just a thought...

the otherday out of nowhere, this small, insignificant thing came to mind...

what would it be called and how would you count this? Play triplets on one hand while playing 8th notes on the other. yea try it see if your brain doesnt melt, I actually have funny grey liquid comin out of the ears:facepalm:

8th note or 16th note triplets?

It's called "2 against 3." Not sure how one would actually count it.

+1, it's a polyrhythm. Using done with quarter notes and triplets.

Just did it with 8th notes

it's the "Carol of the Bells" rhythm (go ahead, try it), also the intro to "Down with the Sickness" by Disturbed

If your gonna count it it'd go 1 trip& let 2 trip& let ....and so on , I like to count the trips and the eighths individually when checking for correct application.

great simple explanation, haven't heard that before.

because it's wrong... "Carol of the Bells" is in 3-4, and the melody for that is counted 1 2 & 3.

and "Down with the Sickness" is straight 8th notes, no polyrhythms.

here, look at that. It gives the rhythms on a staff and shows simple word association one can use to help grasp the concept.

edit- Wiki says "Carol of the Bells" contains that polyrhythm. Not to be Debby Downer again, but they're also wrong. There are no triplets there.

Carol of the bells written straight up does not contain any triplets.

However if you break the rhythm into two hands it does - here's an explanation.

To quote the great Peter Griffin of Family Guy, the lyrics are "ding fries are done, ding fries are done".

Now imagine your left hand (the straight 8ths) play on "ding" and "are", while your right hand (the triplets hand) plays on "ding", "fries", and "done"

that is a great explanation! wow. I am going to try that in the morning

anyone ever think about how there's actually no way to play a perfect triplet?

If you divide one beat into thirds, lets say the beat is worth 100 (for the sake of math)

first note: 0

second note: 33.33333333.....

third note: 66.66666.......

downbeat: 99.9999999......

So you can see that at some point a triplet is has to be stretched a minute amount to get to the full 100! its negligible (not to mention inaudible) but I always thought that was interesting.

couldn't just use fractions?

You forgot attack transient latency. But you also forgot equal thirds are exact. It's decimal fractions have the problem. Also if you are getting funny screw you.

well you can count those triplets as 8th's and not change the beat. You can play a perfect triplet, it just doesn't perfectly line up mathmatically on paper.

I might not understand what you're saying, but i'm thinking that'd be 8th triplets.

You'd need a mean left hand. But i'm assuming you're thinking of BA BA BA BA on the right and dadada dadada dadada dadada on the left?

So it'd be BAdada BAdada BAdada, with a simultaneous BA and da on the numbered notes?

Whatever, i'm on my 5th Rolling Rock and this {censored} wasn't meant to be talked via forums. It's all fyucking math anyways. Add em together.

my dog is looking at me like i'm a complete idiot cuz i'm air drumming this RIGHT NOW.

thanks a lot. he's lost some respect for me. he'll probably pee inside tonight to express his disappointment that his "master" wildly waves his hands around for no apparent reason.

That's nothing. I was rubbing one out and caught the little bastard staring right at me. We're not talking at the moment.

i don't like to discuss the first (and last) time for that. we choose to pretend like it never happened.

my dog does that all the time because I air drum constantly, usually she just turns her back on me and goes to sleep.