{"id":28745,"date":"2021-06-04T08:22:55","date_gmt":"2021-06-04T15:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/?p=28745"},"modified":"2022-08-20T09:22:56","modified_gmt":"2022-08-20T16:22:56","slug":"odd-time-drumming-exercise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/odd-time-drumming-exercise\/","title":{"rendered":"This Exercise Will Help You Learn Odd Time Drumming"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DMzgaeNIauw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Don&#8217;t get mad. <em>Get odd.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you&#8217;re a drummer who&#8217;s spent a lot of time getting &#8216;even&#8217; by playing in 4 or 6, you can take your playing to the next level by opening yourself up to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/odd-time-grooves\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">odd time signatures<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It can feel awkward to push outside your comfort zone at first &#8211; especially when you&#8217;re trying to play in 5, 7, or 9 over a quarter note click &#8211; but with enough practice it&#8217;ll become second nature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this full live lesson with Ryan Van Pooderoyen (RVP), you&#8217;ll learn one simple exercise to break out of your 4\/4 bubble and become the next Neil Peart (no promises, though). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Each of these columns represents a bar of time, and the numbers represent the time signature in that bar. Rotate through this chart to get used to switching from one time to the next.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table aligncenter is-style-regular\"><table><tbody><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">5<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">7<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">4<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">3<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">6<\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">4<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">5<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">3<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">8<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">7<\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">7<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">5<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">3<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">9<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">5<\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">6<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">4<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">7<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">3<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">6<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>First, clap along over a quarter note click while counting out loud.<\/li><li>Next, keep time on the hi-hat and hit the crash and bass drum on the 1 of each bar. Start over if you miss.<\/li><li>Finally, turn it into a full (simple) groove and rotate through the chart.<br><\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>As soon as you get used to these numbers, change them up. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Don&#8217;t make it too complicated. Start simple and start at 60 BPM, increasing the tempo by 5 BPM as you get used to it. And if you find it difficult, keep trying. You will eventually get it. Quoth RVP: &#8220;Failure is your best teacher!&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Lesson Outline:<\/strong><br>0:00 &#8211; SONG: &#8220;Hollow&#8221; by Imonolith<br>3:45 &#8211; Introduction<br>6:20 &#8211; Intro to odd time<br>9:50 &#8211; The challenge\/exercise<br>17:21 &#8211; Trying it in a groove<br>21:49 &#8211;&nbsp;Making it more interesting<br>32:55 &#8211; SONG: &#8220;Planet Of The Apes&#8221; by Devin Townsend Project<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For a longer, more in-depth lesson, Marco Minnemann has a great hour-long tutorial on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/freedom-odd-time\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">playing in odd time<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About Ryan:<\/strong><br>Ryan &#8220;RVP&#8221; Van Poederooyen is a Vancouver-based educator and clinician. He&#8217;s currently the drummer of hard rock band Imonolith and the former longtime drummer of Devin Townsend. With many years of world tours, albums and live CDs\/DVDs under his belt with Devin, Ryan has also been hired for sessions with producers such as Brian Howes (Nickelback, Hinder, Puddle of Mudd, Daughtry), Chad Kroeger (Nickelback), Rhys Fulber (Fear Factory, The Tea Party, Josh Groban) and many others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ryan Plays:<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sonor.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sonor<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sabian.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Sabian<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.daddario.com\/products\/percussion\/evans-drumheads\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Evans<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.regaltip.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Regal Tip<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Follow Ryan:<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/ryanvanpoederooyen\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Instagram<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ryanvanpoederooyenofficial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<p><iframe class=\"email-form-include-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/weeklyemail\" frameborder=\"none\"><\/iframe><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re new to playing in odd time, this one exercise will make it much easier to get used to playing in 5, 7, 9, and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":182,"featured_media":28781,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4019,4038,4029,4024,4016,4018],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-drummers","category-full-lessons","category-practice-tips","category-song-tips","category-songs","category-technique"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/182"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28745"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31641,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28745\/revisions\/31641"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}