Odd Signatures and Polyrhythms Inspiration

Burn4ever

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Hey fellas,
I love bands like Meshuggah, Periphery and After The Burial for there odd signature grooves and polyrhythm bassdrum grooves.

Can anybody give me some nice practice resources to improve stuff like that?
Books, links etc.
 
Mike Mangini's Rhythm Knowledge Books
 
Listen and play more. Work out parts that inspire you and then learn them, understand why each element works with the other.
 
Just so you know, alot of Periphery/Meshuggah's stuff is deceptively in 4/4, they're more into the recurring rhythms.

I learn just by listening and imitating, but I developed my own sorta practice method for 5 and 7. I missed one of the steps in the progression when I wrote this up but this is how I practice placing bass drum notes in 5:

http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p61/spazzzo/Fives.png

Some other bands to listen to are Planet X, King Crimson, Oceansize, Karnivool, Porcupine Tree and 05ric.
 
The Soundgarden album Superunknown has some great songs, many of them are odd sigs, but they really work.
 
Just so you know, alot of Periphery/Meshuggah's stuff is deceptively in 4/4, they're more into the recurring rhythms.

I learn just by listening and imitating, but I developed my own sorta practice method for 5 and 7. I missed one of the steps in the progression when I wrote this up but this is how I practice placing bass drum notes in 5:

http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p61/spazzzo/Fives.png

Some other bands to listen to are Planet X, King Crimson, Oceansize, Karnivool, Porcupine Tree and 05ric.

It's kind of a slipping in and out feeling isn't it?
 
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