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Matt Garstka

Animals as Leaders · Polymetric layering and linear coordination over djent's shifting riffs

Garstka builds parts by stacking metrically independent layers — a kick pattern in one grouping, hands in another, a hi-hat ostinato in a third — over Animals as Leaders' djent riffing, using metric modulation to bridge sections that never quite line up the way you expect.

  • Polymetric layers where each limb quietly follows its own grouping
  • Metric modulation used to bridge riffs at different implied tempos
  • Linear coordination that tracks the guitar's riff rhythm exactly

The riff tells you the rhythm; your job is to find the groove hiding inside it.

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