Understanding Triplet Rhythms for Beginners | Your Easy Guide to 8th-Note Triplets
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- čas přidán 31. 05. 2024
- “What’s all this I’m hearing about triplets, and why am I having so much trouble with them?” This lesson breaks down and explains the most common of the notorious triplets…the 8th note triplet! I will tell you what a triplet is, how to count it, and how to listen for it. As a bonus, I’m going to explain to you how to process rhythms without having to count them so that you can be your musical best!
🎧LESSON INDEX
0:00 Intro
1:03 Defining 8th Note Triplets
2:43 Counting Triplets
5:04 Identifying Triplets By Ear
10:17 How to NOT Count Triplets and Other Rhythms
💡 LESSON TOPICS:
♪ What’s a triplet?
♪ What a triplet looks like on the page
♪ Quarter notes and “straight” 8ths
♪ Identifying triplets by ear
♪ Not confusing triplets with 1/16th
♪ Feeling the beat without having to count
♪ Squeezing 3 triplets into the space of 2 8th notes
♪ You need to hear the 4th note to know how long the 3rd one is. If the 3rd note is longer than the first 2, they are not of equal value!
♪ Counting beats in the measure
♪ Steps to dealing with rhythms
*1) FEEL the beat: the place where you tap your foot
*2) Feel the UNDERLYING rhythm: the foundational rhythm that is contained WITHIN the beat
♪ Musical multitasking
♪ Learn the rhythm by counting it, but it needs to eventually be automatic for you - without thinking about numbers!
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My name is Alex, and my passion is teaching music online. I’m a bass player and composer by training and trade, but what I really love to do is teach. I make my living teaching private lessons on Bass, Guitar, Piano, and Ukulele. My favorite thing to teach is theory - helping the students understand the “why” behind the music and empowering them to make better and more informed musical choices. I’m very adamant about teaching technique. This is how you gain power and control over your instrument and ultimately raise the ceiling on where your limits are and where they will be in the future.
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Triplets seem more flowing whereas the alternative mentioned seemed to be more clinical in it's strict form. I haven't thought about this stuff in years. Thx Alex!
Fact: triplets feel good!
I'm learning the drums and have not gotten to triples yet but I am trying to learn music notation and I enjoy how detailed you were in your explanations and not just identifying the different notes like most videos :)
Happy to help!
Great lesson! super clear and helpful!
Glad to hear it!
Let me know if you have any questions!
Is there a song or a riff that one might recommend to capitalize on this?
@@staleyexplores Anything with a 6/8 or 12/8 time or a swing feel. These come to mind: We Are The Champions, Hallelujah, You're My Best Friend, Your Mother Should Know, Revolution, Julius, Oh Darling, Eliza, My Friend My Friend (this one is particularly interesting) - sorry, lots of Beatles and Queen and Phish in there.
@@StepByStepMusic no this is fantastic!!
Absolutely Gold lesson !
I’m confused on the part you started the triplet on the second note on 1..
Your lesson is good easy to understand but @1:40 the bass clef you are playing an A note your bass clef shows C note when playing straight 8th notes on the main screen before you played it on bass.. On the screen when playing @1:40 with no clef assuming you are playing bass that is an A note. When you @4:25 pickup the guitar you have 2 staffs of music on the screen. I am assuming the bottom is for guitar and that it is not marked with a clef it is for treble clef when you show the guitar part with the bass clef on this screen (showing a C note again not A note) if the bottom is for guitar (no clef given) if that is also bass clef then you have the right note A (wrong octave for guitar) if not I am assuming it is treble clef since the guitar is playing then that is an F note.
I would fix that. For so many music theory tricks them up without being more confused.
@7:49 as well as when you are playing an A note on bass but shows a C note on the screen
Other than that which is very important right notes in sheet music especially for beginners your lesson was good..
Thanks for the feedback!
When I was in school, I was told to count triples like this: One and ä, two and ä, three and ä, four and ä....
YES! That will work! I like that because you are also keeping track of the beat. Thanks for watching!
One trip let, two trip let, three trip let, four trip let. I'm a drummer and this works best for me.
Great tip!
Autopilot, it's all about autopilot.
Exactly!