{"id":3406,"date":"2019-03-27T17:40:36","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T17:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vancouverguitarlessons.net\/?p=3406"},"modified":"2019-03-27T17:40:36","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T17:40:36","slug":"how-to-play-quarter-note-triplets-perfectly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uptempomusiclessons.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/27\/how-to-play-quarter-note-triplets-perfectly\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Play Quarter Note Triplets Perfectly!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1868\" src=\"https:\/\/vancouverguitarlessons.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/jpg-4-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" \/><\/h3>\n<h2>How To Play Quarter Note Triplets Perfectly!<\/h2>\n<p>Hey everyone, today we are tackling quarter note triplets.<\/p>\n<p>Whenever a new student hears this particular rhythmic grouping they seem to be baffled by its complexity.\u00a0 Some people feel their way through it, others have a really difficult time mastering exactly what this rhythm sounds like. \u00a0 If you are one of the latter, I am going to demystify these babies right now for you.<\/p>\n<p>I remember a few music teachers I went to trying to explain the quarter note triplet as a dotted 8th note with a 16th.\u00a0 That kinda works, but it really does not explain fully what is going on.<\/p>\n<p>The real scoop on this rhythm is to look at each half bar as being divided into 6.\u00a0 In other words, two groups of 8th note triplets per beat.\u00a0 Beat 1 = 123\u00a0 Beat 2 = 456<\/p>\n<p>Now if we want to tap out what a quarter note triplet is, we count out loud and tap only on the notes NOT in brackets.<\/p>\n<p>1 (2) 3 (4) 5 (6)<\/p>\n<p>That is it.\u00a0 Tap on 1, 3, and 5 and you have a quarter note triplet.\u00a0 The end goal would be to also tap the quarter notes with the other hand.\u00a0 Those are found on beats 1 and 4 respectively.\u00a0 Below I have the tab for a section of &#8220;Love Me Two Times&#8221; by the Doors as an example of quarter note triplets.\u00a0 Follow along in the tab to see how to count this.\u00a0 Video is also below.<\/p>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_3420\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3420\" style=\"width: 982px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/uptempomusiclessons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/13bb4-triplets-lesson.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"982\" height=\"451\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uptempomusiclessons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/13bb4-triplets-lesson.jpg 982w, https:\/\/uptempomusiclessons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/13bb4-triplets-lesson-300x138.jpg 300w, https:\/\/uptempomusiclessons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/13bb4-triplets-lesson-768x353.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 982px) 100vw, 982px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3420\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Triplets Lesson<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nAnyway, I hope you enjoy this lesson including video and I will catch you next time!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How To Play Quarter Note Triplets Guitar Lesson\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xmSv96mlvMs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How To Play Quarter Note Triplets Perfectly! 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Whenever a new student hears this particular rhythmic grouping they seem to be baffled by its complexity.\u00a0 Some people feel their way through it, others have a really difficult time mastering exactly what this rhythm sounds like. \u00a0 If&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[51,52,109,124,163,223,224,231,282,331,333,352,353],"class_list":["post-3406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-music-lessons","category-guitar-lessons","tag-burnaby-guitar-lessons","tag-burnaby-guitar-teacher","tag-free-guitar-lesson","tag-guitar-lesson","tag-how-to-play-quarter-note-triplets","tag-north-vancouver-guitar-lessons","tag-north-vancouver-guitar-teacher","tag-online-guitar-lessons","tag-skype-guitar-lessons","tag-vancouver-guitar-lessons","tag-vancouver-guitar-teacher","tag-west-vancouver-guitar-lessons","tag-west-vancouver-guitar-teacher"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uptempomusiclessons.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uptempomusiclessons.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uptempomusiclessons.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uptempomusiclessons.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uptempomusiclessons.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uptempomusiclessons.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uptempomusiclessons.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uptempomusiclessons.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uptempomusiclessons.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}