n.
1. A section of music featuring two independent pulses of different speeds playing against each other within the same time frame. For instance, a quarter note
triplet in
4/4 meter is a simple polyrhythm in which 3 notes betas take the same time and space of 2 quarter notes of the 4/4 value. Not to be confused with
hemiola.
Meshuggah is
a band whose music features
complex polyrhythms and hemiolas.
