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Re: Metronome for Polyrhythms

Author: dorjepismo ★2017
Date: 2018-03-23 23:18

Heard a lot of performances of Contrasts where people relied on subdividing. Very precise, but it doesn't sound right, because in Eastern Europe, they feel the stuff, they don't figure it out. Bartok doesn't and shouldn't sound like Stravinsky. For those of us who didn't grow up listening to a Bulgarian uncle playing the accordion, a metronome with polyrhythms is a lot more manageable than spending a year in a Balkan band living off cigarettes and ethnic brandy. Unless one is super good and only plays with other super good people, there are times when one doesn't get to the same place at the same time as the others. There's a danger in assuming it's always the other person's fault because one spent many hours in one's student days learning to subdivide with a metronome, and is beyond all that now.

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