Shuffle rhythm on different length notes
Mon, 06/04/2018 - 21:10
David,
I can repeat a rhythm by ear, but I often struggle to recreate it from sheet music.
How do I approach shuffle where notes are in different length?
Do I shuffle eight-notes only? What about Quarter-notes? Triplets?
What if there is mixture of different note lenghts?
Bar 2 of 5th Chorus of Temperature, or even more interesting bars 1-3 of Chorus 6th as an example...
Hello RB. "I can repeat a rhythm by ear, but I often struggle to recreate it from sheet music." This is very common. We rely on our ears for rhythm, and the sheet music for the hole numbers and technique (such as the slap and tremolo notation). Those that already know how to read sheet music appreciate the standard music notation, this is why I provide it. As you get to know a piece of music better (over time), the sheet music can be a handy recall, even though you may not be good at reading music.
Swing only applies to eighth notes (and sixteenth notes sometimes, commonly when there are four in a row). In Bar 2 of Chorus 5, it's only the last beat that's swung... the two eighth notes (the first one gets 2/3 of the beat and the other one gets 1/3). In Chorus 6 it's where the eighth notes are, which is Beats 2 and 4 of the 1st Bar and the "a" of beat 4 in the 2nd bar.
For more information, you can find a lesson on swing eighth notes here https://www.bluesharmonica.com/lessons/rhythm_training