For the life of me I couldn't cope with western bar notations especially regarding polyrhythms/polymeters trying to follow accents and groupings ... it gets unwieldy
So in the spirit of "pass the goddamn butter" [0] I was introduced to konnakol via this book [1] some time ago.
There seems to be a lot of truth in the the notion: "if you can say it you can play it". Once I can "vocalize it" it is way easier to translate that into the instrument itself. It is very intuitive to learn this e.g. the "takadimi" route.
[A pretty fun dissection of a Meshuggah song with the help of konnakol.][2]
So in the spirit of "pass the goddamn butter" [0] I was introduced to konnakol via this book [1] some time ago. There seems to be a lot of truth in the the notion: "if you can say it you can play it". Once I can "vocalize it" it is way easier to translate that into the instrument itself. It is very intuitive to learn this e.g. the "takadimi" route.
[A pretty fun dissection of a Meshuggah song with the help of konnakol.][2]
[0]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1NI4QAh_V3w
[1]https://www.amazon.com/You-Can-Ta-This-Precision/dp/19300800...
[2]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2iyd2zkgOU0