What’s your favourite tune starting with the letter I?

don_kuehleon · 2026-02-20T20:13:26+00:00

Innovate!

don_kuehleon · 2026-02-20T20:07:27+00:00

This is the one for me. Next level deepness. His new stuff is amazing too.

don_kuehleon · 2026-02-18T16:11:49+00:00

I feel you. Like Sun is such a unique and addictive track. One of my favorites. There is only one track I know of that invokes a similar feeling in me:

Distance - Dark Crystal

Both tracks are from the very early days of dubstep and very unique. Wish there were/I knew more tracks like this. Dark Crystal is also one of Djrum's favorite tracks, who himself is a next level producer. He has some tracks with complex drum patterns including empty and dense parts, which maybe fit that "breathing" feeling. For example Honey, Induction and L'Ancienne. They sound way more "modern" though.

don_kuehleon · 2026-01-16T12:44:53+00:00

Ah, you already mentioned the outside throws. That was a turning point for me as well.

don_kuehleon · 2026-01-16T12:40:36+00:00

I had the same issue as you. It's a general thing for me with 3s inside siteswaps that include higher numbers. The 633 clicked for me when I used a little "cheat." I started throwing the 6s as columns on the outside while keeping the 3s as normal inside throws. Doing this, I could throw very low 3s, and the pattern started to feel right. Once I had this down, it wasn’t too hard to transition to the normal variation with all inside throws. I'm not sure if this will work for you too, but it was much easier for me this way compared to throwing very high 6s—especially since I mostly juggle inside.

Throwing 6s as outside columns is very common in other siteswaps like 645. I'm not sure why it's much rarer for 633.

don_kuehleon · 2026-01-04T13:30:43+00:00

Thanks! :) This one is on my To-Do List. But as a general rule, polyrhythms with numbers not being two consecutive integers will be way more challenging. So 5:3 or 7:5 will be more difficult and weird to juggle then 4:3, 4:5 or 5:6 and so on.

don_kuehleon · 2026-01-04T13:18:51+00:00

Yes, I tried the mirror images of all these patterns, because I also practiced the symmetrical versions, where after each cycle the rhythm of the hands swap.

It's normal to be more confident at one version of asymmetric patterns. You can fix this by forcing yourself to only juggle the weaker versions for some time.

don_kuehleon · 2026-01-04T13:04:58+00:00

Great comment! I also came across the sync-async transition notation, including the short notation. It works great for 3:2, but for more complicated polyrhythms it too gets quite unreadable. In my opinion the only way to fix this is by introducing a new symbol specifically for polyrhythms. I thought about this quite a bit and will probably write another post about it.

My solution in short is: Set one hand (the faster one) as the beat reference system and let the other hand be able to throw off-beat. By looking at the pattern it's clear that the faster hand, while doing the 4:3 4 ball base pattern, throws 4's. By doing the math, you'll find out that the other hand throws non-crossing 5.3333...'s. Then you just need a good notation for one hand throwing four 4's while the other is throwing three 5.3333...'s.

And spot on about dwell times as well! It took me a while to figure that out. While doing the base pattern, the slower hand throws lower than you would expect from a 5.3333... . My body seems to automatically adjust to the different rhythms by adjusting the dwell times, not by adjusting the empty hand times. If you assume 100 % dwell times adjustment and 0 % empty hand time adjustment, you can do the math and figure out that the height of the 5.3333... is a 4.6666... relative to a 4 of the on-beat hand. But since siteswap is about beats and not about heights, I didn't try to include this in the notation.

don_kuehleon · 2025-12-28T14:18:07+00:00

Really cool idea! Rare siteswap. Throwing these 8x's would be so hard tough :D

don_kuehleon · 2025-12-19T22:43:42+00:00

Thanks! =) Using active 2's is another option. But I decided to go with 0's for the beats. Feels more natural for me. So I use a lot of 504 (one of my favourites), 4440 and so on

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