Regarding exercise 1.7
Tue, 08/20/2024 - 14:21
Hi,
I am looking at the way that exercise 1.7 is played, which is with a triplet at the end of the first bar. The swing makes it a standard of the kind that is often heard, yet I have been playing it also without the swing. I am considering the several ways in which the triplet is to be played. One is to play it with equal time for each of the three (+2, +3, +2). Tell me whether there are other ways.
Regards,
Hitesh
Hiltesh:
Exercise 1.7 of which lesson?
In theory a triplet is always a triplet, but you might be talking about the difference between playing three notes on the final beat of a bar as a straight (equal time) triplet, or as an eighth note connected to two sixteenth notes. There's a subtle difference. Maybe expressed in text as "do-do-do" vs. "dahhh-di-dit." Either way, usually used as a pickup to the downbeat of the next measure.