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RE: OT - Rick's rhythm intensive

Actually the quote was Sir Lawrence Olivier to Dustin on the set of Marathon Man. Dustin said it was the days of Studio 54 and he'd been up...uh...for a few extra hours ( days).
JD Devros

From: mark@markfrancombe.com
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 21:38:09 +0200
Subject: Re: OT - Rick's rhythm intensive
To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com

Excuse my french Fabio.. but Fucking Hell... You see why I see it as an exercise.. the sheer complexity and skill that that must take is totally beyond me.. its certainly doesn't SOUND that clever I'm afraid!!!

I AM impressed and maybe just a little jealous, cos there no way I could do that in a million years.

Theres a famous actors quote from Alec Guinness to Dustin Hoffman, after Hoffman spent the night on the street, because "his character was supposed to have spent the night on the street.. Guiness said.. "Why dont you try acting darling?"

I'm tempted to say... "Why don't you use a drum machine?"...

oops sorry!

Im gonna get me one of those thing's and see what I can make of it...

Mark




On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 9:26 PM, Fabio_A <eterogenus@gmail.com> wrote:
When you had a number on the screen saying 7 for example, was that one click every 7 shakes? Cos that not what I call a time signature really, its just a clikc every 7 shakes..
 
Mark, when you see 7, it means that I'm playing a pattern of 7 beats.
For a better understanding: the pattern in 7 can be write like this:
 
1    2    3   4    5    6    7          (beats)
x x x x x x x x x x x x x x       (shakes)
c            c                             (cliks)
 
 
the "groove" for me was the shakes... and (being pretty rudimentary rhythmically (fave drummer Mo Tuck))  my foot was still four on the floor, it was not pushed to to a new rhythm...
 
even with the 3 or 5 or 7 patterns ?
Maybe, you can't feel it because ther's no strong accent defining the patterns.
  
I like the sound of musical poly rhythms (5 note riffs against 6 note for ex) but this seems to be an (extremely clever and unbelievably skillful) exercise in juggling...
 
What I can say is that this "toy" has really improved my rhythm skill. 

 Thanks for watching !
 
- fabio
 
 



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