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Old 04-07-2021, 12:52 AM
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Default Counting notes

For eighth notes I count "1 and 2 and 3 ......"
For triplet eight notes it's "1 triplet, 2 triplet..."
Sixteenth notes= 1e and a 2 e ....

How would you count 32 notes?
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Old 04-07-2021, 03:13 AM
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1-ee-and-uh-one-ee-and-uh / 2-ee-and-uh-two-ee-and-uh / 3-ee-and-uh-three-ee-and-uh...
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Old 04-07-2021, 10:18 AM
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I might change the time signature in my head and count them as 16ths (1,2,3,4). I'm doing something similar now with a ragtime tune that is written in cut time, turning 16ths into eighth notes for counting purposes. 4/4 just seems easier to me.

I had a band teacher in jr. high school who had some crazy ways to count. 4 sixteenth notes followed by two eighth notes was "Mississippi Down Up."
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Old 04-07-2021, 10:24 AM
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Old 04-08-2021, 03:07 AM
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For eighth notes I count "1 and 2 and 3 ......"
For triplet eight notes it's "1 triplet, 2 triplet..."
Sixteenth notes= 1e and a 2 e ....

How would you count 32 notes?
I don't. I don't count 16ths either. Or triplets.
I know how triplets and 16ths sound, I don't see the need to verbalise them. I feel them.

Of course I can hear and feel straight 8ths too, and I might occasionally verbalise them as "one and two and..." etc, but only when teaching. Not when playing or learning a piece! I really can't see the point, and never have.

For me, verbalising a count is using a different part of my brain from the part that understands (feels) time. IOW, if I count - either in my head or out loud - I can't play as well.
I'm more likely to visualise beat subdivisions, i.e., like a ruler marked in 16ths or 32nds of an inch. You don't label the markings on a ruler with words or syllables! You just see them, and their position within the inch (and the larger subdivisions) is obvious. For me, musical time works like that.

As for 32nds, I never play them, certainly not in runs. In the music I play, they only ever occur occasionally as embellishment within other subdivisons, but then the larger subdivisions dominate. 32nds are just the "notes in between the 16ths", same as 16ths are the "notes between the 8ths".
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Old 04-08-2021, 03:20 AM
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I don't count 16th notes and beyond.

For triplets, I was taught to count tri-poe-let.
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Old 04-08-2021, 04:18 AM
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For triplets I must have been taught something but can't remember what but when I started
relying more on playing by ear I thought Fats Domino and his piano playing on Blueberry Hill.

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Old 04-08-2021, 10:39 PM
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Thanks everyone. After spending some time with it, I think I got it down.

I turned on my metronome at 60bpm, and started tapping 16th's with my right hand. Then I responded with my left hand also tapping in 16th's sub accents in alternating fashion. So that should be in 32's right? Hope that makes sense.

I understand how some don't count 32's, it's just too wordy. Guess I just needed a starting point.
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Old 04-09-2021, 04:34 AM
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I'm more likely to visualise beat subdivisions, i.e., like a ruler marked in 16ths or 32nds of an inch. You don't label the markings on a ruler with words or syllables! You just see them, and their position within the inch (and the larger subdivisions) is obvious. For me, musical time works like that.
But there’s nothing visual about music, except for scores, and the idea here is to help interpret written music. Of course nobody labels a ruler, but you’d use it to make pencil marks on a board you’re going to cut or whatever, wouldn’t you? I don’t care much for analogies, because there’s no quicker way to sidetrack a discussion. That said, I do think a ruler is a useful and interesting analogy with regard to time values.

Quintuplets are about the only “common” time value for which I sometimes have to resort to a counting method, but I don’t use syllables. I’ll either mentally count “1-2-3-4-5” or think of how a two-fingered slur on an open string sounds (0-2-4-2-0) or how a four-finger rasgueado sounds (e-a-m-i-i).
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Some of the music I have tabbed out with the timing I use when playing it is way beyond counting out the details. Sometimes you just
have to hear the music played (an advantage of tabs that can do that).
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Old 04-12-2021, 03:49 AM
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But there’s nothing visual about music
Sure. I only meant that I visualise time in that way - like a clock face turned into a straight line (and infinite length). I see musical time as a series of regular steps, and then see how all the beat divisions fall into it.

I mean, I feel it first, as sounds in time, but if I have to conceptualise it in any other way (and I don't often), then it's like a ruler. To me, that's far more intuitive than counting using words.

I do agree with konnakol syllables though - that avoids the superfluous meanings of words like "one", "and", or "triplet" (which involve the wrong part of the brain), in order to concentrate purely on rhythmic sounds.
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, except for scores, and the idea here is to help interpret written music. Of course nobody labels a ruler, but you’d use it to make pencil marks on a board you’re going to cut or whatever, wouldn’t you? I don’t care much for analogies, because there’s no quicker way to sidetrack a discussion. That said, I do think a ruler is a useful and interesting analogy with regard to time values.
Yes, that's all I meant!
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Old 04-12-2021, 04:38 AM
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Thanks, Jon. Actually, after I posted that message, it occurred to me that I don't really know whether or not the OP was referring to interpretation of written music. Certainly, there's no place for counting when performing. Maybe for some kind of long rest, but not within a single beat. I usually resort to some kind of counting when writing out music, as a means of double-checking my work, or to decipher a particularly odd-looking score.
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Old 04-13-2021, 04:54 AM
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But thereÂ’s nothing visual about music, except for scores, and the idea here is to help interpret written music. Of course nobody labels a ruler, but youÂ’d use it to make pencil marks on a board youÂ’re going to cut or whatever, wouldnÂ’t you? I donÂ’t care much for analogies, because thereÂ’s no quicker way to sidetrack a discussion. That said, I do think a ruler is a useful and interesting analogy with regard to time values.
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A ruler is a lot more than merely an 'interesting analogy with regard to time...'
A traditional clock face is a ruler(rule) divided into 12 equal spatial distances, it does not measure time, or space but velocity, it is a speedometer measuring the speed which the hour hand completes a circuit relative to the time it takes the earth to revolve in space.
24 hours a day = 24 units of space on the clock face divided by the time it takes the earth to complete 1 revolution, a clock is a speedometer this logic lead Einstein to formulate his special theory of relativity where measurements of space and time are linked as different ways of describing the same phenomena.
A metronome is another kind of speedometer, it measures space÷time .

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Old 04-13-2021, 10:12 AM
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A ruler is a lot more than merely an 'interesting analogy with regard to time...'
A traditional clock face is a ruler(rule) divided into 12 equal spatial distances, it does not measure time, or space but velocity, it is a speedometer measuring the speed which the hour hand completes a circuit relative to the time it takes the earth to revolve in space.
24 hours a day = 24 units of space on the clock face divided by the time it takes the earth to complete 1 revolution, a clock is a speedometer this logic lead Einstein to formulate his special theory of relativity where measurements of space and time are linked as different ways of describing the same phenomena.
A metronome is another kind of speedometer, it measures space÷time .
Sorry, I don't know what you’re talking about or what any of that has to do with the guitar.
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Old 04-16-2021, 01:15 PM
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Sorry, I don't know what you’re talking about or what any of that has to do with the guitar.
Interestingly, Gerhard Graf-Martinez's flamenco materials teach rhythms using--you guessed it--a clock.
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