🎹 Piano Polyrhythms (2-against-3) with Rachmaninoff PART 1

🎹 Exercises in Piano Technique: 2-against-3 Polyrhythms using SCALES, metronome and a great verbal expression! 🖖🏼 PART 1

😵‍💫 Polyrhythms, like 2-against-3, can be so challenging!

Here are a few techniques you can use to help play 2-against-3 rhythms with more ease and fluency:

👉🏼 Practice in scales—duplets in one hand and triplets in the other! Scales are continuous and can help us to play evenly. And, we are familiar with the patterns.
(HINT: start with fewer notes and perhaps with your hands further apart)
👉🏼 Use the metronome to help define each beat and to hear the notes evenly within the beats. Do this hands separately at first.
👉🏼 Say the phrase “Nice-Cup-Of-Tea” (ALOUD) to help play the rhythms evenly. "Ti-Ticka-Ti" also works well.

I have a few more tricks up my sleeve for the future… so stay tuned!

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🎶 Rachmaninoff: Prelude No. 4, Op. 23
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