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STRING THEORY

PART I GOT 15 RHYTHM,

The dotted-eighths treadmill

the “Kashmir”-style cyclical rhythms that we explored in the previous two lessons, I’d now like to venture deeper down the rabbit hole of 16th-note syncopations and present some additional ones that are part of the common vocabulary of modern music. The examples in today’s lesson are all based on chaining together into revolving patterns, which is something we had explored in I Got

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