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

[Grammostola Rosea]

Grammostola Rosea 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.studybass.com/lessons/rhythm/the-eighth-note-triplet-subdivision/
>>  
>>     
> Ah ok, thanks.
> _
And this is how you write it down with Lilypond

\relative c' {
  \times 2/3 {e8 g e} \times 2/3 {d c d} |
  \times 2/3 {c4 e g} c2
}

using the \times command