Triplets

[Connor]

Uhhhh... no.



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****, they are 16ths

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[Veed]

i always just say 'tri-p-let tri-p-let' for 4/4

 

[ryco]

Triplets? You lucky dog!!!

...oh...you mean, like, three notes?

General instruction -- any questions, class?

 

[mutedeity]

I've been thinking about this and I don't really think it's advisable to learn to count triplets by counting them as "tri-pa-let" and so on. The reason I say this is that if you have to analyse where certain events occur it will probably be much easier to do when you are referring to the "a of three" or the "and of two" than the "pa of the 4th beat".

 

[mutedeity]

Here is another exercise you can try, once again counting each integer on the beat.

1 & 2 & a 3 & 4 & a 1 & 2 & a 3 & 4 & a

and conversely

1 & a 2 & 3 & a 4 & 1 & a 2 & 3 & a 4 &

 

[Michael Campbel]

I've been thinking about this and I don't really think it's advisable to learn to count triplets by counting them as "tri-pa-let" and so on. The reason I say this is that if you have to analyse where certain events occur it will probably be much easier to do when you are referring to the "a of three" or the "and of two" than the "pa of the 4th beat".

It's been a long time, but if memory serves we were trained to count them simply as "1 ta ta 2 ta ta..." when I was at MI, for that very reason.

 

[tswd]

The other thing to remember is that while triplets are most commonly seen as eighth notes, they don't have to be. A triplet just means having three notes in the same span that would normally be two notes. You can have 16th note triplets, quarter note triplets, etc. Quarter note triplets would be playing three evenly spaced notes in the span of two beats.