Basics: Advanced Ableton Live

Overview

“With polyrhythms you can add a degree of depth and emotion to a song. Without them we can create music that may seem incomplete. In this unit we will add complexity to your production, both in melodies and percussion by using them.”

In this video lesson Joaquin Jimenez-Sauma addresses the topic: Polyrhythms, which is part of the Domestika online course: Curso 5- Creatividad con música generativa y algorítmica. Generar ideas automáticamente y de manera algorítmica.

Partial transcription of the video

“With polyrhythms you can add depth to your musical piece. Without polyrhythms you could feel a little empty. In this lesson we will learn how to use polyrhythms to add complexity both in melody and in rhythms. Let's see some techniques to play with musical metrics. Polyrhythms are nothing more than putting rhythms that seem to not belong to each other. For example, rhythms that are in different metrics. Let's see an example. Here I have drawn a clip or a kick drum with a 4x4 metric. I will change the grid of my piano roll to show triplets. Now I can draw a tom. and you can see that now they...”

This transcript is automatically generated, so it may contain mistakes.

Course summary for: Curso 5- Creatividad con música generativa y algorítmica

• Level: Advanced
• 100% positive reviews (46)
• 12 students
• 7 units
• 9 lessons (2h 0m)