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Many, many Iron Maiden songs have a triplet feel to them. Check out "Run to the Hills", "Flight of Icarus" etc.

 

That song isnt really triplets. The "intro" to My Friend of Misery is pretty run of the mill 4/4.

 

That's an extremely common mistake. While it's true that in these songs (let's add "The Trooper" for the most common example) there are three notes per beat, those are not triplets. That rhytmic pattern, very common in Iron Maiden music, consists of one eighth note followed by two sixteenths, which is a totally different feel than a triplet. For a true triplet feel example in Maiden music check the second section of "The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner" ("There, calls the mariner, there comes a ship...") although in this case, being a full, long section with the same feel, it is more practical to notate it in 12/8 and avoid writing triplet brackets all the time. So technically speaking these aren't triplets either since we're talking about a ternary measure (12/8), but the three notes played in each beat are equally distributed, which is the key feature of the triplet feel (so the example qualifies). In the case of "The Trooper", "Run To The Hills"... the first note in each beat is longer than the other two.

Hope this helps.

 

wow.. I actually understood that post! props to me!

 

I think this is the problem with people who have been brought up on a diet of Tabs - which contain no rhythmic information!!