NUTHA JASON
Senior Administrator
Let'c collect all the odd terms and phrases that surround our instrument and make an online dictionary. to standardise responses please print out the term or phrase in bold capital letters, with a brief and above all accurate description of its meaning beneath. like so....
CUT TIME
this is a marching beat description so the time signature would be 2/2. There is a strong upbeat - downbeat feel, oom-pah oom-pah...etc. sometimes with lots of syncopation. it often occours in musical theatre and circus music. an example would be: 'The Stars and Stripes Forever'
PERMUTATION
Taking a sticking phrase and moving it so that the phrase is started at different points, thus creating a new rudiment or phrase. for example: paradiddle:
RLRRLRLL can change to LRRLRLLR and also RRLRLLRL and then RLRLLRLR.
from the above example it can be seen that permutations can provide new patterns and also that the number of patterns possible depends on the number of strokes in the basic unit. a paraddidle has four strokes so we get four variations. a double paradiddle has six strokes so we could get six variations. this concept can be very effectively applied to grooves as well, particularly in funk music.
SEXTUPLETS AND SEPTUPLETS
don't get them confused. 'sex' and 'sept' are numerical prefixes based on latin. sex means 'six' and sept means 'seven'. in terms of difficulty the latter is harder to play, and count since the word seven is the first number with two syllables in it. i count it like this: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, tack, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, tack ...etc.
CUT TIME
this is a marching beat description so the time signature would be 2/2. There is a strong upbeat - downbeat feel, oom-pah oom-pah...etc. sometimes with lots of syncopation. it often occours in musical theatre and circus music. an example would be: 'The Stars and Stripes Forever'
PERMUTATION
Taking a sticking phrase and moving it so that the phrase is started at different points, thus creating a new rudiment or phrase. for example: paradiddle:
RLRRLRLL can change to LRRLRLLR and also RRLRLLRL and then RLRLLRLR.
from the above example it can be seen that permutations can provide new patterns and also that the number of patterns possible depends on the number of strokes in the basic unit. a paraddidle has four strokes so we get four variations. a double paradiddle has six strokes so we could get six variations. this concept can be very effectively applied to grooves as well, particularly in funk music.
SEXTUPLETS AND SEPTUPLETS
don't get them confused. 'sex' and 'sept' are numerical prefixes based on latin. sex means 'six' and sept means 'seven'. in terms of difficulty the latter is harder to play, and count since the word seven is the first number with two syllables in it. i count it like this: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, tack, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, tack ...etc.