This Indian Rhythm Will Help Your Odd Time Drumming (Sarah Thawer Lesson)

Download the loop Sarah is using in this video here: When it comes to translating Indian percussive traditions onto the drum kit, Sarah Thawer is the guru! In this video, Sarah uses an odd time rhythm called the rupak to demonstrate the beauty of not accenting the one. You’ll learn how you can integrate this type of rhythmic thinking into your drumming and how to feel odd time signatures differently (and possibly even more comfortably, depending on how your mind works). Follow along with the lesson: - Tala (or ‘taal’) is a rhythmic cycle. - The rupak is Sarah’s favorite tala, and it’s broken down into 3-2-2 (or 3 then 4). - Rather than always putting the emphasis on the 1 (common in western music) you accent it like so: one two three ONE two THREE four. - You can vocalize this pattern with syllables: tin tin na DHIN na DHIN na (where the ‘dhin’ represents the lower-sounding drum of the tabla, a clas