Indian Rhythms with Dr. Levin
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- Опубликовано: 28 окт 2011
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Fake Doctor Ben Levin shows a cool way to work on rhythm.
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This video is a lesson for musicians looking to expand their musical vocabulary and have a great time doing so.
Video by Rab Berry 
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When I was teaching the phrase "Ta Ri Kita Thom" during my Indian dance class in upstate NY. These kids heard it as "Daddy kicked the gnome" they kept singing it like that for 3 months until the camp ended. 🙈😆
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I'm an Indian classical dancer who uses this system and I can assure that everything he's taught is accurate. You have my respect for learning this rhythm system, it isn't easy or typical. For anyone who wants to see how this rhythm is used, there's a rhythmic exploration called Konnakol popular in South India. These artists are honestly so dope, it blows my mind how well versed they are in rhythm.
Here's one of my favorite artists: ruclips.net/video/SoPjy6kpi1A/видео.html and ruclips.net/video/7DEADUBo-x8/видео.html
Wow just checked out those videos, pretty interesting. Would be amazing to see if anyone would be able to make music like that with actual instruments. You know of any artists?
Just an opening of him sniffing a cactus followed by a wide shot of a crazy haired guy standing in a complete bomb site and wearing a lab coat. beautiful.
Jacob mv 😂😂😂😂
Funnily enough, That explains nothing!
One's bomb site is the other's homely home...
I'm just imagining Dr. Levin singing these over Djent music, and it is incredible.
I think about this too. :-)
Ha nice!
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@@emmettlukas5360 That was the first thing that came to my mind when I saw this video recommendation.
well there's a band that incorporates djent and vocals that do these kinda counting , Project Mishram . its a mix of indian classical music with progmetal/djent
As someone from south india, I enjoyed this video a lot and liked how you naturally did the indian head bob from just jamming along
We humans are all related somewhere along the line.
@@357CLOUDY true.
Adam Nelly brought me here. I'm glad he did
Yay!
same here :-D
Me too also!
Me too....
Adam Nelly is fucking cool.
"what this system is is a system"
Rob Bru can't argue with that one
Hey, when you're right you're right.
People die if they are killed.
That's a Tautology.
Is that what your say at a turtle's funeral?
Every drummer should have to watch this video.
It certainly helps!
Every drummer should take tabla lessons!
Thank you! With this I can now decypher Meshuggah!
My suggestion is to write an Indian solfege rap that is catchy to your ear and practicing the lines to the tempo of your pace while you walk. For me, one of the lines was tadinginatom takita kitatakatadingina. If you start at a medium tempo and slowly increase speed with these lines, it will help a lot!
Thank our lord and savior Adam Neely for bringing light upon Ben Levin!
This seems like it would be a great exercise for rappers trying to develop a chopper style. (e.g. Bone Thugs, Tech N9ne, Busta Rhymes)
Thanks for the idea
Z S yupp
Your so right!
Do Bone Thugs and so on use different tuplets? I would also like to hear reap in 7/8 for example
I learnt it this way:
8notes: mango
triplets: banana
16notes: mississippi ("Manitoba" if you're Canadian)
quintuplet: university
yeah that works good also! the beautifull thing i found in these indian phrases is that each syllable really feels like the beat, so f.e.: ta i really a first beat and ka is really an afterbeat as i feel it :)
instead of Banana I use chocolate
That's cool! Thanks for sharing. University is a great quintuplet. I think I'll be using that to explain it to my musical friends. Thanks! 😉
but banana has a stressed second syllable that is hard to pronounce unstressed when you're trying to accent the first part of the bar (I don't know the proper English for that :()
Atriya Koller use pineapple instead😃
Ta
Taco
Taquito
Sock it to me
Sock it to me now
Taquito Taquito
Sock it to me Taquito
Sock it to me Taco Bueno
Jesse Augustine Walker- That's a tongue twister! 😜 I ended up like: "tock it to me now...Tatito tatito." 😂
south mexico rhythmic solfege
Ha ha ha ha ha!!!😂😂😂
I'll be using this since it's easier to remember
Sock it to me => Ta-co to me
Ta
Taco
Taquito
Taco to me
Taco to me now
Taquito Taquito
Taco to me Taquito
Taco to me Taco me now
Watch your language, young man
This is fucking mind blowing, why have I never thought of it like this? Making interesting drum fills will be much easier now.
Love that stuff! Syllables for 3 would usually be TaKiTe instead of TaKiTa, so the musician won’t get lost in stacking 3s upon each other. Also, useful to mention would be that there is a complete freedom in how the musician could build a number. For example, 6 could be TaKaDiMiTaKa instead of TaKiTeTaKiTe, and that purely depends on chosen subdivisions or accents within the measure or a beat.
Fun stuff to try: 5/4 cycle comprised of 4, 4, 3, 3, 2, 2, 1 & 1 in 16ths note durations with accent displacement, and that make a hella grove (great for Tabla player you know)
I really love how you explained the Indian method by showing how it can make odd time signatures easier. The guitarist from Marbin talked about this stuff and I didn't really understand the point whenever he did. He was just like, "it's better, learn it". I like your approach, Dr. Levin.
Brilliant. I’ve been trying to understand this for weeks and finally got it from this. Thanks!
Put on subtitles, it's hilarious
Unexpected Cena at 5:04
Jono Ghali "attack with the intention of taking maternity"
talking demon could be 16
Hi my name is Doremi Faso Latido
2:26 tidiness Kentucky to tighten genotype so the corner
I found Life and Back about a year ago and I'm so glad I did. I've learned so much from the content and art you've made and contributed to, and I'm so grateful for it. Thank you!
What do your neighbors think of you?
I'm not sure...
You would be the best kind of neighbor
Grayson Wilson-Cacciapalle not sure
They think he is an indian and has the tourette Syndrom. Geronimo
Watching this with automatic subtitles is a whole new experience!
The good chemicals in my brain are having a blast and my heart is blissing on these beats. These rowdy rhythms render a rerouted routine and rich revival. 🥁💛👍Thanks!
Bro, I've seen only a few of your videos this far and I really love your different approaches to music. You're definitely the kind of person to look at things from every angle and find the most interesting or entertaining ways to do things. I love your style man. Never change!
Found your channel yesterday, and glad I did. This video is solid fire. Thank you for demystifying the rhythms and counts.
Dude this is only the 2nd video I've seen on your channel and I'm in love with it. Subbed!
Doctor! I love everything about this. Excellent teaching, content and such honest presentation. Man, awesome.
Found your channel recently and I absolutely love the content. I wish I'd found it years ago. So educational
Man you're awesome and I was so confused to trying to figure out how to fit an odd time or 3/6 to 4/8s, this has helped me a lot
My roommate plays guitar and introduced me to your videos. As a drummer, this video is incredibly useful and really helpful in helping me explore things like odd meter and polyrhythms. Keep making beautiful and weird music!
this guy is the reincarnation of zappa
This lesson was freaking mind-blowing...
Thank you, I got tonnes of practice to do...
This is so inspirational! Already I can feel the idiosyncratic possibilities for my work!
Wow that's amazing material !
You rock... I thoroughly love this video hardcore. Excellent work and explanation!
Why AM I FINDING THIS ABSOLUTE GEM NOW? Awesome Dr. Levin!!
just blew my mind with this, thanks Ben Levin
This might be one of the most useful things I've ever seen in my life. Thank you so much!
Absolutely Incredible. I have been learning all signatures out of 4/4 so some of these are very helpful to me and how I play. Thank you. Time manipulation is the top asset.
Fantastic writing tool. Thank you for brief and clear breakdown
Great lesson, just what I needed; Thank you (Dr) Levin!!!
Literally... that was so cool. I'm sad its taken me this long to find how awesome this guy is.
such a fantastic way to understand the feel of any time signature
I've saw some of your other videos and always found them interesting. Watched this one and thought "seriously,why have I not subscribed yet?" This is gold, I wish I could have been introduced to it when I started playing...
One of my fav youtube videos of all time.
But, when you were talking about 15/16 and 17/16, you didn’t adjust your downbeats, so that really you were still in 4/4, just with displaced accents.
that's what I was thinking
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manutabora Its called a ployrythm
In Southern Indian music, everything is based on what we would call a quarter note. So, for example, if a piece was in 4/4 and there was a random 17/16 measure, it would feel like the downbeat is displaced by one 16th note but the true downbeat would remain on the quarter note.
Source: Poolvalur Sriji, my Southern Indian Ensemble professor
@@alekisighl7599 Polymeter* Polyrhythm has different division sizes, but he speaks 16th notes over the 4/4, making it a polymeter that repeats every 17 bars
Thanks for your lesson Ben. Very cool. Takadimi. Konnakol. Rhythmisation. All very cool rhythm systems. Keep the rhythm videos coming.
Great stuff! You made me play around with your 5-3-3-5 pattern in a step sequencer and I ended up with 5-3-5, which sounds quite "normal" even though it's a 13/16 rhythm. Thank you!
it was awesome!, thanks so much Ben!!
Levin, fantastic video. Really helpfull to think out of the box with tempos, thank you.
Very enjoyable ! Loved it ! ❤
A great video, Ben. Thanks!
Frigging AWESOME lesson. Very clear. I am trying to do world rhythms on Clawhammer banjo. This is very helpful. THANK YOU!
Wow, I'm awestruck. Gonna give it a try, sounds like productive fun - Thank you!
Excellent video!
I thorougly enjoyed this lesson, Dr.!
you very clearly explain something that is no easy to understand!! I am teaching my 7th graders about Indian Classical music and this will go perfectly with my lesson on Tala.
This is really cool! Just what I was looking for and explained really well. Thanks
Very good explanation of Konnakol.
Awesome video. Thanks!
I can't make my mouth do some of that at speed!! But I do it in my head, and it's interesting how quickly you can break apart a time signature using that method. I listen to a lot of music with unusual time signatures, and as a drummer, I'm always looking for quicker methods of identifying the individual parts of complex rhythms. Thanks for explaining this so well!
Really wow.. crash course kinda feel 😍
You just synthesized the entire John McLaughlin DVD :The Gateway To Rhythm to under 10 minutes. Brilliant! Going to rewatch this again but at a slower speed. Bravo Ben Levin.
Wow! You are really an excellent teacher!
Lol, I love tacos!
Nice monitor loving the old school!
Perfectly broken down. Understood this instantly. Great teacher
Thanks Ethan!
Thank you Doctor! I feel so much better now!
this is a godsend for technical metal improv, thank you for bestowing this knowledge upon us
Good to see that u understand & u r interested in Indian music. Thnks.
This just shed light on a song I heard from Bela Fleck and the Flecktones at the end of their album "Live at the Quick". Futureman was calling out these rhythms to his band mates and they were calling them back to him and ended up playing those rhythms in the song that followed. I didn't understand whether or not they had what they were saying planned or not but this makes me realize that they likely improvised how they did the parts of the song that included the called out rhythms which makes the last song on that album that much more fascinating! Then again, it still could have been planned but very impressive none the less. Great video, Ben!
I play bass n from India n wanted to use this ideas for slap bass... found ur video...amazing job..
Thank you so much, Ben :)
So friggin cool. My favorite new RUclips channel. I don't even know what you say... I'll be sharing this with my muso friends.
This an awesome video!!! Very useful and helpful. Thanks for posting
Thank you so much Doctor!
Thank you Ben for your clarity....:-)))
Best rhythm video EVER!
Subscribed. Thank you, man! Very good lesson!
thanks so much been wanting to learn this for years
that was beautifully explained thank you !
FANTASTIC
Dude, this is gold!
That was awesome! Thanks man 😊
this was mindblowing, thanks !!
Amazing ! Really thank you
That was very good. Thanks.
Loved it
This was really, really cool. Extremely useful. Also quite entertaining. ;)
Great intro, thanks man!
Ben you are brilliant
Omg ..... I love you so much.... So much.
this is very in detail and super cordinated plus synchronized with DoReMi notes...thanks a lot..
Thank you so much man this tought me a lot in 7 minutes!
Amazing ! Thanks !
This is the first time I've ever seen Ta Din Gi Na Tom for groups of 5 but I love it. Aaron Edgar (Canadian drummer) related using Ta Ka Din Na Gah for 5 and Ta Ka Din Na Gay Na Gah for 7's but mentioned they weren't the formal syllables and were just what he utilized. Excellent to have an alternative that enables them not to be broken into groups of 2/3/4.
Awesome, man.
Your video is awesome, it's very useful ! Pls keep up the good work!