2 against 3 regulator exercises?

[eskin]

@billh

@eskin

Here’s an snippet of Mikie Smythe doing exactly what I’m talking about, particularly in the middle of the clip:

http://members.cox.net/eskin3/mikieregs.mp3

and the same clip slowed down to half speed.

http://members.cox.net/eskin3/mikieregs_slow.mp3

If I beat my foot to the rhythm, I hear the strikes truly on the up beat, not aligned to the jig rhythm…

I think you may be overanalyzing it. I reckon the pattern is best understood as a pulse on 3 and 6, with the timing shifted very slightly relative to the melody. There’s a bit of swing in that rhythm which lengthens 1 and 4, which IMO accounts for the reg beats coming between 2/3 and 5/6.

To look at it another way, it’s like the melody lagging the rhythm or the rhythm leading the melody slightly in a rhythm section vs. melody setting.

However we overanalyze it, its sure has a very different feel than the the in-rhythm jig regulator playing, is there anyone on the board who uses this technique that might have a suggestion for how to approach it?

I’ll have to ask Mikie about how he learned to do this originally.

M

[PJ1]

When you figure this out, could you post something on tradlessons.com?

There’s precious little instruction on regulator playing available for those of us not lucky enough to live in Henrietta St or Miltown.

[Patrick_Darcy]

To me it’s just a feel thing. I think I may do it atleast this is how I hear it. It’s the swing of the tune, coming in a tad before the 3 and 6 creating a bit of lift… wish I could do it like Mikie!

PD.

[djm]

I find it easier to understand (based on, say, the BK clip) to not separate the short blips from the long sustained note in front of it. In other words, consider the whole reg bit in the measure as “hmmmm - dat - dat”.

djm