Sorry about the audio issues at the beginning. I didn't realize things got so quiet when I lean away from the mic. I'll figure out something better for next time.
About a year ago my dad introduced me to this channel, we were actually writing a song using polyrhythms before he died last month, this has definately helped me in continuing the song
Wow, man I'm so sorry to hear that. Really glad this was able to help you writing though. If you feel like sharing it when you're done you're welcome to post it here.
I definitely will, thank you for the videos and the condolences (We have a cover together here on youtube, but i don't mean to advertise on your channel and i don't mean to seem like this is an opportunity to share it, but anytime i can get feedback it helps right?
You are a wonderful musician, a phenomenal teacher, and, most importantly, an awesome human being. Thank you so much for your valuable time and effort to help me and so many others go a long ways in our knowledge and ability. I enjoy your method and even more so your way of explaining. PLEASE!! Please do more on polyrhythms! I'd love to see a video on other polys, especially the odd 7 to 5's and such. Thanks again Michael, you rock!
This channel gives so much value to everyone as you shared the valuable knowledge. I always see people who loved to share much, they would also receive more from the life (blessing in good ways).
I just wanted to tell you that you're an amazing teacher and that you've definitely helped me improve my music. For the love of god please keep making videos and thank you very much!
I normally watch your videos as a refresher but I still learn plenty from you. I like how you explained turning two tasks into one; it's something I struggled with playing piano and still do sometimes, and learning to play guitar/sing at the same time I need to work on as well. I love making use of polyrhythms though, it makes some pieces much more interesting.
You have unravelled the mystery of polyrhythms for me. I came across the video while trying to figure out how the hell to play the polyrhythms in Arabesque no. 1, having struggled for a while with it - within 10 minutes of watching this I have the rhythm down. Thanks so much for the explanation
Brilliant lesson, thanks a lot! And that goes without saying, but don't stop here and bring this topic to the next level. Quality teaching, so rare on TH-cam...
You are one fantastic teacher. Thanks for sharing the knowledge in much simplified way, it makes it much easier for someone like me to pick it. Respect.
I came here from wanting to get a hold on the West African polyrhythm. This is by far the BEST Polyrhythms lesson on TH-cam. I finally got it and was able to play on the piano. Thank You Michael. You are gifted in teaching music.
I would love to see another video explaining polyrhythms. They have been interesting and really cool sounding to me for years and I loved the chance to see a first glance at them right here, I would love to see more.
This was such a awesome lesson. I have played piano from a very young age but played by ear for a very long time. So sometimes I will read a piece and be like "can I play two different rhythms at the same time?" I watched this and as soon as you described it, it came back to my muscle memory :)) Very satisfying. Thanks for your great instruction
i actually landedon that video after i left my comment, and it did help a bit. i look foward to your next video as well as hopefully one that delves into rhythm in more depths. thanks for responding ill stay on the look out.
Thanks! This was cool and interesting! Always made me wonder how those notions get internalized by the brain (I'm not a piano player, just playing guitar). It's starting to make sense now. I love your way of approaching your lessons. Good job!
You have no idea of how much you've helped me not only improving my musical skills but my passion for music... you make everything sound so logical, so interesting, so beautifully made! Thank you by a brazilian who dreams of becoming a bebop guitar player :]
I Am Very Grateful You Exist Michael!!! Thank You For Your Very Informative, Easily Understood Teachings!!! I Didn’t Know Much About Music Theory, However You’ve Helped Me So Much With My Songwriting!!!
Definitely do more on time signature/polyrhythm and the way you went into technique was very useful, thank you. Great explanations of how to internalize and immerse/subconsciously digest/recalibrate understanding of memory/etc. \m/
Debussy´s Arabesque brought me here. Everything was easy, until i heard about polyrhythms. Thank you so much, it really helped myself. Still struggling, but i´ll not give up until i got it.
Perfect lesson expertly presented. I am very glad to have stumbled on this and can see I have a lot to catch up with from your other work. I am grateful for your efforts.
Counting to 6 instead of 3 is just finding a common denominator for two fractions :) Graet video, like previous ones. Thank you Michael and keep posting.
I've watched most of your videos and this one is my fav! Please go deeper into difficult rhythms! Your way of explaining things gets through my think skull!
Thank you Michael. Until I drew it out (aligned to the 1/12th ticks) I could not get my head round that. Having watched the video n times, it's coming. Another step forward.
Great vid, well explained, thanks a lot. The "single core processor" observation was actually really useful, trying to count two separate beats simultaneously has been slowly driving me insane.
im a guitarist and i've been following your theory lessons up to this part it's sad that i can't tune because of the nature of the instruments but it sounds fun. waiting for more videos about theory . cheers
Thank you for this fantastic explanation. I've struggeled for a long time with figuring out what *exactly* a polyrythm is and as you hinted at in the video, the definition can be a bit obscure and vague at times which caused me quite a bit of headache when I thought I had it just to be confused again. The side-note about 2 against 3 being indistinguishable from a simple pattern of 1 quarter, 2 eighth and another quater note is a good reminder that everything in music is simply relative. I think that is similar to the question of whether c-major is different from a-minor. One last thing I would like to add - maybe for a future lesson - is the difference between a polyrhythm and a polymeter. I feel like these two terms are often used interchangeably when they're really not and the difference is often not made clear.
Hey Micheal. Thanks for your sharing your craft with all of us. I wanted to suggest that maybe in your descriptions you include the actual notes and progressions your using for the demonstrations. I have been jumping from your music theory lessons to now these rhythm lessons so its pleasing to now be able to recognize perfect fifths and so on, but maybe as a bonus you'd want to start including the actual music, or maybe just links. Thanks again.
Thank you for another great video. Around 18:20 you talked about the definition of a polyrhythm being a bit foggy, having shown the same structure as eighth note triplets over eighth notes and quarter notes over dotted quarter notes. I would humbly propose one is playing a polyrhythm when she is thinking of what she is playing as both of the above, and able to transition freely between feeling it as -- in the case of 3:2 -- nth note triplets with nth notes and nth notes with dotted nth notes.
I really like your lessons. If I could afford it, I would totally support you on Patreon :( I still hope you continue making these. Greetings from Chile
Hey Michael. Thank you so much for all these videos, you've taught me so much of what I know about music theory. Could you please do some videos on cadences? Thanks! :D
I had never thought about subdividing the beat into a sort of musical common-denominator, which is actually very useful, especially once you know that the tricky parts happen on 3, 4, & 5, where the outer of the tricky is the 3 on 2, and the inner of the tricky is the 2 on 3. One thing I find fascinating is that when subdividing the beat into 6 parts, the straight eighth notes are separated by 2 divisions, whereas the triplets are separated by one division. This makes my head hurt a little, lol. Thanks for the help!
Great video, Michael. You should do one about polymeters and their difference from polyrhytms, because there is so much confusion going on the internet about the two. Personally I've found only one good video on that topic and I think this is not enough.
Thank You So Much For These Lessons!! You're a great teacher!! If you could do a 3/4 that would be great. I could figure it out with this lesson but just want to know how it should sound like.
HI Michael, I love your videos! I am a first year music student at University and I haven't studied music for nearly 20 years (I am a mature age student) and your vids are amazing at summarising theory. I was wondering if you have a vid or if you can do a vid on basic Italian terminology like arpeggio, portamento - all that kinda stuff. Also if you could go through diatonic and chromatic notes also please? Thanks so much!
Thanks again for this fun and informative lesson Michael! Have you considered talking about *ear training*? I'm as modest as possible here, but there few as 'talented' teachers as you on the internet (the ones I know at least) and it is such an *important* topic for musicians, that I feel it deserves to be at least mentioned by you. Please give it a thought, you certainly would help out a lot of people. :)
For me it became easier, when I relaised the quarter second note goes just between space of 2 and 3-rd note triplets. though it's obvious when playing. So you can count "one. and, two, and", and watch that "and" happends between 2-nd and 3-rd triplet tones. Thank you for the count!
![POLYRHYTHM- Learn and MASTER 3:4 and 4:3 [MUSIC THEORY - RHYTHM- COUNTING]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/c1pejTgLuhA/mqdefault.jpg)
"You are a single core processor" - Micael New, 2016
LenVrijhof But I wanna be an I7
most persons are dual cores with one disabled core; read the wikipediaarticle about the "alien hand syndrom"
About a year ago my dad introduced me to this channel, we were actually writing a song using polyrhythms before he died last month, this has definately helped me in continuing the song
Wow, man I'm so sorry to hear that. Really glad this was able to help you writing though. If you feel like sharing it when you're done you're welcome to post it here.
I definitely will, thank you for the videos and the condolences (We have a cover together here on youtube, but i don't mean to advertise on your channel and i don't mean to seem like this is an opportunity to share it, but anytime i can get feedback it helps right?
Sorry about your father.... I hope your song came together.
When you played the polyrhythm the first time my ears exploded.
Literally wth
You are a wonderful musician, a phenomenal teacher, and, most importantly, an awesome human being. Thank you so much for your valuable time and effort to help me and so many others go a long ways in our knowledge and ability. I enjoy your method and even more so your way of explaining. PLEASE!! Please do more on polyrhythms! I'd love to see a video on other polys, especially the odd 7 to 5's and such. Thanks again Michael, you rock!
THANK YOU! I couldn't wrap my head around polyrhythms despite watching many TH-cam videos until I watched this one. Very helpful!
This channel gives so much value to everyone as you shared the valuable knowledge. I always see people who loved to share much, they would also receive more from the life (blessing in good ways).
I just wanted to tell you that you're an amazing teacher and that you've definitely helped me improve my music. For the love of god please keep making videos and thank you very much!
You explain clearly in few minutes what I figured out in years of self-teaching. I whish I had discovered your channel before. Thanks for sharing!
I normally watch your videos as a refresher but I still learn plenty from you. I like how you explained turning two tasks into one; it's something I struggled with playing piano and still do sometimes, and learning to play guitar/sing at the same time I need to work on as well.
I love making use of polyrhythms though, it makes some pieces much more interesting.
You have unravelled the mystery of polyrhythms for me. I came across the video while trying to figure out how the hell to play the polyrhythms in Arabesque no. 1, having struggled for a while with it - within 10 minutes of watching this I have the rhythm down. Thanks so much for the explanation
This has been by far the best video on polyrhythms I've seen. Thank you.
Brilliant lesson, thanks a lot! And that goes without saying, but don't stop here and bring this topic to the next level. Quality teaching, so rare on TH-cam...
You are one fantastic teacher. Thanks for sharing the knowledge in much simplified way, it makes it much easier for someone like me to pick it. Respect.
I came here from wanting to get a hold on the West African polyrhythm. This is by far the BEST Polyrhythms lesson on TH-cam. I finally got it and was able to play on the piano. Thank You Michael. You are gifted in teaching music.
**abandons all simplicity for the magnificent chaos of polyrhythms**
I would love to see another video explaining polyrhythms. They have been interesting and really cool sounding to me for years and I loved the chance to see a first glance at them right here, I would love to see more.
Thank you for you vids. Never stop teaching us!
Greetings from Argentina.
This was such a awesome lesson. I have played piano from a very young age but played by ear for a very long time. So sometimes I will read a piece and be like "can I play two different rhythms at the same time?" I watched this and as soon as you described it, it came back to my muscle memory :)) Very satisfying. Thanks for your great instruction
i actually landedon that video after i left my comment, and it did help a bit. i look foward to your next video as well as hopefully one that delves into rhythm in more depths. thanks for responding ill stay on the look out.
Thanks! This was cool and interesting! Always made me wonder how those notions get internalized by the brain (I'm not a piano player, just playing guitar). It's starting to make sense now. I love your way of approaching your lessons. Good job!
I love the way you explain the fundamentals and workings behind these concepts, it matches the way I learn! I'm just about to become a patreon
Michael that sounds beautiful, it makes the sound so full.
Amazing instructor, lots of love from Ethiopia(🇪🇹🇪🇹🇪🇹🇪🇹 13 months of Sunshine)
You have no idea of how much you've helped me not only improving my musical skills but my passion for music... you make everything sound so logical, so interesting, so beautifully made! Thank you by a brazilian who dreams of becoming a bebop guitar player :]
Thank you Sir. Many people can do but can't explain. Great explanation and demonstration.
This lesson really gave me some solid strategies to get through a polyrhythm piece I’ve been trying to learn. Thanks so much!
Brilliant. All of a sudden polyrhythm is no longer voodoo … thank you, sir
Michael New: Thank you. You make music theory interesting and understandable. The things that I like about music are starting to have meaning for me.
Michael, you're amazing. Thank you so much.
I Am Very Grateful You Exist Michael!!! Thank You For Your Very Informative, Easily Understood Teachings!!! I Didn’t Know Much About Music Theory, However You’ve Helped Me So Much With My Songwriting!!!
Yet another awesome lesson. Thanks for sharing.
Your ability to break down such comlicated topic as rhytm in music into such simple math is just marvelous!
Thank you Michael for all these lessons! As I find it hard to focus on books, this helps a lot! Grtz from Belgium
Definitely do more on time signature/polyrhythm and the way you went into technique was very useful, thank you. Great explanations of how to internalize and immerse/subconsciously digest/recalibrate understanding of memory/etc.
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Another great video. Thanks so much for imparting your knowledge on us eager learners.
Debussy´s Arabesque brought me here. Everything was easy, until i heard about polyrhythms. Thank you so much, it really helped myself. Still struggling, but i´ll not give up until i got it.
Dude, thank you for your work, your explanations are very understandable
best explanation I have come across so far! Most just show without explaining how to count them.
Perfect lesson expertly presented. I am very glad to have stumbled on this and can see I have a lot to catch up with from your other work. I am grateful for your efforts.
Such grace. :-)
Very good, clear explanation, man! Thanks, and keep them coming!
I definitely wanna see more of polyrhythms! Awesome video!
You are AMAZING at this!!
Brilliant video. Thank you Michael!
Counting to 6 instead of 3 is just finding a common denominator for two fractions :) Graet video, like previous ones. Thank you Michael and keep posting.
I've watched most of your videos and this one is my fav!
Please go deeper into difficult rhythms!
Your way of explaining things gets through my think skull!
Was looking for a polyrhythm vid, thank you so much!
Thank you so much, Your teaching style is very natural !
Excellent lesson! Thanks, Alex
Thank you Michael. Until I drew it out (aligned to the 1/12th ticks) I could not get my head round that.
Having watched the video n times, it's coming. Another step forward.
This is a game changer for me. Thank you 🙌
Please make a follow-up video with more advanced polyrythms, they are crazy fun and interesting! Nice informative video as always! :)
This method used in counting it out, then switching to a sound is very helpful. I plan to use it with learning the drums too.
Great vid, well explained, thanks a lot. The "single core processor" observation was actually really useful, trying to count two separate beats simultaneously has been slowly driving me insane.
I love this topic. More please!
im a guitarist and i've been following your theory lessons up to this part it's sad that i can't tune because of the nature of the instruments but it sounds fun. waiting for more videos about theory . cheers
Thank you so much been struggling with arabesque no.1 and now I have some foundation to build on
9:20 It could be "1 and a with and a 2 and a with and a 3 and a with and a 4 and a with and a"
Righy in time when I had my first polyrythm in my sheet music, thank you
Loved this lesson! Would love to see more on polyrhythms.
This is such a great video. Definitely gonna revisit this until I get it
Thank you for this fantastic explanation.
I've struggeled for a long time with figuring out what *exactly* a polyrythm is and as you hinted at in the video, the definition can be a bit obscure and vague at times which caused me quite a bit of headache when I thought I had it just to be confused again.
The side-note about 2 against 3 being indistinguishable from a simple pattern of 1 quarter, 2 eighth and another quater note is a good reminder that everything in music is simply relative.
I think that is similar to the question of whether c-major is different from a-minor.
One last thing I would like to add - maybe for a future lesson - is the difference between a polyrhythm and a polymeter. I feel like these two terms are often used interchangeably when they're really not and the difference is often not made clear.
Thank you so much Michael sir
A clear and helpful lesson, thanks.
Very interesting Michael, i would love to see a follow up lesson. I will use Polyrhythms in my next composition.
You are fucking genius! I love the way you explain how your mind works
Very well broken down. Thank you!
Thank, Michael. it is good approach
This is really cool. I'd love to see a follow up with some of the other polyrhythms
Great video. Thanks a lot. Yes it would be good to see other videos with Polyrhythms 3 : 4, 6 : 4 ...etc
Hey Micheal. Thanks for your sharing your craft with all of us. I wanted to suggest that maybe in your descriptions you include the actual notes and progressions your using for the demonstrations. I have been jumping from your music theory lessons to now these rhythm lessons so its pleasing to now be able to recognize perfect fifths and so on, but maybe as a bonus you'd want to start including the actual music, or maybe just links. Thanks again.
This is great, thanks for sharing you knowledge.
Thank you for another great video. Around 18:20 you talked about the definition of a polyrhythm being a bit foggy, having shown the same structure as eighth note triplets over eighth notes and quarter notes over dotted quarter notes. I would humbly propose one is playing a polyrhythm when she is thinking of what she is playing as both of the above, and able to transition freely between feeling it as -- in the case of 3:2 -- nth note triplets with nth notes and nth notes with dotted nth notes.
great one mate! as usual. Would be great some tips on compositions on how to use them for melodies, arps chords and so. thanks
I really like your lessons. If I could afford it, I would totally support you on Patreon :(
I still hope you continue making these. Greetings from Chile
This was extremely interesting and I would definitely like a follow up lesson
Hey Michael. Thank you so much for all these videos, you've taught me so much of what I know about music theory. Could you please do some videos on cadences? Thanks! :D
Thank you sooooo much. You have teached me perfectly.
I had never thought about subdividing the beat into a sort of musical common-denominator, which is actually very useful, especially once you know that the tricky parts happen on 3, 4, & 5, where the outer of the tricky is the 3 on 2, and the inner of the tricky is the 2 on 3. One thing I find fascinating is that when subdividing the beat into 6 parts, the straight eighth notes are separated by 2 divisions, whereas the triplets are separated by one division. This makes my head hurt a little, lol. Thanks for the help!
Great video, Michael. You should do one about polymeters and their difference from polyrhytms, because there is so much confusion going on the internet about the two. Personally I've found only one good video on that topic and I think this is not enough.
Thank You So Much For These Lessons!! You're a great teacher!! If you could do a 3/4 that would be great. I could figure it out with this lesson but just want to know how it should sound like.
Man I absolutely love your vids thank you!! I was curious to know if you studied music, and if so where??
I love polyrhythms. Wow great lesson 😉
Really like hearing you play :-)
yes, more polyrhythms! excellent video!
Omgosh!! That sounds so cool!!
Thanks a lot! This was really helpful! Please do a follow up on the more advanced polyrythms like. 3/4, 5/4 12/8
Please, Michael, rewrite a major song into a minor key, or do the opposite way round minor to major. Like your channel. Greetings!
Yes definitely! A sequel to polyrythm would be really interesting!
HI Michael, I love your videos! I am a first year music student at University and I haven't studied music for nearly 20 years (I am a mature age student) and your vids are amazing at summarising theory. I was wondering if you have a vid or if you can do a vid on basic Italian terminology like arpeggio, portamento - all that kinda stuff. Also if you could go through diatonic and chromatic notes also please? Thanks so much!
(and, yes: I would love to see you do a follow up on more complex polyrhythms)
THANK YOU! GOD BLESS YOU! :)
very helpful! I'll try to use this in my composing
Awesome lesson!
Thanks again for this fun and informative lesson Michael!
Have you considered talking about *ear training*? I'm as modest as possible here, but there few as 'talented' teachers as you on the internet (the ones I know at least) and it is such an *important* topic for musicians, that I feel it deserves to be at least mentioned by you.
Please give it a thought, you certainly would help out a lot of people. :)
A baby trying to walk what an example, really liked it..awesome tutorial.. could you please cover broken chords and counter point topics please :)
Subscribed, really good.
As a beginner at piano, the thought of playing a polyrhythm at a reasonably quick tempo makes my brain want to melt.
For me it became easier, when I relaised the quarter second note goes just between space of 2 and 3-rd note triplets. though it's obvious when playing. So you can count "one. and, two, and", and watch that "and" happends between 2-nd and 3-rd triplet tones. Thank you for the count!
Great explanation!
when are you making a new video you are the best music theory teacher on youtube it's been a month I need more knowledge.