Challenge #12: Triplets
Submission Deadline: August 19, 2013
Record this line of rhythm with triplets and eighth notes. Play them with a metronome. Tempo, no faster than 66 bpm. More like 48 bpm might be better.
Examples:
It is repeated once on the recordings.
Tempo is 48 bpm
triplets_eights_challenee_12_saxophone_tribe
(mp3, right click and save)
Visually the rhythms look like this:
Visually:
Brooks says
Three= Two—-right
Neal says
Hey Brooks, yes, three of these triplets take the same space as two eighth notes.
But it might be better to think about the triplets as being a single beat (quarter note value) divided evenly into three. A beat can be divided into 5, 7, etc as well, and that’s how I think about them in those situations, compared to a single beat.