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Author: bflatclarinetist
Date: 2005-06-04 02:06
My teacher says continously when I play a triplet I need to emphasize the first note of the triplet. What's the point of that?
Has anybody heard of this or something similar?
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Author: RosewoodClarinet
Date: 2005-06-04 02:29
bflatclarinetist,
I think your teacher is trying to maintain better rhythmic stability on your playing. Or, if there is appoggiatura, one of non-chord tone, it needs to be emphasized.
RosewoodClarinet
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Author: bflatclarinetist
Date: 2005-06-04 02:38
I think it's the first one that you said because she tells me it in everything that I play. I'm not used to it but she says it'll catch on.
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Author: chumbucket804
Date: 2005-06-04 03:35
Yes, my lesson teacher tells me the exact same thing. He says it helps to keep the emphasis on the first part of the beat and will help keep tempo. It also makes things flow a lot smoother. I don't like doing it, but it seems to be helping me stay on tempo.
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Author: crnichols
Date: 2005-06-04 12:55
It's probably for stability of time, some people have a naturally tendency to rush, especially on the first beat. Instead of accenting the first note, set your metronome to subdivide triplets at a very slow tempo, and practice very carefully lining up each note with a click. This works for quadruplets and sextuplets as well, of course you must change the metronome's subdivision to match.
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Author: BobD
Date: 2005-06-04 15:24
I guess if you don't emphasize the first note you end up syncopating the triplet? Uh,Oh, another person who knows how to spell that word!!
Bob Draznik
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Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2005-06-06 14:20
You have a good teacher, who's giving you just what you need.
Since we walk in groups of 2, there's a built-in tendency to emphasize the first note in groups of 2 and, to a lesser degree, the third note in groups of 4, particularly since marches have the same pattern.
Groups of 3 are learned later, mostly from waltzes. A group of 3 needs more energy on the first note because it has to cover an extra beat.
That's the theory. In practice, a waltz has a "swing" that begins with an emphasis ("Oom") balanced by two weak "off" beats ("pa pa"). It's like a roller coaster. You start it on 1, it sweeps down on 2 and then comes up and almost to a halt on 3.
The essence of a waltz is not one group of 3, but stringing them together. As on the roller coaster, the energy of each group flows into the next.
Ken Shaw
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