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#1
01-29-2005, 11:48 PM
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Theory question: notes
Ok I have a couple questions..sorry if there're "simple".
With triplets, when I strum them, do I just do them like three 8th notes in a pair? Also, on notes where there is four in a pair, what do I do then? Thanks 
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#2
01-30-2005, 12:32 AM
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For an 1/8 note triplet, you play the three notes in the time it takes to play an 1/8 note - just divide the 1/8 note into 3 even parts.
Sorry, I don't know what you mean by four notes in a pair.
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01-30-2005, 12:43 AM
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Triplets are not always 8th notes, though that may be the most common form.
A triplet is putting three evenly-spaced notes in the same time or space that two would ordinarily go. Could be a quarter note triplet that goes where two quarter notes or equivalent goes; or a three eighth note triplet that goes where two eighth notes or equivalent goes, etc. (Wish we had a music notation font available here - this would be so much easier.) Four notes connected by a beam is not a triplet at all, but just four eighth notes that would equal two quarter notes or one half note. If there are four notes connected by two beams it's four sixteenth notes, which equal two eighths or one quarter. Make sense? Hope so! cotten
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#4
01-30-2005, 01:12 AM
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...and if there are a series of notes connected by Jim Beam, chances are you are playing a Hank Williams Jr song.
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#5
01-30-2005, 01:53 AM
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 Good one, yardism!
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#6
01-30-2005, 03:28 AM
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I'll have you know that Jim Beam is a Kentucky Bourbon, and Hank is from Tennessee.
However, with their best bourbon, you can drink three shots in the time it normally takes to drink two... which is why the Jim Beam relationship to triplet figures is important.
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#9
01-31-2005, 04:00 PM
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#10
01-31-2005, 04:03 PM
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If the stems are backwards, the country song is obviously playing backwards: you get your truck back, you get your mobile home back, you get your dog back, you get your woman back, and you wake up sober.
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#11
01-31-2005, 04:23 PM
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If the stems are very, very long, you've paid too darn much for those roses.
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