He set the 4/4 groove on a jazz triplet feel in the 2 window (brushes).
In the top left window, he played it cut time (double time or 2/4).
In the bottom right he played a 6/8 but only playing the 2,3,5,6 hits .. I think
In the bottom left he played a syncopated 4/4 in 16th notes...
Get out yor tama Rhythm Watch or your Dr. Boss and listen to all the sub-division at different volumes at once. Play a one sub-division per limb gradually adding one at a time only when you can play the previous together.
Then you will understand what jazz players here all the time. They play pockets of time overlapping the subdivision in a polyrhythmic format.
I only aspire to play that way but, I strive to understand the way. Curtis Nutall-on of Thomas Pridgens for mentor/teachers (broke it down for me briefly on polys). Curtis is a metromone. He is Rayford Griffiths cousin and a native of Chi-town.
Listen to African, Brazilian and Afro-Cuban musicand you will here it. Percussion ensembles creating on rhythym. If you ever get a chance play drum set along side an African percussion player. Elvin Jones, Akira Jimbo, Thomas lang... all master of the polyrhtym. *** Chris "Daddy" Dave study African music and Elvin Jones(read his article in Modern Drummer- Roy Haynes cover) .
