{"id":35526,"date":"2022-06-10T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-10T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/?p=35526"},"modified":"2022-08-20T09:35:04","modified_gmt":"2022-08-20T16:35:04","slug":"indian-rupak-rhythms-sarah-thawer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/indian-rupak-rhythms-sarah-thawer\/","title":{"rendered":"This Indian Rhythm Will Help Your Odd Time Drumming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tXGD4Ik7BI4\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n<p>When it comes to translating Indian percussive traditions onto the drum kit, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/sarah-thawer-drum-lessons\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sarah Thawer is the guru<\/a>! In this video, Sarah uses an odd time rhythm called the rupak to demonstrate the beauty of <em>not<\/em> accenting the one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You&#8217;ll learn how you can integrate this type of rhythmic thinking into your drumming and how to feel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/odd-time-drumming-tips-simon-phillips\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">odd time signatures<\/a> differently (and possibly even more comfortably, depending on how your mind works).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Follow along with the lesson:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Tala (or &#8216;taal&#8217;) is a rhythmic cycle.<\/li><li>The rupak is Sarah&#8217;s favorite tala, and it&#8217;s broken down into 3-2-2 (or 3 then 4).<\/li><li>Rather than always putting the emphasis on the 1 (common in western music) you accent it like so: <em><strong>one two three ONE two THRE<\/strong><\/em><strong><em>E four.<\/em><\/strong><\/li><li>You can vocalize this pattern with syllables: tin tin na DHIN na DHIN na (where the &#8216;dhin&#8217; represents the lower-sounding drum of the tabla, a classical percussion instrument from the north of India). This can help you feel the music better.<\/li><li>The first (unaccented) half of the cycle is &#8217;empty&#8217; (known as khali) and the second (accented) half of the cycle is &#8216;heavy&#8217; (bhari). So the rupak rotates between khali and bhari.<\/li><li>To translate tabla-based music onto the drum kit, you could assign the lower sound (DHIN) to the bass drum and the higher sounds to the snare and hi-hat. But <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/exploring-sounds-on-the-drums\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">there are no rules<\/a>!<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s the loop Sarah plays along to in the video. Try it yourself:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/drumeoblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/beat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/08135741\/Rupak-Loop.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>If this lesson got you thinking differently about rhythm, you&#8217;ll love Sarah&#8217;s course &#8216;Exploring Indian Grooves&#8217;, available for Drumeo members. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sign up for a 7-day trial here<\/a> and get access to Sarah&#8217;s lessons on Bhangra and Garba, plus hundreds of other courses, thousands of play-along songs and more!<\/p>\n\n\n<p><iframe class=\"email-form-include-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/weeklyemail\" frameborder=\"none\"><\/iframe><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sarah Thawer shares one of her favorite Indian rhythms &#8211; the rupak &#8211; and teaches you how to feel odd time differently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":35550,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4017,4025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-beats-and-fills","category-drum-beats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35526"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35554,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35526\/revisions\/35554"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}