3/8 · stretch
Triplets in 3/8
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What is on this sheet
12 bars of 3/8, 65 written values in all.
Nothing in it is tied: every sound is one written value.
2 rests — silence measured as exactly as the notes are.
Three in the time of two, bracketed and numbered so the eye is told before the ear is.
The same exercise in another metre
quarters and eighthsThe two values everything else is measured against, and nothing shorter.sixteenthsFour notes to a beat, and the beams that group them.dotted notesA dot adds half again. The reading problem is not the dot, it is what has to follow it.ties across beatsOne sound written as two notes, because the beat underneath has to stay visible.restsSilence measured exactly, and grouped by the same beats the notes are.syncopationNotes that start between the beats. The exercise is keeping the beat where it was.