From the course: Bass: Teach Yourself
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Introducing triplets
From the course: Bass: Teach Yourself
Introducing triplets
- All right, let's check out Introducing Triplets, so this new division of time is three notes to each beat. So you can count that as one triplet, two triplet, three triplet, four triplet, and when you're playing this physically on the bass with you know two fingers, it's going to switch back and forth from your starting fingers, so if you go, I'll call this one I and this one M. I, M, I for the first time. The second time is going to be M, I, M, so just practice that and kind of get used to a lot of different rhythms that you'll do with triplets. (bass music) Let's check out this next example, which uses a bunch of these different rhythms and will get you more familiar with this. Here we go. (metronome) (bass music) All right, excellent. You guys are doing great. Just keep practicing this stuff every day, and it will get way easier, and your skills will improve, and you'll get faster. Let's check out the next example, which is kind of more of like a doo-wop bass line, and it moves…
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