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ODD METER STUDIES
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The easiest way I’ve found to learn odd meter, is to focus on one time signature at a time, establishing its own style, instead of just “odd meter” in general, and to create a parallel from a corresponding more familiar common meter.
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Playing in Five
Notice how this rhythm, performed by Joe Morello on the Jazz classic Take Five feels like a Jazz waltz except it’s cut short. It’s 3 + 2… instead of consecutive bars of three i.e. 3 + 3…
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Assimilation of Odd Time
I’m remembering a lesson taught to me by Dr. Olmstead at the Indiana University of Pennsylvania. He had us play etudes for snare drum written in odd meter over a simple kick drum ostinato that outlined the 2’s and 3’s of that meter.
