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    Elvin Jones Lick

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    Elvin describes a polyrhythmic drumming exercise where the right hand plays a jazz ride cymbal rhythm and the left hand plays displaced quarter note triplets on the snare drum, implying a 3 against 2 polyrhythm. Adding a bass drum pattern of dotted quarter notes over 3 measures of time against the steady hi-hat creates a larger 2 against 3 polyrhythm.

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    Elvin Jones Lick

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    Elvin describes a polyrhythmic drumming exercise where the right hand plays a jazz ride cymbal rhythm and the left hand plays displaced quarter note triplets on the snare drum, implying a 3 against 2 polyrhythm. Adding a bass drum pattern of dotted quarter notes over 3 measures of time against the steady hi-hat creates a larger 2 against 3 polyrhythm.

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    Elvin describes a polyrhythmic drumming exercise where the right hand plays a jazz ride cymbal rhythm and the left hand plays displaced quarter note triplets on the snare drum, implying a 3 against 2 polyrhythm. Adding a bass drum pattern of dotted quarter notes over 3 measures of time against the steady hi-hat creates a larger 2 against 3 polyrhythm.

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    Elvin Jones Lick

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    András Berta
    Elvin describes a polyrhythmic drumming exercise where the right hand plays a jazz ride cymbal rhythm and the left hand plays displaced quarter note triplets on the snare drum, implying a 3 against 2 polyrhythm. Adding a bass drum pattern of dotted quarter notes over 3 measures of time against the steady hi-hat creates a larger 2 against 3 polyrhythm.

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    Elvin's Polyrhythmic Exercise The following is a pattern that Elvin described as the foundation for his poly-rhythmic approach

    to the drums. Light bulbs were going off in the audience as he played this ! The hand pattern looks like this:

    Basically you are playing the jazz ride cymbal rhythm with the Right hand while playing quarter note triplets on the snare drum with your Left. However the quarter note triplets don't start on the downbeat and instead start on the second eighth note. This pattern implies a displaced 3 against 2 polyrhythm. Here is the displaced quarter note triplet rhythm isolated:

    Once you've got that down with the hands, add the following bass drum and hihat pattern underneath.

    This is the tricky part ! While the hihat is only playing beats 2 & 4, the bass drum is playing dotted quarter notes in a cycle that last 3 measures of 4/4 time. This pattern represents a 2 against 3 polyrhythm, but on a larger scale.

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