Polyrhythms
for Keyboardists
Fifty-five steps from your first 3:2 to the kind of nested tuplet that makes other musicians squint. Self-paced, practical, keyboard-first.
About the program
Polyrhythms are not a party trick. They're a way of hearing several pulses at once — and of making a single line imply more than one grid. This program builds that hearing at the keyboard, one step at a time.
Expect counting, playing, unlearning the counting, and then playing again. The material moves from basic cross-rhythms into nested tuplets, non-dyadic meter and bridge tuplets.
What you'll work on
(01) The shape of it
- 01 Feel the cross-rhythm
Basic polyrhythms against a steady pulse, without tensing up.
- 02 Split the hands
Independence, subdivision and keeping the grid honest.
- 03 Nest the tuplets
Tuplets inside tuplets, and how to keep the larger pulse in view.
- 04 Leave the dyad
Non-dyadic meter, bridge tuplets and STN as a practice tool.
- 05 Make it music
Turn the exercises into lines, voicings and phrases you'd actually play.
Ready when you are.
Questions about the level, the material or whether your hands are ready? Ask first. Enrolment is a conversation, not a checkout.