Tears For Fears - Everybody Wants To Rule The World: High Hat Polyrhythm #drums #music #80smusic
When you solo the high hat, something unexpected happens. It's playing a counter rhythm. Some will call it a polyrhythm, but it's easier to understand it as a layered rhythm that implies a different pulse. In the mix. The volume of the hi hats is balanced and this counter rhythm is more subtle and tucked in. And just beneath the hi hats is a cabasa accenting the spaces in between those hi hat notes, further emphasizing this counter rhythm.
About tears for fears
Tears for Fears are an English pop rock band formed in Bath in 1981 by Curt Smith and Roland Orzabal. Founded after the dissolution of their first band, the mod-influenced Graduate, Tears for Fears were associated with the synth-pop bands of the 1980s, and attained international chart success as part of the Second British Invasion. The band's debut album, The Hurting (1983), reached number one on the UK Albums Chart, and their first three hit singles – "Mad World", "Change", and "Pale Shelter" –...
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