Work, with Miles Okazaki

Chorale 86, four voices. I don't make many guarantees, but I do guarantee that if you look at these Chorales with me on Sundays, your sight reading and sense of harmony will improve. It's always worked for every student I've had, including myself. Apologies, the amp volume is a bit low on this one, I'm working out some microphone stuff. Sheet music is attached for download.

Today we wrap up the series with a couple of less common polyrhythms. I give some excercises, a cheat code for difficult polyrhythms, and a bit of one of my tunes.

Continuing on the polythyhm series, here's a couple of ways to practice 7:3 or 3:7

Into the world of sevens. We're starting with 7:4 and comparing it to 7:5 with an old tune of mine. For anybody who'd like to hear the whole tune, it can be found, here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsiG27UvN_4

On to the number 6. A little discussion about the number itself, and then a couple of exercises to get this one together which is a little tricky because the tempos are close together, creating a phasing effect.

Similar exercises to previous vidoes, this time with 5 and 3.

Moving past 2,3 and 4, here's a basic primer on 4:5.

Happy New Year! Here's how to transform the last polyrhythm excercise into seven new rhythms, based on the modes of the diatonic scale. Hope you enjoy!

Big concept day! I talk about an analogy between 12/8 bell patterns and the diatonic scale. This is one of my favorite ideas. I hope you dig it.

This video is similar to the last one, except that I'm using a pick. Some members probably don't use the fingers at all, so I thought this would be useful. Plus, it's a much different sound to try to get two tempos happening at the same time with a pick, very good for articulation and accuracy.