Sixteenth Note Triplets

john5959

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How do you count sixteenth note triplets?I know triplets can be counted out-- 1 n a 2 n a 3 n a 4 n a etc...
I can play sexteplets in a scale If I think about it but I am have trouble mixing em up in an improv setting with sixteens an so on.
 
Re: Sixteenth Note Triplets

3 sixteenth notes in the space of 2 ... instead of saying

"1 - ee - and - uh 2 - ee - and - uh 3 - ee - and - uh 4 - ee - and - uh "

for a measure in 4 :4 time (16 individual notes)

you say

"1 - uh - lee - weed - uh - lee 2- uh - lee - weed - uh - lee 3- uh - lee - weed - uh - lee 4- uh - lee - weed - uh - lee "

for a measure in 4 :4 time (24 individual notes)
 
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Re: Sixteenth Note Triplets

mmm weed!
id say practice with a metrognome (i use one on powertab)
you might get the feel of 6 per beat before long
try 5 or 7
ey gads!
but i rekon the best way to help with improvising is to take a short phrase and play it over the metronone in as many diferent "ways" as you can
making some notes realy short and others longer etc
repeat each variation you come up with over and over untill you come up with a new one.
the coming up with a new one bit is the hardest to explane, but youl get it if you try.
this way youl probably put in some sectuplets without thinking about it, and because your repeating it over and over youl get used to the way it sounds.
that way youl improvise it automaticly
and that is the aim!

hope that helps

guy
 
Re: Sixteenth Note Triplets

Thanks guys!
And thanks Tone; it took me a few times to get it to roll off the tongue but now I can feel the triplet pulse in there----cool!
 
Re: Sixteenth Note Triplets

I count
1 * * & * * 2 * * & * * 3 * * & * * 4 * * & * *
I don't count the *

btw I make upstrokes on the numbers
and downstrokes on the &

listen to darkest hour - payphone and pills for a cool example ;)
 
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