A 5/4 time signature is fun to play! Songs like Sting’s “Seven Days” or the “Mission Impossible Theme” are in 5/4. In this lesson, you learn rhythms on the 8th note as well as on the 16th note subdivision level.
Contents:
0:00 Odd time
0:25 Subdivisions in 5/4
1:29 Exercise 19: Symmetric splits: 55, 44444, 5555
3:42 “sort of” symmetric splits
4:20 Exercise 20: “sort of symmetric splits: 55, 3232, 2323
5:47 Asymmetrical splits
6:33 Exercise 21: Asymmetrical splits: 3322, 3322 3322, 33332222, 6662
8:23 Final thoughts
topics: rhythm, konnakol, polyrhythms, odd meter
Level: beginner
Instruments: for all instruments
Duration: approx. 9:11 min
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