8 beat cycle. Basically, you can keep counting to 8 on your hands, but do reductive 5s in the exact same format and you'll end up on a one beat. This also works with 7's and 9s.
🔴If you're interested in this topic more, you can research "Konnakol lessons" here on youtube. I'd recommend @AsafSirkis for beginners, and for more advanced lessons, check out @StringsOfAndersen. The final boss of TH-cam konnakol is @ManjunathBCth-cam.com/users/sgaming/emoji/7ff574f2/emoji_u1f534.png
Excellent as always!
So great to have you back mate. Fantastic teacher
I think you are talking about something like this.
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Thank you so much❤❤❤
So nice to see you back, and that too with Indian music! Keep creating man, love from India! 🇮🇳 ❤
Hey Jake! So glad to see you here again! Thanks again for all you do!
Each of your videos is worth its weight in gold. Thank you for bringing this to light.
I always felt that the western way of writing down rhythms was inadequate.
There are Indian progressive bands like agam and motherjane who are incorporating the Indian rhythm traditions in a hybrid western style.
They live in a strange void where they are little known by the world outside India and unappreciated within India.
This is FUPPING GLORIOUS and you, Ben Levin and Beardstank should make an album and I promise you will get at least one sale (to me).
great to see you back dude
thanks man! I gotta get you a copy of my new book, would love your thoughts on some of it
Man, every now and then Ben drops something that unexpectedly bores deep down in my emotions, I felt that excerpt from him so hard
Messiaen loved using those rhythms! The beginning of the Quartet for the End of Time is just fascinating, the piano plays a progression of 29 chords over an Indian rhythm consisting of 17 notes (so the harmony and the rhythm restart at different places). I highly recommend to have a read through his book Technique of my musical language.
Why do you think I started learning Western music😅
so stoked to see this upload! great to see you exploring eastern music concepts! thanks for the great content as always signals
Hell yeeeahhh.... The Indian rhythms are where it's at !!!
Thanks heaps for this lesson, very insightful !
Awesome to see you back in action again! Thank you, Jake!
The finished song opened my third eye...
Listening to Tool pried open mine.
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- Romanes 10:9-13 Holy Bible 1611
That's the brown one, right?
Sounds more like Animals as Leaders rather than Tool
TOOL REFERENCE!
i got your book in the mail yesterday, so stoked.
you're the man Jake! thanks for all the amazing content over the years.
Woohoo! hope you enjoy!
4:50 exercise - 6:53 on guitar. - 8:06 in song. - 12:15 on piano (the piano one should be memorized)
13:25 final
God I waited nearly 7 mins to watch a 5 sec excercise
sometimes i forget how versatile you are bc you make it look doable n approachable
Signalsssssssss
You're my favorite, I love your style and especially your sense of humor, I credit your videos for helping me understand the modes and introducing me to harmonic minor. I still have yet to find any thing else online that explains it in a better way. And I've been teaching guitar for 15 years lol. It made me very happy to see this new video posted, you have some of the hands-down best guitar tutorials on the web. Keep it up el duderino, you're important
Excellent video, Jake! Ive been a fan of and terribly bad student of indian music for decades! Glad to see you embracing it. Shakti, Mahavishnu Orchestra & John MClaughlin have been favorites of mine my whole life! Konnokol is THE most wonderful rhythmic system in the world.
I want to second that appreciation for the group Shakti with John McLaughlin. It's a bit of East-West fusion but the Indian musicians are outstanding and the music is moving and exhilarating. They recorded two albums I know of. I was fortunate to see them live in the 1980s.
Im so happy you are posting again! Its thanks to you i got into music and got good at it!
Your content is always amazing, dude! So glad to have you back!
When you were just counting without music it was a bit confusing for me, but when you played music with the pattern as a part, I instantly got it. I guess I understand music in a more instinctive way, so I can easily identify where each beat sits against the music without having to think about it, but if there's no music it's way harder for me. I'm bad at counting complex time signatures too for some reason, but I can play them. For example, I can play Discipline by King Crimson on guitar without counting and I never have a problem because the music is in my head, but if I start counting I get easily lost. It's a strange thing, but I suspect it's because when I count, the workload on my brain increases and it becomes more difficult to hear the song in my head while transferring it to the guitar.
Having played Tabla for 2 decades, try “लेयकारी” (le-ya-ka-ri) to blow your mind 😃
So glad you are back with another lesson that will keep teaching us through years of practice!
Beautiful, beautiful episode.🤘🏿It just shows how rich and profound Indian classical music is, just beautiful. And it definitely showed how well crafted the staff notation system is. No whatever what, it can note everything down, that's some amazing wonder to ponder upon. And of course, this video shows, how much you love music. Keep bringing these beautiful episode. 🤘🏿🤘🏿
So glad you’re posting again!
The rhythmic language of Indian classical music is so interesting and incredibly advanced.
What an incredible video you've made! The explanation, instruction and inspiration build on each other in a really wonderful overall effect.
Quality video as always! Normally I wouldn't go for this genre of music, but your example song sounds really great, and the context adds so much more.
I'm so glad you're back, I know you've been back for a bit but I really enjoyed this.
Great. Really loved how the song evolved and I'm really liking the ideas you have provided. Thanks!
Good to have you back. Please do not disappear again. Love from India.
Love that ur back man, i wouldnt b a musician without these vids
Love it! You’re inspiring me. Thank you 🙏
thanks dude! your videos are truly of great value! thanks for the sound rhythm lesson!
So good! I love how it feels like it is barely hanging on. It's like a trainwreck up ahead that never happens.
I'm so glad you've started studying Indian ancient music. It's my favorite. I have so much to say about this.
This is great. Great introduction to a deep mine of musical knowledge.
From “My Pickup Truck Is My Best Friend” to this… 🤯👍🏽
Superb video. Great to see you posting again.
Just AWESOME video! The information... The collaboration... Just awesome. I've been playing for 32 years, and I've learned, and continue to learn, more from this channel than just about anywhere else, short of actually playing with other people that were better than I was when I first started taking it seriously. Thank you to all three of you guys for this one. 👏👏👏👏👏
thank YOU! glad you enjoyed it as much as we did making it!
Glad to have you back! You have no idea how much I learned from you during Covid! lol I learned more in that year or so that I had learned in 30+ years of playing. Thanks!
Super cool video thank you for making this. Completely agree that practicing the beats in between even if they dont line up exactly is good and like how this exercise breaks it down in a tangible way! So was really interesting to see how you put this together! Well explained and a great exercise to practice too!
FYI for those interested in south indian classical music/finding resources :)
the first tala cycle he showed (8 beat) is called Adi tala - really common, find a kruti (common song structure like a jazz head+chorus, and then verses) and look for some improv (maybe kalpana swaras, typically towards the end of the song) - can see some cool patterns esp towards the end of the improv (they have to improvise melodies that fit within the 8-beat cycle). Thilana's are other types of compositions that are quite rhythmic and the singers actually use sollu (rhythmic syllables - konnakol is the art of using these rhythmic syllables, and solkattu is saying these syllables with tala - at least is my understanding of it). U can also look at indian classical dance for some really interesting beat patterns - learning the solkattu is something that helps identify particular steps in dance/learn a dance routine - u can probably find videos of people saying it - but unlike konnakol its a bit more literal as opposed to making it sound pretty (konnakol).
If ur more keen on 5 beat cycles - look into compositions with the tala kanda chappu (kanda refers to 5 beat divisions).
Keep in mind the terms i used are mainly relating to South Indian music - Hindustani (north indian) has elements that are the same/similar but called different things (eg. 8-beat cycle is not called adi tala in hindustani music hahaha). Most resources on the web relate to hindustani music!
Hope some of that helps :)
You are my inspiration dear sir❤ I am so happy that you’re back. You’re my childhood guitar teacher and now that im 20 I look back to all the great lessons you thought me for the guitar. Thank you ❤
Very beautiful multi layered recording. The sound is close to a clarinet, which I absolutely love ❤
So glad you are back
wooooow, defnitly one of my favorit compositions from your videos. amazing.
Dude. Your music skills are unreal. Thanks for this.
This is so sick brotha, great work. Love the music you guys made
Thanks for a headache and a insanely good piece of music 👌
Jake, fascinating stuff! I have to play around and try and digest this..
Please never leave us
Amazing Collab! Two of the most creative minds on TH-cam
Haha, that's cool. Ben Levin actually was the first thought that came to my mind when you mentioned the ta ki ta stuff. He did a video about that stuff in the past. Gotta revisit his channel. Cool guy. Your channel is pretty cool, too!
his video was literally one of the earliest I ever saw on the topic. 12 years ago!
you channel is very inspiring, you always create great content. thank you for the effort, I hope we see more videos soon.
You nailed this one brotha. Tough stuff.
Very nice stuff! Great job!
I'm an alto saxophonist and I have just come across your channel. Your work here is fascinating. Thanks. Subscribed.
highly complicated but very interesting... thx Jake
As an Indian who trained in Indian classical in childhood and forgot almost everything and who somehow has innate sense of western music even without training, I can clearly relate the both and could sense the Indianness in the composition. Also, funfact : Those "Ta ki Ta", "Ta di gi na dum" etc are called "Bol", which basically emulates the sounds of a Tabla or mridgangam, Tabla or Mridangam while has equivalence of different sounds coming out of different part of a complete drumset based on how they are played, but it also has an additional component of tune and timbre to it, which makes it bit more closer to how one would do beatboxing using mouth...and hence the word "Bol" which literally means "Speech". Another funfact : there is an indian equivalent of beatboxing, which is different as it comes out from not the movement of tongue or vocal chord or throat inside your mouth, but the mouth and throat is used as the resonating chamber and the beat is generated by beating your cheeks and throats using your fingers and palms like you do in a Tabla, it's called GaalVadya, literally meaning Cheek instrument.
Indian music have its own language for every instrument and vocals
Everything was a bouncer above my head and i am Indian.
i just listened to music and it felt good !
Loving this lesson and I’m so here for the Ben Levin collab! Happily surprised to see two of my favorite music TH-camrs join forces. 🙌
wow super interesting and challenging lesson thanks jake! the song ben levin made is absolutely insane, nailed it
when I opened up the file he sent me my brain fell out! I thought I was just gonna get a groove or something lol
The one and only guy that makes me want to practise exercices on guitar!🎉
Holy moly! You're back!
l see you've been busy.
Wow, l've never really understood lndian music or how it's structured until now.
Like always, Amazing lesson, thank you.
The visualisation at 6:25 using the 16th notes makes it so easy to play for me because it reminds me so much of exercises in my drum exams.
I love the chord progression you chose for that melody
What a nice thing to see you here again..
I don't play guitar or read music. ...
I can still appreciate the magic I've just witnessed. This is amazing.
...that's all the words I have left.
simply...this man is the best music/guitar teacher on whole TH-cam...
Wow, amazing content. Thank you!
Your lessons are so fascinating it always helps me to discover something new you had really been a good teacher to us thanku for always helping us sharing what we love
god bless you man
YES!!! 👏 Absolutely top notch video!
So glad you're back on TH-cam! Love your content!
Not only this is such a hard to compose, your story telling skills are unbelievable. You made us realise what you actually did which is this complex
simply...this man is the best music/guitar teacher on whole youtube...
Great stuff as always
Thank you for the effort and video. You mention Carnatic music, while simultaneously showing a video of Sitar and tabla, the typical Hindustani instruments. They are two very different traditions.
I really want to buy that finished track! Sooooo good!
Thank you for featuring Indian music, it's deep, complex and soulful. ❤
With this technique I made a song in 27/8! And it sounds completely natural aswell!
5 Quarter Notes, 5 Dotted Eighth Notes, 5 Eighth Notes and Finally 6 Dotted Sixteenth Notes!
Thank you so much for this video!
Me and my band are working on a complex polyrythm composition right now… this couldn’t have come in the most perfect time!
The way you constructively create is extraordinary! I feel that more people can learn how music isn’t complex, it’s just a process of creating. The theory is important to understand the reason how it all works. But it it’s truly derived from the creative infinite source of life 🙏🏽✌🏽🕊️
Absolutely brilliant!!
Love this video. I've always felt that "Music theory" isn't the end all be all but merely one way to interpret music. We have a lot to learn from India and maybe other places too.
brilliant piece of music. Fabulous video
Glad that you're Back.😍🤩🥰
Impressive! I first saw this concept applied by Mattias IA Eklund on guitar and I was flashed like "ok, this is far beyond, what I can understand" 🤯