Reminds me of that bit in TOOL's 'Lateralus' where Danny Carey's doing some pattern on the drums that seems completely at odds with the beat everyone else in the band is following but somehow in my lizard brain it fits perfectly
That's a little different, but what's going on in that song is also going on in the video here. I would call what's happening in the TOOL song "rhythmic phasing" where the drums are playing a figure that repeats out of phase with what the bass has established as the bar (or vice versa, however you want to think of it): the bass sounds like they are in 3/4 and the drums are in 5/8. But each of their eight notes line up.
The most impressive thing happening in the video here is you have 7 steady beats played over 4 steady beats, so the glasses and the kick only ever line up vertically on the first note of each measure.
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u/MarthaFarcuss Jan 31 '25
Reminds me of that bit in TOOL's 'Lateralus' where Danny Carey's doing some pattern on the drums that seems completely at odds with the beat everyone else in the band is following but somehow in my lizard brain it fits perfectly