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Tuplets: Triplets and more

Tuplets: Triplets and more

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Tuplets: Triplets and more

- [Narrator] So we've covered the most important note durations, ties, and dotted values. But rhythm is a very complex aspect of music, and notating it is no less complex. One important part of rhythm that we haven't discussed yet, is tuplets. So, any rhythm that divides the beat into a number of equal subdivisions, that's different from the normal subdivisions, is a tuplet. And triplet is the most common, because it divides a duration into three equal parts. So where a quarter note would normally be divided by two eighth notes or four sixteenths, you can actually divide it by three eighth notes. Or a half note, which is normally divided by two quarter notes, can be divided by three equal parts, which would be three quarter notes. So for example, if I draw a half note, and normally where I would have in the place of two quarters, for the second half of this bar, I'll add three quarters. And that would look like this. Accompanied by a bracket, and a number, that we're dividing that by…

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