Hey everyone! My name is Jazer. I have a piano challenge for you today.
We're gonna do a polyrhythmic exercise where you play 3 notes in the right hand
and 2 notes in the left hand. Let's see how this works on the piano.
So today's polyrhythm challenge is a three against a two but before we even get to that,
let's start from the basics. See if we just say instead of three against two, if we just say
one against one, it would look something like this. So if we're in the C position, okay C to
G in the left hand, C to G in the right hand. A one against one would sound something like this...
Yeah so I think not too challenging for people watching this channel. I think that should be
pretty manageable but if we were to say let's say two against one. So two in the right hand and one
on the left hand that starts to get a bit more complex. Now you gotta think a little bit more.
So you can see in that example the right hand was twice as fast as the right hand. So if you imagine
sort of like two runners running in a stadium and one is twice as fast. So by the time the left hand
finishes one round the right hand has finished two rounds. Okay let's now get into the actual
exercise for this video which is the three against two. The three against two - it sounds like this.
You know when you hear something like that, it probably sounds a bit complex. It sounds
like it doesn't really fit with each other. And that's kind of the whole point of doing
this exercise. Because uh it is a great exercise to work on our hand coordination.
Just letting you know that this video is in response to another video that I have uh,
where I gave people 10 levels of hand coordination exercises to do. And this exercise is level 9
and 10 of that one. So we're gonna really break this down and see if we can do it in this video.
Before we even get to the piano, I think it's really helpful to start with body percussion.
So remember the polyrhythm exercise is three in the right hand and two in the left hand.
How it works is the first ones come together. So okay so it's together right left right, together
right left right, together right left right, together right left right. So give it a try.
Now the trick to actually doing this properly is you probably want to work on it section by
section, so bar by bar. Okay so you would work on that first bar first.
So remember what we do with the body percussion? So together right left right,
together right left right. So together right left right.
And once that's comfortable then you can move on to the next bar
okay and do it again.
Make sure you're really comfortable with that -
together right left right, together right left right. So a tip I have for you today when you're
doing this exercise is I want you to accent the notes that are played together. So like this...
Because when you, when you accent these notes and you push it together you're sort of really
helping. They're helping your hands to learn and build that muscle memory for this exercise. So...
Very nice guys. One last demonstration for you very slowly.
When that starts to get comfortable for you, you can also start to change
for the left hand to play the three and the right hand to do the two. Okay so it sounds like this...
All right guys that's it for this video. I hope you enjoyed that challenge.
Let me know in the comments how you went or what kind of other tutorials you want.
I'll catch you in the next video.