Hit a wall with 3/4 time

[Spaceboy1980]

Thanks for the advice, I'm not giving up. To be honest I wish the play alongs were longer because 45 seconds is not enough time to learn a new concept and is not enough practice for the exercise. I am constantly restarting.

My difficulty isn't because I don't grasp the concept, it's painfully simple, it's the unnatural feel of it. I am improving, I'm just not fluid yet. Counting and tapping is very useful.

Thanks all.

 

[electracoyote]

I'm going to agree with those suggesting you listen to more music in 3/4 time until it becomes a bit less foreign. Country waltzes are good examples.

 

[Kamuilija]

If you feel so deeply rooted in 4, how about trying first to get the "in three" feel by playing triplets over a beat of four?

Like this, for example:

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For bars 5-8, you can use this as inspiration

Then for bars 9-12, try this. At 0:22 for example there's a good solid tuplet thing going on in the piano.

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