Triplet Modulation Trick for Drums - Add Some Spice to Your Fills
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This is actually really a face-melting fill concept.
If you hear Zakir Hussain play a 3-minute composition on tabla, then seamlessly modulate it to the pulse of the triplet, you realize everything we've been doing with rhythm in the west has barely been scratching the surface.
Or so I believed midway through my second year at MSM, after hearing Dan Weiss play, and falling in with some of his "disciples".
Whether you do or don't subscribe to that belief, it's a good goddamn thing a great bit of that tradition has made its way into drumming in the last 20 years. Nowadays, it's common to hear drummers like...well, the Justins...bust out modulated 4-beat phrases over triplets.
It's a "sound".
Around a month ago I published a lesson about groupings of 2 and 4 over triplets and sextuplets, and wasn't quite sure where to go next. Listening to a Dan Weiss recording, it hit me: "ooooh yea - that modulation s@#$."
This is a level of rhythmic intensity that's not necessarily fast or loud, but it's a different way of introducing tension.
I think you'll enjoy learning about it, and hopefully it will find its way into your playing.
*Figuratively