{"id":18365,"date":"2019-09-03T09:37:05","date_gmt":"2019-09-03T16:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/?p=18365"},"modified":"2022-08-22T08:56:41","modified_gmt":"2022-08-22T15:56:41","slug":"how-to-play-jambi-by-tool-on-drums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/how-to-play-jambi-by-tool-on-drums\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Play &#8220;Jambi&#8221; By Tool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BjiPjoHIpM0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Polyrhythms aren&#8217;t just for advanced drummers! Everyone has to start somewhere, and if you&#8217;re new to polyrhythms, Tool&#8217;s &#8220;Jambi&#8221; is a good place to get your feet wet.<\/p>\n<p>This &#8220;four over three&#8221; pattern is arguably the most overused polyrhythm on the planet, and that&#8217;s probably because it sounds awesome and is easy enough for beginners.<\/p>\n<p>In this video, you&#8217;ll learn to nail the main pattern in &#8220;Jambi&#8221; in four steps:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Starting in 3\/4, play 16th notes on your hi-hats, accenting the quarter note. Try it with a metronome, slowly at first, and repeating it until you&#8217;ve got it down.<\/li>\n<li>This polyrhythm fits perfectly into 3\/4, so we&#8217;re going to create four evenly spaced notes across that bar of 3\/4. Play the bass drum on every third 16th note.<\/li>\n<li>Once you&#8217;ve played through this a few times, forget about the 16th notes you were doing on the hi-hat. That part isn&#8217;t what Danny Carey does in the track; it&#8217;s just to help you nail the polyrhythm and understand where the notes fall in relation to one another. Pull those 16th notes and just play quarter notes on the hi-hat.<\/li>\n<li>Next, add in the back beat: play the snare drum every second quarter note, and finally move your right hand from the hi-hat to the china.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/drumeoblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/beat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/30094311\/230212-resource-1565696906.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here for the download track so you can play along!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can apply this polyrhythm all over the place. If you liked this lesson, check out Aaron&#8217;s course on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/edge\">Drumeo<\/a>, &#8220;The Polyrhythms Of Tool&#8221;. It includes breakdowns for more songs, plus a bunch of playalong tracks at full and slower tempos to get you jamming.<\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"email-form-include-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/weeklyemail\" frameborder=\"none\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polyrhythms aren&#8217;t just for advanced drummers! In this video, you&#8217;ll learn to nail the main pattern in &#8220;Jambi&#8221; in four steps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":18390,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4016,4022],"tags":[214],"class_list":["post-18365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-songs","category-tutorials-and-transcriptions","tag-aaron-edgar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18365","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\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18365"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35007,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18365\/revisions\/35007"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}