String Theory - I Got Rhythm, Part 18: Triplets and Swing Eighth Notes

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STRING THEORY
I GOT RHYTHM, PART 18
In this lesson, Guitar World's Senior Music Editor, Jimmy Brown, demonstrates a way to subdivide a beat by splitting it into three notes of equal duration, called eighth-note triplets.
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[@hmtaylor7]

How are there 780k subscribers and only 600 views?!? Thank you for the video!

[@DMSProduktions]

Because You Tube!

[@wesleyc.4937]

How can you play 32 notes in a measure that only has 4 beats?

[@Marcnshae2011]

🔥🔥🔥 lesson

[@1mataleo1]

My piano teacher taught me to count triplets as “1 T L - 2 T L - 3T L - 4 T L”. It is easy to say fast and it avoids using the “&” and “a” that is commonly used for counting 16th notes. Give it a try. It works great for me

[@danielabilez3619]

Thank you for the information.

[@robertshamansky1912]

I just watched a Steve Goold video where he talked about this same thing. He uses “laa & lee” instead of “and & uhh” for triplets. My rhythm is a huge problem and I will be working on this 🥳

[@parkerphelps2759]

1-la-li 2-la-li