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Make sense of polyrhythms.

Give each part its own sound and follow the relationship with voice counts and animated visualisations. Bring it back into your rhythm and internal-time practice.

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PolyNome animated polyrhythm visualiser showing how rhythm parts align

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You understand “four against three” on paper, but keeping your place when both parts play is another challenge.

PolyNome builder for two- and three-way polyrhythms

Start with a relationship you can hear.

Build a two-way polyrhythm such as three against two, then explore three-way combinations. Give the parts separate sounds so you can follow each one.

Connect the sound with the shape.

Switch between notation and animated rhythm visualisers. See where the parts line up and how the pattern repeats.

Take the pattern into your playing.

Use voice counting to follow the parts, then practise them alongside your work on internal time. Move between listening, counting and playing at a comfortable tempo.

Make sense of polyrhythms.

You understand “four against three” on paper, but keeping your place when both parts play is another challenge.

Start with a relationship you can hear.

Connect the sound with the shape.

Take the pattern into your playing.

Keep exploring.

Make the click your own.

Sit down. Know what to play.

Walk on stage prepared.

Build faster hands.

Learn the tricky bit.

Keep the lesson going.

Hear the rhythm in your head.