Quintuplets

I am a drummer and love writing and playing music. Personal drum heroes of mine are Mike Portnoy of Dream Theater (I hope that link stays active, if not here's another), and Neil Peart of Rush. There are certainly others that I enjoy, but none that really inspire me as much as these two guys. They play very precise and creative progressive metal and rock respectively.

Having said this, in the conceptual realm of music theory, of which I know only so much, there is a large domain dedicated to rhythmic constructs, i.e. drum beats. One fascinating subject, to me, are polyrhythms.

A polyrhythms is at its basic form two rhythms played over each other. 2 on 3 polyrhythms have a strange and soothing sound and are commonly used by Phillip Glass (that's right, another reference to Glassworks). This video tutorial below, though, one I did for a video class, teaches the basic idea behind quintuplet polyrhythms.

Content aside, I also did the editing, directing and post-production on this video. So the color asides and black and white medium shot were intentional. Successful? That's a different question. I'd like to think so. The lower thirds are a bit large, but overall I'm happy with this edit. As a bonus, here is some unused footage from the (very short) shoot of me improvising and generally just screwing around on my kit.