Triplet Fun!

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Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Advanced Topic: Rhythm Style: Any Style

Excerpt: Hey everyone! This month, we're taking a look at triplets. Triplets (like any other tuplet) offer a very distinct rhythmic sound. The focus of this month's tutorial is taking our triplet runs to the next level; creating sub-divisions within a triplet phrase. I've devised six different approaches to a descending pattern in Am, using groupings of three, four, ...

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Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Advanced Topic: Rhythm Style: Any Style

Excerpt: Threes For the first exercise, we're just descending in groups of three - down three, up one, down three, up one, etc. This is a fairly common descending approach to scalar passages. Fours Here, we get our first taste of "playing over the bar line", It's crucial to practice these licks to a metronome. Without a metronome, it's VERY easy to fall into feeli...

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Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Advanced Topic: Rhythm Style: Any Style

Excerpt: Sixes Groups of sixes in a triplet feel should feel and sound rather natural due to it being a mutiple of three. The lick itself is a tad tricky due to the quick "back and forth" motion, but keep in mind that we're descending from the highest note/descending 6, second highest note/descending 6, third highest note/descending 6, etc.) Sevens Much like fives...

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Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Advanced Topic: Rhythm Style: Any Style

Excerpt: Here's the backing track, folks. Have fun with this!

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