To understand the theory about FIVES and how you can learn to play them and hear what they sound like I will explain briefly how I teach them to my students. Being a drum teacher, I explain from a drummers perspective - but the theory is easily adapted for guitarists (up- and downstrokes) or bassists (index and middle finger). You get the overall idea.
It's a good thing to start with quintuplets (for reference, famous examples of quintuplets appear in Chopin's sonata in C minor and Wagner's Tristan und Isolde), which is 5 hits per beat. For a drummer there are many ways of using stickings when playing quintuplets, but let's go with left-right-left-right-left right-left-right-left-right. I recommend that you use a metronome for practice, and it is alkso a great idea to use your voice to really understand this. Try saying DA LA PI KO LA when practicing fives.
When you feel comfortable with quintuplets, we will move on to five against two. Use the same rlrlr lrlrl etc. and start to accent every other hit: RlRlR lRlRl So, all the hits with the right hand are accented! So, that's the basic 5 against 2 rhythm. When comfortable with this, only play the accents - and voila!
A bit trickier in character, 5 against 4 can take longer to learn. Let's return to the quintuplets again, using the same left-right-left-right-left right-left-right-left-right as before. But this time we're accenting every other hit the right hand is doing, something like this: RlrlR lrlRl rlRlr lRlrl and there you have the rhythm-sound of 5 against 4! This is somewhat hard to hear in slower tempos. As soon as you can play this fluently, try only playing the accents.
Now have a great time with those polyrhythms, and by all means - go surprise your drummer!
It's a good thing to start with quintuplets (for reference, famous examples of quintuplets appear in Chopin's sonata in C minor and Wagner's Tristan und Isolde), which is 5 hits per beat. For a drummer there are many ways of using stickings when playing quintuplets, but let's go with left-right-left-right-left right-left-right-left-right. I recommend that you use a metronome for practice, and it is alkso a great idea to use your voice to really understand this. Try saying DA LA PI KO LA when practicing fives.
When you feel comfortable with quintuplets, we will move on to five against two. Use the same rlrlr lrlrl etc. and start to accent every other hit: RlRlR lRlRl So, all the hits with the right hand are accented! So, that's the basic 5 against 2 rhythm. When comfortable with this, only play the accents - and voila!
A bit trickier in character, 5 against 4 can take longer to learn. Let's return to the quintuplets again, using the same left-right-left-right-left right-left-right-left-right as before. But this time we're accenting every other hit the right hand is doing, something like this: RlrlR lrlRl rlRlr lRlrl and there you have the rhythm-sound of 5 against 4! This is somewhat hard to hear in slower tempos. As soon as you can play this fluently, try only playing the accents.
Now have a great time with those polyrhythms, and by all means - go surprise your drummer!
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