Rock Perspectives - Advanced Overlapping Phrases - Modern Drummer Magazine

Rock Perspectives – Advanced Overlapping Phrases

I’ve always been inspired by phrasing that seems to dance its way around the pulse. Bands such as Meshuggah apply this effect. You can bob your head in quarter notes and feel their phrases starting on different parts of the beat—sometimes for several bars—before the figure eventually lands comfortably back on beat 1.
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December 2016 Issue