You can download the exercises for free on my website: timteissen.net/video_lessons/the-power-of-konnakol-5-practising-four-note-groups/ and scroll down to "Extras". Enjoy!
As a few other people are wondering, how are you counting the different subdivisions? Are you counting takadimi but going faster each change, or are you counting ta, then ta ka, then takita etc?
Either is possible. What I'm doing: I'm counting "takadimi" at the same speed as the notes I'm playing. So with every subdivision level, my takadimis are getting faster. So I'm "thinking", or speaking, exactly what I'm playing. Alternatively, you could speak all the subdivisions, and group them in groups of fours: e.g. Level #3: TAkite taKIte takiTE takite; Level #5 would be: TAdigenaDUM tatigeNAdum tatiGEnadum taTIgenadum. So it's a different perspective, then, which is more polyrhythmic. I think I practised either version back then :) Hope that helps!
Tim, it is not clear what are you thinking as you do the subdivision, I imagine you have to do it with metronome until you get tha natural polyrhthm right?
while you are playing the takadimi's on the different floors, please explain whats going on in your head? are you 'saying' the corresponding grid in your head and superimposing the takadimi's on the instrument?
I enjoy these videos, you give alot of new ideas to work on! It would be helpful to know the notes in each grouping. Thanks!
You can download the exercises for free on my website:
timteissen.net/video_lessons/the-power-of-konnakol-5-practising-four-note-groups/
and scroll down to "Extras". Enjoy!
Thank-you! TF
Hello Tim!!! Greats videos !! The power of Konnakol part 6?
Cheers from Argentina!
As a few other people are wondering, how are you counting the different subdivisions? Are you counting takadimi but going faster each change, or are you counting ta, then ta ka, then takita etc?
Either is possible. What I'm doing: I'm counting "takadimi" at the same speed as the notes I'm playing. So with every subdivision level, my takadimis are getting faster. So I'm "thinking", or speaking, exactly what I'm playing. Alternatively, you could speak all the subdivisions, and group them in groups of fours: e.g. Level #3: TAkite taKIte takiTE takite; Level #5 would be: TAdigenaDUM tatigeNAdum tatiGEnadum taTIgenadum. So it's a different perspective, then, which is more polyrhythmic. I think I practised either version back then :) Hope that helps!
Tim, it is not clear what are you thinking as you do the subdivision, I imagine you have to do it with metronome until you get tha natural polyrhthm right?
while you are playing the takadimi's on the different floors, please explain whats going on in your head? are you 'saying' the corresponding grid in your head and superimposing the takadimi's on the instrument?