Uploaded October 2015 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
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Tired of playing the same old rhythmic patterns? With Polyrhythm Bass Groove #1 we'll start explore a particular way of spicing up your rhythmic vocabulary.
This groove uses the 4:3 (4 over 3) polyrhythm, which means that we will play 4 evenly spaced notes in the space of 3 beats. Another way of saying that is that instead of thinking of those 3 beats as 3 groups of 4 sixteenth notes (like we normally would in 4/4 time), we'll group them in 4 groups of 3 sixteenth notes. Either way it adds up to 12 sixteenth notes, but by doing groups of 3 we accomplish this 4:3 polyrhythm.
We'll explore a couple different ways to use this rhythm in today's lesson, first by playing the polyrhythm very literally. Then in a more complex example we'll use the polyrhythm as an accent pattern but throw in a few extra notes.
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BECOME A PATRON: patreon.com/joshfossgreen
FREE PDF FOR THIS LESSON: joshfossgreen.com/polyrhythm-bass-groove-1-43-polyrhythm
RHYTHM BASICS: youtu.be/y7DhgZpeXXw?list=PLMIGBQ8tBb8nZzyCO_XNk_QksqIpaK0FX
Tired of playing the same old rhythmic patterns? With Polyrhythm Bass Groove #1 we'll start explore a particular way of spicing up your rhythmic vocabulary.
This groove uses the 4:3 (4 over 3) polyrhythm, which means that we will play 4 evenly spaced notes in the space of 3 beats. Another way of saying that is that instead of thinking of those 3 beats as 3 groups of 4 sixteenth notes (like we normally would in 4/4 time), we'll group them in 4 groups of 3 sixteenth notes. Either way it adds up to 12 sixteenth notes, but by doing groups of 3 we accomplish this 4:3 polyrhythm.
We'll explore a couple different ways to use this rhythm in today's lesson, first by playing the polyrhythm very literally. Then in a more complex example we'll use the polyrhythm as an accent pattern but throw in a few extra notes.
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joshfossgreen.com/onlinebasslessons
