Fredrik Thordendal's Special Defects - Sol Niger Within (Medley)
Today's exercise
Indeed, Fredrik Thordendal, also known from Meshuggah.
But here we heard a medley from his solo record,
Sol Niger Within, is its name.
Take a look at that.
We're doing exercise, Morgan and I.
Today I thought we could play 7 beat.
This 7 beat sounds like this.
Sounds really simple.
Yes, it is really simple.
We're just going to play with this a little,
I'll move my left hand in different patterns on the drums.
Just to show that things happen when one does that.
To start with I'll alternate between snare and hi-hat.
But still play the exact same beat.
Then you'll see that there is a kind of skew.
This is how it sounds.
Like that.
You tapped the beat there- the pulse.
Yeah, that's the quarter notes, like
Like that,
so the principle for this exercise is that
we play the beat that I did, while moving around in various mathematical patterns.
We could even do that with the right hand.
So I could move it between this cymbal and the hi-hat.
Then it'll sound like this.
Then if I'll hold that
So as you can hear, unique rhythms come from this
Yeah, I hear - from the china cymbal
Yeah, on the cymbal.
But on this 7 beat, it creates a little special..
That kind of different things,
That happens by itself, I just hold the beat and just decide
to move my hands a certain way on the drums.
Then we can move the right and the left hand
For example the left hand between snare and hi-hat,
and the right hand between this, and that.
Still the same beat, I'll play slowly at first.
I see.
Then one can, maybe do..
Even though it's a good exercise,
one can do comps, or even drum fills if there's a need.
Yeah, and so on.
Do you have more exercises in mind?
Well, one could do it in a 5 beat
Ah, a little variation.
For example, this one.
The 7 beat is a little longer.
But the 5 beat..
Different combinations.
Apart from that, I don't have anything else.
Then we have records, you've brought records today.
Record recommendations as usual.
And today the theme is Frank Zappa,
and so you've picked three records.
One Size Fits All,
an incredibly good record.
One Size Fits All.
And what can we say about that. It rocks, simply put.
Fantastic music.
Period. End.
Good. Next record?
Jazz From Hell.
It's a record with only computers, programmed.
Aha, no acoustic sound.
It's a computer, or a Synclavier device that he made music on in the end.
And that's a record from that epoch.
Wonderful. The next release is three records!
Yeah. Shut Up and Play Guitar, gitar solos from live recordings.
So that's like a compilation of guitar solos?
Yeah, from live shows. It's just solo, solo, solo, solo.
Cool. Thanks for that!
Should listen to that.
Indeed. Somebody said "there is no one, there hasn't been and will never be anyone like Frank Zappa."
I could sign that.
Otherwise one could do a--
one hand snare roll.
The end of the show.
