when we practice 2 against 3 sometimes we say "nice cup of tea. nice cup of tea" (or alternatively: "no dif-i-cult, not dif-i-cult")

is there a good on for 4 against 3?? which i think is much harder

See how they run they run usually works

crazy!

What about the other way round? Three against two? Trip-pe-let works well for quaver triplets, but not for crotchet ones. Any ideas?

Jeffrey Whitton's book suggests:

Bang rattle shake and roll (in 6/8 kind of time) or Singing makes me happy (in 3/4 time but using dotted and tied rhythms) You almost have to see the way he's written them out to get them though....

Somebody (I forget who) answered this question a little while ago with the phrase

"This isn't hard at all"

Works for me!

Wow, never heard of any of those! They're pretty good actually. Got to tell them to the woodwind players at our school - I remember there was this music exercise where we had to tap out cross-rhythms with our hands, and some exclaimed "The pianists and drummers have an unfair advantage!"

~Wobby~

I was taught "come, cuckoo, come today", which I've always found works well & I've passed it on to my pupils.

Yeah, that's my piano teacher, sonataform. It works for me too!