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Topic: Help with playing with 2 hands  (Read 1460 times)

Offline yoniman43

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Help with playing with 2 hands
on: April 17, 2014, 11:07:51 AM
Hello, I tried to understand how to play these measures but I can't... Can you tell me please how to play it with 2 hands?(the problem is the rhythm) thanks ! (:

Offline j_menz

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Re: Help with playing with 2 hands
Reply #1 on: April 21, 2014, 11:29:13 PM
It's basically a 3v4 polyrhythm. Do a search of the forum for polyrhythms and you'll get lots of useful advice.
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Offline nyiregyhazi

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Re: Help with playing with 2 hands
Reply #2 on: April 22, 2014, 12:06:13 AM
It's basically a 3v4 polyrhythm. Do a search of the forum for polyrhythms and you'll get lots of useful advice.

True, although it doesn't look like a very good place to start if he's never encountered one before. By the time you're tackling those kinds of demands, it ought to be second nature to do a standard cross-rhythm.
 

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