Comments on: Slapping With Triplets Bass Guitar Technique

By: BOnEhEAdD

BOnEhEAdD — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 18:51:03 +0000

Dude, four notes( …
Dude, four notes(exactly: the four-note pattern – so it isn’t just spread across the bar, filling 4 beats with 12 notes and thus making the 12/8 bar)can make a triplet, but only when 2 of its notes are twice as long as the other 2 notes!!! The notes the guy is playing seem all the same lenght. He doesnt play in the rhythm but at the beginning hes playing 16ths in 4/4 and with those 2 more notes it starts 2 feel like 16ths in 12/8, but no triplets

By: eigr1

eigr1 — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 18:51:03 +0000

I don’t know notes …
I don’t know notes and music theory worth , but my guess is that since you usually count the number of notes in a… eh… “bar” as either 8 or 4, it’d make sense for triplets to count 4 notes even if there is a slight delay between two of them.

I mean, if you exclude the “delays” you can fit 12 notes into a “bar” when playing triplets, and 12 = 3×4, or 4×3, so it would be more logical to count with 4 since we’re used to counting with even numbers anyway…

By: thebonedance

thebonedance — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 18:51:03 +0000

Yes, they are …
Yes, they are triplets. I can’t believe there are such stupid arguments on youtube due to little 11-year-old kids who play guitar/bass and think that counting 4 notes means it is not a triplet pattern. Sigh…

By: andreasswarfeld

andreasswarfeld — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 18:51:03 +0000

if he left the ” …
if he left the “gang” sound of the end and just went d g da he would have a triplet. as it goes, he doesn’t and has no idea what he is on about. wot a ! and so ugly too.

By: spectorsam68

spectorsam68 — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 18:51:03 +0000

it’s a triplet with …
it’s a triplet with an added percussive

By: B3nz1mon

B3nz1mon — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 18:51:03 +0000

Well, unless …
Well, unless there’s no tempo, you never know if it’s triplets or anything else. when he play the “triplets” together, you can here that it is triplets, there should be 2 more notes of the kind he plays. He could think in a harder way if he wanted it to be 16notes. But, the video says triplet, so i guess it is triplets.

By: B3nz1mon

B3nz1mon — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 18:51:03 +0000

But if he …

But if he says it’s triplets and he think triplets, then it is

By: BOnEhEAdD

BOnEhEAdD — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 18:51:03 +0000

lol “he could think …
lol “he could think in a harder way” and “the video says triplet” really got me . But Ure right there’s no rhythm, so we cant say it… Still, “triplet” is the very last word I would Use to name this pattern….the second, 6-note pattern can come out as sextuplet in a certain tempo, but thats Really the closest one in this vid…..

By: BOnEhEAdD

BOnEhEAdD — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 18:51:03 +0000

don’t U think …
don’t U think there’s a chance that The guy on the vid doesn’t know what a triplet is himself??
But nevermind; musical theory has only single one purpose – to make musicians understand each other while theyre playing cooperatively (or talking about music). This time, it apparently failed so we’d better not bother with it this time.
Music is the best; keep it up, lad

By: Kenaimali

Kenaimali — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 18:51:03 +0000

He’s really good at …
He’s really good at explaing too..