What we deal with in this chapter is time against time. With your right or left hand playing different beats in 4/4 time and your opposite hand playing the charts on each page either in 3, 5, or 7, you form many different polyrhythms.
First, melodies in 3 are given, then melodies in 5, and finally melodies in 7. Refer back to chapter 1 and take one of the eighteen rhythms that are given in 4/4 and play them with either the right or left hand and play the odd time melodies with the other.
Before you start playing the odd-time melodies along with the rhythms in 4/4, we will go over Example #1 using the first melody given in 3 and rhythm #3 from chapter 1 so you understand the polyrhythmic phrasing.
The 4/4 pattern is played 3 times and the 3 pattern is played 4 times before the rhythms return back to where you started.
Next we will use the same rhythm for Chapter 1 in 4/4 against the first melody in 5 to show the polyrhythmic phrasing.
The 4/4 pattern is played 5 times and the 5 pattern is played 4 times before the two rhythms return back to where you started.
Finally, the same rhythm in 4/4 from Chapter 1 is shown against the first melody in 7, displaying the polyrhythmic phrasing.
The 4/4 pattern is played 7 times and the 7 pattern is played 8 times before the two rhythms return back to where you started.
The following pages display each one of the 21 beats from the previous, written out along with beat #3 from chapter 1, which is in 4/4.
Like the melodies in 3 from the previous section, these melodies can be found on the next few pages written out along with beat #3 from chapter 1 to show again how many measures it takes for both rhythms to return back to where you started and the polyrhythms that are formed. Once again, after you learn the beat that is given in 4/4 against the melodies in 5, go back to chapter 1 and piack another one of the eighteen beats and then try to play it along with the melodies in 5.
Again these melodies are written out along with beat #3 from chapter 1 showing the number of measures that must be played before the 2 beats return back to where you started along with all the polyrhythms that are formed.
