I lately have read lots of rags about polyrhythmic. As I, myself, was
taught polyrhythmic describes the playing of basically different runs simultaneously.
As my experience is, as hard as I have tried, I saw you can't, I couldn't either, play triplets for example with the one hand on the ride cymbal and straight eights or sixteen's
on the
snare (with the single other hand).
I made the experience it's not possible. Let's see why.
Fundamentally, what was the impression of there is a rhythm, as I think is meaning an order in which thing's can run,
was set off from? I absolutely think you will refer the understanding of rhythm to different hand sets that can run on a snare drum,
one after the other, as a sample. The player here knows about rhythm. He
plays for this reason in his dynamical range.
He plays as an sample RRRRR (meaning five times continuously the right hand on the drum).
He plays as the second sample LLLLL (meaning of course five times continuously the left hand on the
drum).
Here the thinking of there is an rhythm at all, has not started. The audio impression the listener had experienced was
because of the continued run of either one hand at a time the same, basically.
If, for example, the first run is still sounding in your ears (RRRRR) and the player would
go over to LRLRL or even
RLRLR, shortly after (RRRRR or LLLLL), the meaning and thinking of rhythm was born.
Polyrhythmic translated straight is saying, here is more than one rhythm.
Here, the traditional conclusion on what rhythm is, will hold the
traditional 'polyrhythm'
as well, or does not distinguish between rhythm and polyrhythm.
Anyway, with the meaning of rhythm as metric, tempo and dynamic in the practical application (as I think one has to add necessarily, not to get confused to patterns for example) wouldn't fit. First if the distinguished samples from above are applied. Tempo, metric and dynamic were but not rhythm. The importance here was, what rhythm means indeed, only, is LRLRL or RLRLR on the snare drum and simultaneously RRRRR or with double pedal or even an other bass drum on the left LLLLL. Played sortly after another it also be reconed, Ithink. Rythm is got first with distinguised hd sets here on snare drum.
Polyrhythm would require the distinguised set's played double which will make heavy machinery like double pedals irreplaceable.
also tempo, metric and dynamic applied practical rather relates to in fact mecanical strokes than it would define rhythm in some way | theorie might have become here a practis, an external practise
Steffen Schenk
Rhythm University
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