Timeline for How should I approach getting used to a wonky syncopation?
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| Dec 5, 2022 at 13:54 | comment | added | Alec | To update, this was extremely helpful. Playing along with the clicktrack at 75% and going up and down by 5% every now and then helped to cement the 4/4 feel during the syncopated parts. I still have some issue keeping the 4/4 feel when the drummer joins the syncopation's downbeat with his own, but I'm getting there. | |
| Dec 3, 2022 at 17:00 | comment | added | Zachiah | Your answer sounds like my piano teacher! Very methodical and practical | |
| Dec 2, 2022 at 9:16 | vote | accept | Alec | ||
| Dec 2, 2022 at 8:34 | comment | added | Alec | Oh wow, you put into much better words what I was trying to say. It's precisely the case that I feel pulled towards feeling the third note in each grouping as a downbeat. The 4/4 feel disappears completely for me. I tried slowing it down a few times, but the best I could get out of it was counting 1-2-3-4-5 1-2-3-4-5 where the 1-2-3 are notes, and 4-5 are rests. It works out pretty well all in all, but it doesn't feel correct. I'll be trying to slow it down more. Oh, and the click track! I was about to start making my own. Didn't even google because it felt so unlikely to exist already. | |
| Dec 2, 2022 at 4:34 | comment | added | MS-SPO | To add, when playing 16th notes straight, as you notated, identify and practice the 2*2*2*2=16 combinations of playing note and rest for the 4 positions in time of a quarternote subdivided by 4, first. Your notation covers half of them, roughly. | |
| Dec 2, 2022 at 4:26 | comment | added | MS-SPO | Let me add from my drum experience: „syncopation“ is a way to express „ I didn‘t care so far about playing all combinations of rests and notes for a given subdivision of time“. Once you did and practiced, this mystery resolves: you just learned to play rests as precisely as notes. See an example here for all 8 combinations of a triplet music.stackexchange.com/questions/126216/… . The „magic“ in this case is to move from 4/4 to a 12/12 subdivision, so to say. | |
| Dec 2, 2022 at 3:18 | history | answered | Edward | CC BY-SA 4.0 |