I'm a percussionist and I own two Flexitones. They are painted black so they are almost invisible when played in a dark venue. This often means that people can't see what is producing the sound.
I played a song in symphonic band that was a mixed meter between 3/4 and 6/8. It was like DA da DA da DA da | DA da da DA da da | DA da DA da DA da | DA da da DA da da
This is the best explaination of Rythym i've ever seen. As a person who has Disabilities this was the most clear cut, well spoken, non difficult to Interpret video i've ever watched. Thank you.
Literally said "This is great" out loud while I was scrolling through the comments and as soon as the words left my mouth I saw this 😅 Could not agree more!
Okay, i admit i clicked NOW because of the thumbnail. Thank you! This was very informative - again! You are such a fantastic teacher, and as soon as they are old enough to understand english, all your content (the informative ones, the musical ones they know already) will be on the program. Hope to see you!
All the drum information I’ve been craving for well over 6 months in one masterpiece video. Like literally everything. Thank you so much for making this 🙏🏽
Great video, a lot of these things I know by feeling or intuition so it was so cool to see them with neat motion graphics, I can't imagine all the work you put in it to handle all the timings.
Great video! So many great insights. Anyone told you before that you are a great writer? I feel like your actual script it really strong. Intro and the delivery hooked me immediately.
Great video! I've been (attempting to) make various groove based music since the '80s and your explanation around 4:28 of the subtle swung 16th is the eye-opener I needed! And props to the thumbnail.
I do know most of this, or did, but it's so good sometimes to have things reiterated to firm up ideas we already have stored away somewhere. Going entirely by instinct, I tend to do the same things over and over and fail to access parts of my prior knowledge. Thanks for this.
Absolutely top-tier content. Sincere thanks for putting this together, man. And as an addendum - your motion graphics/graphic design skills really elevate the video. So elegant and clear. I used to have a job making classroom science films so I really appreciate this shit.
I think this is one of the most complete (for beginners) and concise video on the subject ! Great job ! I knew about the polys but your video helped me spot the differences between polyrythms and polymeters more clearly ! thank you :)
I watched to the end BUT I subscribed after about 30 seconds. This is what I've been looking for for ages. So well explained that even an old duffer like me can understand. I already understood time signatures and other basic stuff but I failed to grasp the finer points of different genres. You explained, I think all, the stuff that I couldn't completely get my head around and so when I wake up tomorrow on Christmas day I shall become the beat master Extraordinaire . Thank you Jeremy and Merry Christmas.
Congrats on the well made educational video. It's a high quality one. A lot of practical examples makes it very useful for beginners. At lest that's how IMO good teachers teach. 20+ years ago I was learning such things by myself, while composing music in trackers. Cheers. :)
One of the best tutorials on rhythm I've ever seen! I've been playing music for years, but have often struggled with rhythm; I think the understanding I have now of some of these concepts is going to be huge for me going forward!
Pausing midway to say - this is another truly phenomenal resource you’ve given us all! Thank you so much, this is incredible stuff. Your ability to turn dry concepts into understandable & interesting examples is awesome.
Great video. Very informative and easy to digest/note take. I've been producing various genres of Electronic Music for over 12 years and still find myself coming back to the fundamentals of rhythm, and song structure.
Best video on rhythms I've seen. Hanging with it for a while now, studying it and recreating its concepts. Thank you so much for putting it out - fantastic overview!
"That Goo Goo Doll song" does switch from 3/4 to 4/4 in the instrumental section (and then back to 3/4 again), so it might be a confusing example if people go to that song as a 3/4 example.
This is very helpful, especially as someone who can make melody and harmony ear worms all day, but struggles to match my music with a worthy enough beat. Plus I have no idea what electronic genre my music would even fit in, as i’m pulling from a pretty wide and old pool of inspiration and don’t listen to much modern music.
Love how this video can translate to other forms/genres of music! Would love to see a video like this that explores rhythms of hardcore genres like grindcore and powerviolence
Thank You Jeremy. Arranging drums is something I’ve always been lazy to do on my tracks. The ABAC - ABAD sounds like a simple and effective way to create enough variations on a track, I’ll always remember that now :)
I was born in 1990, since 2003 since I downloaded Fruit Loops (Not FL) ;) I make music as a hobby. I learned by myself by trial and error, advice from a few forums on how to use the program in a language I didn't understand (English is not my native language. Many years later YT tutorials appeared.. obviously I developed but I always regretted not going to music school. After your film I feel like I just graduated, that was something, that riddim that I was missing
I just wanted to say "thank you!" I think this video helped me to understand the basics of drums better than any class I've taken to date... And I latched on to the "A-B-A-C-A-B-A-D" way of doing drums.
This is so helpful, some of the details that Jeremy explains simply are not covered anywhere (as far as I know, and I watch tons of educational music videos). I really struggle with drumbeats more than with melodies and harmonies because there is less good theory around. I now have something very concrete, even more concrete than the excellent histories of jungle and techno. So if this isn’t going to help me writing better drum beats, nothing will. Thank you!
That was excellent, learned a lot, it's like I've done it all but also done none of it, filled in a lot of holes in my knowledge and led me to what I should be learning and focusing on next.
thanks for this one, i always struggle with my drums even after 15 years of making music no matter the genre, so its nice to get these kinds of detailed yet easily digestible refreshers to help me remember to not overthink things plus ive been binging your channel again lately so its extra nice to see it now lol
Dude .... i am mainly a guitar player ... however you said in this video everything I did .... "instinctively" did when it came to creation of Rhythms .... especially for Electronic Music .... But you Put it "In theory" that I can now apply to "logically" to my music ..... as opposed to .... well "instinctively" ... Thanks for sharing all the Information among us fellow Musicians . .... Great Soundpacks ... BTW 🤩🤟
Try this on your ABACABAD variation, use that on a 3-1 So repeat your ABACABAD 3 times then on the 4th time add variation on the last one. This also works well with bass lines because at the ear it just getting used to the rhythm the twist on the last just resets the ears
Happy to be a patron! Videos like this one keep me excited about my own musical journey. I've done this before in a tweet back when I was on twitter ages ago and here I go manifesting again. I think you're a great teacher Jeremy, and I think you should look into working with Complexly (the Crash Course people) on something. Keep on keeping on man.
You know the book/video/class/whatever is gonna be fire when it has stuff like "Fundamentals of X", "X Principles", or "Introduction to X" in the title
“It’s the shit you don’t hear” You ain’t kidding tho it be like the 2nd or 3rd listen when you start picking up on that “shit you don’t hear” that makes you keep coming back. I fw that beat too that was nice
This was so helpful! Rhythm has been a sticking point for me in both my playing and my production, so this primer has given me a lot to think about and research!
ooh a lot of editing effort into this, I love it its such a comprehensive package, I've been making music for a longer time and knew a lot of these things but this was a great reminder, the examples used work and are clear
I would think after 20 years of djing id have committed this to memory, and some ways I have but still find myself coming back to the subject for an alternative or fresh take. Nice video :) especialyl now im trying to make my own music
Really enjoying this style of video. It plays on your strengths: teaching, experience with the matter being taught, and a very pleasant voice and cadence. I hope these are enjoyable to produce for you, because I'd like to see more but not at the 'cost' of the OP-1 videos (which I enjoy for the same reasons).
Finally a video that explains why I've got more than 20 plugins I put under "drums". To be fair, most of them are from [Native Instruments] Komplete, so yeah. 2:37 I'd considered them 4/4 dotted: exactly as you put each beat a la 4/4 have three instead of one. Just like a dotted note. 4:01 I'd say this is progressive [house], judging by the arpeggio - anothe staple of progressive.
I'm not good at making rhythm beats, but I found it fun by editing pre made MIDI clips which comes with the DAW. Even if you are not an expert drummer, you would still have a taste on what you want to add or change with a rhythm you heard.
Well of COURSE I have watched your video on pitch percussion! :D Love the guys demoing rhythm here and there. I appreciate the attention to detail in your graphics in this. All the animated pianola rolls are great.
Sources and Transcript were accidentally private. Public now: www.patreon.com/posts/110521607
All Composers Are Beautiful
you're awesome!
The 1 thing everyone agrees with is music is brilliant.
Best comment
Except for this one. Who promotes hatred and violence with music?
@@MKDSL if a painter made a pitcher of a war seen would you be feel the same way about them?
I see what you did there
all cats are beautiful no?
@@HeymynameisMitch
They all sure taste the same.
Not sure if this helps removing UA-cam's shadow ban from your channel 🫤
@@g3cdthis was at the top of my recommends so...
@@g3cdprobably not shadowbanned because I wasn't subscribed but got recommended this vid
You got me here just because of the thumbnail and now I’m accidentally learning about the fundamentals of rhythm wtf
This is how musicians are born
ahahaha
We all got lured by our mutual hatred of cops
Me too
All Chords Are Badass
And all chords are bastards!
I came for the ACAB. I stayed for the knowledge.
same :D
@@Soundscapes4all was looking for my people in the comments lol
@@kylemakesgames :|
Same xD - 'Came for "ACAB" stayed for a beautifuly made video.
The fact that you made the script fit within the rhythm is a subtle beauty
Assigned Composer At Birth
ACAB is my favourite song structure
came looking for this comment
Dude imagine if he used targeted thumbnails for that one to not anger certain demographics haha
@@AndresRodriguezDev Really? That's sad.
@@AFRoSHEENT3ARCMICHAEL69 acab
Or to attract certain ones lol
This is my favorite kind of youtube video. All meat, no fluff, clear communication, great pacing, no interruptions. Subbed.
I love the borked songs to show examples while avoiding copywrite. Awesome lesson
I'm a percussionist and I own two Flexitones. They are painted black so they are almost invisible when played in a dark venue. This often means that people can't see what is producing the sound.
Jeremy Academy, I love it! Hi from Redmond!
Hey cheers thank you!
One of my favorite things in music is that 3/4 and 6/8 are completely different time signatures even though they are exactly the same thing.
The difference is that 3/4 goes 1+2+3+ whereas 6/8 goes 1++2++! Same number of 8ths but different strong/weak beats
The difference is "feel"
I played a song in symphonic band that was a mixed meter between 3/4 and 6/8.
It was like
DA da DA da DA da | DA da da DA da da | DA da DA da DA da | DA da da DA da da
Same with 4/4 and 8/8. ||+|| vs |||+|||+||
math
This is the best explaination of Rythym i've ever seen.
As a person who has Disabilities this was the most clear cut, well spoken, non difficult to Interpret video i've ever watched. Thank you.
One of the best videos I have ever seen. Incredibly well explained with great audio and visual ques for aid. Truly incredible! Thank you very much!
Great video and really helpful as I get (back) into making music and having fun with sound.
Flawless thumbnail game, bro. Flawless.
The ACAB structure is damn solid music theory
I was munching a snack when I hit play and now I'm chewing pretzels in time with the demonstrations.
doing the same with my choco pops
Wait till you fart, you will hit a B flat.
Hell yes
Thanks for this! I learned a lot, including what a flexatone is. 10 out of 10!🎉
This is great.
You’re great.
These two and an MPC
Literally said "This is great" out loud while I was scrolling through the comments and as soon as the words left my mouth I saw this 😅 Could not agree more!
Can’t believe I missed that one. We all love you. Probably because you’re so smart and good looking. Or the rest. Something along these lines 😅.
This is a crazy tutorial, a synthesis of decades of knowledge.
Okay, i admit i clicked NOW because of the thumbnail. Thank you! This was very informative - again! You are such a fantastic teacher, and as soon as they are old enough to understand english, all your content (the informative ones, the musical ones they know already) will be on the program. Hope to see you!
omg, engineer from tf2 haiii
All the drum information I’ve been craving for well over 6 months in one masterpiece video. Like literally everything. Thank you so much for making this 🙏🏽
I was just thinking of this because intro to theory classes only barely scrape the subject. big love.
Todays public service brought to you by Jeremy Blake. Thank you sir, I feel so much more informed.
What a lovely set of notes in the thumbnail
it's an extremely useful video for structuring my music production knowledge. thank you, it's great content
Jeremy, finally someone that explains time signatures in a way I understand. Thank you! Been looking for this FOREVER.
Great video, a lot of these things I know by feeling or intuition so it was so cool to see them with neat motion graphics, I can't imagine all the work you put in it to handle all the timings.
Thanks
Great video! So many great insights. Anyone told you before that you are a great writer? I feel like your actual script it really strong. Intro and the delivery hooked me immediately.
Thank you!
Agreed. Everything is in point here
Casually throwing Visco in there was an amazingly slick move 😂 Amazing software!
Rhythm... is a dancer.
it's a soul's companion.
Thanks!
Great video! I've been (attempting to) make various groove based music since the '80s and your explanation around 4:28 of the subtle swung 16th is the eye-opener I needed! And props to the thumbnail.
20:00 inspiring stock footage choice
I do know most of this, or did, but it's so good sometimes to have things reiterated to firm up ideas we already have stored away somewhere. Going entirely by instinct, I tend to do the same things over and over and fail to access parts of my prior knowledge. Thanks for this.
Love the beat structure examples toward end, helped gel things in my mind.
Absolutely top-tier content. Sincere thanks for putting this together, man. And as an addendum - your motion graphics/graphic design skills really elevate the video. So elegant and clear. I used to have a job making classroom science films so I really appreciate this shit.
Thank u!!
I think this is one of the most complete (for beginners) and concise video on the subject ! Great job ! I knew about the polys but your video helped me spot the differences between polyrythms and polymeters more clearly ! thank you :)
I watched to the end BUT I subscribed after about 30 seconds. This is what I've been looking for for ages. So well explained that even an old duffer like me can understand. I already understood time signatures and other basic stuff but I failed to grasp the finer points of different genres. You explained, I think all, the stuff that I couldn't completely get my head around and so when I wake up tomorrow on Christmas day I shall become the beat master Extraordinaire . Thank you Jeremy and Merry Christmas.
Congrats on the well made educational video. It's a high quality one. A lot of practical examples makes it very useful for beginners. At lest that's how IMO good teachers teach. 20+ years ago I was learning such things by myself, while composing music in trackers. Cheers. :)
I genuinely wish I'd had this video when I was a musical novice, it'll be a great resource!
The 'Bass=Life' part at the end was a very good tidbit
I subscribed to your channel just because of the thumbnail. Thank you.
the best UA-cam channel I ever fall on!!! thank you!!!
One of the best tutorials on rhythm I've ever seen! I've been playing music for years, but have often struggled with rhythm; I think the understanding I have now of some of these concepts is going to be huge for me going forward!
I’ve been at this for a while and this is the clearest and simplest explanation I’ve ever seen.
Pausing midway to say - this is another truly phenomenal resource you’ve given us all!
Thank you so much, this is incredible stuff.
Your ability to turn dry concepts into understandable & interesting examples is awesome.
Great video. Very informative and easy to digest/note take. I've been producing various genres of Electronic Music for over 12 years and still find myself coming back to the fundamentals of rhythm, and song structure.
Best video on rhythms I've seen. Hanging with it for a while now, studying it and recreating its concepts. Thank you so much for putting it out - fantastic overview!
I AM smart and good-looking - and I surely will use this tutorial for years to come for inspiration and learning. Thank you!
😂 same 🎉
"That Goo Goo Doll song" does switch from 3/4 to 4/4 in the instrumental section (and then back to 3/4 again), so it might be a confusing example if people go to that song as a 3/4 example.
ABACAB was a good album by Genesis! This was a great tutorial by you!
This is very helpful, especially as someone who can make melody and harmony ear worms all day, but struggles to match my music with a worthy enough beat. Plus I have no idea what electronic genre my music would even fit in, as i’m pulling from a pretty wide and old pool of inspiration and don’t listen to much modern music.
Love how this video can translate to other forms/genres of music! Would love to see a video like this that explores rhythms of hardcore genres like grindcore and powerviolence
Honestly one of you're best educational videos, so well organized and explained. Keep it up!
Thank You Jeremy. Arranging drums is something I’ve always been lazy to do on my tracks. The ABAC - ABAD sounds like a simple and effective way to create enough variations on a track, I’ll always remember that now :)
I was born in 1990, since 2003 since I downloaded Fruit Loops (Not FL) ;) I make music as a hobby. I learned by myself by trial and error, advice from a few forums on how to use the program in a language I didn't understand (English is not my native language. Many years later YT tutorials appeared.. obviously I developed but I always regretted not going to music school. After your film I feel like I just graduated, that was something, that riddim that I was missing
Love this channel! Always something new and useful every time a video pops up. Thank you!
I just wanted to say "thank you!" I think this video helped me to understand the basics of drums better than any class I've taken to date... And I latched on to the "A-B-A-C-A-B-A-D" way of doing drums.
Man, this is really amazing video.
this is the best explanation of the fundamentals on the internet
This is so helpful, some of the details that Jeremy explains simply are not covered anywhere (as far as I know, and I watch tons of educational music videos). I really struggle with drumbeats more than with melodies and harmonies because there is less good theory around. I now have something very concrete, even more concrete than the excellent histories of jungle and techno. So if this isn’t going to help me writing better drum beats, nothing will. Thank you!
ive always felt weakest at drums. this is exactly what i needed explained
This was so fun to watch! Thanks Jeremy
That was excellent, learned a lot, it's like I've done it all but also done none of it, filled in a lot of holes in my knowledge and led me to what I should be learning and focusing on next.
Peak thumbnail design
thanks for this one, i always struggle with my drums even after 15 years of making music no matter the genre, so its nice to get these kinds of detailed yet easily digestible refreshers to help me remember to not overthink things
plus ive been binging your channel again lately so its extra nice to see it now lol
Dude .... i am mainly a guitar player ... however you said in this video everything I did .... "instinctively" did when it came to creation of Rhythms .... especially for Electronic Music .... But you Put it "In theory" that I can now apply to "logically" to my music ..... as opposed to .... well "instinctively" ... Thanks for sharing all the Information among us fellow Musicians . .... Great Soundpacks ... BTW 🤩🤟
The best and most comprehensive explanation of rhythm I've seen. Nice one thanks!
Try this on your ABACABAD variation, use that on a 3-1
So repeat your ABACABAD 3 times then on the 4th time add variation on the last one.
This also works well with bass lines because at the ear it just getting used to the rhythm the twist on the last just resets the ears
This is truly superb. Thanks. I'll watch this many times
HY-RPE2 reminds me a lot of my favorite drum sequencer for Ipad- Patterning 2. This whole video should be in a classroom. Great as usual Jeremey.
Happy to be a patron! Videos like this one keep me excited about my own musical journey. I've done this before in a tweet back when I was on twitter ages ago and here I go manifesting again. I think you're a great teacher Jeremy, and I think you should look into working with Complexly (the Crash Course people) on something. Keep on keeping on man.
Didn’t know I needed this. I’ve unlocked a new world of exploration! Thank you
You know the book/video/class/whatever is gonna be fire when it has stuff like "Fundamentals of X", "X Principles", or "Introduction to X" in the title
“It’s the shit you don’t hear”
You ain’t kidding tho it be like the 2nd or 3rd listen when you start picking up on that “shit you don’t hear” that makes you keep coming back. I fw that beat too that was nice
this is one of the best videos i’ve seen all year
I already saw the thumbnail a few times but I just now realized the thumbnail lmaooo amazing
THUMBNAIL!!! Also, I am LOVING these new vids you have been producing. Thanks !!
The video is great, but the thumbnail made it timeless.
This was so helpful! Rhythm has been a sticking point for me in both my playing and my production, so this primer has given me a lot to think about and research!
This was a seriously good video - entertaining, well produced, tons of good sounds and informational as hell. TY.
ooh a lot of editing effort into this, I love it its such a comprehensive package, I've been making music for a longer time and knew a lot of these things but this was a great reminder, the examples used work and are clear
Dude, this totally took me back to elementary school music class explanations of rhythm… I LOVE IT!! ❤
“Tah tah tee tee tah!” 😎👌
I would think after 20 years of djing id have committed this to memory, and some ways I have but still find myself coming back to the subject for an alternative or fresh take. Nice video :) especialyl now im trying to make my own music
this video is incredibly well put together, I really like it. good job!
Really enjoying this style of video. It plays on your strengths: teaching, experience with the matter being taught, and a very pleasant voice and cadence.
I hope these are enjoyable to produce for you, because I'd like to see more but not at the 'cost' of the OP-1 videos (which I enjoy for the same reasons).
An essay on rhythm? love to see it!
Amazing video, thank you for taking the time to make this and I will be referencing this video a lot while jamming in the future
Finally a video that explains why I've got more than 20 plugins I put under "drums". To be fair, most of them are from [Native Instruments] Komplete, so yeah.
2:37 I'd considered them 4/4 dotted: exactly as you put each beat a la 4/4 have three instead of one. Just like a dotted note.
4:01 I'd say this is progressive [house], judging by the arpeggio - anothe staple of progressive.
I'm not good at making rhythm beats, but I found it fun by editing pre made MIDI clips which comes with the DAW.
Even if you are not an expert drummer, you would still have a taste on what you want to add or change with a rhythm you heard.
Great insights, thank you!
Well of COURSE I have watched your video on pitch percussion! :D
Love the guys demoing rhythm here and there. I appreciate the attention to detail in your graphics in this. All the animated pianola rolls are great.
I learned in this video more than what I learned in the past year combined!
This is fantastically educational. Thank you for being such an amazing force for good in the world of music making. Stay awesome, friend.
trying to get into music and this helped a ton, thank you