CJM
05-27-2009, 10:36 PM
OK so I got this book last night and was reading through it. I'm really interested in Riley's section on how to read lead sheets. Right now I'm reading comping exercises written out in triplet form but would like to make the transition to the real-world version (finally). But I don't get the math of "swinging the 8th notes."
In one measure he shows a little comp consisting of one eighth-note rest and one eighth note, to add up to one quarter note. In the bar next to it he shows that the note played should sound like the "let" of the triplet notes in the swing beat.
But, what if you want to have someone play the "trip" of the triplet? what does it look like with swinging the eighths? I hear that figure played almost as much as the other pattern.
In one measure he shows a little comp consisting of one eighth-note rest and one eighth note, to add up to one quarter note. In the bar next to it he shows that the note played should sound like the "let" of the triplet notes in the swing beat.
But, what if you want to have someone play the "trip" of the triplet? what does it look like with swinging the eighths? I hear that figure played almost as much as the other pattern.