[LAU] drum notation 3-beat vs 4-beat

Anders Dahnielson anders at dahnielson.com
Sun Aug 31 06:43:16 EDT 2008


On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 12:34, Grammostola Rosea <
rosea.grammostola at gmail.com> wrote:

> Anders Dahnielson wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 11:13, Grammostola Rosea
> > <rosea.grammostola at gmail.com <mailto:rosea.grammostola at gmail.com>>
> wrote:
> >
> >     Ray Rashif wrote:
> >     > At the beginning of the bar; time signature. Normally you don't see
> >     > the time signature on every bar because it's the same as the
> >     previous.
> >     No I don't mean 3/4 or 4/4.
> >
> >     1         2           3         4          |    1        etc.
> >
> >     1-2-3 1-2-3   1-2-3  1-2-3          1-2-3
> >
> >     In blues they play often 1-*-3 1-*-3 1 etc
> >     * = no hit
> >
> >
> >     or
> >
> >     1             2          3               4          |   1       etc.
> >
> >     1-2-3-4 1-2-3-4 1-2-3-4 1-2-3-4        1-2-3-4
> >
> >     Hope this is more clear to someone ;)
> >
> >
> > That's triplets.
> >
> > http://www.izap.com/~pinnacle/rhythms/r.triplets.html<http://www.izap.com/%7Epinnacle/rhythms/r.triplets.html>
> > <http://www.izap.com/%7Epinnacle/rhythms/r.triplets.html>
> >
> http://www.studybass.com/lessons/rhythm/the-eighth-note-triplet-subdivision/
> >
> Ah ok, thanks.


Just FYI, eight-note triplets in 4/4 can also be notated as three regular
eight-notes in 12/8, but that's slightly over course.

I also want to give a shout out to this resource:
http://www.berkleeshares.com

-- 
Anders Dahnielson
<anders at dahnielson.com>
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